Adam West

Adam West
West in a 1961 publicity photo
Born
William West Anderson

(1928-09-19)September 19, 1928
DiedJune 9, 2017(2017-06-09) (aged 88)
Alma materWhitman College
OccupationActor
Years active1954–2017
Known for
Television
Spouses
  • Billie Lou Yeager
    (m. 1950; div. 1956)
  • Nga Frisbie Dawson
    (m. 1957; div. 1962)
  • Marcelle Tagand Lear
    (m. 1970)
Children4
AwardsInkpot Award (1980)[1]

William West Anderson (September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017), known as Adam West, was an American actor. He portrayed Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film, reprising the role in various media until 2017. Making his film debut in the 1950s, West starred opposite Chuck Connors in Geronimo (1962) and The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming (1965). He also appeared in the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).

He voiced parodied versions of himself in the animated television sitcoms The Fairly OddParents (2003–2008), The Simpsons (1992, 2002), and Family Guy (2000–2019). In the last of these, he played Mayor Adam West between the second and seventeenth seasons. He received a television star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.

  1. ^ "Inkpot Award". Comic-Con International: San Diego. December 6, 2012.