Spider-Man and One Life to Live star Jack Betts dead at 96

Jack Betts has passed away at 96 years old.The actor starred on the soap opera “One Life to Live” from 1979 to 1985, appearing in 20 episodes as Llanview Hospital’s Dr.Ivan Kipling.

Betts’ nephew, Dean Sullivan, told The Hollywood Reporter that the star died in his sleep at his house in Los Osos, California, on Thursday.Betts lived with “Everybody Loves Raymond” actress Doris Roberts before her death at age 90 in 2016.The two would attend events together over the years and Roberts even directed a play written by Betts, about a soap opera, titled “Screen Test: Take One.”The close pals first met in 1954 at The Actors Studio in New York City in 1954.

Decades later, in 1988, Betts accepted Roberts’ offer to move from the Big Apple into the downstairs apartment at her Hollywood Hills home.“We were best friends to the very end, we had wonderful times together,” he gushed following her death.Betts was also known for starring as Henry Balkan – the Oscorp board chair who fired Norman Osborn (Willem Defoe) – in Sam Raimi’s 2002 “Spider-Man.” Norman then became the villainous Green Goblin and vaporized Henry and the board.While on “The Dev Show” in 2020, Betts spoke about filming the Oscorp boardroom shot and how he asked Raimi, 65, if he could add some of his own spin onto the scene.“I really looked [Defoe] right in the eye, and I had kind of a smile in my eye — you know, like, ‘You’re fired, you motherf–ker,’” the actor explained.

“After, I finished it, [Raimi] said, ‘That’s it.Terrific.

Print that one.’”“My point being is that I wanted to add something just a little different to it instead of doing it the same way over and over and over and over.[Raimi] he was willing to do that.

He really was.Wonderful man to work with.”The Hollywood vet was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, before moving to Miami with his family at age 10.

The actor received his degree in theater from the University of Miami, and...