After seven years in Tinseltown, he achieved fame in his signature role as Bruce Wayne / Batman, on the wildly popular ABC-TV series Batman (1966) (though he has over 60 movie and over 80 television guest appearance credits, "Batman" is what the fans remember him for).
He adopted the stage name "Adam West", which fit his roles, as he was in some westerns. They had a daughter, Jonelle (born 1957), and a son, Hunter (born 1958).
In 1956, he got a divorce and married a beautiful girl, originally from Tahiti, named Ngatokoruaimatauaia Frisbie Dawson (he called her "Nga" for short). West would eventually replace Carl but not the other star, Peaches the Chimp. When the money ran out, he joined a childhood and college buddy, Carl Hebenstreit, who was starring in the kiddie program "The Kini Popo Show" in Hawaii. Afterwards, West and his wife toured Europe, visiting Germany, Switzerland and Italy's Isle of Capri. Drafted into the army, he spent the next two years starting military television stations, first at San Luis Obispo, California, then at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. West got a job as a disc jockey at a local radio station, then enrolled at Stanford for post-grad courses. During his last year of college, he married 17-year-old Billie Lou Yeager. At age 14, West attended Lakeside School, then went to Whitman College, where he got a degree in literature and psychology. Paul Flothow, she took West and his younger brother, John, to Seattle. At age 10, in 1938, West had a cache of comic books and starting in 1939, Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, made a big impression on him-the comic hero was part bat-man (a la Count Dracula) and part world's greatest detective (a la Charlie Chan and Sherlock Holmes). Adam West was born William West Anderson on Septemin Walla Walla, Washington, to parents Otto West Anderson, a farmer, and his wife Audrey V.
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