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Article: Agent Smart was signature role.(Don Adams who played secret agent Maxwell Smart is dead)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- September 27, 2005
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Don Adams, who won three Emmys for his performance as secret agent Maxwell Smart in the classic laffer "Get Smart," died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 82.
He had been suffering from bone lymphoma for more than two years and contracted a lung infection.
Gotham native was born Donald James Yarmy his brother was thesp Dick Yarmy--and later adopted the stage surname of wife Adelaide Adams because he was tired of being called last when auditions were held in alphaAdams betical order.
He joined the Marines at the outbreak of WWII and served in the South Pacific, where he contracted blackwater fever and nearly died. ...