By: Adam McGovern

As Batman, he disclaimed heroism without undermining it.

By: Mimi Lipson

She excelled at rapacious clingers, albatrosses, and bad mothers.

By: Lynn Peril

“You just write yourself the part, and then you play it.”

By: Peggy Nelson

A stark contrast in mascara and morality!

By: Greg Rowland

His spooky-measured voice evoked a civilized darkness.

By: Adam McGovern

Immortal, like a surgical version of H. Rider Haggard’s SHE.

By: Greg Rowland

France had Existentialism; England had Hancock.

By: Adam McGovern

He let you know authority was a crock, even when he was the one holding it.

By: Lynn Peril

The boozy, self-absorbed Patsy Stone is one of TV’s greatest characters.

By: Deb Chachra

“I felt my job was not to become a good bass player.”

By: Adam McGovern

He couldn’t have been more perfect if he’d been put together in a lab.

By: Adrienne Crew

He was a transmedia personality before the word’s invention.

By: Deb Chachra

Genre actors can be asked to play roles that are seven kinds of impossible.

By: David Smay

His role as Harold made him an icon: flattened, but illuminated and sacred.

By: Adrienne Crew

Her steely eroticism lent a sense of refinement to depraved encounters.