Playing A Nervous Motorist
In the 1963 comedy movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Don Knotts portrayed a nervous motorist who is part of a group of strangers that are in a madcap pursuit of stolen cash worth $350,000 ($2,705,000 today). The cast includes iconic actors back in the day like Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, and Terry-Thomas.
Playing A Fish
The 1964 movie The Incredible Mr. Limpet stars Don Knotts as the title character. The film is about Henry Limpet, a man who inexplicably turns into a talking fish after falling off a pier. The tilefish-looking Limpet then helps the U.S. Navy find and destroy Nazi submarines. This film features the naval ship USS Alfred A. Cunningham. The film also used the USS Galveston (CG-3), but in the movie it is called the USS Los Angeles.