{"id":395247,"date":"2017-06-12T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/12\/adam-west-an-amazing-talent-says-batman-co-star-burt-ward\/"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:11:19","slug":"adam-west-an-amazing-talent-says-batman-co-star-burt-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/12\/adam-west-an-amazing-talent-says-batman-co-star-burt-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam West an amazing talent, says Batman co-star Burt Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Adam West, left, and Burt Ward drew a cult following for their tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the Dynamic Duo<\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>Actor Burt Ward, who played Robin alongside Adam West&#8217;s Batman in the hit 1960s TV series, has paid tribute to his co-star who has died aged 88.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, 71, told the BBC that the two had enjoyed &#8220;an amazing friendship&#8221;, describing the actor as &#8220;a lot of fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said they had played the Dynamic Duo &#8220;on multiple levels&#8221; to please the show&#8217;s varied audience.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>West died in Los Angeles on Friday after a short battle with leukaemia, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>The TV series, with its kitsch costumes, comic book fight scenes and corny one-liners, drew a cult following.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes to West have flooded in from the acting world and also from thousands of fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a wonderful man who I&#8217;ve spent 75% of the time on this earth working with, who has been a pleasure, just amazing talent, a great father, a great family man, a wonderful human being, just a lot of fun and I&#8217;m going to miss him incredibly. In fact it&#8217;s very difficult to really believe that the end has come,&#8221; Ward told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adam and I have had the most amazing friendship, just for whatever reason we instantly got along.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We share a similar type of humour, we had the best time on Batman and it really showed through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Original actors in the 1960s television series, Batman, (L-R) Burt Ward, Adam West, and Julie Newmar at Comic-Con 2014 in San Diego, California\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/_96438569_039983319.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(17, 17, 17); color:rgb(236, 236, 236); font-family:helmet,freesans,helvetica,arial,sans-serif\">Batman stars Burt Ward, Adam West, and Julie Newmar appeared together on stage in 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ward said he and West knew the show was being enjoyed by all age groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were playing it on multiple levels, we were playing with our audience, we used to say that we put on our tights to &#8216;put on&#8217; the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;For the kids it was serious hero worship, for the adults it&#8217;s the nostalgia, the comic book, and for that very difficult audience at that time to capture &#8211; the teenagers and the college kids &#8211; it was the insinuations, the double entendres, all the things that nobody had ever done with an audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow actor Julie Newmar, who played the Caped Crusader&#8217;s arch enemy Catwoman, described West as &#8220;stellar, exemplary, he was a king to the end&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was bright, witty and fun to work with. And I&#8217;ll miss him in the physical world and savour him always in the world of imagination and creativity,&#8221; she told the BBC World Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adam West was the best Batman of all time. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;ll be one to compare with him. He was, of course, the original, but still all in all the best, not only for that time but for all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flowers left on the star of the late US actor Adam West on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, California, 10 June 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/_96438571_039990013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(17, 17, 17); color:rgb(236, 236, 236); font-family:helmet,freesans,helvetica,arial,sans-serif\">Flowers were left on Adam&#8217;s West&#8217;s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, actor Val Kilmer, who played Batman in a later movie, tweeted: &#8220;Ah dear Adam West. He was always so kind when we met. A real gent. Once when I was a kid we found ourselves in front the Batmobile. I got in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the TV series and a Batman movie in which he also starred, West struggled to find big acting roles.<\/p>\n<p>However, he won a new generation of fans in more recent times after joining the cast of the animated comedy series Family Guy.<\/p>\n<p>He voiced Quahog&#8217;s eccentric Mayor Adam West, described by series creator Seth MacFarlane as an &#8220;alternate universe&#8221;, satirised version of the actor.<\/p>\n<p>MacFarlane paid tribute to the star on Twitter, saying he had &#8220;lost a friend&#8221; and described West as &#8220;irreplaceable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam West, left, and Burt Ward drew a cult following for their tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the Dynamic Duo Actor Burt Ward, who played Robin alongside Adam West&#8217;s Batman in the hit 1960s TV series, has paid tribute to his co-star who has died aged 88. 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