Fan Casting Dr. Thomas Wayne in Tom Mankiewicz's Batman

Bruce's father—an idealistic physician and political candidate who believed in justice and a better Gotham. Thomas is warm, witty, and exasperated by his genius son, sharing a loving, teasing relationship with his family. Thomas is nobility personified—a man who faces his own murder with dignity, his last thought for his wife and son. His death is the loss of hope itself, the moment that transforms a bright boy into a dark avenger. He represents everything Gotham could have been: a city saved by goodness rather than fear. His murder is the wound that never heals.