Robert Beatty

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Robert Rutherford 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.<ref name=bfi>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Early years

Beatty was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Charles Thompson Beatty and Blanch Sarah Rutherford. He attended Delta Collegiate School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto.<ref name=etcf>Aaker, Everett (2006). Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters. McFarland & Company, Inc. Template:ISBN. Pp. 35–38.</ref> He began his acting career in Britain in 1939.Template:Cn

Career

Stage

Beatty joined the Players' Guild of Hamilton after graduation from the University of Toronto. He went to London, England, in 1936 and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It was with the RADA that he made his English stage debut.<ref name=hc/> In 1939 he appeared in the West End in N.C. Hunter's comedy Grouse in June.

Film

Beatty's film credits include: San Demetrio London (1943), Odd Man Out (1947), Another Shore (1948), Against the Wind (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), The Square Ring (1953), Portrait of Alison / Postmark for Danger (1955), Something of Value, Time lock (1957), 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).<ref name=bfi/>

Beatty appeared in two "critically acclaimed war propaganda films" in 1942 – 49th Parallel and One of Our Aircraft Is Missing.<ref name=hc>Template:Cite web</ref>

Television

In the 1950s, he was host of the BBC programme Saturday Night Out, a live outside-broadcast magazine programme, in which he was known as "The Man with the Mike".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He played Bulldog Drummond in 1957 in the episode "The Ludlow Affair" of Douglas Fairbanks Presents. In 1958–59, he played Detective Inspector Mike Maguire in the police series Dial 999<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (a co-production between Britain's ABC and the US company Ziv). He also appeared in Doctor Who ("The Tenth Planet" as General Cutler), Blake's 7 ("The Way Back" as Bran Foster), The Gathering Storm, Thriller (1976), The New Avengers, and Minder.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was in Franco Zeffirelli's TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth and the American series of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=hc/> He portrayed Ronald Reagan in Breakthrough at Reykjavik (Granada Television UK 1987).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Radio

Beatty reported descriptions of the Blitz from London to North America via the BBC during World War II.<ref name=sht/> He 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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! Stories of a Fire Investigator on the BBC Light Programme (1962–1966), 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).

Death

Beatty died 3 March 1992, in London, aged 82,<ref name="sht">Template:Cite news</ref> and was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium.

Filmography

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