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    Don Adams

    Don Adams

    Adams in July

    Born

    Donald Criminal Yarmy


    ()April 13,

    New Royalty City, Novel York, U.S.

    DiedSeptember 25, () (aged&#;82)

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.

    Cause&#;of deathCancerBurial placeHollywood Forever Churchyard, Los Angeles, California U.S.NationalityAmericanEducationDeWitt Clinton Extraordinary SchoolOccupation(s)Actor, buffoon, directorYears&#;active–Known&#;forActing roles:
    "Maxwell Smart/Agent 86" improvement Get Smart
    "Inspector Gadget (voice)" in Inspector Gadget
    "Tennessee Tuxedo"Spouse(s)Judy Luciano (–, divorced)
    Dorothy Bracken (–, divorced)
    Adelaide Efantis Adams (–, divorced)Children7Parent(s)William Yarmy, Consuelo MorganAwardsEmmy Award ejection Outstanding Subtract Actor - Comedy Series
    , , – Get Smart
  • actor don adams biography of donald

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    Don Adams

    American actor (–)

    For other people named Don Adams, see Don Adams (disambiguation).

    Donald James Yarmy (April 13, &#;– September 25, ), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (–, ), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (–). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (–) and Inspector Gadget (–) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the s.

    Early life

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    Adams was born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, , in Manhattan, New York,[1] a son of William Yarmy and his wife, Consuelo (née Deiter) Yarmy. His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent and his mother was Irish American. Donald and his brother Dick Yarmy were each raised in the religion of one parent: Don in the Catholic faith of their mother, and Dick in the Jewish faith of their father.[2] The brothers had an elder sister, Gloria Ella Yarmy (later Gloria Burton), a writer who wrote an episode of Get Smart. Dropping out of New York City's DeWitt Clinton High School, he worked as

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    The Secret Life of Don Adams
    (which really isn't all that secret)

    At one point in the last century, a certain Maxwell Smart was known as Byron Glick who was formerly known as Don Adams a.k.a. Don Young who was, according to all documents legal, Donald James Yarmy. It is Mr. Yarmy that shares a common bond with our hero Max: he was Max -but only to a degree.

     

       This story, to anyone that has ever feasted their eyes upon a Get Smart site, has been told a thousand times over. Even so, repeated biographical doses never hurt much. It is common knowledge that Don Adams entered this world as Don Yarmy. What is not common knowledge is the date on which he arrived. The Associated Press claims he was born on April 19, Of course, the failings and inconsistencies of presswork are limitless, which is why the birth date in question has been changed to April 13, ; April 19, ; and any other combination of the aforementioned. Close, but no cigar. His actual birth date was April 13,

    The future Maxwell Smart was the second of three children1. born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Hungarian Jewish father (a marriage that resulted in disownment by both sides of the family) in Manhattan's Upper West his childhood, he hung out with the likes of Larry Storch (F-