Biography
Whenever actor
Ed Platt blew one of his lines in his role of "The Chief" in the TV comedy series
Get Smart, star
Don Adams would cry out "Is John Doucette available?" Adams was kidding, of course, but he was not alone in his high regard for the skill and versatility of the deep-voiced, granite-featured Doucette. In films on a regular basis since 1947 (he'd made his official movie debut in 1943's
Two Tickets to London), Doucette was usually cast in roles calling for bad-tempered menace, but was also adept at dispensing dignity and authority. He was equally at home with the archaic dialogue of
Julius Caesar (1953) and
Cleopatra (1963) as he was with the 20th-century military patois of 1970's
Patton, in which he played General Truscott. John Doucette's many TV credits include a season on the syndicated MacDonald Carey vehicle
Lock-Up (1959), and the role of Captain Andrews on The Partners (1971), starring Doucette's old friend and admirer
Don Adams. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide