Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Harry Mudd

10. Roger C Carmel Also Played A Niche Batman Villain

Harry Mudd isn't the campest antagonist played by actor Roger C Carmel in a much-loved 1960s TV show. That honor goes to Colonel Gumm, the foreman of the Pink Chips Stamp Factory. Like many of the 60s Batman villains to face Adam West, he had a very niche criminal interest - stamps. His main crime was the counterfeiting of stamps and he also had various stamp-themed implements of torture like the Enlarged Perforating and Coiling Machine, presumably designed to turn Batman and Robin into stamps.

Colonel Gumm appeared in Batman a year after Carmel's first appearance as Harry Mudd in Star Trek. It's likely that it was Carmel's performance as Mudd that caught the attention of Batman casting agents. Both Mudd and Gumm were inherently dishonest men with a keen interest in financial gain, be it stamps or latinum.

Unlike Mudd, however, Gumm didn't stick around for long. The character only made one appearance in the Adam West and Burt Ward series and has never appeared again. However, with Nicolas Cage stating an interest in playing a similar niche villain, Egghead, in a future Batman movie, perhaps Rainn Wilson or Greg Grunberg could revive the role of Colonel Gumm opposite Robert Pattinson's Batman.