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Today, the entertainment world is mourning the loss of David Ketchum, the beloved character actor best known for his iconic role as the often cooped-up field reconnaissance operative, Agent 13, on the classic sitcom Get Smart. His family announced this afternoon that Ketchum died at the age of 97 on August 10. He leaves behind a long legacy of comedic writing and guest-starring on-screen, from Camp Runamuk to The Andy Griffith Show.

Born in Quincy, Illinois, on February 4, 1928, Ketchum majored in engineering at UCLA. In a 1965 interview, he explained that he never resigned himself to a career in show business and wanted a fallback for when his time on-screen was up. Originally,...

David Ketchum, the goofy comic actor and prolific TV writer best known for squeezing into such stuffy spaces as vending machines, trash cans and airport lockers as Agent 13 on the fabled sitcom Get Smart, has died. He was 97.

Ketchum died Aug. 10 in a care facility in Thousand Oaks, California, his daughter Nicole Madden told The Hollywood Reporter.

Ketchum also played carpenter Mel Warshaw opposite John Astin and Marty Ingalls on the 1962-63 ABC sitcom I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster and starred as Counselor Spiffy on the 1965-66 NBC comedy Camp Runamuck.

In notable guest-star turns, he portrayed salesmen selling real estate and petroleum on The Andy Griffith Show in 1967 and was a member of a divorce club that offers great vacation rates on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970.

Said fellow Camp Runamuck actor Dave Madden in Robert Pegg’s 2015 book, Comical Co-Stars of Television: “Dave was a naturally funny guy.

This winter 2025 season , the Dr. Stone anime returned for a fourth season with Dr. Stone Science Future . Senku Ishigami, a scientific genius, and his crew from the Kingdom of Science have set off to America in search of corn, a key to survival. Knowing Senku, though, this new journey will be full of not just adventure, but scientific advancement and discovery. Sure, many will tell you that a certain show “makes science fun,” but none embody this mantra quite like Dr. Stone . Imagine if Bill Nye was a spiky-haired anime protagonist and you’ve got this wonderful anime series. That said, you may be approaching this new season as a total newcomer, in which case, welcome! The journey that Senku has taken is full of twists and turns and this article will help you get up to speed with the proper Dr. Stone watch order. Dr. Stone Watch Order Dr. Stone...

If you’re a Haikyu!! fan then you definitely know who Burnout Syndromes is. The band, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Kazuumi Kumagai, bassist Taiyu Ishikawa and drummer Takuya Hirose, is behind some of the anime’s most iconic openings. It's okay if you have “Fly High!!” from Haikyu!! 2nd Season in your head when thinking about Burnout Syndromes. While Burnout Syndromes would go on to do more Haikyu!! hits like "Hikari Are" (the Haikyu!! 3rd Season Op) and the first opening to Haikyu!! Top The Top! , “Phoenix,” the band has also done music for Dr. Stone ("Good Morning World!") and Gintama ("Hanaichimonme"), just to name a few more anime series as they continue to make a name for themselves across the global music scene. The group recently took the time to talk about their music, how they came together back in middle school, what it’s been like to have...

E. Duke Vincent, a naval aviator and novelist who also, with partner Aaron Spelling, produced some of the most popular shows in television history, died on February 10 in Montecito. That, according to his wife, actress Pamela Hensley. He was 91.

Born Edward Ventimiglia, Vincent’s 40-year TV career kicked off after he joined the Navy, became a Naval aviator and eventually joined The Blue Angels. About that time, he flew the F8F-8P filming the aerial photo sequences for the NBC’s The Blue Angels.

On resigning from the Navy in 1962, he followed his interest in TV and got a job producing seven one-hour documentaries called Man In Space. While in Los Angeles, filming sequences for the series, Vincent met with Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard, the executive producers of The Dick Van Dyke show. After writing a spec script for them, he signed on to do their next series,...

E. Duke Vincent, the writer and two-time Emmy-winning producer who partnered with Aaron Spelling on such hugely popular shows as Dynasty, Beverly Hills, 90210, Charmed, 7th Heaven and Melrose Place, has died. He was 91.

Vincent died on Feb. 10 in his home in Montecito, California, his wife, actress Pamela Hensley, announced.

He and Spelling produced more than 40 series together, also including Hotel, Vegas, Matt Houston, Madman of the People and The Colbys; seven miniseries, among them Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives in 1985 and James Michener’s Texas in 1994; and more than three dozen telefilms.

Vincent won his Emmys for executive producing Day One, a 1989 CBS movie about the Manhattan Project that starred David Strathairn as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the 1994 HBO movie And the Band Played On, centering on the AIDS epidemic.

An only child, Edward Ventimiglia was born on April 30, 1932, in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, Egizio, was a pilot...

E. Duke Vincent, an Emmy-winning TV producer, died on Feb. 10 in Montecito, Calif. He was 91.

With Aaron Spelling, the duo worked on 43 TV series, such as “Dynasty,” “Hotel,” “Vegas,” “Matt Houston,” “The Colbys,” “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place,” in addition to seven miniseries including Jackie Collins’ “Hollywood Wives” and James Micheners’ “Texas.” They also hold 39 TV movie credits, including Emmy winners “Day One” and “And the Band Played On.”

Additionally, Duke and Spelling served as executive producers on Warner Bros. Network’s long-running series “Charmed” and “7th Heaven,” the network’s highest rated and longest running drama. Duke wrote or produced over 2,300 hours of programming over the course of his 40-year career in Hollywood, with 1,600 hours of primetime and 750 hours of daytime TV.

The only child of Margaret and Egizio Ventimiglia, he was born Edward Ventimiglia in Jersey City, N.J. on April 30, 1932. After graduating from Seton Hall University,...

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Gary Nelson, who directed the Disney films Freaky Friday and The Black Hole, served as the in-house helmer on the first two seasons of Get Smart and called the shots for scores of other shows, has died. He was 87.

Nelson died May 25 in Las Vegas of natural causes, his son Garrett Nelson told The Hollywood Reporter.

His father was Sam Nelson, who served as an assistant director on such landmark films as The Lady From Shanghai (1947), All the King’s Men (1949), Some Like It Hot (1959) and Experiment in Terror (1962) and was a co-founder, along with King Vidor and others, of what would become the DGA.

Gary Nelson started out as an A.D., too, working on films including Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955), John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and John Sturges’ Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), before he got a big break thanks to his future wife,...