     robert beatty (19 october 1909 â 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 (
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