Role Call

Role Call: Christian Bale

The versatile actor has played everything from a serial killer to a superhero to a POW (in the new ''Rescue Dawn'') -- look back at his most memorable roles
| Jul 05, 2007
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Batman Begins: David James

Batman Begins (2005)

THE ROLE In the Christopher Nolan-directed origin story, Bale is Bruce Wayne, the millionaire businessman who avenges his parents' murders by suiting up as the Dark Knight and fighting crime in the corrupt Gotham City.

WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''A triumph — a confidently original, engrossing interpretation... Even the greenest newbie to the hagiography knows [the details of Batman's beginnings]. But knowing doesn't pack the same pleasurable jolt as seeing primly smoldering Christian Bale's Batman No. 4 play so comfortably against expansively proper Michael Caine's Alfred (taking over for Michael Gough as if to the manor born) and watching the two devise the very first Batsuit.''