Kevin Conroy, Animated Voice of Batman, Dies From CancerLOS ANGELES—Kevin Conroy, who voiced the iconic Batman character in numerous animated films, TV series episodes, and video games since the 1990s, has died from cancer at 66, DC Comics announced.
The company called him “the most beloved voice of Batman in the animated history of the character,” and fans and colleagues took to various media to mourn his loss.
Glen Weldon, a longtime fan and co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast praised Conroy’s Batman in a remembrance Friday.
“To several generations of fans, including mine, he simply…was Batman,” Weldon wrote on NPR.
“That’s because Conroy understood something very fundamental about the character that no other actor to play Batman ever has: Batman isn’t a disguise. Batman is the real guy. It’s Bruce Wayne that’s the put-on—the pose, the performance, the face he shows to the world....
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