Griffin Balfor

A famous silent film director­ known as "one of the greatest directors of silent films" – who disappeared from public view shortly after the advent of talking pictures. In August­-September 1951, in a desperate effort to stage a come­back, Balfor kidnaps a crew of famous movie stars, transports them to an inaccessible valley, and sets them to work filming what he believes will be his greatest movie epic. Batman and Robin invade the valley and ultimately rescue the kidnapped actors from Balfor's clutches, but Balfor drowns when, after flooding the valley in an effort to kill Batman and Robin, he races back into the flood area in an attempt to rescue a reel of film from his personal library of great silent films.