A man whose face you likely know and whose name you do not has passed away.
Jack Betts, who played in, among other TV shows and movies, Spider-Man, has passed away.
Betts portrayed Henry Balkan in the 2002 Spider-Man movie, but that is far from his only claim to fame.
He’s gone
Dean Sullivan, the actor’s nephew, confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter that Betts had passed on Thursday at his Los Osos home in California.
Betts launched his screen career in 1959, playing Cliff in The Bloody Brood.
He then started to take whatever TV roles he could find, playing in 1960s shows such as The Detectives, Checkmate, Bonanza, and an occasional movie role.
Betts landed a single-episode role on General Hospital in 1963, the continued to land single-episode roles in a handful of shows until had a spot re-occurring role in Perry Mason and The Young Marrieds.
He started to branch out to spaghetti westerns, appearing in Sugar Colt and Halleluja for Django as well as continuing his TV career.
The late 1960s and early 1970s were good on that front for Betts, as he enjoyed regular movie work in the westers while making the odd appearance in TV shows.
In 1978, he landed a recurring role on The Doctors, then Another World in 1982.
Betts finally seemed to find a home on One Life to Live, appearing in 20 episodes over the next few years.
One of more mainstream movies he played in was Falling Down in 1993.
While he continued to land single-episode work on TV, he was landing roles in much better shows, such as Seinfeld, MAD TV, and Frasier.
Then, in 2002, he landed the role of Harry Balkan in Spider-Man, the role for which he is most famous, but that was hardly the end of his career.
After 2010, he seemed to be focused more on movies over TV roles, and he played in some good ones.
Betts is credited with roles in “About Last Night, The Secret of Joy, and Silver Skies.
His acting career ended in 2019 with a single-episode role in Good Trouble. In all, he has 108 acting credits on his resume.
The renowned actor was nominated for three awards during his career, taking home the hardware on two occasions.
Betts was nominated for Outstanding Male Actor at the Brooklyn Film Festival in 2000 for True Rights, and he won Best Ensemble in 2019 for D-Railed as well as the 2018 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Borderlands Film Festival.
Rest in peace, sir.
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Author: G. McConway
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