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Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a villain on the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. He is a brilliant (though insane) dwarf portrayed by the late Michael Dunn. As a mad scientist and the arch-enemy of Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, Dr. Loveless was involved in numerous plots which were always foiled by West and Gordon. He was always prepared with an escape plan.
In the series he was from a family which had received a valuable land grant in California from the government of the Viceroy of Mexico under Spain.
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Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a villain on the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. He is a brilliant (though insane) dwarf portrayed by the late Michael Dunn. As a mad scientist and the arch-enemy of Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, Dr. Loveless was involved in numerous plots which were always foiled by West and Gordon. He was always prepared with an escape plan.
In the series he was from a family which had received a valuable land grant in California from the government of the Viceroy of Mexico under Spain. Their family had then lost it when Mexico lost California to the United States. His original goal seems to have been recovery of his family's property; however as the series progressed he became more and more megalomaniacal.
Loveless was introduced in the 1965 episode "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth," which was the show's third televised episode (although it was produced sixth). In total, the character appeared in ten episodes. He was known as a technological genius, producing gadgets far ahead of his time. Loveless initially had two constant companions, the gigantic Voltaire, embodied by real-life giant Richard Kiel, and the beautiful songstress Antoinette, played by Dunn's nightclub-act singing partner Phoebe Dorin. Voltaire disappeared after the doctor's third encounter with the agents; Antoinette, after the sixth. However, they each left such an indelible impression on fans that the 1990 comic book miniseries from Millennium Publications, a sequel to rather than an adaptation of the TV program scripted by Mark Ellis with art by Darryl Banks, included both characters.
According to the The Wild Wild West Revisited TV movie, in 1880 Loveless eventually died from anger and frustration at having his plans consistently ruined by West and Gordon (Michael Dunn passed away in 1973), so his son (played by Paul Williams) subsequently seeks revenge on the agents.
Other versions
The character of Loveless was adapted for the 1999 feature film Wild Wild West as Dr. Arliss Loveless, played by Kenneth Branagh. Branagh's version is shown (using special effects) as an amputee who uses a wheelchair and similar contraptions. Branagh's Loveless speaks with a thick Southern accent.
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