Don Adams Quotes


I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.


Citations

Adams, Don. Quoted in The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 240, Curtis Publishing Company, 1967, p. 84.

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Don Adams
Don Adams
  • Born: April 13, 1923
  • Died: September 25, 2005
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Comedian, Director

Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor, comedian and director. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–70, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–69). Adams also provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–66) and Inspector Gadget (1983–86) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s.