Kevin Conroy, Who Gave Voice to Batman for 3 Decades, Dies at 66With a distinctively deep and raspy voice, Mr. Conroy spent more time playing Batman than any other actor, without ever showing his face.Keeping him alive, keeping him from getting just dark and boring and broody, is the challenge.”Mr. Williams, who was married to Mr. Conroy for about 10 years, said: “It seemed to me that he was Batman.He had an early life that was troubled and had some negative ailments, but he turned that into an incredible personal strength.”Despite not being a fan of comic books, Mr. Conroy landed the title role in “Batman: The Animated Series” after the show’s producers, unimpressed with more than 500 other actors who had auditioned, were transfixed by the “gravitas” that Mr. Conroy brought, Alan Burnett, a writer and producer on the series, told The Times.It was one of those perfect scenarios where they got the exact right guy for the exact right part, and the world was better for it.”Kevin Conroy was born in Westbury, N.Y., on Long Island, on Nov. 30, 1955, and raised in Westport, Conn.Growing up as the gay son in a religious family, he said, was something he finally began to grapple with during his audition for “Batman: The Animated Series.”“I began to speak, and a voice I didn’t recognize came out,” he recalled."