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Adam West: 1. 92. I would almost be willing to bet that every single one mentions his signature role of Batman in the very first sentence. It is true, of course, that he is most famous for playing the Caped Crusader in the classic Sixties television series “Batman,” a feature film spinoff and numerous animated iterations that have popped up over the years. That said, while he is most identified with that role, there was more to his career, including appearances in a couple of cult favorites and a couple of performances that might have reevaluated the perceived notions of what he was capable of as an actor.

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Advertisement. William West Anderson was born on September 1. Walla Walla, Washington to a farmer father and a mother who was a former opera singer and concert pianist. After graduating from Whitman College in Walla Walla, he was drafted into the Army and served as a television announcer for the Armed Forces Network. Determined to follow in his mother’s footsteps by getting into show business, he moved to Hawaii following his discharge in the hopes of getting into television. He soon got a job as a sidekick to the host of the local kids show “El Kini Popo Show,” in which one of his co- stars was a chimp—he would eventually become the star of the show, though the chimp would still remain alongside him.

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He also made his big screen debut in an uncredited bit part in “Voodoo Island” (1. Boris Karloff that filmed in Hawaii. By this time married and the father of two children, he decided in 1. Hollywood and after arriving, he adopted the stage name of Adam West.

In 1. 95. 9, he signed a contract with Warner Brothers and quickly appeared in a supporting role in the Paul Newman drama “The Young Philadelphians” (1. The FBI Story” (1. Geronimo” (1. 96. Romance Films Marjorie Prime (2017).

Most of his time was spent working in television, appearing in episodes of such shows as “Sugarfoot,” “7. Sunset Strip,” “Maverick,” “Hawaiian Eye,” “Bonanza” and “The Rifleman” before getting a recurring role on the final season of “The Detectives” in 1. In 1. 96. 3, he appeared in the films “Tammy and the Doctor” and the Steve Mc. Queen- Tuesday Weld drama “Soldier in the Rain” and also co- starred with another young actor, William Shatner, in “Alexander the Great,” a pilot for a proposed television series. The end result was deemed too awful to air. But once West and Shatner were both better known, it was finally broadcast and yes, it was kind of terrible. Over the next couple of years, there were appearances on such shows as “The Outer Limits” and “Bewitched” and he would also find himself in a couple of movies that would go on to become cult favorites over time.

In 1. 96. 4, he appeared in “Robinson Crusoe on Mars,” a sci- fi update of the Daniel Defoe classic. Written by Ib Melchior and directed by Byron Haskin (whose credits include the original “War of the Worlds” . Alas, West’s character did not live beyond the opening scenes, a bit of a fake- out for viewers at the time who presumably assumed that his strong and stalwart character would be the one to survive the entire story. West had more screen time as the heroic lead in “The Outlaws is Coming” (1. The Three Stooges. Of course, playing the straight- arrow role in a Three Stooges film is about the most thankless job that one can possibly imagine—every time you step on the screen, the majority of the kids that were the film’s target audience started shifting uncomfortably in their seats waiting for you to leave and for the hitting and poking to resume.

But West pulled the job off about as well as anyone could have hoped under such circumstances. Advertisement. In 1. West would become a permanent fixture in the pop culture firmament when he was cast in “Batman,” a television series based on the DC Comics character that had previously inspired a couple of dimly- remembered movie serials in the 1.

Although the character of Batman has generally been depicted in dark and brooding terms over the years, the producers instead chose to go in a much different direction by adopting a deliberately campy approach to the material. In their version, Batman and sidekick Robin (Burt Ward) were depicted as the straightest of arrows; the colorful array of villains that they would battle in order to save the citizens of Gotham City would be portrayed in cheerfully over- the- top turns. The stories would even evoke the comic books to the point where the fight scenes would be periodically interrupted by title cards reading THWAPP, POW! Airing twice a week, the show was an instant hit from the moment it premiered as stars clamored to appear, either as one of the villains or in one of the goofy cameos that would be dropped in here and there—Batman and Robin would be climbing up a building and someone like Jerry Lewis would do schtick for a few seconds. Although he rarely got any real credit for this at the time, a good chunk of the reason why the show succeeded to the degree that it did, both during its original run and over the next several decades in syndication, was because of West’s performance.

In a show in which practically everything was as weird and wacky as can be, West provided the strong and sound center that allowed all the craziness to occur without causing the entire thing to go completely off the rails. This is not to say that he was taking the part too seriously or didn’t realize that the show was supposed to be funny. No, watching him go through his paces, it is perfectly clear that he knows the whole thing is meant to be campy fun; there were any number of moments in which he managed to get a few sly laughs in here and there that were probably best appreciated by older viewers. At the same time, he somehow managed to come off to younger viewers as completely sincere in his approach to playing Batman. I daresay that for anyone who saw his portrayal of the character when they were children, he truly was Batman while the others who would go on to don the cowl over the years were just actors playing a part. The downside to that, of course, is that in the minds of many in Hollywood, West could only be seen as Batman and when the show went off the air in 1. Batman: The Movie” (1.

According to West, he was briefly considered for the role of James Bond in the film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” after Sean Connery vacated the part until it was decided that it would not be right for an American to play the British secret agent. Film Noir Movies Sweet Virginia (2017). Over the next couple of decades, he made the occasional appearance on the big screen in such films as “The Girl Who Knew Too Much” (1.

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Mystery Science Theater 3. Zombie Nightmare” (1. During this period, he made numerous appearances on television as well on such shows as “Night Gallery,” “Mannix,” “Emergency,” “Police Woman,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island” and “Murder She Wrote.” For most of this time, he tried to separate himself from the part that made him famous but he eventually returned to the role of Batman, supplying his voice for the animated shows “The New Adventures of Batman” (1. Super. Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show” (1. The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians” (1. Legends of the Superheroes” (1. Ed Mc. Mahon. Advertisement.

By the time the Nineties rolled around, West was presumably seen as a has- been still desperately clinging to whatever celebrity he was still able to wring out of his association with a show that had gone off the air decades earlier.