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Adam West (real name William West Anderson) is an American actor. He was born in 1929. Adam West is best known for his portrayal of Batman in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Alan Napier (Alan Napier-Clavering) was an American actor. He was born in 1903 at Birmingham, England and died in 1988 of a stroke. He is best known for playing the butler, Alfred, in the television series 'Batman'.
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Burgess Meredith was an American actor, writer, film producer and director. He was born in 1908 at Cleveland, Ohio and died in 1997 of alzheimer's disease. He is known to millions for his role as 'The Penguin' in the 1960's television series and film 'Batman'.
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Cesar Julio Romero Junior was an American actor. He was born in 1907 at New York and died in 1994. During the 1960s he played the part of 'The Joker' in the Batman television series.
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Frank Gorshin is an American actor. He was born in 1934 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of 'The Riddler' in the 1960's television series and film 'Batman'
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Neil Hamilton (real name James Neil Hamilton) was an American actor. He was born in 1899 at Lynn, Massachusetts and died in 1984. His show business career began when he secured a job as a shirt model in magazine adverts. He became interested in acting and joined several stock companies. He secured his first film role in 1918, but got his big break in 1923 in D.W. Griffith's 'The White Rose.' After performing in several more Griffith films, he was signed by Paramount in the late 1920s and soon became one of that studio's most popular leading men. Hamilton's rugged good looks and sophisticated demeanor kept him steadily employed, and he worked for just about every studio in Hollywood, from glittering MGM to rock-bottom PRC. Hamilton worked steadily over the years, and grew gracefully into mature supporting parts. He is best known today, however, as Police Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s television series 'Batman'.
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Robert Butler is an American director, actor and film producer. He was born in 1927 at Los angeles, California. He directed many television series, including some of the 1960s 'Batman' shows and some of the original 'Star Trek' episodes.
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Violet Carson OBE (also known as Violet Carlson) was an English actress. She was born in 1898 at Ancoats, Manchester and died in 1983. She is best known for her role from 1960 until 1980 as 'Ena Sharples' in the soap-opera 'Coronation Street', but she also appeared in a 1966 epsiode of 'Bewitched', in 1967 in an epsiode of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', an episode of 'Batman' and an episode of 'The Monkees'.
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Yvonne Craig is an American actress. She was born in 1937 at Taylorville, Illinois. She is best known for playing the role of 'Batgirl/Barbara Gordon' in the 1960's television series 'Batman'.
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A batman was formerly, prior to the Great War, a person allowed by the government to every company of a regiment of the army on foreign service. His duty was to take charge of the cooking utensils, etc, of the company, and he had a bat-horse (pack horse) to convey these utensils from place to place.
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