who played the riddler on the original batman show
Frank Gorshin, 'Batman' Riddler, Dies at 72. Frank Gorshin, a prolific actor and impressionist whose career was long identified with a questionable character, the Riddler on television's original Batman, but later highlighted by his Broadway impersonation of a more amiable one, George Burns, died on Tuesday in Burbank, Calif. He was 72.