You occupied every cinematic corner (often under the virile moniker, Hunt Powers), having become one of the world's most prolific performers.
Just look at your vast, television credits: Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Man Who Never Was, 12 O'Clock High, The F.B.I., It Takes a Thief, One Life to Live, General Hospital, Search for Tomorrow, The Young and the Restless, All My Children, The Guiding Light, Falcon Crest, Generations, Remington Steele, The Detectives, Kojak, Monk, Mike Hammer Private Eye, Perry Mason, Checkmate, The Doctors, In the Heat of the Night, Sisters, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name Is Earl, Friends, MADtv, Zoey 101, Sisters, The United States Steel Hour, The DuPont Show of the Month, Deadly Game, The District, The Unit, The Mentalist and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
And you excelled yet again for the big screen with Sugar Colt, A Barrel (Coffin) Full of Dollars, A Fistful of Death (Ballad of Django), Dead Men Don't Make Shadows (Hallelujah for Django), One Damned Day at Dawn ... Django Meets Sartana, Django and Sartana are Coming ... It's the End, Down with Your Hands ... You Scum!, He Was Called the Holy Ghost, Rum Runners, Sinatra, Bye Bye Monkey, Mockingbird Don't Sing, The Next Best Thing, Just My Imagination, About Last Night, True Rights, Critical Mass, Running Mates, The Assassination of Trotsky, Falling Down, 8 MM, Office Space, Silver Skies, The Bloody Brood, D-Railed, Gods and Monsters, The Chair, Spiderman 2002, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. (Also, we mustn't forget that you played Dr. Seward in Broadway's Dracula, and if but for a brief but important spree, stood in for Raul Julia's Count.)
It's actors of your caliber (well rounded and diverse) who make cinematic scenes click. You did so time and again, Mr. Betts, giving us visions that were bleak and bright and (for the long, historic haul) pleasingly venturesome.
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