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Jack Betts, Actor in Spaghetti Westerns and ‘Spider-Man,’ Dies at 96 The Actors Studio alum, billed as Hunt Powers when he was working in those Italian films, also did lots of soap operas.
Jack Betts, an actor who appeared in Sam Raimi’s 2002 “Spider-Man,” “Sugar Colt” and several spaghetti Western films, died on June 19. He was 96. Betts’ nephew, Dean Sullivan, reported ...
Jack Betts, an actor who appeared in Sam Raimi’s 2002 “Spider-Man,” “Sugar Colt” and several spaghetti Western films, died on June 19. He was 96.
When Betts stepped onto the spaghetti Western scene in 1966 as the title character Hunt Powers in Franco Giraldi’s “Sugar Colt,” he was able to turn that film into 15 others until 1973.
He also had parts in several spaghetti Westerns, though never quite reached the level of success he hoped for. As Betts said in a 2021 interview with The Dev Show, Clint Eastwood was often in the ...
Spider-Man and Spaghetti Western actor Jack Betts has died at the age of 96. The Hollywood veteran, who befriended Everybody Loves Raymond star Doris Roberts and whom he went on to share a home ...
Jack Betts, an actor who appeared in Sam Raimi’s 2002 “Spider-Man,” “Sugar Colt” and several spaghetti Western films, died on June 19. He was 96.
Jack Betts, an actor whose six-decade career included a memorable part in 2002’s Spider-Man, has died. Betts died in his sleep at home in Los Osos, California, on Thursday, June 19, his nephew ...
Betts got a starring role in 1966’s Sugar Colt, one of his many spaghetti Western films, after lying to director Franco Giraldi about knowing how to ride a horse and shoot a gun.