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Robert Beatty (1909-1992) was born in Canada. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he had a variety of jobs before deciding to move to London where he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his first London stage appearance in Idiot’s Delight at the Apollo Theatre. During World War II, he was a regular broadcaster on the Overseas News Service of the BBC, achieving fame through his eyewitness radio reports of the nightly London bombings.
For the forty years after the war, he had a considerable amount of film, stage, radio and TV work. On stage, he starred in The Happiest Millionaire (1957) and Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday (1962). His over 50 films included Her Favorite Husband (1950), The Magic Box (1951), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and two different characters in Superman III (1980) and Superman IV (1984).
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