From what I've heard, he was furious about the mask he had to wear (he'd been under the impression that False Face would be created via makeup) and refused to return or even be credited.
Watch "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", he has several background cameos, and in S2 E5: "The Golden Age Of Justice!" he actually gets out and stretches his legs a bit... for two minutes before the opening credit sequence. He's caught by Detective Chimp.
@michaelmohrle1773 keep in mind there were many ridder episodes so lots of excitement, false face only had one two part episodes. Just my take , false face episode was non stop.
Those 2 False Face episodes are possibly the best episodes of the series and I'd say that 90% of the episodes are fantastic so that's really saying something!
The animated version is pretty cool. Voiced by Burt Ward and Adam West just before he died. Two Face is voiced by William Shatner. Adam West's last time playing Batman.
In the more recent continuations of this Batman from 66 they unmasked False Face as having been Basil Karlo the whole time, aka usually Clayface. Which makes sense since False Face was supposed to be Clayface but the restrictions of 60s TV special effects in mind led them to adapt him as a slightly different criminal
@@JacobNintendoNerd99interestingly enough, False-Face was an actual Batman villain in the comics. So it works well to put him in the show without creating a new villain for the series.
I think there was a rational I read somewhere where the producers wanted the audience to keep guessing who it was so deliberately didn't reveal his face,even some of the credits simply had a question mark ? for who it was..at the time ❤ ..
According to the official Batman book, the character didn’t catch on as younger viewers found his masks frightening Malachi Throne himself said “Malachi Throne “Originally False-Face was to be done with make up, but due to production problems or decisions a plastic mask was used instead. It was a good character , but the problem was that the mask came out rather ugly and uncomical when photographed. The mask was bad, and it prevented the character from repeating because there was no response to the character. Although I felt my work was good , it would have been better had they stuck to the original concept- different facial disguises. Also the concept of False Face not being headlined was my idea. The question mark in the credits was the producers choice, but during a contractual argument I insisted that my name be withdrawn from the credits since there was going to be no face on it and no real acting. I was irate enough to say, Anyone could have played that part behind that kind of mask, so please withdraw my name from the credits. In the meantime a huge amount of publicity arose from that with regard to what had leaked out not with regard to me but with regard to whether Frank Sinatra was playing the part or Sammy Davis was playing the part, or Cary Grant, because everything was so celebrity conscious during the early days of Batman. So everybody in town was having a good time guessing who was playing False Face. Director Billy Graham cast me in it even though I was not on the same name level as some of the other people. That was like a coup, but they pulled the rug out from under me with that stupid mask.”
Love this episode. I love Blaze's redemption at the end. I find it very touching. Dick's slight nod of the head as the scene fades is a lovely touch...
The interesting thing about this villain is that he was an actual Batman villain in the 1950s comic books, so they didn’t need to create a brand new villain just for the show.
False face is just 66 version of clay face and yes, I know in Batman beyond basically false face is technically terry’s clay face but still this is a version of clay face for the 60s since clay face didn’t exist in the 60s
That's where you're wrong... the original Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film. The Adam West Show could have used the Basil Karlo Origin story as a former actor turned criminal who went insane when he heard that a remake of the classic horror film he had starred in, would be shot.
i laughed so hard at false face when he gets caught at 4:18. What is it possible. Batman not only possible but true. False Face Please...Not that word.
Love th einconsistencies 😆. 0:50 They pull away in a black van that is supposed to look like a police vehicle - close up shot shows exterior is a white color before they pulled the lever to change the vans color. When he pulls the lever, the van isn't moving and then FINALLY the van is white when it pulls to a stop.
False Face is a separate character from Two-Face, in fact a Two-Face episode would've happened with Clint Eastwood playing the villain, but it never made that far
@@nicholasfarrell5981they made 2 one-shots of it, as part of the Batman 66 comic run "The Lost Episode", was based on a script for the planned 2-parter "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face" which would’ve been a 2-parter as the script was for "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 1" and "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face Part 2"
Malachi Throne did a good job at making this character genuinely off-putting and ominous. Much like Hugo Weaving and Willem Dafoe, he was effective at acting through a mask, which ain't easy. Throne was great as The Judge (a character with no face) on The New Batman Adventures and Fingers on Batman Beyond, too.
Yeah it was revealed in the comics that he was Clayface in disguise and he actually becomes Clayface too by jumping into a pool of radioactive protoplasym
