Adam West

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1928 age 0

   Born

2. 1966 age 38

   CreditBatman

3. 2017 age 88

   Died

• BMBurgess Meredith2 titles
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• CRCesar Romero2 titles
• BWBurt Ward2 titles
• NHNeil Hamilton2 titles
• SRStafford Repp2 titles
• VWVan Williams2 titles

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• Playing Batman is an actor's challenge. First it's different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. The kids take it straight, but for adults, we have to project it further ... When Batman was a comic it wasn't camp, but the show is. <br> When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.

  Adam West, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We're trying to create a folk hero ... when you play a legend, you have to play it with a straight direct line, direct speech and movement...Now Bruce, on the other hand, has to come across as the kindest, noblest, most charitable guy - again, "straight-line" - not Cary Grant charming - know what I mean?"

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• I happen to think that videogames are an ideal means to help broaden the imaginations of young people.

  Adam West, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Needless to say, adventure characters should be just one facet of videogaming. In the same way a painting allows us to gaze upon the faces and souls of people from another age, or a book permits us to linger on the thoughts of great figures from history and fiction, videogames can expand our awareness of the world as it is, was, or might be.

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• As an actor... we all have our own methods and approaches to creating a character, whether that's from the inside going in or vice versa. I spoke, mainly, to the executive producer Bill Dozier. We got along very well and we really shared the same ideas about the show, what it could and should be. We knew to play it on several levels - something that could be lasting for the children but also with funny, social satire for the adults.

  Adam West, CC BY-SA 4.0