Penguin (character) emperor penguins. The character has been featured in various media adaptations, such as feature films, television series, and video games. For example, the Penguin has been voiced by Paul Williams and David Ogden Stiers in the DC animated universe, Tom Kenny in "The Batman", and Nolan North in the . His live-action portrayals include Burgess Meredith in the 1960s "Batman" television series and its spinoff film, Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns", and Robin Lord Taylor in the television series "Gotham". The Penguin has repeatedly been named one of the best Batman villains, and one of the greatest villains in comics.
Burgess Meredith on the show in a starring role. In his first appearance in 1959, "Time Enough at Last", he portrayed a henpecked bookworm who finds himself the sole survivor of an unspecified apocalypse which leads him to contemplate suicide until he discovers the ruins of the library. In 1961's "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", Meredith played the title character, a timid weakling who receives superhuman strength from an extraterrestrial experiment in human nature. Also that year in "The Obsolete Man", Meredith portrayed a librarian sentenced to death in a dystopic totalitarian society. Lastly, in 1963's "Printer's Devil", Meredith portrayed the Devil himself.