10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Batman: The Animated Series
8. Some Voice Actors Were Involved In Live Action DC Efforts
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Although BTAS divested heavily from the Silver Age silliness of the sixties Batman TV show, it didn't dismiss it entirely. The late, great Adam West even starred in one of the most affecting episodes of the show in Beware the Gray Ghost, where he portrayed an actor who played the vigilante that inspired a young Bruce Wayne to take up crimefighting.
Outside of West, there were other guest actors on BTAS who had roles on the sixties show and other live action Bat-media. Roddy McDowall, the voice of the Mad Hatter, had previously portrayed Bookworm on the earlier series, while Riddler voice actor John Glover portrayed Jason Woodrue in 1997's Batman & Robin, and later Lionel Luthor on Smallville. He even portrayed the father of Doctor Sivana in 2019's Shazam!
Other BTAS actors to have appeared in live action adaptations of DC comics include Ed Begley, Jr. (the voice of Charlie Collins in Joker's Favor), Rene Auberjonois, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy and Vincent Shiavelli.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
