Don Adams
Donald James Yarmy
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Emerging from a Manhattan childhood shaped by a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Irish-American mother, he left DeWitt Clinton High School, served as a Marine in the Pacific, and after recovering from a severe malaria complication, returned to civilian life as a club comic and commercial artist, eventually adopting his wife Adelaide’s surname for auditions. His television break arrived in 1954 when…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
