@@wwb16 it did. Arkham asylum was shown in an old episode. A really psycho episode. Someone opened all the doors and all of of a sudden you hear Penguin laughing.
The costumer for Batman was a genius. From the Bookworm's suit to King Tut's pharaoh costume he made the costumes not only original to the actors but comfortable enough for them to act without being restrained by what their wearing.
The only thing Roddy McDowall didn't like about being on Batman was the costume he had to wear as he said it was incredibly hot to wear under the stage lights.
Roddy McDowell was the Perfect cast for The Mad Hatter 🎩 and I'm kind of sad that he passed away in 1998 the last time that he voiced the Mad Hatter is kight time in Superman the animated series
@@DavidLopez-yt2ypYeah, it just sucks how abridged the audiobook for 1989 Batman is in comparison to the novel but I'm sure they did it for cost and production concerns.
Roddy McDowall loved playing the Bookworm (although he said the costume was very hot)-the story goes that he wrote producer William Dozier to thank him for his time on the set and that he would love to do further episodes of Batman--sadly this was the only episode he got to do-likely because ABC and Greenwood Productions cut the budget for the show to a "shoestring" by the end of the second season
I have the belief that any comic character, whether they be silly, dumb, or stupid, has the ability to become a great character if they are given the right writer and characterization.
I'll say this. In a modern Batman project, The Bookworm could work really well as a modern villain. I mean, he already has the obsessive psychosis thing that most of Batman's rogues have down in this series alone. Psychotic rage, the lack of originality, the bibliophilla/bibliomania. Speaking as someone on the spectrum myself, I can't help but feel there might be signs of Aspergers in the character as well, given how quickly and quietly he seems to absorb knowledge from his prized tomes with such concentration, plus the fact that he seems to have trouble understanding or meeting people on their emotional levels.
My school teacher Grandmother taught me to read and write at age 5. From that moment I always had a book in my hand. The kids in school nicknamed me 'Bookworm". I used to hate it until I 1st saw Roddy Mac in this role. I've worn the name with pride since then. R.I.P RODDY MAC.
You’re not alone in this world. I too love to read. I’m a fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. I’m also interested in Sir Arthur’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
@@MsMeals JRR Tolkien is my favorite author. I think I have every book he has written; including The Silmarillion which I am now re-reading for the 3rd time. I am hoping Peter Jackson will complete his plan to film it into another trilogy.
Bookworm along with his fantastic mind reading an entire book called “The Secret of Success: Self-Control” in the matter of seconds by smoothing out the pages
@@bufnyfan1 He was also upset with the fact he never got to show his real face in either episode. That is why you see "Special Guest Villian - ? as False Face". at the beginning of both episodes and after the cliffhanger. He only sanctioned the use of his name at finale. Still a very good storyline.
When he screams "Why?!" as The Bookworm, he sounds almost exactly as in "Batman TAS" episode "Perchance to a Dream" when Mad Hatter tells Batman why he trapped him into fantasy world ("You, of all people, have the gall to ask me that? You ruined my life! I was willing to give you whatever life you wanted, just to keep you out of mine!").
Roddy McDowell was great at this role. There was also another role he was famous for that people forget. He played Peter Vincent, the tv vampire killer in the hit 80's horror movie Fright Night with William Ragsdale and Chris Sarandon.
RIP Francine York ("Miss Limpett"). She once said that she never married because "No Prince Charming ever came along with a size 10 slipper" What a tragedy
RIP Roddy McDowell, the soft-spoken & underrated legend 👏🏻 (Fright Night's Peter Vincent - Vampire Hunter🧛🏻♂️🦇, Black Hole's V.I.N.cent🌀, Planet of the Apes Cornelius [& Galen]🦍🦍, Batman's Bookworm📚 [&Batman TAS's Mad Hatter🎩!], The Invaders Lloyd Lindstrom👽🛸, Buck Rogers Govoner Soroyan🚀& Hell House's Ben Fischer🏚️)... my fav roles of his... 👏🏻👍🏻🙂
You left out one of his other horror fantasy turns as the very first protagonist in The Night Gallery TV movie pilot. One of the best overall made for TV movies.
McDowell's calm and whispering like tone of his voice while giving the "Books,books...I inherit the wisdom..." lines worked really well, giving the character a sort of mental stability/thinking man's villain.
The costumes and sets and props on this series were awesome. That's part of why I love having the blu-ray set so much; you can see _so much_ detail now.
There's an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs does put on a pair of glasses and says to his antagonist you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you whereupon said bad guy nails him right in the face comically breaking the glasses and Bugs replying you know I believe he would!
I just finished watching the first double-episode with the Bookworm, and I must say I really enjoyed it! I like how, while not doing a complete 180, it took a turn towards being a bit more serious. Greatly helped by Roddy's acting.
Pre-Cornelius is really pissed off here at times, but at least he got his vision fixed in time to read the ancient scrolls without having to wear the goggle glasses.
My god... To be cursed with his incredible intellect and memory, a love for the written word and a desire to contribute to it, and no sense of creativity that he's aware of... That's the kind of madness that can only happen in Batman stories. DC, you need to bring Bookworm into modern Batman lore.
Roddy McDowell ("Bookworm") loved being on Batman. He wrote a letter telling producer William Dozier how much he enjoyed doing the role and hoped to be able to do it again. Unfortunately by the second season, ABC/Greenwood Productions were cutting the budget so much that it simply didn't happen
Definitely one of the one-off characters that deserved another go. Roddy's over the top portrayal fits right into this series, even though it didn't originate in the comics. I was looking for that harpsichord music too 🎹🎹🎵
Nelson Riddle composed the music for Batman 1966. He also composed the score for Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962.) When he started on the music for the Bookworm episodes, Riddle re-used some incidental music from "Lolita." If you watch that movie, the "Bookworm" theme pops up within the first 5-10 minutes! :)
I just composed two compositions about this video or inspired by this video. It is original music and the videos are original. One is a song for Roddy with the bookworm costume in the thumbnail and the lyrics are inspired by this video.
I remembered Bookworm though I had forgotten the bit about the leather jacket. Interestingly, there was a one-shot Bat-villain in the comic books (decades later) that used some of the same motif. Corpses start showing up in Gotham, each dressed in a numbered leather jacket. "The Librarian" was a frustrated librarian, unhinged by the profession's rejection of his arguments that there was a grievous error in the Dewey Decimal System and some subject was assigned the incorrect number. So he goes on a spree - selecting people who correspond in some way to a Dewey Decimal category (like a housewife to "domestic science" or "cooking", and a golf pro to "sports"), kidnapping them, killing them, and dressing the body in a leather jacket with the number corresponding to the Dewey Decimal number for the subject.
Roddy McDowall was a talented actor. I enjoyed his performance in the Planet of the Apes movies and tv series. He did the voice of Vincent the robot in The Black Hole and the Madhatter in Batman the animated series.
The man had a massive career playing interesting characters. Began when he was a little kid in the 1940's. Peter Vincent was a great role and a fun homage to TV horror hosts and also to horror actors like "Peter" Cushing and "Vincent" Price. Fright Night is my favorite vampire flick.
Interesting casting coincidence, the actor who played "Printer's Devil" also played McDowell's older brother in an episode of the original Mission Impossible called "The Puppet"
Somehow I can actually see him coming almost clean as he did in Gotham Academy. I mean he did help Olive, and then her friends save her (sort of) despite the crook scheme.
The Bookworms costume was made to look like leather book binding material, and also notice the gold colored trim, like some books have. I liked that reading light on his hat.
1,000 decibels would be heard all over the world. 310 decibels was heard 3,000 miles away and traveled seven times around the world. Even if it were somehow focused on s target, it would be obliterated.
Also check out Roddy McDowall’s appearance on Columbo, “Short Fuse.” In the final scene when his character is exposed and defeated, he gives this manic reaction fit for a Batman villain.
5:10 I just adore the morbid music playing as Boy Wonder suffers ❤❤. 5:22 I absolutely love the way Bookworm says “Farewell Boy Wonder”. Such a beautiful, morbid line ❤❤. Goodbye Robin ❤. Bookworm was such a genius. I laughed so much in my grey leather catsuit as Robin suffered. What a sick, stunning catwoman I am
Fun Fact: The actor, Roddy McDowall, is also the voice of Jervis Tetch aka The Mad Hatter in Batman TAS & if you listen closely, you can tell there's glimpses of Hatter's voice in his delivery.
Bookworm was a interesting character but he wasn't a dc comic character but maybe he was there is Cluemaster and The Ridder and Madhater so many but Bookworm was a mystery but he might of been the Ridders brother twin brother in the comic's? But I did like this character he was a little bit different to the rest using books to help his criminal empire and there was one thing it was books on magic I do seem to think he might of used them to? He did appear in the cartoon Batman & Robin series as well back then and so how was using spells and magic and other ancient texts but what was his real name that Bookworm it was very similar to a villain in dc comics who was a warlock and used magic? Roddy McDwall was brilliant he played this role perfectly I am guessing while doing this role he was playing a major role in the first Planet Of The Apes or was in Columbo which he also was brilliant and not forgetting he was in other television roles and then years later Fright Night insertingly was Adam West was offered the role he was in? And a couple Twilight Zones episodes and Outer Limits etc.
Ronnie, McDowell is good as bookworm but the way he does this makes me feel like he should’ve played riddler instead of Frank Gorshin now don’t give me wrong. Gorshin does do a great job. But I feel like Roddy should’ve played Riddler plus it’s kind of ironic since a couple of years later, he voices mad hatter in Batman, the animated series.
You need to stop spreading this lie around.. someone started out, spreading a lie listen to his last interview when he said he was madly in love with this woman who was in her 50s when he was seven years old, and he loved her till the day she died. He loved her as a woman… not as a friend… there is no proof that he was gay anywhere, except somebody that defamed him, and then just spread like wildfire…. He had a lot of friends he was very social. There’s no proof that he was gay they continue to spread this lie online when the man was just struggling with loneliness, and he wanted to get married, and thpeople that knew him know that he was just a good friend… but nobody had any proof that he was gay. This is all hearsay lies and gossip.
The way McDowall can go from calm and quiet to suddenly screaming in a fit of rage
He played a really good version of the Mad Hatter 36 years Later (Batman The Animated Series)
Fun fact: he also voiced Ringtail/Madcat on Swat Kats
He totally went ape!
I could easily imagine Bookworm reading War and Peace in his cell in Arkham, truly underrated Batman villain played by an amazing actor.
except arkham didn't exist in the comics back then
War and Peace? ...👌 an ez 2 minute read for the bookworm!
I agree with you 💯. He was a great villain.✌️
@@wwb16 it did. Arkham asylum was shown in an old episode. A really psycho episode. Someone opened all the doors and all of of a sudden you hear Penguin laughing.
Also the same actor who acted as Cornelius in planet of the apes
The costumer for Batman was a genius. From the Bookworm's suit to King Tut's pharaoh costume he made the costumes not only original to the actors but comfortable enough for them to act without being restrained by what their wearing.
U could hear 👂 the bookworms fake leather jacket 😆 as he moved his arms
The Riddler's ( Frank Gorshin) sidekick, Molly, wore a shiny glossy black vinyl jacket. It would creak when she moved.
Apparently King Tut was the least favorite to make costumes for, since Buono was an absolutely massive man.
The only thing Roddy McDowall didn't like about being on Batman was the costume he had to wear as he said it was incredibly hot to wear under the stage lights.
@@scottgarrison1457 That's the genius of the costume: the Bookworm is leather-bound, like all his favorite books.
Roddy McDowall got to do this role and Mad Hatter in Batman: The Animated Series. Talk about a solid supervillain career.
Roddy McDowall got to do his role as snowball the hamster in Pinky and the brain
He also narrated the audiobook for batman 1989
Roddy McDowell was the Perfect cast for The Mad Hatter 🎩 and I'm kind of sad that he passed away in 1998 the last time that he voiced the Mad Hatter is kight time in Superman the animated series
@@DavidLopez-yt2ypYeah, it just sucks how abridged the audiobook for 1989 Batman is in comparison to the novel but I'm sure they did it for cost and production concerns.
Roddy McDowall was a superb actor. Maddeningly unappreciated by so many.
He also played Chung in the short lived Remo Williams TV series.
And after Charlton Heston refused to return after the first film, he practically carried the entire *Planet of the Apes* franchise.
Roddy McDowall looked like he was having the time of his life--he's so much fun to watch in this. :D
And the future Mad Hatter 🎩 ¹⁰/6
Roddy said he really enjoyed being on the show.
Roddy McDowall loved playing the Bookworm (although he said the costume was very hot)-the story goes that he wrote producer William Dozier to thank him for his time on the set and that he would love to do further episodes of Batman--sadly this was the only episode he got to do-likely because ABC and Greenwood Productions cut the budget for the show to a "shoestring" by the end of the second season
Yes he was having the time of his life in the colombo movie he did too!
I have the time of my life when Roddy McDowell is on
I impressed he could turn those pages one at a time while wearing gloves.
Roddy McDowall is one of my all-time favourites. He was totally believable in any role he played. He will always be my Cornelius.
Funny, I always think of him as my vampire hunter Peter Vincent;)😊
for me he will always be the great Vampire Killer, PETER VINCENT!!
I prefer Galen
Bookworm would work *very* well as a modern Batman villain if done right.
I have the belief that any comic character, whether they be silly, dumb, or stupid, has the ability to become a great character if they are given the right writer and characterization.
@@dknighton100even the brick bat?
@masterofallthelakesintown2472 especially brick bat. I don't know who that is but they must have some potential.
Picture him as an anti-hero who's blowing up all the Chat CPT servers.
@@t-spiders1035 it could work.
I don't know how true it is, but most of the actors who played villains did have the time of their lives.
I'll say this. In a modern Batman project, The Bookworm could work really well as a modern villain. I mean, he already has the obsessive psychosis thing that most of Batman's rogues have down in this series alone. Psychotic rage, the lack of originality, the bibliophilla/bibliomania. Speaking as someone on the spectrum myself, I can't help but feel there might be signs of Aspergers in the character as well, given how quickly and quietly he seems to absorb knowledge from his prized tomes with such concentration, plus the fact that he seems to have trouble understanding or meeting people on their emotional levels.
He could be remodeled as an obsessive reader of dark web forums and hacked government sites.
He’s always been one of my favorites! In the modern day, I could imagine him as a sort of foil to the Riddler
@@samrizzardi2213 That could be interesting
Wow.... your comment is relatable too😊😊👍👍
@@katielinzie7444 I think modern day Riddler has a lot in common with Bookworm. I think they’d make a very interesting team, actually.
My school teacher Grandmother taught me to read and write at age 5. From that moment I always had a book in my hand. The kids in school nicknamed me 'Bookworm". I used to hate it until I 1st saw Roddy Mac in this role. I've worn the name with pride since then. R.I.P RODDY MAC.
Heehee I think it's the same for me too👍👍
You’re not alone in this world. I too love to read. I’m a fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. I’m also interested in Sir Arthur’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
@@MsMeals
JRR Tolkien is my favorite author. I think I have every book he has written; including The Silmarillion which I am now re-reading for the 3rd time. I am hoping Peter Jackson will complete his plan to film it into another trilogy.
Bookworm along with his fantastic mind reading an entire book called “The Secret of Success: Self-Control” in the matter of seconds by smoothing out the pages
He’s not smoothing the pages man he’s speedreading. Just using his hand to show how fast he’s reading, since it’s a tv show.
@@thefonzkiss I knew that
@@thefonzkiss Ayyyyyyyyyy!
"The Fonz" does reverse mortgage commercials on UA-cam now. Times have changed changed. Ayyyyy 👍
But he was reading some sort of listing of entries, not a book 🤣
Bookworm and False Face were the best one shot villains. McDowall is superb in everything.
Malachi Throne (who played False Face) said there was never another "False Face" episode as children found the character "terrifying"
@@bufnyfan1
He was also upset with the fact he never got to show his real face in either episode. That is why you see "Special Guest Villian - ? as False Face". at the beginning of both episodes and after the cliffhanger. He only sanctioned the use of his name at finale. Still a very good storyline.
r ❤ false face villain: great episodes
I imagine that false face at least part of the inspiration Two-Face.
Two-Face is a very old Batman comic book villain going back to the 1940s.
Imagine bookworm and the riddler teaming up
That would be awesome
Would be badass
I would LOVE that
A very polite fight, can you take your glasses off before we take your head off.. ahh those were the days..
Later on Roddy McDowall will voice Mad Hatter in "Batman TAS".
Roddy mcdowall will also voice snowball in Pinky and the brain
He was best suited to voice the Mad Hatter.
When he screams "Why?!" as The Bookworm, he sounds almost exactly as in "Batman TAS" episode "Perchance to a Dream" when Mad Hatter tells Batman why he trapped him into fantasy world ("You, of all people, have the gall to ask me that? You ruined my life! I was willing to give you whatever life you wanted, just to keep you out of mine!").
Curiouser and curiouser.
Decades later in 1992-98 he voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman TAS
Very cool that Roddy embodied the Bookworm and voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman the Animated Series.
Roddy McDowell was great at this role. There was also another role he was famous for that people forget. He played Peter Vincent, the tv vampire killer in the hit 80's horror movie Fright Night with William Ragsdale and Chris Sarandon.
"I have no originality! I'm a master of stolen plots!"
About 95% of best selling authors could say the same things
He just needs to switch to writing screenplays. He'd thrive in modern-day Hollywood!
But they have the confidence to just keep doing it, anyway!
RIP Francine York ("Miss Limpett"). She once said that she never married because "No Prince Charming ever came along with a size 10 slipper" What a tragedy
everyone had the time of their life in that series
RIP Roddy McDowell, the soft-spoken & underrated legend 👏🏻 (Fright Night's Peter Vincent - Vampire Hunter🧛🏻♂️🦇, Black Hole's V.I.N.cent🌀, Planet of the Apes Cornelius [& Galen]🦍🦍, Batman's Bookworm📚 [&Batman TAS's Mad Hatter🎩!], The Invaders Lloyd Lindstrom👽🛸, Buck Rogers Govoner Soroyan🚀& Hell House's Ben Fischer🏚️)... my fav roles of his... 👏🏻👍🏻🙂
You left out one of his other horror fantasy turns as the very first protagonist in The Night Gallery TV movie pilot. One of the best overall made for TV movies.
His scream at 5:55 is so funny
Couldn't agree more!
this villain deserves more recognition
Loved the Bookworm episodes. Wished there were more. And loved the musical motif accompanying the bookworm theme.
Love the outfit he is wearing and the sound of leather crackling
Roddy was having a blast playing Bookworm
McDowell's calm and whispering like tone of his voice while giving the "Books,books...I inherit the wisdom..." lines worked really well, giving the character a sort of mental stability/thinking man's villain.
More leather and bondage from William Dozier.
God bless him.
Yea, this show has 60's morals all over it..hot babes , tight costunes..
I mean, a lot of old books were bound in leather, so thematically there is an excuse
Robin in bookworms clutches so hot
I would so love a suit like that or similar to that. Or at least that hat.
with or without the light ?
That suit seems like it would be a popular cosplay at comicon.
@@mlongpre100 with, always hard to find good book lights
The costumes and sets and props on this series were awesome. That's part of why I love having the blu-ray set so much; you can see _so much_ detail now.
Oh now I get when jack nickelson put on the glasses and said you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses would you
There's an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs does put on a pair of glasses and says to his antagonist you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you whereupon said bad guy nails him right in the face comically breaking the glasses and Bugs replying you know I believe he would!
If you like McDowall here, catch him on UA-cam just a year earlier as the lead in the surreal movie, "Lord Love a Duck".
Funny how every times he moves in that suit it sounds like a cheap fake leather couch..lol.
Lol, I just love the way the bookworm, so pleasantly insults his henchmen. Lol 😆 .
skeletor was the master of insults
Love how he was gonna whomp that chick with a book...
Made funnier by the fact it was one about "self-control"
This show was very sexist...which we loved
I just finished watching the first double-episode with the Bookworm, and I must say I really enjoyed it! I like how, while not doing a complete 180, it took a turn towards being a bit more serious. Greatly helped by Roddy's acting.
Pre-Cornelius is really pissed off here at times, but at least he got his vision fixed in time to read the ancient scrolls without having to wear the goggle glasses.
My god... To be cursed with his incredible intellect and memory, a love for the written word and a desire to contribute to it, and no sense of creativity that he's aware of... That's the kind of madness that can only happen in Batman stories. DC, you need to bring Bookworm into modern Batman lore.
The way you can hear his jacket when he moves
4:08 Sorry, Joker, he missed this episode
🤓🤛
I love this guy he should be in more Batman movies ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤he the greatest villain ever❤❤❤
Roddy McDowall was so gorgeous especially in this TV series he looks so hot and he was such a great actor!
Roddy McDowell ("Bookworm") loved being on Batman. He wrote a letter telling producer William Dozier how much he enjoyed doing the role and hoped to be able to do it again. Unfortunately by the second season, ABC/Greenwood Productions were cutting the budget so much that it simply didn't happen
Cool😊
I wish The Bookworm's theme song were on UA-cam. Also Bookworm got one episode. That's it. He's an underrated character.
Definitely one of the one-off characters that deserved another go. Roddy's over the top portrayal fits right into this series, even though it didn't originate in the comics. I was looking for that harpsichord music too 🎹🎹🎵
Nelson Riddle composed the music for Batman 1966. He also composed the score for Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962.) When he started on the music for the Bookworm episodes, Riddle re-used some incidental music from "Lolita." If you watch that movie, the "Bookworm" theme pops up within the first 5-10 minutes! :)
@@davidgradwell8830 Oh my word, you're right! I looked up the soundtrack and found that it was in "Quilty's Theme"!
For those who love roddy mcdowall will love his narration of batman 1989
Only now have I noticed that Bookworm's vinyl outfit loudly squeaks every time he moves. Quite distracting.
I would surmise his outfit was actually leather. Some of the biggest tomes used to be bound within leather covers.
It’s meant to be leather. Like an old book binding.
@@thefonzkiss I'm well aware of that. Nonetheless, the vinyl squeaks. That's what I was commenting about.
its like the suit from seinfeld that george buys but it swooshes every time he moves
I just composed two compositions about this video or inspired by this video. It is original music and the videos are original. One is a song for Roddy with the bookworm costume in the thumbnail and the lyrics are inspired by this video.
4:05 - Michael Keaton's Batman did not take this advice to heart.
I remembered Bookworm though I had forgotten the bit about the leather jacket.
Interestingly, there was a one-shot Bat-villain in the comic books (decades later) that used some of the same motif. Corpses start showing up in Gotham, each dressed in a numbered leather jacket. "The Librarian" was a frustrated librarian, unhinged by the profession's rejection of his arguments that there was a grievous error in the Dewey Decimal System and some subject was assigned the incorrect number. So he goes on a spree - selecting people who correspond in some way to a Dewey Decimal category (like a housewife to "domestic science" or "cooking", and a golf pro to "sports"), kidnapping them, killing them, and dressing the body in a leather jacket with the number corresponding to the Dewey Decimal number for the subject.
Interesting, I thought that Maxie Zeus was the only villain based on a character from this show.
Man, the series-original villains on this show were the best.
I wish I could memorize my Chemistry text book the night before exam, just as the Bookworm did.
Haha, Roddy’s character in Columbo had a PhD in Chemistry at age 21 😂
He showed up in the Batman ‘66 comics, piloting a robotic dinosaur, the “Bronte-saurus”. :)
This is the episode that was playing at the beginning of "Blankman"!
Affirmative.
I love Roddy Mc Dowall!! His acting is just otherworldly! 🙂🌹♥️
Roddy McDowall played the mad hatter in Batman the animated series and Snowball in the Pinky and the Brain rest in peace Roddy McDowall
Many of the guest villians have said that they were encouraged to overact and exaggerate which is so "wrong" for "proper acting" technique
Hilariously, that's why we saw so much of King Tut; Victor Buono was a serious dramatist, and relished the opportunity Batman gave him to be silly.
Roddy McDowall was a talented actor. I enjoyed his performance in the Planet of the Apes movies and tv series. He did the voice of Vincent the robot in The Black Hole and the Madhatter in Batman the animated series.
Peter Vincent, Vampire slayer
I forgot all about the villian "Bookworm", they could definitely re-calibrate his character as a present day Marvel villian.
That's Roddy McDowell from Fright Night, he played Peter Vincent the Great Vampire Killer
The man had a massive career playing interesting characters. Began when he was a little kid in the 1940's. Peter Vincent was a great role and a fun homage to TV horror hosts and also to horror actors like "Peter" Cushing and "Vincent" Price. Fright Night is my favorite vampire flick.
If only he played the Mad Hatter in this series. Him returning in TAS in the same role would have been magical.
What's tas?
@@mattbartolovich8228 The animated series
@@AK-Drakoin thank you
He would have been much better as the Mad Hatter. His small stature and wonderful dialect.
You can hear his suit squeak when Bookworm moves.
Love that leather jacket! And the hat!
I loved the book he almost hit her with was a book on self control.
Interesting casting coincidence, the actor who played "Printer's Devil" also played McDowell's older brother in an episode of the original Mission Impossible called "The Puppet"
I've seen that same supporting actor in a few different places, but I can't recall them.
If it's quirkly and intellectual. It's Roddy!
Roddy McDowell on of my favorites
I can't be the only one who wanted to see him bash Limpid with that book
Roddy McDowall is the cutest boy ever. That's it.
Somehow I can actually see him coming almost clean as he did in Gotham Academy. I mean he did help Olive, and then her friends save her (sort of) despite the crook scheme.
The Bookworms costume was made to look like leather book binding material, and also notice the gold colored trim, like some books have.
I liked that reading light on his hat.
Bookworm is very cute and endearing
i agree
Amazed to think Roddy McDowell would years later voice the Mad Hatter on Batman TAS
Text'book' cerebral narcissist. Shame he's such a cutie pie as well.
😂
Definitely an underrated Batman villain. And a sharp dress too.
Psy
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I have the Bookworm theme as my phone's default ring tone.
"This fellow is almost as obnoxious as Batman!"
1,000 decibels would be heard all over the world. 310 decibels was heard 3,000 miles away and traveled seven times around the world. Even if it were somehow focused on s target, it would be obliterated.
Roddy could pull off any role.
Also check out Roddy McDowall’s appearance on Columbo, “Short Fuse.” In the final scene when his character is exposed and defeated, he gives this manic reaction fit for a Batman villain.
Bookworm: Oh dear me what feeble memories you have however Shades of Self Control: Bill Kane 527-1939....wait a second that was the phone book
5:10 I just adore the morbid music playing as Boy Wonder suffers ❤❤. 5:22 I absolutely love the way Bookworm says “Farewell Boy Wonder”. Such a beautiful, morbid line ❤❤. Goodbye Robin ❤. Bookworm was such a genius. I laughed so much in my grey leather catsuit as Robin suffered. What a sick, stunning catwoman I am
I loved the Bookworm. Wish he was a regular.
Fun Fact: The actor, Roddy McDowall, is also the voice of Jervis Tetch aka The Mad Hatter in Batman TAS & if you listen closely, you can tell there's glimpses of Hatter's voice in his delivery.
Batman 2021: Bookworm suffering from depression due to the internet, and audio books.
Hahaha!! Sad and funny.
The theme for Bookworm is amazing and fits his character. I wish someone can grab the music from this video and post it as his theme
There are free apps for that that you do not even have to download.
Always one of my favorite rogues! I wish DC would resurrect the character for the modern day! Maybe a female Bookworm could be interesting….
at 7:49 -- Wow, he had a better nose twitch than Elizabeth Montgomery.
I love the clarity.
Was this shot on 35mm?
Yes.
When you flush the toilet while someone is in the shower 5:56
Bookworm was a interesting character but he wasn't a dc comic character but maybe he was there is Cluemaster and The Ridder and Madhater so many but Bookworm was a mystery but he might of been the Ridders brother twin brother in the comic's? But I did like this character he was a little bit different to the rest using books to help his criminal empire and there was one thing it was books on magic I do seem to think he might of used them to? He did appear in the cartoon Batman & Robin series as well back then and so how was using spells and magic and other ancient texts but what was his real name that Bookworm it was very similar to a villain in dc comics who was a warlock and used magic? Roddy McDwall was brilliant he played this role perfectly I am guessing while doing this role he was playing a major role in the first Planet Of The Apes or was in Columbo which he also was brilliant and not forgetting he was in other television roles and then years later Fright Night insertingly was Adam West was offered the role he was in? And a couple Twilight Zones episodes and Outer Limits etc.
Planet of the apes was 5 or six years later
For a 1966 Batman villain, he is uncharacteristically creepy. I think the Kubrick Lolita-esque music just adds to that.
The composer actually worked on Lolita as well, Bookworm's theme can be heard as part of the score in the movie.
Book was CRAZY! He came so close to killing his lovely assistant. The book crashing over her pretty head would have killed her!
Would he be "Judging" his girlfriend by "Throwing the Book" at her (Thank You! I'll be here all this week.)
@@garyasselstine9186, I'm afraid so.
Imagine the bruise! He would have "bookmarked" her for certain.
@@garyasselstine9186, and excessively!
Ronnie, McDowell is good as bookworm but the way he does this makes me feel like he should’ve played riddler instead of Frank Gorshin now don’t give me wrong. Gorshin does do a great job. But I feel like Roddy should’ve played Riddler plus it’s kind of ironic since a couple of years later, he voices mad hatter in Batman, the animated series.
Looks like he was actually reading a telephone book...☎️📘
You can sure hear that costume.
Wally Cox Would Been a Good Bookworn. Too.
6:10 From Gil Blas, translated by Tobias Smollet, book ten, chapter three: "Facts are stubborn things". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Blas
“I have no originality!”
Bookworm is JJ Abrams confirmed.
This episode had a small appearance in a superhero comedy movie called Blankman.
Roddy McDowall is so handsome!
i agree
Agreed. He's so sweet here, and makes the bookworm look oddly attractive.
He was gay!
@@AlbertoMartinez-ps9bv No one is gay unless they identify themselves as such. Roddy McDowell never identified himself as "gay." So he's not gay.
You need to stop spreading this lie around.. someone started out, spreading a lie listen to his last interview when he said he was madly in love with this woman who was in her 50s when he was seven years old, and he loved her till the day she died. He loved her as a woman… not as a friend… there is no proof that he was gay anywhere, except somebody that defamed him, and then just spread like wildfire…. He had a lot of friends he was very social. There’s no proof that he was gay they continue to spread this lie online when the man was just struggling with loneliness, and he wanted to get married, and thpeople that knew him know that he was just a good friend… but nobody had any proof that he was gay. This is all hearsay lies and gossip.