KING MOODY BIO

King Moody and Get Smart have an interesting history. King was a close friend of Bernie Kopell (Conrad Siegfried on the show). He had auditioned for and lost out on the role of the Hymie before he was approached to read for Shtarker. In all, Moody appeared as three different characters (Markovitch, Kirsch and Shtarker) in the series.

Before, during and after Get Smart, Moody made dozens of guest appearances in show such as Man From U.N.C.LE., Dragnet, High Chaparral, The Bob Newhart Show, Mission: Impossible, Chico and the Man, Starsky and Hutch, Little House on the Praire, ChiPs, Quantum Leap and Night Court. But more than any of his television or film roles, throughout the 70's, King Moody was famous as the spokesman/clown we all came to know as Ronald McDonald. --TVLAND