Don Adams Autographs
Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s.
Adams was born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, 1923, in Manhattan, New York, a son of William Yarmy and his wife, Consuelo (née Deiter) Yarmy. His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent and worked as a restaurant manager; his mother was Irish American. Donald and his brother Dick Yarmy were each raised in the religion of one parent: Don in the Catholic faith of their mother and Dick in the Jewish faith of their father. The brothers had an elder sister, Gloria Ella Yarmy (later Gloria Burton), a writer who wrote an episode of Get Smart. Dropping out of New York City's DeWitt Clinton High School, he worked as a theater usher. He later remarked that he had "little use for school".
Late in 1941, he joined the United States Marine Corps. Yarmy reported to the First Training Battalion in New River, North Carolina and then was assigned to I Company of the Third Battalion, Eighth Marines in San Diego.
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Traded items with a signature of Don Adams
The most expensive item with a signature of Don Adams (DON ADAMS: Get Smart Inspector Gadget original signed sketch) was sold in November 2025 for $499.95 while the cheapest item (DON ADAMS, 1974 TOPPS #4, AUTOGRAPHED, PISTONS) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2020. The month with the most items sold (7) was March 2021 with an average selling price of $18.00 for an autographed item of Don Adams. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2025 with $275.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was January 2008. In average, an autographed item from Don Adams is worth $29.99.
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