R.I.P. Bob Hastings - B:TAS Commissioner Gordon
[url]http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/07/02/r-i-p-bob-hastings-who-voiced-clark-kent-and-commissioner-gordon/[/url]
[quote]Bob Hastings, the television and radio actor who voiced Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon in animation for a decade, has passed away.
[URL="http://www.burbankleader.com/entertainment/tn-blr-me-0702-actor-bob-hastings-dies-at-89-20140701,0,6534573.story"]The Burbank Leader[/URL] reports that the star died from pancreatic cancer, from which he'd been suffering on and off for 15 years.
Hastings, who got his start in radio but rose to fame on TV in [I]McHale's Navy[/I], first portrayed Gordon (who will be the lead character in the live-action TV series [I]Gotham[/I] debuting on Fox in the fall) in 1993's animated feature film [I]Batman: Mask of the Phantasm[/I]. He went on to play the role in [I]Batman: The Animated Series[/I] and a number of spinoffs and tie-ins until 2003.
In the late 1970s, Hastings also lent his voice to [I]Challenge of the Superfriends[/I], although he was never credited with a specific character, only listed in the credits as a contributing voice actor. Before teaming with Mark Hamill on [I]Batman: The Animated Series[/I], Hastings shared screentime with him in [I]Jeannie[/I], on which he played Henry Glopp, a character he carried over to [I]The New Scooby-Doo Movies[/I].
Earlier still, he voiced Superboy and young Clark Kent in a number of animated projects in the '60s, including [I]The Batman/Superman Hour[/I] and [I]Superboy[/I].[/quote]
I actually didn't realize how much other voicework he had done for DC properties...
