Robert Beatty
- Birthday
- Oct 19, 1909
Bio: Robert Beatty spent his early adulthood in Canada as a gas-company cashier, salesman and amateur actor. Upon arriving in London, Beatty enrolled at the RADA, making his film debut as an extra and stand-in. During World War II, Beatty achieved fame through his eyewitness radio reports of the nightly London bombings. In most of his postwar film, stage, radio and TV… More Bio: Robert Beatty spent his early adulthood in Canada as a gas-company cashier, salesman and amateur actor. Upon arriving in London, Beatty enrolled at the RADA, making his film debut as an extra and stand-in. During World War II, Beatty achieved fame through his eyewitness radio reports of the nightly London bombings. In most of his postwar film, stage, radio and TV work, Beatty was cast as a rough-hewn American or Canadian. One of his favorite stage roles was rude 'n' crude American junk dealer Harry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. He also played more than his share of detectives, most prominently as radio's Phillip O'Dell, and on the 1958 TV series Dial 999. Beatty was given a chance to demonstrate his versatility in the dual role of a milquetoast British hubby and a slick Italian gangster in Her Favorite Husband (1950). Later film roles included Lord Beaverbrook in The Magic Box (1951), Halvorsen in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and two separate characters in Superman III (1980) and Superman IV (1984). On television, Robert Beatty was seen in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977, as Proculus) and The Martian Chronicles (1980), and as President Ronald Reagan in the 1987 PBS special Breakthrough at Reykajavik. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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Another Shore (2013)
- Actor
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Under Lock and Key (1995)
- Peter Dawson
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The Saint of Fort Washington (1992)
- Actor
- 78%
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
- U.S. President
- 10%
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Labyrinth (1986)
- Left Door Knocker
- 64%
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Robert Beatty Videos
2001: A Space Odyssey
3 minutes 28 seconds
Labyrinth
1 minutes 45 seconds
Where Eagles Dare
2 minutes 51 seconds
Superman 4: The Quest For Peace
1 minutes 25 seconds
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
17 seconds
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