[on Buddy Ebsen] You know, the story I had heard of all those stories, I heard Buddy say, “When we did an interview, just a few weeks ago”, he said, “What is making the show so successful? What most successful show is that?” Well, the guy’s tall, and says, “Who do you know is tall?” Somebody said, “Buddy Ebsen was tall”, and he said, he got the part. They built it around him, because we had Jim on the span, and you had Chuck Connors. All these guys were so tall.
Tag: January 1st
Died Today (January 1st): Cesar Romero (1907–1994)
I had enormous fun playing the Joker on Batman (1966). I ended up doing something like 20 episodes of Batman, as well as the full-length feature film version [Batman: The Movie (1966)]. There was certainly nothing hard about that assignment! Even the makeup sessions weren’t too bad. It took about an hour-and-a-half to put the full makeup on, including the green wig. I didn’t mind it at all.
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