US actor and writer best known for Get Smart, has died.
US actor and writer David Ketchum, best known for Get Smart, has died, aged 97.
He died on August 10 in a care facility in California, his daughter Nicole Madden confirmed.
He joined Get Smart for its second season in 1966 playing Agent 13, who would pop up in mailboxes, grandfather clocks, fire hydrants, planters, while on uncomfortable undercover assignments.
He was once put inside a sofa.
“Stuff like that was tricky. And then they put me in a locker at the airport, and then an ice machine, and it kept getting more and more ridiculous.
“The hardest part for me was when they put Agent 13 in a washing machine. I’m 6-foot-2, so I can’t fit easily into cramped places, and a washing machine is about as cramped as it gets. They also built an eight-foot tube I got into so I could be spun around in the front. You try remembering your lines while you’re spinning around with water and soap squirting in your face!”
His other credits included I’m Dickens He’s Fenster, Camp Runamuck, The Andy Griffith Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Real McCoys, The Munsters, Good Morning World, Gomer Pyle, Mod Squad, That Girl, Green Acres, The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Alice and writing for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Here’s Lucy, M*A*S*H, Wonder Woman, MacGyver American Style, The Rookies, Switch, The Love Boat, Highway to Heaven, Full House.
Source: Hollywood Reporter