Who was Kevin Conroy?
ACTOR Kevin Conroy died at age 66 on November 10, 2022.
Conroy has voiced Bruce Wayne, otherwise known as Batman, since the early 1990s.
Who was Kevin Conroy?
Kevin Conroy started as the voice of Batman in 1992 in Batman: The Animated Series. The show lasted through 1995 and two years later, he reprised the role in The New Batman Adventures.
According to Conroy had gone to Julliard and was set to perform live acting on stage, but the jobs just didn't pay enough.
"I was going to be the great, classical stage actor. I just didn’t know I couldn’t make a living at it," he said.
He told the outlet at the time, that there weren't enough jobs to fit all the stage actors in New York City, so while he worked on Broadway, he did voiceovers commercially for extra money.
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"I did a Paco Rabanne tagline and those seven words made me $25k over the course of a year. I thought, wow, I probably made that much doing theatre so I thought wow. But that led to animated roles … and that’s where it came from," he said.
Becoming a voice actor was easy for Conroy to slip into and his comradery with other stage actors made him the ideal person for the roles.
“Stage actors make for great voice actors. We interact better with each other and uniquely enough, Warner Brothers likes to get all of the actors together – like a radio play," he said.
"The better you interact with the other actors, the better the performance."
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What roles has Kevin Conroy played?
He has held the voiceover role of the hero of Gotham for three decades, portraying Bruce Wayne in both television roles and video games.
His roles as the Batman voiceover for video games include Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (2003), Batman: Arkham City (2011), Injustice 2 (2017), and MultiVersus which is set to be released in 2022.
He has also been featured as Batman in the TV series Batman: Gotham City Racer (2001), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2010), Justice League Action (2018), and Batwoman (2019).
Since the early 1990s, Conroy has voiced Batman in more than 14 animated films, 16 animated television shows, and 13 video games.
How did Kevin Conroy die?
The actor was briefly battling cancer and passed at age 66.
"Kevin was far more than an actor whom I had the pleasure of casting and directing—he was a dear friend for 30+ years whose kindness and generous spirit knew no boundaries," shared casting director Andrea Romano in a press release released by Warner Bros.
"Kevin’s warm heart, delightfully deep laugh and pure love of life will be with me forever."
"Kevin was perfection," Mark Hamill added.
"He was one of my favorite people on the planet, and I loved him like a brother. He truly cared for the people around him —his decency shone through everything he did. Every time I saw him or spoke with him, my spirits were elevated."
Was Kevin Conroy producing a Batman comic?
Conroy took a break from the Batman series to focus on other roles since Batwoman was released, but he was stepping back into the limelight with a new DC comic.
"This is Batman calling you from Wayne Manor with a very important announcement," Conroy previously said in a video on TikTok.
"I will be joining the council, and our objective is to keep the secrets over the rogues. So watch out, because we are patrolling Gotham."
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