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He played horror villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film It and reprised the role in the 2019 sequel, directed by Andy Muschietti. [9] Speaking about what led him to casting Skarsgård, Muschietti said: "One second he can act all cute, and then the next, there's something ancestral and dark that just appears.
Francis Michael Gough (/ ɡ ɒ f / GOF; 23 November 1916 [1] – 17 March 2011) was a British actor who made more than 150 film and television appearances. He is known for his roles in the Hammer horror films from 1958, with his first role as Sir Arthur Holmwood in Dracula, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth from 1989 to 1997 in the four Batman films directed by Tim Burton and ...
The Batman was then announced in late 1983 for a mid-1985 release date on a budget of $20 million. Originally, Mankiewicz had wanted an unknown actor for Batman, William Holden for James Gordon, David Niven as Alfred Pennyworth, and Peter O'Toole as the Penguin, whom Mankiewicz wanted to portray as a mobster with low body temperature. [13]
Bill Skarsgård's twisted Pennywise performance had a lasting grip on his psyche.. The actor played the demented clown in the two recent adaptations of Stephen King's IT, released in 2017 and 2019 ...
Many Batman storylines serve as inspiration such as Batman: The Killing Joke, the tone of The Dark Knight Returns, The Man Behind the Red Hood! and Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper. In 2023, it retroactively confirmed that the Burton-directed and Schumacher-directed films are set in two different continuities.
Here are the actors who played Batman on TV and in movies (we've excluded animation, with a couple important exceptions), ranked, starting with the worst. 8. George Clooney ("Batman & Robin," 1997)
The character first appeared in Batman #16 (April 1944), by writer Don Cameron and artist Bob Kane.Evidence suggests that Alfred was created by the writers of the 1943 Batman serial—Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, and Harry Fraser—and that DC Comics asked Don Cameron to write the first Alfred story, which was published prior to the serial's release.
Pennyworth, marketed as Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler for its third season, [1] is an American television series that premiered on July 28, 2019, on Epix, based on DC Comics' Batman character of the same name.