‘Spider-Man 2’ actor was 96
Jack Betts, an actor who appeared in Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’, ‘Sugar Colt’ and various Spaghetti Western films, died on June 19. He was 96.
Betts’ cousin, Dean Sullivan, reported that the actor died in his sleep at home in Losos, California.
The actor was good friends with “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Doris Roberts, and the couple often lived together events in Hollywood from the late 1980s until her death in 2016.
Betts was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ when he was 10 years old, he and his family moved to Miami. After graduating from the Miami Senior High School, he followed a diploma in Theater at the University of Miami. He then moved to New York to start his acting career with his first supporting role on Broadway in the 1953 adjustment of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III”.
He further developed his acting skills as a member of the Actors Studio, an organization for artists, theater directors and theater writers to refine their skills. By 1959 he made his film debut in the Canadian thriller ‘The Bloody Brood’, where he played an ordinary man who investigated the murder of his younger brother.
When Betts’s film career started to start, he also started making several TV appearances. From 1960 to 1962 he portrayed Chris Devlin in the CBS Mystery Series “Checkmate”. He played Dr. K Life to Live “and” Generations. ”
Although Betts’s film and TV career grew, he returned to Broadway in a 1959 production of ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ by Tennessee Williams. He also played in “Dracula” on Broadway from 1977 to 1980, where he was Dr. Seward portrayed.
Betts made his Spaghetti Western debut in the Franco Giraldi film ‘Sugar Colt’ from 1966, where he was credited as Hunt Powers. In the film he portrayed a special agent from the government called Dr. Tom Copper. From there, he led a series of spaghetti western films Through 1973. Other films he starred in include “Gods and Monsters” (1998), “The Assassination of Trotsky” (1972), “Falling Down” (1993), “Batman Forever”, “Batman & Robbin”, “) and Robin,” and Robin “,” and Robin “, and Robin”, and Robining “,” and Robin “,” and Robin “, and Robinbinbining, Space ”(1999).
In Sam Raimi’s film adjustment of ‘Spider-Man’ Betts Henry Balkan, the Oscorp sign chairman who dismissed Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe). Osborn soon changed to the Green Goblin and eliminated Balkans and his co -board members during an attack on Times Square.
His other TV credits are “Gunsmoke”, “The FBI”, “It Takes a Thief”, “Kojak”, “Remington Steele”, “Frasier”, “Everyone loves Raymond”, “Friends”, “My name is Earl”, “The Mentalist” and “Monk”. Betts was also the author of “Screen Test: Take One”, a game about a soap opera.
In addition to his cousin, he is survived by his nieces, Lynee and Gail, and his sister, Joan.
