



The Bookworm was created by Hendrik "Rik" Vollaerts, who admitted to Joel Eisner in The Official Batman Batbook, "I had a hell of a hard time trying to sell (his intelligent book-reading villain) because the number of people who read books in Hollywood is rather limited.".
REAL BOOKWORM MOVIE
The character was voiced by Jeff Bergman in the movie Batman vs.I don't know whether they changed their minds about the Bookworm or whether I was doing other things." He later appeared in the Planet Of The Apes "pentalogy" first as Cornelius, the chimpanzee sympathetic to Charlton Heston's George Taylor and then as Caesar, the charismatic leader of the ape revolt that turned Earth into "The Planet Of The Apes," and subsequently in the short-lived Planet Of The Apes live-action television series. Of his appearance in the 1960s live-action "Bat-Series," McDowall admitted to Joel Eisner in The Official Batman Batbook that he found his outfit as the Bookworm "very hot to wear," and he spoke to Eisner of talk of other installments that would have featured the Bookworm but noted, "There was only one segment. The Bookworm was portrayed by Roddy McDowall, who later voiced Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, in Batman: The Animated Series.For Whom the Bell Tolls: A bomb disguised as a book the Bookworm used in an attempt to blow up the Batmobile.The Bookworm likes to quote books and knows each chapter, each page, and the paragraph that contains each quote. Genius Level Intellect: He can read the greatest book in seconds.You can help DC Database by expanding it.
