Tim Drake himself to Dick Grayson and impressed the former Robin with his skills. This led to Grayson and later Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler, to support Tim's request to be Batman's new partner. Not wanting to make the same mistake as he did with Jason Todd, Batman had Tim endure an intensive period of training that was never given to his predecessors. Eventually, after Tim rescues Batman from Scarecrow, he proves his capability and becomes Robin. "Batman" editor Dennis O'Neil hoped that Grayson's approval of Drake would ease reader acceptance of him. Evidently, this approach was successful with the character being
Jim Piddock butler, Alfred Pennyworth, and also voiced Chic for the animated science fiction film "", based on the video game "Dead Space". Piddock appeared in 2012's "The Five-Year Engagement", which starred Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, playing Blunt's father, "The Cold Light of Day" starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, and "The Dictator" with Sacha Baron Cohen. In August, 2012 it was announced that Piddock would be co-writing, acting, and producing a new TV comedy series with Christopher Guest for HBO and the BBC titled "Family Tree". On 13 October 2016, "Mascots", which he co-wrote with Guest, stars in,