Jack Betts

Acting

Born April 11, 1929, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Jack Betts (April 11, 1929 - June 19, 2025) was an American actor also known as Hunt Powers. He starred in numerous Spaghetti Westerns, including Sugar Colt (1966), Django and Sartana Are Coming... It’s the End (1970), and A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971). Besides Westerns, he appeared in films like Spider-Man (2002), Falling Down (1993), and 8mm (1999). On television, he had roles in series such as General Hospital, Bonanza, Kojak, and Perry Mason. Betts studied acting at the University of Miami and was also active in theater. He wrote the play Screen Test: Take One and performed on Broadway.

Filmography

• Good Trouble — Old Man
• 2018D-Railed — The Conductor
• 2018Garlic and Gunpowder — Bookstore Owner
• 2017The Red Maple Leaf — Alfonso Palermo's LA Driver
• 2016Job's Daughter — Sam Morrison
• Magic Funhouse — Old Man
• Recovery Road — Grandpa Joe Ashby
• 2016Silver Skies — Mickey
• 2016The Secret of Joy — Merlin / Grampa
• 2015To Dust Return — Mr. Owen
• 2014About Last Night — Old Man
• The Mentalist — Other Mobster
• 2007Being Michael Madsen — James J. Perry
• The Unit — Old Priest
• My Name Is Earl — Prosecutor
• Zoey 101 — Mr. Hodges
• 2004Irish Eyes — Jack McGuire
• 2003The Commission — Allen Dulles
• Monk — Cowboy Hank
• 2002Spider-Man — Henry Balkan
• 2001Critical Mass — Atty. Gen. Ames
• 2001Mockingbird Don't Sing — Wes Standon
• 2000Cut — Alfred Carpenter
• The District — Priest
• 2000The Next Best Thing — Vernon
• 19998MM — Butler
• 1999Office Space — Judge
• 1998Gods and Monsters — Boris Karloff
• 1998The Scottish Tale — Syd
• 1997Alien Avengers II — Elder
• 1997Batman & Robin — Party Guest
• Mike Hammer, Private Eye
• 1997The Big Fall — Tyre
• Everybody Loves Raymond — Walter
• 1996Power 98 — Waldo Marcel
• 1995Batman Forever — Fisherman
• MADtv — Judge
• Sherman Oaks
• Friends — Tom
• 1993Falling Down — Frank (Golfer)
• Frasier — Ian
• 1993Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert — Doc Morton
• 1993Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair — Director
• Power Rangers — Councilor Brody
• 1992Just My Imagination — Governor
• 1992White Trash — CC's father
• 1990Dead Men Don't Die — Alex Cavanaugh
• Generations — Hugh Gardner
• Seinfeld — Mr. Green
• 1988The Chair — Detective
• Remington Steele — Walter Gallen
• Falcon Crest — Dr. Roderick
• 1974Court Martial
• Kojak — Paul Lawford
• 1972A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services — Enrico Graziani (as Hunt Powers)
• 1971Adios Compañeros — Butch Cassidy
• 1971And His Name Was Holy Ghost — Foster
• 1971Coffin Full of Dollars — Tamayo
• 1971Down with Your Hands... You Scum! — Django/Halleluia
• 1971Rum Runners — Renner
• 1970Dead Men Don't Make Shadows — Lazar Peacock/Sabata
• 1970Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End — Django
• 1970One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! — Django (as Hunt Powers)
• 1967Halleluja for Django — Padre Santo / David Phaylard
• 1967Sugar Colt — Dr. Tom Cooper / Rocco
• The F.B.I. — Defense Attorney Barker, Woods, Allen Cole
• Another World
• The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries — Fred
• 1959The Bloody Brood — Cliff
• The Detectives
• Perry Mason — Enos Watterton, Bert Nickols, George Parsons, Bruce Strickland
• Gunsmoke — Cowboy