actor who played robin in batman
Adam West and Burt Ward reprised their TV roles of Batman and Robin in the 20th Century Fox film Batman: The Movie released on July 30, 1966. Burt said of Adam West, his mentor and friend for more than four decades, We were completely opposite.e and Adam West were up against Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell for the roles of Batman and Robin, respectively. Selected for the role of Robin, Ward thought people would find Gervis (the 'G' is soft, as in gentleman) hard to pronounce and adopted his mother's maiden name, Ward.