honed his acting craft in regional theater before breaking through as co-star of (1972), his first feature film. During his decades-long showbiz career, he established himself as a much-in-demand character actor with standout performances in such diverse films as (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), , , , , , and. readers may remember his work in the TV movies , , and , and his performance as Judge Roy Bean in the 1995 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s . (Fun fact: Beatty had a small role in the 1972 feature .) In 2004, he won a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Big Daddy in a New York revival of . Beatty passed away June 13 in Los Angeles. He was 83.
