Borderstone
09-26-2005, 04:24 PM
The title of my post is my favorite line from "Get Smart". As most of us know that's a line Don Adams said very often. Don Adams passed away last night at age 82 from a lung infection.
His voice and demeanor were unmistakeable. He did many a TV show but he will always be remembered fondly for Maxwell Smart and the great routines like,"The Cone Of Silence","Would You Believe....?" and of course the good old shoe phone!
Along with "Get Smart",Don was also the voice for 2 different cartoons. In the 1960s he was the voice of "Tenessee Tuxedo",a penguin who lived in a zoo but wanted very much to be human. In the 1980's he voiced the very popular,"Inspector Gadget",a detective who had several gadgets attatched to him for crime fighting.
Two other Adams shows were "Don Adams' Screen Test (sort of the original,"Whose Line Is It Anyway?") and a short lived mid-'80s sit-com called "Check It Out",where he played the manager of a local grocery store.
In more recent years he continued to voice "Inspector Gadget" direct to video cartoon movies and made a few more atempts at Get Smart related projects,like the ill fated version where his son decides to get into the spy-biz.
In 1980,there was a Get Smart movie called,"The Nude Bomb",where Kaos makes a bomb that dissolves the worlds clothing supply. It sank at the box office,sad to say.
The great thing is,Don Adams will never be forgotten for Get Smart and the above cartoons he voiced. Hang up the shoe phone Max,Don has hung up. RIP Mr Adams.
[ September 27, 2005, 18:33: Message edited by: Borderstone ]
His voice and demeanor were unmistakeable. He did many a TV show but he will always be remembered fondly for Maxwell Smart and the great routines like,"The Cone Of Silence","Would You Believe....?" and of course the good old shoe phone!
Along with "Get Smart",Don was also the voice for 2 different cartoons. In the 1960s he was the voice of "Tenessee Tuxedo",a penguin who lived in a zoo but wanted very much to be human. In the 1980's he voiced the very popular,"Inspector Gadget",a detective who had several gadgets attatched to him for crime fighting.
Two other Adams shows were "Don Adams' Screen Test (sort of the original,"Whose Line Is It Anyway?") and a short lived mid-'80s sit-com called "Check It Out",where he played the manager of a local grocery store.
In more recent years he continued to voice "Inspector Gadget" direct to video cartoon movies and made a few more atempts at Get Smart related projects,like the ill fated version where his son decides to get into the spy-biz.
In 1980,there was a Get Smart movie called,"The Nude Bomb",where Kaos makes a bomb that dissolves the worlds clothing supply. It sank at the box office,sad to say.
The great thing is,Don Adams will never be forgotten for Get Smart and the above cartoons he voiced. Hang up the shoe phone Max,Don has hung up. RIP Mr Adams.
[ September 27, 2005, 18:33: Message edited by: Borderstone ]