Jack Betts Biography

Fast Facts

• With actress Doris Roberts, he started the Gay Orphaned Children in New York fund, which donated money from theatre ticket sales to the Ali Forney Center
• At the Brooklyn Film Festival in 2000, he received a second place Festival Award for Outstanding Acting (Male) for his role in "True Rights․"
• He studied acting under the direction of renowned acting teacher Lee Strasberg
• As a guest actor, he portrayed four different characters on TV crime drama "Perry Mason․"
• He used the name Hunt Powers for the western films he filmed in Italy
• As a theatre and Broadway actor, he has appeared in several plays, designed sets, and directed several productions
• He has performed his cabaret act, "Just in Time," at various clubs in New York, Los Angeles and Texas