Trivia

Great-great-grandnephew of President Millard Fillmore.

Also credited as 'Hunt Powers'.

The author of Screen Test: Take One, a play about a soap opera that originated on a film set.[3].

On Broadway, 1957 to 1960 and 1980 to 1981.

Was inspired to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939).

Received his stage name Hunt Powers courtesy of publicist Helen Ferguson, who had researched his ancestry and found Huntington on one side of the family and Powers on the other.

Had an early career as the star of European spaghetti westerns, playing iconic characters like Sartana and Django.

An audition at the Actor's Studio resulted in Lee Strasberg awarding him a three-year scholarship, at the end of which Betts was cast by Elia Kazan in his production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

He attended the University of Miami where he studied theatre arts, before moving to New York to 'make the rounds' of agents and casting directors. Betts made ends meet working in a lamp factory while studying drama and making his first appearances on the stage.