He was a series regular on Ohara in 1987, and as the company commander on Tour of Duty from 1987 to 1988, before starring in a series of television movies. Conroy played gay lawyer Bart Fallmont on Dynasty from 1985 to 1986. Film and television Ĭonroy returned to television in the 1985 TV movie Covenant and had a role on another daytime soap drama, Search for Tomorrow. He told The New York Times that, as a gay man living in New York in the time of the AIDS epidemic, he "went to so many funerals that I felt such a sense of obligation" to portray the character of a TV producer secretly living with AIDS in Eastern Standard. From 1980 to 1985, he acted in a variety of contemporary and classic theater pieces, including the Broadway productions of Edward Albee's adaptation of Lolita and Eastern Standard. Conroy became associated with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, where he performed in productions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1980, after playing the role of Jerry Grove in the New York-based daytime soap opera Another World, Conroy moved out to California to pursue further work in television. Conroy and his co-star Brian Bedford did not get along, and got into an on-stage brawl during the opening night performance of Deathtrap at the Kennedy Center. After graduating from Juilliard in 1978, he toured with Houseman's acting group The Acting Company, and the following year he went on the national tour of Ira Levin's Deathtrap. While there, he roomed with Robin Williams, who was in the same group as both Conroy and Kelsey Grammer. Ĭonroy moved to New York City in 1973 when he earned a full scholarship to attend the Juilliard School's drama division, studying under actor John Houseman. Conroy was at both his mother and his father's side when they died. ![]() In adulthood Conroy was estranged from his father for many years but reconciled shortly before his father's death. ![]() Conroy's father was an alcoholic and once attempted suicide while Conroy was in high school. ![]() ĭue to the tumultuous environment in his home, Conroy lived with a family friend during his last year of high school. He moved to Westport, Connecticut, when he was about 11 years old. Conroy went on to voice the character for multiple animated television series, feature films, and video games over the next three decades.Ĭonroy was born on November 30, 1955, in Westbury, New York, into an Irish Catholic family. He appeared in a variety of stage performances, television series, and television films, but earned worldwide fame for his voice portrayal of the DC Comics superhero Batman in various animated media, beginning with the acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Kevin Conroy (Novem– November 10, 2022) was an American actor.
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