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This Robin is a dark-skinned teenager who acts as Batman's partner as well as the mechanic for "the Batmobile", a high-tech motorcycle. Little is revealed about this Robin's backstory other than that he was apparently adopted by Batman at a young age, and that Robin is his real name rather than an alias.
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 ...
The name "Robin, The Boy Wonder" and the medieval look of the original costume are inspired by the legendary hero Robin Hood. Finger had named Dick Grayson after both the half-brother of pulp fiction character Frank Merriwell , also named Dick, and book editor Charles Grayson, Jr. [ 5 ] The costume was designed by Jerry Robinson who drew it ...
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.
Robin is a unisex given name and a surname. It was originally a diminutive masculine given name or nickname of Robert , derived from the prefix Ro - ( hrod , Old Germanic , meaning "fame" and berht , meaning "bright"), and the suffix -in ( Old French diminutive).
The Pillsbury Doughboy has a name -- and you've probably never even heard it before. The cheerful mascot made his debut in a television commercial that aired on November 7, 1965.
From left to right: Ted, Robin, Barney, Marshall, Lily. The US sitcom How I Met Your Mother premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. Created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the show is presented from the perspective of Ted Mosby in 2030 ("Future Ted") as he tells his children how he met the titular mother.
Scott Derrickson and co-screenwriter Robert Cargill drew on true experiences from the '70s in adapting Joe Hill's 10-page short story into "The Black Phone."