![]() ĭuring the first months of shooting, Ward was paid $350 per week. Two other tracks from these sessions, "Teenage Bill of Rights" and "Autumn Love", remain unreleased. The first two, "Boy Wonder, I Love You" (which Zappa wrote) and " Orange Colored Sky", were released as a single on November 14, 1966. Īt the height of the series' popularity, Ward recorded several musical tracks during sessions produced by Tom Wilson and arranged by Frank Zappa. Ward says that he was sent to the emergency room dozens of times during his time as Robin. Later, he also discovered that he was being paid the minimum wage allowed by the Screen Actors Guild, and his stunt double was paid per stunt, so having Ward perform his own stunts was a cost-saving strategy. ![]() He was told this was because his costume revealed more of his face, making it impractical for all of his stunt scenes to be performed by a stunt double. Unlike the series' lead, Adam West, Ward was required to perform some dangerous stunt work. He also changed the spelling of Bert to "Burt" to add "punch". 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. West and Ward were up against Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell for the roles of Batman and Robin, respectively. Career Īt the age of 19, Ward auditioned for the role of Robin. After graduation, he enrolled in college while working part-time for his father's real-estate company. He excelled in high school sport activities such as football, track, and wrestling he was also a member of the chess club and is a practitioner of Taekwondo. He acquired the nickname "Sparky" in his youth, possibly from the sparks his skates kicked up during his routines or his energetic nature. Growing up, he was an avid reader of comic books such as Superman and Superboy, and enjoyed the action-adventure show Adventures of Superman. At age two, Ward was listed in the magazine Strange as It Seems as a professional ice skater. His father, Bert Sr., was the owner of a traveling ice show called "Rhapsody On Ice". Ward was born Bert John Gervis Jr., on July 6, 1945, in Los Angeles, California.
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