Batman depicted in both film and television by Lewis Wilson, Robert Lowery, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and Dante Pereira-Olson. In early 1939, the success of Superman in "Action Comics" prompted editors at National Comics Publications (the future DC Comics) to request more superheroes for its titles. In response, Bob Kane created "the Bat-Man". Collaborator Bill Finger recalled that "Kane had an idea for a character called 'Batman,' and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with
Michael O'Keefe Brad Davis' character, Philip Caputo. He played the lead role in the 1982 film, "Split Image", as a college athlete who gets lured into a religious cult by a beautiful girl (Karen Allen). He appeared in the thriller film "The Glass House", and starred with Tommy Lee Jones in the 1983 pirate adventure "Nate and Hayes" (also known as "Savage Islands"). More recently, O'Keefe appeared opposite George Clooney in "Michael Clayton". He has appeared twice opposite Jack Nicholson, as his son in "Ironweed" and as the father of a murdered girl in "The Pledge". His film "Frozen River" was in