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Jack Fillmore Betts (born April 11, 1929 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American actor .
Life
Betts visited the Actors Studio in 1957 and then appeared in smaller roles on Broadway and in television series. After guest roles in successful adventure series, westerns and soap operas , he gained greater fame from 1965 with his role in the FBI series .
From the second half of the 1960s he played leading roles in Italy under the pseudonym Hunt Powers in Spaghetti Westerns after he had received a contract for three films from Franco Giraldi . This also included the critically acclaimed crime western Rocco - the man with two faces . Then Betts was featured in Demofilo Fidani's cheap wests .
From the 1990s he appeared in American films mainly in supporting roles, including in works by the director Joel Schumacher . In the 1998 biopic Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon about director James Whale , Betts played the horror film actor and Frankenstein monster actor Boris Karloff .
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Smoking Colts (Gunsmoke) (TV series)
- 1957: Perry Mason (TV series)
- 1962: Bonanza (TV series)
- 1963: General Hospital (TV series)
- 1965: FBI (The FBI) (TV series)
- 1966: Rocco - the man with two faces (Sugar Colt)
- 1967: A Hallelujah for Django (La più grande rapina del West)
- 1970: Django and Sartana arrive (Arrivano Django e Sartana ... è la fine!)
- 1970: For a coffin full of dollars (Per una bara piena di dollari)
- 1970: Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno
- 1970: The dead cast no shadows (Inginocchiati straniero… i cadaveri non fanno ombra!)
- 1971: Adios Companeros (Giù la testa… hombre!)
- 1971: … E lo chiamarono Spirito Santo
- 1971: Hallelujah whistles the song of dying (Giù le mani… carogna!)
- 1971: Rum Boulevard (Boulevard du rhum)
- 1972: The Girl and the Murderer (L'assassino di Trotsky / L'assassinat de Trotsky)
- 1973: Corte marziale
- 1993: Falling Down (Falling Down)
- 1995: Batman Forever (Batman Forever)
- 1997: Batman & Robin (Batman & Robin)
- 1998: Gods and Monsters (Gods and Monsters)
- 1999: 8mm - Eight Millimeters (8MM)
- 1999: Everything Routine (Office Space)
- 2000: A Friend To Fall In Love With (The Next Best Thing)
- 2000: Critical Mass - a race against time (Critical Mass)
- 2002: Spider-Man (Spider-Man)
- 2009: Monk , (TV series, episode 8x09)
Web links
- Jack Betts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ May 13, 1938 (Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melilli: Dizionario del cinema italiano, Gli attori stranieri del nostro cinema . Gremese 2006, p. 149) and occasionally 1937 are also given.
- ^ John Stewart: Italian film. A who's who. 1994, p. 362.
- ↑ http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=90781
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Betts, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Powers, Hunt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City |