Kevin Conroy RIP
“There is always time to heal,” the doctor told me, but he was wrong. There was no more time. Not for me, not for him, not for Gotham City. And as long as I was trapped in Arkham, I couldn't do anything but wait for the end and remember the beginning. -Batman
Today it is reported that iconic voice actor Kevin Conroy has died at the age of 66 after a long illness. After honing his craft at the Juilliard School's drama division in the early '70s, Conroy moved to California where he was cast in Daytime Soap Opera Another World for NBC. He branched out into acting, performing in Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Edward Albee's production of Lolita. It seems that Conroy was destined for stardom having small roles in Kennedy (1983), Dynasty (1985), Killer Instinct (1988), Cheers (1989) and Hi Honey - I'm Dead in 1991. This is not that in 1992 Conroy was cast in Batman: The Animated Series as Bruce Wayne/Batman, a role he would play for thirty years in sixty different productions across fifteen films, seventeen video games and four hundred episodes of television. .
Every time a new Batman movie comes out, the actor they get to play Bruce is never quite right. Whether it was Bale or Affleck or even Kilmer, they all had one thing in common: they weren't Kevin Conroy. I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series and to say the series influenced me as a sci-fi horror novelist is an understatement. Conroy brought a gravity to the role, a power. He was Batman and Batman was him. According to IMDB, the last role he played was Thomas Wayne in a single episode of the upcoming show Batman: Caped Crusader. I would consider that appropriate given that he is the father of what we know and will always know how to be The Batman.
“There is always time to heal,” the doctor told me, but he was wrong. There was no more time. Not for me, not for him, not for Gotham City. And as long as I was trapped in Arkham, I couldn't do anything but wait for the end and remember the beginning. -Batman
Today it is reported that iconic voice actor Kevin Conroy has died at the age of 66 after a long illness. After honing his craft at the Juilliard School's drama division in the early '70s, Conroy moved to California where he was cast in Daytime Soap Opera Another World for NBC. He branched out into acting, performing in Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Edward Albee's production of Lolita. It seems that Conroy was destined for stardom having small roles in Kennedy (1983), Dynasty (1985), Killer Instinct (1988), Cheers (1989) and Hi Honey - I'm Dead in 1991. This is not that in 1992 Conroy was cast in Batman: The Animated Series as Bruce Wayne/Batman, a role he would play for thirty years in sixty different productions across fifteen films, seventeen video games and four hundred episodes of television. .
Every time a new Batman movie comes out, the actor they get to play Bruce is never quite right. Whether it was Bale or Affleck or even Kilmer, they all had one thing in common: they weren't Kevin Conroy. I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series and to say the series influenced me as a sci-fi horror novelist is an understatement. Conroy brought a gravity to the role, a power. He was Batman and Batman was him. According to IMDB, the last role he played was Thomas Wayne in a single episode of the upcoming show Batman: Caped Crusader. I would consider that appropriate given that he is the father of what we know and will always know how to be The Batman.
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