RIP: Don Adams
Oct. 6th, 2005 03:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI didn't notice this, apparently he passed away on September 26th.
From Wired.com:
Passage: Don Adams, 82
Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, Get Smart, died of a lung infection late Sunday. As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency Control, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe ...?" It became a national catch phrase. Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of The Chief. Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, Chief" also entered the American lexicon.
-- Associated Press
From Wired.com:
Passage: Don Adams, 82
Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, Get Smart, died of a lung infection late Sunday. As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency Control, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe ...?" It became a national catch phrase. Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of The Chief. Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, Chief" also entered the American lexicon.
-- Associated Press
