Dave Ketchum , who played the exasperated, always-hidden Agent 13 on the beloved 1960s comedy Get Smart and dozens of TV roles and had a busy writing career that included 1970s juggernauts Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley , has died. He was 97.

Our sister publication THR reported that his family said Ketchum died August 10, but they did not provide other details.

Born on February 4, 1928, Ketchum tour with USO and had a local radio shows in California before getting his acting start in the early 1960s with guest roles on such TV series as The Jim Backus Show, Angel and The Real McCoys. He then landed a series-regular role on I’m Dickens — He’s Fenster, an ABC sitcom starring Marty Ingels and John Astin. The lasted one season in 1962-63.

Around that time, Ketchum release

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