Overview
- He died in his sleep at his Los Osos, California, home, his nephew Dean Sullivan told The Hollywood Reporter.
- Born April 11, 1929, in Jersey City and raised in Miami, Betts began on Broadway in 1953 before earning a scholarship to The Actors Studio.
- Under the name Hunt Powers, he starred in about 15 Italian spaghetti Westerns starting with Franco Giraldi’s Sugar Colt in 1966.
- His screen credits include Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997) and a pivotal turn as Oscorp board member Henry Balkan in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002).
- He shared a home with Everybody Loves Raymond star Doris Roberts from 1988 until her death in 2016 and is survived by his nephew, nieces and 99-year-old sister.