Adam West yang memiliki nama lengkap William West Anderson lahir di Walla Walla, Washington, Amerika Serikat, 19 September 1928 – meninggal di Los Angeles, California, Amerika Serikat, 9 Juni 2017 pada umur 88 tahun. Dia yang lebih dikenal dengan nama panggungnya Adam West adalah seorang aktor Amerika, yang selama enam dekade televisi paling dikenal karena perannya dalam serial TV Batman di jaringan TV ABC dan 1966 film pilihan Batman. Putra petani dan penyanyi opera ini dilahirkan di negara bagian Washington. Pada 9 Juni 2017 Adam West meninggal dunia karena penyakit leukimia.Adam West, “Batman” Tahun 1960-an Tutup Usia. Bintang serial televisi “Batman” tahun 1960-an, Adam West, meninggal dunia karena leukemia hari Jum’at malam (9/6) dalam usia 88 tahun. Adam West, bintang televisi terkenal yang dicintai karena perannya sebagai “Batman” pada tahun 1960an, meninggal dunia Jum’at malam (9/6) karena leukemia, pada usia 88 tahun. Peran West sebagai Caped Crusader yang legendaris, hanya ada dalam 120 episode dengan rentang penayangan selama tiga tahun; tetapi telah menjadi puncak karirnya. Meskipun demikian banyak kritikus menilai apapun itu, Adam West meninggalkan warisan berharga.
Salah satu peran pertamanya adalah dalam pertunjukkan anak-anak “El Kini Popo” dimana salah seorang bintang utamanya adalah seekor simpanse. Penampilannya yang gagah dan suaranya yang berat membuatnya memainkan banyak peran yang memamerkan “kejantanan” dalam film dan televisi tahun 1960an, terutama film-film bertema fiksi-ilmiah dan kejahatan. Ia juga tampil di sebuah film komedi yang sangat terkenal “Three Stooges”. Adam West menikah tiga kali dan memiliki enam anak. Ketika mengumumkan kabar kematiannya, keluarga West mengatakan “ayah kami melihat dirinya sebagai Bright Knight, dan mengilhami kehidupan fans-nya untuk senantiasa memberikan dampak positif. Ia telah menjadi dan akan selalu menjadi pahlawan kami.”
Adam West (born William West Anderson; September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017) was an American actor widely known for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series Batman and its theatrical feature film — and whose career spanned seven decades. West began acting in films in 1959, playing 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), and performed voice work on The Fairly OddParents, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, playing fictional versions of himself in all three. From 2000, West made regular appearances on the animated series Family Guy, on which he played Mayor Adam West, the lunatic mayor of Quahog, Rhode Island. His role gave him a new wave of popularity since Batman, and lead writer Seth MacFarlane claims to have gone out of his way to avoid typecasting West by deliberately not making any references to Batman.Some of his latest voice-over performances were playing the role of Uncle Art in the Disney Animation film Meet the Robinsons, and voicing the young Mermaid Man (along with Burt Ward, who voiced the young Barnacle Boy) in the cartoon show SpongeBob SquarePants, in the episode "Back to the Past" of 2010. The Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy characters are hybrid parodies of both Batman and Robin and Aquaman and Aqualad, respectively (both heroes have a television show), and Mermaid Man's old age is a humorous reference to West's age. West also played the voice of General Carrington in the video game XIII, and has voiced other video games such as Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Chicken Little: Ace in Action, Scooby-Doo! Unmasked, and Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant. For the online game Champions Online, his voice is used in one of the website's videos. In November 2014, West voiced himself, and the 1960s version of Batman, in the video game Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. West also did voice-over work for superhero-themed commercials for the investment firm LendingTree and television commercials for Hebrew National hot dogs.
West married Billie Lou Yeager in 1950, and they divorced in 1956. He married Ngahra Frisbie in 1957, and they divorced in 1962. Together, they had two children. West married Marcelle Tagand Lear in 1970. Together, they had four children. During the Batman television series, West's relationship with co-star Burt Ward has been described as "problematic". He said "Burt fell victim to making up stories to sell books. But in a way it was flattering, because he made me sound like King Kong." West said that he played Batman "for laughs, but in order to do [that], one had to never think it was funny. You just had to pull on that cowl and believe that no one would recognize you." West died following a brief battle with leukemia in Los Angeles at the age of 88.
