Burt Nodella

Burton "Burt" Nodella ( May 26, 1924 – February 23, 2016) a.k.a. Cary Nodella, was an American television producer, most notable for the cult classic Get Smart.

The Brooklyn native served in the United States Army in World War II under General George S. Patton Jr., survived conflicts at Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge and lastly helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

In 1946 he attended UCLA where he met Joanne Davis. They married in 1947 and had two children.

Burt produced 47 episodes of Get Smart (in seasons three and four), wrote a couple of installments and appeared as a KAOS doctor in another.

The popular, fast moving, action-comedy ran for five seasons and starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, a bumbling secret agent.

Burt thrived as an actor, agent and producer of Television, winning two Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969 for producing the highly amusing, long running 1960s comedy series Get Smart.

Additionally, he contributed to the series Tate, The Tim Conway Show (1970) and CBS Summer Playhouse, as well as the telefilms The Phantom of Hollywood, starring Jack Cassidy; Winter Kill, starring Andy Griffith; The Hostage Tower, with Peter Fonda and Billy Dee Williams; and Pope John Paul II, with Albert Finney.

Nodella also appeared in a small role on the series Mission: Impossible, contributed as a writer on the series The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, and served as a production executive on the 1980 film The Jazz Singer, starring Laurence Olivier and Neil Diamond.

Nodella lived with Barbara Feldon — who played Agent 99 opposite Don Adams on the show — from 1968 through 1979 then spent his remaining years on his boat in Marina Del Rey.

Burt loved art, travel, romance, poetry, theater and sailing.

He died on February 23, 2016, and was survived by his two children Matthew Nodella and Carrie Kane along with her husband David and grandchildren, Oliver, Spencer and Lucas.

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