Hunt Powers was born Jack Fillmore Betts in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 11, 1929. When he was 10 years old, he and his family moved to Miami, Florida where he auditioned for a talent contest on WIOD. He graduated from Miami Senior High School and attended the University of Miami in which he studied theater. Betts started his career in 1953 in the play Richard III. He portrayed Chris Devlin in the CBS mystery series ‘Checkmate’ (1960–1962). From 1963 to 1965, he portrayed Dr. Ken Martin in General Hospital’. He also played Mr. Fisher, an 80-year-old man on ‘One Life to Live’ in 1982. Among his numerous television appearances were four roles on the CBS drama series ‘Perry Mason’
In the mid-1960s he moved to Italy and appeared in a number of Spaghetti westerns under the alias Hunt Powers. He returned to the U.S. in the mid-1970s and resumed his career appearing in TV series and Soap Operas.
An accomplished singer he hosted a number of one man shows in the Los Angeles area during the early 2000s.
POWERS, Hunt (Jack Fillmore Betts) [4/11/1929, Jersey
City, New Jersey, U.S.A. - ] –
theater, film, TV actor, singer, great-great-grandnephew of President Millard
Fillmore [1800-1874].
Hallelujah for Django – 1966 [sings: “Hallelujah for
Django”]
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