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Bruce Timm

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Bruce Timm is an American animator, writer, voice actor and director. He is known for creating Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and various installments of the DC Animated Universe. He co-created several DC characters including Harley Quinn and Livewire. He also worked on various DC animated films including Batman and Harley Quinn and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates

Praised Kevin Conroy, who has been providing the voice of "Batman/Bruce Wayne" since Batman: The Animated Series (1992), as being a driving factor in the success of the original series.
Said that Superman: The Animated Series (1996) was originally supposed to have a unique opening sequence similar to the one from Batman: The Animated Series (1992), but the animation team ran out of time to finish it before having to put the show on the air, so a montage of Superman performing heroic acts was put together from clips from the series episodes. Part of the abandoned opening sequence can be seen in the montage, when Superman is seen flying over Metropolis at night.
It was his caricatures of fellow Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) artists Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton that inspired the look of the characters Pinky and the Brain (1995), respectively.
Said that when doing the Superman: The Animated Series (1996) series from 1996, he and the other artists and writers felt compelled to do as many larger than life images and stories as possible, in stark contrast to the Batman: The Animated Series (1992) series from 1992, in which they felt obligated to try to keep the stories fairly realistic and believable.
Timm made his voice-acting debut as the Mad Bomber on Beware the Gray Ghost (1992). Timm has also filled in for Mark Hamill voicing Solomon Grundy on Wake the Dead (2004).

[Talking about the fights he and the staff of Batman: The Animated Series (1992) had with censors]: "We were just like 'Look, we're not trying to destroy the boys of America, we just want to make a good show'".

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