Guest Stars
Get Smart used several familiar character actors and celebrities, and some future stars, in guest roles, including:
- Ian Abercrombie
- Steve Allen
- Barbara Bain
- Billy Barty
- Lee Bergere
- Shelley Berman
- Milton Berle
- Joseph Bernard
- Lynn Borden
- Ernest Borgnine
- Tom Bosley
- Victor Buono
- Carol Burnett
- John Byner
- James Caan
- Howard Caine
- Johnny Carson
- Jack Cassidy
- Ellen Corby
- Wally Cox
- Broderick Crawford
- Dennis Cross
- Robert Culp
- John Dehner
- Michael Dunn
- Robert Easton
- Dana Elcar
- Bill Erwin
- Jamie Farr
- John Fiedler
- Joey Forman
- Alice Ghostley
- Jack Gilford
- Leo Gordon
- Farley Granger
- Buddy Hackett
- Sid Haig
- Bob Hope
- John Hoyt
- Conrad Janis
- Gordon Jump
- Ted Knight
- James Komack
- Charles Lane
- Len Lesser
- Laurie Main
- Judith McConnell
- Pat McCormick
- Robert Middleton
- Al Molinaro
- Howard Morton
- Burt Mustin
- Barry Newman
- Julie Newmar
- Leonard Nimoy
- Alan Oppenheimer
- Pat Paulsen
- Angelique Pettyjohn
- Regis Philbin
- Tom Poston
- Ann Prentiss
- Vincent Price
- Don Rickles
- Alex Rocco
- Cesar Romero
- Vito Scotti
- Larry Storch
- Vic Tayback
- Fred Willard
- Jason Wingreen
- Dana Wynter
Both Bill Dana and Jonathan Harris, who Adams appeared with on The Bill Dana Show, also appeared, as did Adams's father, William Yarmy, brother, Dick Yarmy, and daughter, Caroline Adams.
The series featured several cameo appearances by famous actors and comedians, sometimes uncredited and often comedian friends of Adams. Johnny Carson appeared, credited as "special guest conductor," in "Aboard the Orient Express." Carson returned for an uncredited cameo as a royal footman in the third season episode "The King Lives?" Other performers to make cameo appearances included Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Wally Cox, Robert Culp (as a waiter in an episode sending up Culp's I Spy), Phyllis Diller, Buddy Hackett, Bob Hope, and Martin Landau.
Actress Rose Michtom (the real life aunt of the show's executive producer Leonard Stern) appeared in at least 44 episodes - usually as a background extra with no speaking role. In the season 1 episode "Too Many Chiefs" when she is shown in a photograph, Max refers to her as "my Aunt Rose," but the Chief corrects Max by saying that it's actually KAOS agent Alexi Sebastian disguised as Max's Aunt Rose. Fans refer to her as "Aunt Rose" in all of her dozens of appearances, even though her character is never actually named in most of them.
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