Among his most prized possessions is a drawing of Batman by the comic's creator Bob Kane with the inscription “To my buddy Adam, who breathed life into my pen and creation.”
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He was drafted into the Army where he served as an announcer on the American armed forces network Television. He had also worked as the station manager at Stanford where he studied as a graduate student.
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After Batman’s successful run, it soon lost popularity and was ultimately canceled. West was offered to play James Bond in Diamonds are Forever by producer Albert Broccoli but he declined saying the role was best suited to an Englishman as Bond was an English character.
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Among facts about Adam West, when he did not get the role of Thomas Wayne in Tim Burton’s Batman of 1989, he cried for almost an hour. Adam West died after a short struggle with leukemia. May his soul rest in peace.
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