Don Adams

Don Adams

actor, director, writer

Don Adams was born on Apr 13, 1923 in USA. Don Adams's big-screen debut came with The Bill Dana Show - Season 1 directed by Coby Ruskin in 1963, strarring Byron Glick / Glick the Hotel Detective / Byron Glick - Hotel Detective. Don Adams is known for Get Smart directed by Gary Nelson, Don Adams stars as Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as #99. Don Adams has got 4 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Don Adams achieved is TV Land Awards. The upcoming new movie Don Adams plays is Inspector Gadget which will be released on Jul 23, 1999.

Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island. After the war he began a career as a stand-up comic. He married singer Adelaide Adams and adopted her last name as his stage surname. He had seven children altogether, (four with his first wife, two with his second, one with his third): Caroline Adams, Christine, Catherine, Cecily Adams, Stacey Adams, Sean, Beige. His television career began when he won the Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour (1948) talent contest. His most famous role, of course, is as bumbling, incompetent, clueless yet endearing secret agent Maxwell Smart in the classic sitcom/spy spoof Max la menace (1965), although he also had a career as a television director and a Broadway and theatrical dramatic actor.

  • Birthday

    Apr 13, 1923
  • Place of Birth

    Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Known For

Awards

4 wins & 6 nominations

TV Land Awards
2006
Greatest Gear or Admirable Apparatus
Winner - TV Land Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
1969
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series
Winner - Primetime Emmy
1968
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series
Winner - Primetime Emmy
1967
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series
Winner - Primetime Emmy

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