![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: March 30, 1937 in Richmond, VA Biography:It might have been easy to write off American actor "Warren Beatty" as merely the younger brother of film star "Shirley MacLaine", were it not for the fact that Beatty was a profoundly gifted performer whose creative range extended beyond mere acting. After studying at Northwestern University and with acting coach "Stella Adler", Beatty was being groomed for stardom almost before he was of voting age, cast in prominent supporting roles in TV dramas and attaining the recurring part of the insufferable Milton Armitage on the TV sitcom Dobie Gillis. Beatty left Dobie after a handful of episodes, writing off his part as "ridiculous," and headed for the stage, where he appeared in a stock production of Compulsion and in "William Inge"'s Broadway play A Loss of Roses.
The actor's auspicious film debut occurred in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961), after which he spent a number of years being written off by... Full Biography
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