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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.
Read more: https://tvtonight.com.au/2025/08/vale-david-ketchum.html
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dsc
(53,094 posts)1. Get Smart was hilarious
I didn't watch it first run but in rerun.
JoseBalow
(8,217 posts)2. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry
How could it not be hilarious?
wolfie001
(5,938 posts)3. I always loved the "Cone of Silence"
"What? I couldn't hear that." "Can you repeat that?" "Can you speak into my good ear?" Strange echoes. Too funny.
Easterncedar
(4,839 posts)4. He was very funny in that hilarious show
StarryNite
(11,740 posts)5. The shoe phone.

littlemissmartypants
(29,091 posts)6. ...

MustLoveBeagles
(13,578 posts)7. Liked the show
Watched it in syndication.