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Omaha Steve

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Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:04 PM Saturday

Vale: David Ketchum

Source: TV Tonight

Published by David Knox on August 24, 2025

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.



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Vale: David Ketchum (Original Post) Omaha Steve Saturday OP
Get Smart was hilarious dsc Saturday #1
It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry JoseBalow Saturday #2
I always loved the "Cone of Silence" wolfie001 Saturday #3
He was very funny in that hilarious show Easterncedar Saturday #4
The shoe phone. StarryNite Saturday #5
... littlemissmartypants Saturday #6
Liked the show MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #7

wolfie001

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3. I always loved the "Cone of Silence"
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:29 PM
Saturday

"What? I couldn't hear that." "Can you repeat that?" "Can you speak into my good ear?" Strange echoes. Too funny.


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