BREAKING NEWS – Farewell to the Caped Crusader: Beloved 1960s Batman star Adam West dies aged 88 surrounded by his family after short battle with leukemia
By ANN SCHMIDT
DAILYMAIL.COM
10 June 2017
Actor Adam West who portrayed Batman in the classic 1960s television series, died Friday night in Los Angeles.
The actor passed away at the age of 88 after a short battle with leukemia and was surrounded by his wife, Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
After the ABC show died out, West struggled with his career, but was able to come back with his work on Family Guy.
‘Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives. He was and always will be our hero,’ his family said in a statement, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
West caught the attention of Batman’s producer after he played a James Bond-type character in a commercial for Nestle and after reading the pilot script of the show, he said in a 2006 interview he ‘knew after 20 pages that it was the kind of comedy I wanted to do’.
‘You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange,’ he said.
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