David Ketchum

David Ketchum was an American actor and comedian who worked largely in television sitcoms, among them Get Smart, Camp Runamuck, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Born in Quincy, Illinois, he attended UCLA, where he studied physics, and performed in USO shows with fellow students. He spent seven years hosting a radio program in San Diego. On television he played Counselor Spiffy on Camp Runamuck and was a regular on I'm Dickens, He's Fenster as Mel Warshaw. In Get Smart he appeared as Agent 13, often hidden in mailboxes or fire hydrants, and he played the role again in the 1989 television movie Get Smart Again and a 1995 revival episode. He co-wrote a third-season Get Smart episode titled Classification: Dead, and wrote scripts for The Andy Griffith Show and Petticoat Junction. His comedy album The Long-Playing Tongue of Dave Ketchum came out in 1962. His films included The Other Sister (1999) and Young Doctors in Love (1982).