The way McDowall can go from calm and quiet to suddenly screaming in a fit of rage

I could easily imagine Bookworm reading War and Peace in his cell in Arkham, truly underrated Batman villain played by an amazing actor.

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.

Roddy McDowall got to do this role and Mad Hatter in Batman: The Animated Series. Talk about a solid supervillain career.

I impressed he could turn those pages one at a time while wearing gloves.

Bookworm would work *very* well as a modern Batman villain if done right.

Roddy McDowall looked like he was having the time of his life--he's so much fun to watch in this. :D

Roddy McDowall was a superb actor. Maddeningly unappreciated by so many.

I don't know how true it is, but most of the actors who played villains did have the time of their lives.

Imagine bookworm and the riddler teaming up

Roddy McDowall is one of my all-time favourites. He was totally believable in any role he played. He will always be my Cornelius.

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.

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

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.

A very polite fight, can you take your glasses off before we take your head off.. ahh those were the days..

Bookworm and False Face were the best one shot villains. McDowall is superb in everything.

"I have no originality! I'm a master of stolen plots!" About 95% of best selling authors could say the same things

Later on Roddy McDowall will voice Mad Hatter in "Batman TAS".

Very cool that Roddy embodied the Bookworm and voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman the Animated Series.

everyone had the time of their life in that series

His scream at 5:55 is so funny

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

I have been reading Batman comics for many years, but this is the first time I see "The Bookworm". I love the character. His looks, his personality, his music... And he's funny as well. Trying to use a book about self control to beat someone. And that scream at 5:54!!

Roddy was having a blast playing Bookworm

More leather and bondage from William Dozier. God bless him.

Love how he was gonna whomp that chick with a book...

Love the outfit he is wearing and the sound of leather crackling

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.

this villain deserves more recognition

4:08 Sorry, Joker, he missed this episode 🤓🤛

Funny how every times he moves in that suit it sounds like a cheap fake leather couch..lol.

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... 👏🏻👍🏻🙂

The henchmen were aptly named but naming the moll Lydia only works if she was tattooed with literary quotes under that red frock. The writers must have been out to lunch when they missed the opportunity to name her Paige Turner.

That "Secret of Success" novel looks strangely like a telephone book.

Peter Vincent, Vampire slayer

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 way you can hear his jacket when he moves

Oh now I get when jack nickelson put on the glasses and said you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses would you

4:05 - Michael Keaton's Batman did not take this advice to heart.

Lol, I just love the way the bookworm, so pleasantly insults his henchmen. Lol 😆 .

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.

Many of the guest villians have said that they were encouraged to overact and exaggerate which is so "wrong" for "proper acting" technique

I would so love a suit like that or similar to that. Or at least that hat.

I love this guy he should be in more Batman movies ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤he the greatest villain ever❤❤❤

I wish I could memorize my Chemistry text book the night before exam, just as the Bookworm did.

If you like McDowall here, catch him on KZfaq just a year earlier as the lead in the surreal movie, "Lord Love a Duck".

Roddy McDowall was so gorgeous especially in this TV series he looks so hot and he was such a great actor!

For those who love roddy mcdowall will love his narration of batman 1989

Text'book' cerebral narcissist. Shame he's such a cutie pie as well.

Roddy McDowall is the cutest boy ever. That's it.

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"

You can hear his suit squeak when Bookworm moves.

Love that leather jacket! And the hat!

Batman 2021: Bookworm suffering from depression due to the internet, and audio books.

Roddy McDowall played the mad hatter in Batman the animated series and Snowball in the Pinky and the Brain rest in peace Roddy McDowall

I loved the book he almost hit her with was a book on self control.

I wish The Bookworm's theme song were on KZfaq. Also Bookworm got one episode. That's it. He's an underrated character.

I forgot all about the villian "Bookworm", they could definitely re-calibrate his character as a present day Marvel villian.

Loved the Bookworm episodes. Wished there were more. And loved the musical motif accompanying the bookworm theme.

He showed up in the Batman ‘66 comics, piloting a robotic dinosaur, the “Bronte-saurus”. :)

Man, the series-original villains on this show were the best.

Roddy McDowell on of my favorites

Poor Robin...knocked out cold with that knock out gas...and tied up

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.

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.

"This fellow is almost as obnoxious as Batman!"

Definitely an underrated Batman villain. And a sharp dress too.

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

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.

If only he played the Mad Hatter in this series. Him returning in TAS in the same role would have been magical.

I can't be the only one who wanted to see him bash Limpid with that book

Roddy could pull off any role.

ROODY MCDOWELLS BOOKWORM IS HAILROUS

Roddy McDowall is so handsome!

When you flush the toilet while someone is in the shower 5:56

Only now have I noticed that Bookworm's vinyl outfit loudly squeaks every time he moves. Quite distracting.

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.

I LOVE ROODY MCDOWALLS BOOKWORM HE HAILAIROUS

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.

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.

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.

Always one of my favorite rogues! I wish DC would resurrect the character for the modern day! Maybe a female Bookworm could be interesting….

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

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.

Book was CRAZY! He came so close to killing his lovely assistant. The book crashing over her pretty head would have killed her!

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.

at 7:49 -- Wow, he had a better nose twitch than Elizabeth Montgomery.

Amazed to think Roddy McDowell would years later voice the Mad Hatter on Batman TAS

I loved the Bookworm. Wish he was a regular.

Bookworm is very cute and endearing

This is the episode that was playing at the beginning of "Blankman"!

I truly enjoyed watching every single episode of "BATMAN" when it was on the air back in 1966. Please post only positive comments over here. ™

That's Roddy McDowell from Fright Night, he played Peter Vincent the Great Vampire Killer

and Francine York so beautiful. Not a famous actress but she is amazing looking.

My favorite Batman villain, I wish he was in more shows and movies for Batman. Though I can’t really imagine anyone but Roddy playing him

Roody MCDOWALL is my IDIOL

For a 1966 Batman villain, he is uncharacteristically creepy. I think the Kubrick Lolita-esque music just adds to that.

Batman even got time to read Don Quijote.

Wow back when thugs actually have a clean fight

You can sure hear that costume.