He doubled as the Dark Knight for three decades. American actor Kevin Conroy died on Friday November 11. The 66-year-old was best known for being the official voice of Batman in DC Comics television and video game adaptations.
This is his partner Diane Pershing, interpreter of the role of Poison Ivy alongside Mr. Conroy in the animated series Batmanwho broke the news. “Very sad news. Our beloved Batman voice, Kevin Conroy, died yesterday”she wrote in a post on her Facebook page, noting that the actor was “sick for a while”. “He will be sorely missed, not just by the show’s cast, but by his legion of fans around the world.”she continued. The most beloved voice of Batman in animated character history died on Thursday […] after a short battle with cancer »DC Comics and Warner Bros. Studios confirmed in a statement.
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Born in 1955 in Westbury, New York, Kevin Conroy studied at the prestigious Julliard School of Performing Arts alongside Christopher Reeve, Frances Conroy, or his roommate Robin Williams. He began his career in the theater, notably in adaptations of plays by William Shakespeare.
Kevin Conroy lends his voice to the masked vigilante for the first time in 1992, in the animated series Batman. The series and its interpretation are so appreciated that DC Comics calls on him for each new screen adaptation, as well as for games like Arkham Knight et Arkham City. In total, Kevin Conroy donned the Dark Knight costume in “sixty different productions including fifteen films, fifteen animated series, four hundred episodes and one hundred hours of television, as well as two dozen video games”lists DC Comics.
“He was one of my favorite people on the planet and I loved him like a brother”, reacted actor Mark Hamill, who shared the poster with Mr. Conroy on several occasions in the guise of the Joker. He paid tribute to an actor ” bright “ and to one “perfect partner” on the screen. The producer of the animated series, Paul Dini, hailed a “hero in every sense of the word. Irreplaceable. Eternal “.