Robert Beatty

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Robert Beatty
Born	Robert Rutherford Beatty (1909-10-19)19 October 1909 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died	London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1939-1989

Robert Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK.

Career

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Beatty began his acting career in Britain in 1939.

Film

Beatty's film credits include: San Demetrio London (1943), Another Shore (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), The Square Ring (1953), The Amorous Prawn (1962), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Superman III (1983), Minder on the Orient Express (1985) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).

Television

He appeared in British television shows such as Dial 999 (a co-production between Britain's ABC and the US company Ziv), Doctor Who ("The Tenth Planet" as General Cutler), Blake's 7 ("The Way Back" as Bran Foster), The Gathering Storm, The New Avengers, and Minder. He was in Franco Zeffirelli's TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth and the American series of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. He portrayed Ronald Reagan in Breakthrough at Reykjavik (Granada Television UK 1987).

Radio

Beatty played Philip Odell, a fictional Irish detective created by Lester Powell, between 1947 and 1961. The series debuted on BBC radio with the story "Lady in a Fog" in October 1947. The series was made available to overseas broadcasters by the BBC Transcription Services. His other radio credits included Shadow of Sumuru on the BBC Home Programme in 1945-46, Shadow Man on Radio Luxembourg in 1955, Destination - Fire! on BBC (early 1960s), General Sternwood in a BBC version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1977), Pay Any Price (BBC 1982), The Mystery of the Blue Train (BBC 1985/1986), and as Henry Hickslaughter in Elizabeth Troop's Sony Award winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story Cheap In August (1993).

Beatty died in London in 1992 and was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium.

Partial filmography

• Black Limelight (1939)
• Murder in Soho (1939)
• Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
• 49th Parallel (1941)
• Flying Fortress (1942)
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
• Suspected Person (1942)
• The First of the Few (1942)
• San Demetrio London (1943)
• It Happened One Sunday (1944)
• Appointment with Crime (1946)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Green Fingers (1947)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Counterblast (1948)
• Against the Wind (1948)
• Another Shore (1948)
• Portrait from Life (1948)
• The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)
• Her Favourite Husband (1950)
• Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
• Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
• The Magic Box (1951)
• Wings of Danger (1952)
• The Gentle Gunman (1952)
• The Broken Horseshoe (1953)
• The Net (1953)
• Man on a Tightrope (1953)
• The Oracle (1953)
• The Square Ring (1953)
• Albert R.N. (1953)
• Portrait of Alison (1955)
• Out of the Clouds (1955)
• Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
• Something of Value (1957)
• Time Lock (1957)
• The Shakedown (1959)
• Invitation to Murder (1962)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962)
• The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
• The 25th Hour (1967)
• Bikini Paradise (1967)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Where Eagles Dare (1968)
• Sitting Target (1972)
• Pope Joan (1972)
• The Spikes Gang (1974)
• The Gathering Storm (1974)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
• Golden Rendezvous (1977)
• The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
• The Amateur (1981)
• Superman III (1983)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

External links

• Robert Beatty at the Internet Movie Database