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Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr. / ˈ dʒ ɜːr v ɪ s /; July 6, 1945) is an American actor, animal welfare activist and businessman.He played Dick Grayson's Robin, the sidekick of Batman (played by Adam West), in the television series Batman (1966–1968), its theatrical feature film, the Saturday morning animated series The New Adventures of Batman (1977), the two-episode pilot Legends ...
Actors Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery first appeared as the character in the serial films, Batman (1943) and Batman and Robin (1949). While Adam West reprised his role as Batman from the 1960s television series in Batman: The Movie (1966) and voiced the character in the animated follow-ups Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs.
Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is a 1966 American superhero film directed by Leslie H. Martinson.Based on the television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character of the same name, the film stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.
Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928, in Walla Walla, Washington. [2] [3] His father, Otto Anderson (1903–1984) was a farmer descending from Scania in southern Sweden; and his mother, Audrey Volenne (née Speer; 1906–1969) was an opera singer and concert pianist who left her Hollywood dreams in order to care for her family. [4]
Here are the actors who played Batman on TV and in movies (we've excluded animation, with a couple important exceptions), ranked, starting with the worst. 8. George Clooney ("Batman & Robin," 1997)
Batman & Robin is a 1997 American superhero film based on the DC Comics characters Batman and Robin by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.It is the fourth and final installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, a sequel to Batman Forever (1995), and the only film in the series made without the involvement of Tim Burton in any capacity.
The entire first Batman serial was re-released theatrically in 1965 as An Evening with Batman and Robin, and proved very popular (some theatres showed the chapters as a Saturday matinee). Its success inspired the action-comedy lampoon series Batman ( and its 1966 theatrical feature film spin-off ) starring Adam West and Burt Ward .
Croft was the first actor to play the comic book character Dick Grayson/Robin in a movie, [9] doing so in the 1943 15-chapter movie serial Batman. [10] As of 2024, Croft remains the youngest person (aged 16) to portray Robin in live-action, who at that time was depicted in comic books as being a young teenager.