Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Beatty (19 October 1909 – 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Beatty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
as William Maitland
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's...
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987
as Ronald Reagan
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as U.S. President
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, re...

Labyrinth
1986
as Left Door Knocker (voice)
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King and he whisks Toby away to his castle at the centre o...

Superman III
1983
as Tanker Captain
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yield...
Man and Superman
1982
as Mr. Malone
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.

The Amateur
1981
as Ambassador Neville
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...

Unidentified Flying Oddball
1979
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble...

Golden Rendezvous
1977
as Dr. Taubman
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacke...

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
as Admiral
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid...

Sleepwalker
1975
as Dan Summers
A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of ...

The Gathering Storm
1974
as Lord Beaverbrook
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.

Pope Joan
1972
as Dr. Corwin
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...

Sitting Target
1972
as Gun Dealer
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beauti...

Where Eagles Dare
1968
as Brig. Gen. George Carnaby
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impo...

2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advan...

Bikini Paradise
1967
as Commissioner
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966
as General Cutler
The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the b...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Col. Matson
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

The Amorous Prawn
1962
as Larry Hoffman
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in or...

The Shakedown
1960
as Jarvis
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.

Operation Universe
1959
as Narrator
A British documentary that covers the atomic energy developments made in Great Britain since the end of World War II, with a focus towards advancing p...

Time Lock
1957
as Pete Dawson
A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.

Something of Value
1957
as Elizabeth's Husband - Jeff Newton
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...

Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957
as Tusker Hawkins
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.

The Atlantic Community: Introducing the United Kingdom
1956
as Self - Commentator (voice)
One of a series of short documentaries giving an overview of the various members of NATO.

The Secret of Magic Island
1956
The carnival is coming to town! Unfortunately, the Good Fairy's wand is stolen by the diabolical Black Troll. And he turns The Poet's girlfriend to st...

Portrait of Alison
1955
as Tim Forrester
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

Out of the Clouds
1955
as Nick Millbourne
A day following workers at an airport

Loves of Three Queens
1954
as Menelao (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, re...

All Found
1954
as Narrator
From The World of Life film series. A documentary narrated by Robert Beatty, of a working day of Laurie Smith - the Head Keeper of London Zoo.

Albert R.N.
1953
as Lt Jim Reed
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy w...

The Square Ring
1953
as Jim 'Kid' Curtis
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

The Oracle
1953
as Bob Jefferson
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Man on a Tightrope
1953
as Barovic
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performe...

A Journal of the Outdoors No. 11
1953
as Narrator
Wildfowl and wallabies in the wild, exotic animals in the office.

The Net
1953
as Maj. Sam Seagram
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, ...

The Broken Horseshoe
1953
as Dr. Mark Benton
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.

The Gentle Gunman
1952
as Shinto
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Wings of Danger
1952
as Nick Talbot
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his...

The Magic Box
1952
as Lord Beaverbrook
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...

The Figurehead
1952
A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint ...

Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951
as Arthur Gunns
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

Spotlight at the Fair
1951
as Commentator
Rides, boxing booths, and a dog-faced monkey keep on moving as the travelling fair hits Mitcham and Stratford-upon-Avon, with a look in at Blackpool.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Lt. William Bush
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship a...

Her Favourite Husband
1950
as Antonio Pellegrini
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, p...

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
1950
as Bob Beacham
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series ...

Portrait from Life
1948
as Campbell Reid
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering ...

Another Shore
1948
as Gulliver Shields
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Counterblast
1948
as Dr. Paul Rankin
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ...

Against the Wind
1948
as Father Philip Elliot
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to res...

Green Fingers
1947
as Thomas Stone
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is beli...

Odd Man Out
1947
as Dennis
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

A Matter of Life and Death
1946
as US Crewman (uncredited)
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But t...

Appointment with Crime
1946
as Det. Insp. Rogers
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing...
It Happened One Sunday
1944
as Tom Stevens
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.

San Demetrio London
1943
as 'Yank' Preston - M.V. San Demetrio
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the A...

Suspected Person
1942
as Louis Franklin
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of ...

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942
as Sgt. Hopkins
On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands ...

49th Parallel
1941
as RCMP Mountie in Alberta (voice)
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...

Dangerous Moonlight
1941
as Reporter with Carol
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his me...

After Mein Kampf
1940
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Murder in Soho
1939
as Jack
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.