Robert Beatty
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Robert Beatty (born 19 October 1909, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and died 3 March 1992, London, England) was a Canadian actor who worked in radio, film and television for most of his career and was especially known in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Career
Robert Beatty played Philip Odell, a fictional Irish detective created by Lester Powell. The series debuted on BBC radio with the story "Lady in a Fog" in October 1947. Other stories followed and were presented by BBC radio over the years from 1947 to 1961. The series was made available to overseas broadcasters by the BBC Transcription Service.
[edit] Television
He appeared in British television shows such as Dial 999, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, The Gathering Storm, The New Avengers, and Minder. He was in Franco Zeffirelli's tv mini-series of Jesus of Nazareth and the American TV series of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.
[edit] Films
His film credits include: San Demetrio, London (1943), Another Shore (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower (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), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
[edit] Radio
He was in, amongst other radio credits, 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), as Henry Hickslaughter in Elizabeth Troop's Sony Award winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story Cheap In August (1993).
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