Biography
West grew higher reading a Batman comics. He graduated from either nearby Whitman College where he majored in literature and psychology and was married. He served deuce years in the United States Army. He worked as a disc jockey, truck driver, and cowboy, then traveled using his married woman about Europe, in which he periodically worked as a milkman. inside time he settled in Hawaii where he got the role in the lightly amusement indicate known as A Kini Popo Indicate. Within Hawaii he divorced his 1st married woman & married the Hawaiian.

In the 1960s, various roles in films & television brought him to the attention of William Dozier, world health organization cast him when Batman in the Sixties hit television series. West has said he was too invited to play James Bond after Sean Connery decided to give up a role, & that he was about a share of the tercet large B's of the Sixties: Attach, Batman, & The Beatles. the Batman indicate wwhen internationally successful as lightly campy amusement, running off from either 1966 to 1968 & possibly producing a feature.

Fallowing a indicate ended, West was typecast when Batman & experienced condition swimming more roles; audiences identified him as Batman and there are no 1 else. Possibly his convincing lead performance when misanthropic hard guy Johnny Cain in the 1969 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much did not erode his Batman image.

He never stopped working fallowing Batman & when you took the Seventies & Eighties appeared inside a range of B-grade films & non-aired TV pilots, including A Happy Hooker attend Hollywood all about a famous call for girl, Xaviera Hollander.

inside a period of the Nineties he achieved unfair cult status, appearing when himself in such films when A Size of Watermelons & Drop Dead Gorgeous. West has has also lent his voice to many alive television series, including The Simpsons and the alive Batman television series. Within 1991 he starred in the pilot episode for Lookwell!, around which he portrayed the washed-sunk TV action hero world health organization falsely believes he may solve crimes in realistic. A pilot, written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, has accrued a reputation for being one of the funniest potential series not to be picked up by a network. It was late broadcast on the Trio channel.

West got the cameo appearance on the Fox animated version of Batman, Batman: The Animated Series. In the episode "Beware the Gray Ghost", West voices A Gray Ghost, a tribute to early superhero characters rather The Shadow and the Crimson Avenger, and an early childhood inspiration to Bruce Wayne.

West makes semi-regular appearances on the alive series Family Guy, on which he plays Adam West, a touching-lunatic city manager of invented Quahog, Rhode Island (though "Mayor Adam West" was non originally meant to exist as voiced per really Adam West.)

Adam West as well appears in Jukebox's alive series The Fairly OddParents, with a equivalent personality when Personal Guy depicted. Two or three episodes rib of his role when Batman by casting him when Adam West, a superhero Catman and major Hollywood star. He too voiced cartoin roles on Kim Possible as Timothy North, the washed-undone actor world health organizatiin believes he is the superhero he portrayed on televsion, A Fearless Feret. He likewise stared on the Cartoon Network series Johnny Bravo.

He is besides the cagy trader world health organizatiin has appeared on FOXs Cashin' In show about a securities market & investments generally. (Wayne Rogers is another investing actor world health organization has appeared on the indicate).

Filmography
Voodoo Island (1957) The Young Philadelphians (1959) The FBI Story (1959) (voice only) Geronimo (1962) Tammy and the Doctor (1963) Soldier in the Rain (1963) Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) The Relentless Four (1965) The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) Mara of the Wilderness (1965) Batman (1966) The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969) Hollywood Blue (1970) (documentary) The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) Curse of the Moon Child (1972) Tactical Guerilla (1974) The Specialist (1975) Fiona (1977) Hooper (1978) (Cameo) The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) One Dark Night (1983) Hellriders (1984) Young Lady Chatterly II (1985) Zombie Nightmare (1986) Night of the Kickfighters (1988) ''Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988) Going Undercover (1988) Omega Cop (1990) Mad About You (1990) Return Fire (1991) Maxim Xul (1991) The Best Movie Ever Made (1994) (Cameo) The New Age (1994) Not This Part of the World (1994) Ride for Your Life (1995) (short subject) The Clinic (1995) The Size of Watermelons (1996) (Cameo) Joyride (1996) Redux Riding Hood (1997) (short subject) (voice) An American Vampire Story (1997) Behind the Sting (1999) (documentary) Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) (Cameo) Seance (2001) From Heaven to Hell (2002) Baadasssss! (2003) Tales from Beyond (2004) Buckaroo (2005) Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) (voice only) Angels with Angles (2005) (currently around post-production) Chicken Little (2005) (voice) (currently within post-production) Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (2005) Frankie the Squirrel (2006) (currently inside post-production)

TV Work
The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor (cast member from 1961-1962) Batman (1966-1968) Batgirl'' (1967) (short to present Yvonne Craig's character to ABC executives for the third season of Batman) Alexander the Great (1968) Very Friends: A Legendary Extr Powers Indicate (1984) (voice of Batman) A Extr Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985) (voice of Batman) Family Guy (as Mayor Adam West) The Batman (2004-2005) (as City manager Grange) The Fairly OddParents (voices himself as Catman) The Adventures of Pete and Pete (Principal Kent Schwinger) Kim Possible (Timothy North around 'A Fearless Ferret')