Burt Nodella obit

Burt Nodella, Emmy-Winning Producer on 'Get Smart,' Dies at 91

He was not on the list.

He was in a relationship for more than a decade with Barbara Feldon, who played Agent 99 on the classic 1960s comedy.

Burt Nodella, who won back-to-back Emmy Awards for outstanding comedy series for producing the classic spy spoof Get Smart, died Feb. 23, his family announced. He was 91.

Nodella also produced several telefilms, including CBS’ The Phantom of Hollywood (1974), which starred Jack Cassidy as an enigmatic killer who stalks a dilapidated studio backlot about to be sold to developers.

Nodella 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 series took the top comedy series Emmy in 1968 and 1969.

Nodella lived with Barbara Feldon — who played Agent 99 opposite Don Adams on the show — from 1968 through 1979.

He spent his last years on his boat in Marina del Rey.

The Brooklyn native served under Gen. George S. Patton, survived conflicts at Omaha Beach and the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, his family noted. He later attended UCLA.

Survivors include children Matthew and Carrie and grandchildren Oliver, Spencer and Lucas.

Producer

Get Smart, Again! (1989)

Get Smart, Again!

6.1

TV Movie

producer

1989

 

CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)

CBS Summer Playhouse

6.4

TV Series

line producer

1987

1 episode

 

Pope John Paul II (1984)

Pope John Paul II

6.8

TV Movie

producer

1984

 

Maud Adams, Keir Dullea, Britt Ekland, Peter Fonda, and Billy Dee Williams in The Hostage Tower (1980)

The Hostage Tower

5.1

TV Movie

producer

1980

 

Willa (1979)

Willa

6.0

TV Movie

co-executive paroducer

1979

 

And I Alone Survived (1978)

And I Alone Survived

5.9

TV Movie

producer

1978

 

Nick Nolte and Andy Griffith in Adams of Eagle Lake (1975)

Adams of Eagle Lake

7.4

TV Series

producer

1975

 

Andy Griffith in Winter Kill (1974)

Winter Kill

7.0

TV Movie

producer

1974

 

The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)

The Phantom of Hollywood

5.6

TV Movie

executive producer

1974

 

Shirts/Skins (1973)

Shirts/Skins

7.1

TV Movie

executive producer

1973

 

The Tim Conway Show

7.1

TV Series

producer

1970

4 episodes

 

Don Adams in Get Smart (1965)

Get Smart

8.2

TV Series

producer

1967–1969

47 episodes

 

Dragnet 1966 (1969)

Dragnet 1966

7.7

TV Movie

associate producer

1969

 

Two's Company

TV Movie

producer

1965

 

Production Management

The Jazz Singer (1980)

The Jazz Singer

6.0

production executive

1980

 

Don Adams in Get Smart (1965)

Get Smart

8.2

TV Series

executive in charge of production

1966–1967

35 episodes

 

Happy (1960)

Happy

6.8

TV Series

production executive

1961

1 episode

 

Tate (1960)

Tate

7.4

TV Series

production executive

1960

5 episodes

 

Now Is Tomorrow (1958)

Now Is Tomorrow

6.2

TV Movie

production executive

1958

 

Writer

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

7.0

TV Series

character creator: Dr. Amanda Fallon

1972–1973

2 episodes

 

Don Adams in Get Smart (1965)

Get Smart

8.2

TV Series

written by

1968–1969

2 episodes

 

Happy (1960)

Happy

6.8

TV Series

teleplay

1961

1 episode

 

Actor

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Gen. Bloch

1971

1 episode

 

Don Adams in Get Smart (1965)

Get Smart

8.2

TV Series

PhotographerKAOS Doctor

1967–1968

2 episodes

 

Self

Get Smart Reunion Seminar (2006)

Get Smart Reunion Seminar

Video

Self

2006

 

Inside TV Land (2000)

Inside TV Land

4.8

TV Series

Self

2001

1 episode