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
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,