Batman (1989 film) short notice. Peters suggested Kim Basinger: she was able to join the production immediately and was cast. As a fan of Michael Gough's work in various Hammer Film Productions, Burton cast Gough as Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Robert Wuhl was cast as reporter Alexander Knox. His character was originally supposed to die by the Joker's poison gas in the climax, but the filmmakers "liked [my] character so much," Wuhl said, "that they decided to let me live." Burton chose Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent because he wanted to include the villain Two-Face in a future film using the
Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall (11 November 1830 – 4 April 1875) was a British-born journalist, barrister and QC who migrated with his young wife to Melbourne Australia at first as an Editor and Writer for The Argus, but soon took up his lucrative legal practice as a defence advocate and later as a senior Victorian state politician. Aspinall was one of the chief counsel for the leaders of the 'Ballarat Riots' aka Eureka Stockade, and later defended Henry James O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Butler Cole Aspinall was appointed as Attorney-General of