Bob Hastings - Commissioner Gordon - passes away

Started by The Laughing Fish, Wed, 2 Jul 2014, 13:11

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First Efrem Zimbalist Jr, now Bob Hastings aka Jim Gordon. I always loved his fast-talking, snappy voice as Gordon.

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McHale's Navy, Batman: Actor Bob Hastings Dies at 89
Published: July 1, 2014
Bob Hastings diesBeloved character actor Bob Hastings passed away yesterday at the age of 89. He died at his Burbank home from pancreatic cancer, his third fight with cancer in 15 years.

Robert "Bob" Francis Hastings, Sr. began his career in radio at the age of 11. Following a stint in the Air Force, he became the voice of Archie Andrews on radio. He moved into television where he appeared on numerous shows and voiced many, many cartoon characters.

He was perhaps best known for playing Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, bartender Tommy Kelsey in All in the Family, Superboy in the 1960s Superboy cartoons, and Comissioner Gordon in various Batman series and projects starting in the 1990s.

Source: http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/mchales-navy-batman-actor-bob-hastings-dies-at-89-33037/
QuoteJonathan Nolan: He [Batman] has this one rule, as the Joker says in The Dark Knight. But he does wind up breaking it. Does he break it in the third film?

Christopher Nolan: He breaks it in...

Jonathan Nolan: ...the first two.

Source: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uwV8rddtKRgC&pg=PR8&dq=But+he+does+wind+up+breaking+it.&hl=en&sa=X&ei

Noooooo!!
"There's just as much room for the television series and the comic books as there is for my movie. Why wouldn't there be?" - Tim Burton


Very sad. Bob was also an actor in the 1977 Spider-man live action pilot which i watched obsessively as a young child.