Adam West Biography
Adam West was an American actor known primarily for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film.
West began acting in films in the 1950s. He played opposite Chuck Connors in Geronimo and The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming. He also appeared in the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars and performed voice work on The Fairly OddParents, The Simpsons and Family Guy, playing fictional versions of himself in all three.
Late in his career, West starred in two direct-to-video animated Batman films, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, and Batman vs. Two-Face.
Adam West Age/Height
Adam was born in the year 1928 September 19th but died at the age of 88 years old with only four months remaining for him to be 89 years old. He died in the year 2017 June 9th.
Adam West Family
Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928, in Walla Walla, Washington. His father, Otto Anderson was a farmer and his mother, Audrey Volenne was an opera singer and concert pianist who left her Hollywood dreams to care for her family.
Following her example, West told his father as a young man that he intended to go to Hollywood after completing school. He moved to Seattle with his mother when he was 15, following his parents’ divorce.
West attended Walla Walla High School during his freshman and sophomore years, and later enrolled in Lakeside School in Seattle. He attended Whitman College but studied at the University of Puget Sound during the fall semester of 1949. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in literature and a minor in psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, where he was a member of the Gamma Zeta Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
He also participated on the speech and debate team. Drafted into the United States Army, he served as an announcer on American Forces Network television. After his discharge, he worked as a milkman before moving to Hawaii to pursue a career in television
Adam West Wives/Children
Adam got married for the first time when he was very young. Studying at the last course of the university, Adam met Billie Lou Yeager, who was just 17 years old. The young couple got married, but after 6 years Adam demanded a divorce. At first, the couple travelled around Europe, but then their money ran out and Adam asked his old friend, who worked on TV, for help.
When Adam got a divorce, he got married to a beautiful Tahiti girl with a long name. He called her just Nga. The following year they gave birth to a daughter and after that a son.
In 1970, Adam married his third wife, Marcelle Tagand Lear. The woman already had two children, Moya and Jill, so Adam got stepchildren. Besides, the couple gave birth to two of their own children. The daughter, Nina, was born in 1976. Three years later, in 1979 was born their son, Perrin.
Adam West Death
West died in Los Angeles, California, on June 9, 2017, following a brief battle with leukaemia. After his death, West’s former Batman co-star and longtime friend, Burt Ward, released a statement; “This is a terribly unexpected loss of my lifelong friend, I will forever miss him. There are several fine actors who have portrayed Batman in films. In my eyes, there was only one real Batman that is and always will be Adam West. He was truly the Bright Knight.”
Batman: The Animated Series actor Kevin Conroy (who performed alongside West in the episode “Beware the Gray Ghost”) said “Adam West was an incredibly good, generous actor. Loved working with him as Gray Ghost. A true gentleman”. On June 15, 2017, Los Angeles projected the Bat-Signal on City Hall as a tribute to West, and Walla Walla shone the bat-signal on the Whitman Tower.
West pre-recorded five more episodes as Mayor Adam West released posthumously as part of Family Guy’s sixteenth season.[87] He also recorded the 11th episode of Powerless, which never aired due to the show’s cancellation. NBC aired the episode online after West’s death. West’s last public appearances were from March–April 2017 at the SouthCoast Comic Con & Collectibles Extravaganza in Hanover, Massachusetts, where he was the guest of honour, Fan Expo Dallas, and the second annual Silicon Valley Comic Con.
Adam West Batman
Producer William Dozier cast West as Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman, in the television series Batman, in part after seeing West perform as the James Bond-like spy Captain Q in a Nestlé Quik commercial. He was in competition with Lyle Waggoner for the Batman role. The popular campy show ran on ABC from 1966 to 1968; a feature-length film version directed by Leslie H. Martinson was released in 1966.
In his Batman character, West appeared in a public service announcement in which he encouraged schoolchildren to heed then-President Lyndon B. Johnson’s call for them to buy U.S. savings stamps, a children’s version of U.S. savings bonds, to support the Vietnam War. In 1970, West was considered for the role of James Bond by producer Albert Broccoli for the film Diamonds Are Forever.
Post-Batman career
After his high-profile role, West, along with Burt Ward and Yvonne Craig (who played crime-fighting sidekicks Robin and Batgirl), was typecast. West’s first post-Caped Crusader role was in the film The Girl Who Knew Too Much. His lead performance against type as cynical tough guy Johnny Cain did not erode his Batman image; the movie was a box office disappointment.
For a time, West made a living from personal appearances as Batman. In 1974, when Ward and Craig reprised their Batman roles for a TV public-service announcement about equal pay for women, West was absent. Instead, Dick Gautier filled in as Batman. One of West’s more memorable Batman appearances, after the series had ended, was with the Memphis-based United States Wrestling Association, where he engaged in a war of words with Jerry “The King” Lawler while wearing the cowl and a tracksuit, and even name-dropping Spider-Man.
West subsequently appeared in the theatrical films The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, The Curse of the Moon Child, The Specialist, Hooper, The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, One Dark Night and Young Lady Chatterley II. West also appeared in such television films as The Eyes of Charles Sand, Poor Devil, Nevada Smith, For the Love of It and I Take These Men.
He did guest shots on the television series; Maverick, Diagnosis: Murder, Love, American Style, Bonanza, The Big Valley, Night Gallery, Alias Smith and Jones, Mannix, Emergency!, Alice, Police Woman, Operation Petticoat, The American Girls, Vega$, Big Shamus, Little Shamus, Laverne & Shirley, Bewitched, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Zorro, The King of Queens, and George Lopez.
West was also in an episode of Bonanza that supposedly never aired until reruns were shown and he made several guest appearances as himself on Family Feud. In 1986, he starred in the comedy police series titled The Last Precinct.
Return to Batman
West often reprised his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne, first in the short-lived animated series The New Adventures of Batman, and in other shows such as The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour, Tarzan and the Super 7, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
In 1979, West once again donned the Batsuit for the live-action TV special Legends of the Superheroes. In 1985, DC Comics named West as one of the honorees in the company’s 50th-anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for his work on the Batman series.
West was considered to play Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s father, in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film. Originally, he wanted to play Batman.[33][34] West never appeared in any of the theatrically released post-1960s Batman franchise motion pictures and, to date, neither has Burt Ward (Robin, from the TV series).
West made an appearance in a 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series on Fox, but not as Batman (as the role of Batman was already being played by Kevin Conroy). Instead, he portrayed Simon Trent, a washed-up actor who used to play a superhero in a TV series called The Gray Ghost and who now has difficulty finding work. West later had a recurring role as the voice of Mayor Grange in the WB animated series The Batman.
The actor vocally reprised his role as Batman for the CGI-animated short film Batman: New Times. He co-starred with Mark Hamill, who vocally portrayed The Joker and had originally played the role on Batman: The Animated Series. West also voiced Thomas Wayne in an episode of the cartoon series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
Adam West Net Worth
Adam West was an American actor who had a net worth of $8 million dollars.
Adam West Joker
The Joker is the main antagonist in the 1960s TV show Batman and the 1966 film. The Joker was the Clown Prince of Crime and one of his first goals was to unmask Batman and publicly expose his identity. Some of his crimes were for little more than goofy amusement, while others were far more dangerous.
Sometime later, Joker teamed up with Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler to form the United Underworld, to disband the United Nations. His role in the Combination Trap (that was devised by the Riddler) was the Jack-in-the-Box to send Batman flying toward the Penguin’s exploding octopus; however, one of the unnamed thugs fell onto the jack in the box and was killed by the exploding octopus.
Adam West Batman Movie
1. Batman
2. Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
3. Batman vs. Two-Face
Adam West Batman Costume
Adam West Family Guy Tribute
“Family Guy” paid tribute to the late Adam West on Sunday’s Season 17 finale.
In a preview clip, Brian the dog suggests changing the name of James Woods High School to Adam West High. At first, the family questions Brian’s proposal. But he states his case by mocking conservative actor Woods and wins everyone over. “James Woods is an embarrassment to Quahog. He’s a political troll and a maniac on Twitter,” Brian says.
Everyone quickly comes around and Peter says, “I’ll make a special video dedication reminding people of how great Mayor West was.” The late “Batman” TV star voiced the role of Mayor West from 2000 until his death in 2017.
As for Woods, last month Twitter locked his account over a tweet the platform considered threatening in nature. The conservative star later said in a statement to The Daily Wire he would no longer be using the platform.
“Family Guy” airs Sunday on Fox at 9 p.m./8 p.m. CT. The series is a 20th Century Fox Television production. Seth MacFarlane is creator/executive producer. Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin serve as executive producers/showrunners, while Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith and Kara Vallow are executive producers.
Adam West Batman Quotes
1. “It’s obvious. Only a criminal would disguise himself as a licensed, bonded guard yet callously park in front of a fire hydrant.”
2. “We’ve come a long way from the Prime Minister’s exploding cake. Or have we?”
3. “Salt and corrosion. The infamous old enemies of the crime fighter”
4. “A reporter’s lot is not easy, making exciting stories out of plain, average, ordinary people like Robin and me.”
5. “It’s sometimes difficult to think clearly when you’re strapped to a printing press.”
6. Robin: “You can’t get away from Batman that easy!”
Batman: “Easily.”
Robin: “Easily.”
Batman: “Good grammar is essential, Robin.”
Robin: “Thank you.”
Batman: “You’re welcome.”
7. “Yes, he moves very quickly for an overstuffed and unlikely Egyptian Pharaoh”
8. Robin: “Let’s go!”
Batman: “Not you, Robin. They have strict licensing laws in this country. A boy of your age is not allowed in a drinking tavern.”
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9. Chief O’Hara: “Will you be wanting extra police protection?”
Batman: “No thank you, Chief O’Hara. This time I think Robin and I better go at it alone. Any large contingent of police officers might create unnecessary confusion.
10. “Catwoman, I find you to be odious, abhorrent, and insegrievious.”
11. “Robin: Where’d you get a live fish, Batman?”
Batman: “The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin.”
12. “It is the duty of every good citizen of Gotham City to report meeting a man from Mars in a public park”.
13. “No, Robin. With my head sticking out of this neosaurus costume, I might not appear like an ordinary, run of the mill crimefighter.”
14. “Bartender, a bit of advice. Always inspect a jukebox carefully. These machines can be deadly.”
15. “Let that be a lesson. In future, be more careful from who you accept free lemonade.
16. (after coming through Barbara’s window): “We would have entered the building by more conventional means, but we didn’t want to startle the tenants.”
17. “That’s one trouble with dual identities, Robin. Dual responsibilities.”