burgess meredith played the penguin on the batman series.
burgess meredith played the penguin on the batman series.
who played the penguin on the batman series?
burgess meredith
the penguin is in the 1960s "batman" television series, in which he was portrayed by burgess meredith. spencer tracy was offered the role but he said he would only accept the role if he was allowed to kill batman. meredith's performance is perhaps best remembered for his signature laugh, meant to mimic the squawk of a penguin. (one cause of the laugh was the cigarettes the character always smoked, which irritated meredith's throat as he was an ex-smoker.) his thugs wear black bowler hats and dark clothing adorned with names of various animals of prey, such as birds ("hawk") or fish ("shark"), or sometimes simply "henchman". his prison cell is in the "supervillains" section next to that of joker, riddler, catwoman, egghead, king tut, and adjoining the cell of forger ballpoint baxter. in one episode, he claims to have been an actor. in the theatrical film spin-off, he commands a nuclear submarine painted to resemble a penguin. his given name, oswald cobblepot, was never used in this series or the film; by joker's subordinates, and even in criminal court, he is identified instead as "mr. penguin". he occasionally uses "mr. p. n. guinn" as an alias. burgess meredith also made a brief cameo appearance as the penguin in the 1968 episode of "the monkees" titled "monkees blow their minds".
penguin (character)
bullet::::- in "", he appears as both an ally to batman and a boss battle. after the joker poisons batman, the dark knight has to find mr. freeze. batman searches for him in the gcpd building (literally the coldest place in arkham city), only to find his lab swarmed by the penguin's men, who reveal that penguin is holding mr. freeze hostage in the cyrus pinkney national history institute. it is revealed that penguin stole mr. freeze's gun and is holding gcpd officers hostage. batman saves the hostages and mr. freeze from penguin's men in the museum and asks mr. freeze for the cure to his ailment, only for mr. freeze to reveal he needs his suit, which penguin possesses. he tells batman that his suit has a disruptor that can be used to turn off his freeze gun so that he can defeat penguin. after penguin is apprehended and mr. freeze recovers his suit, he gets revenge by locking penguin in a display case. mr. freeze then tells batman that the cure he made for joker degenerates too quickly and needs a restorative enzyme that has been bonded to human dna, something that would take decades, only for batman to reveal he knows someone who has been exposed to that enzyme for centuries. mr. freeze tells batman he only needs a sample of this person's dna to complete the cure and batman proceeds to track down one of the warriors of the league of assassins penguin had captured. when batman returns to the gcpd with the blood sample, mr. freeze creates two vials of the cure before locking one in a safe and destroying the other, demanding batman save nora fries from joker. batman fights mr. freeze to unlock the safe, which proves difficult as mr. freeze is much too powerful to be confronted directly. batman is forced to hide and find ways to stun mr. freeze, such as using grates in the floor to surprise him as he passes by. each time mr. freeze is incapacitated, he counteracts his weaknesses. after he is beaten, batman opens the safe only to find that the wall behind the safe was broken into and in the place of the cure there is only a note saying: "get well soon!" and some joker cards. batman realizes that harley quinn had stolen the cure while the dark knight was distracted fighting mr. freeze. mr. freeze gives batman freeze grenades to help him retrieve the cure and begs him to find nora, which becomes a side mission in the game. after nora is saved, batman finds mr. freeze with his wife and tells him to end his life of crime for nora's sake. mr. freeze's boss battle was widely praised as a step up from the repetitive titan thug bosses from the previous game.
mr. freeze