Adam West
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West in 2014
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William West Anderson September 19, 1928 Walla Walla, Washington U.S. |
| Alma mater | Whitman College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1954–present |
| Known for | Batman, Mayor West, Catman |
| Television | Batman, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Fairly OddParents |
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| Children | 6 |
| Website | www |
William West Anderson (born September 19, 1928), better known as Adam West, is an American actor whose career spans six decades.
His acting career began in films in 1959. He played opposite Chuck Connors in Geronimo (1962) and The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming (1965). He has also appeared in the science-fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), opposite Paul Mantee, and achieved continuing success for the title role in the 1960s ABC series Batman and its theatrical feature film. He has done voice work on The Fairly OddParents, The Simpsons and Family Guy (all of which he voices fictional versions of himself) and also Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders.
West was born on September 19, 1928, in Walla Walla, Washington, to Otto West Anderson (January 25, 1903 – October 9, 1984) and Audrey V. Speer (1906–69). He is of Swedish descent from his father, and English, with small amounts of Welsh, German, Irish, and remote Scottish from his mother. His father was a farmer; his mother was an opera singer and concert pianist who was forced to abandon her own Hollywood dreams to care for her family. Following her example, West stated to his father as a youth that he intended after school to go to Hollywood. He moved to Seattle when he was 15 with his mother following his parents' divorce.
West attended Walla Walla High School during his freshman and sophomore years, and later enrolled in Lakeside School in Seattle. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature and a minor in psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, where he was a member of the Gamma Zeta Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He also participated on the speech and debate team. Drafted into the United States Army, he served as an announcer on American Forces Network television. After his discharge, he worked as a milkman before moving to Hawaii to pursue television.
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