Villain Of The Day

Ma Parker

Portrayed By Shelley Winters

I wanted to start this segment by writing about one of the many under rated female villains out there. In going through my mental rolodex I decided on a villain who was also under used. Hence I came up with Ma Parker from The Batman TV Series.

Now in all fairness, I could have picked the real Kate “Ma” Barker whom the character from Batman was based on. And I still might right about her later.

I went with Winters because I have enjoyed Winters in everything I have seen her in. I feel Winters was one of America’s most under rated actresses and looking at The Batman series Ma Parker was the craftiest.

I loved that she actually took over the prison and had the prisoners coming and going stealing and coming back to prison.

Infact I was so impressed with Parker that if I wrote for The DCU or any of their cartoons I would do a Ma Parker story. I think there is so much you could do with her to really get at mess with Bruce Wayne and Batman.

Trivia-Shelley Winters who portrayed Ma Parker in 1966 went on to play real life killer Kate “Ma” Barker in the 1970 movie Bloody Mama.