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[h3]Warren's father, Ira Owens Beatty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and his mother, Kathlyn Corinne MacLean, was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher.[/h3]

The younger brother of actress [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/272:0/Shirley_MacLaine.htm]Shirley MacLaine[/urlnew], Beatty was groomed for stardom early. After studying with acting coach Stella Adler, he was cast in prominent supporting roles in TV dramas, winning the part of Milton Armitage on the TV sitcom, 'Dobie Gillis'.

His film debut came with 'Splendour in the Grass' in 1961, but for a number of years he was often written off as a would-be [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/719:0/Marlon_Brando.htm]Brando[/urlnew].

In 1965, Beatty put much of his own money into a quirky crime drama, 'Mickey One'. The film was a critical success but failed to secure top bookings.

Beatty took on his first film as producer and star, 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Critics were hostile at first, but soon it became the most significant film of 1967.

Throughout the 1970s, Beatty starred in, produced and occasionally directed some of the most important films in Hollywood, some critically praised, such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); others prescient social commentaries, such as Shampoo (1975) an hilarious satire on the late 1960s; others were wonderful updates of Hollywood classics, such as Heaven Can Wait (1978).

He capped this all off with his hugely-ambitious recounting of the American radical journalist John Reed's experiences in Bolshevik Russia, Reds (1981), for which Beatty, already nominated for acting Oscars several times, finally won as best director.

It wasn't until 1987 that Beatty unveiled his next project, Ishtar. Unfortunately this hugely ambitious production ended up as one of the biggest film catastrophes of all time.

His next movie, Dick Tracy (1990), was colourful and a box office success, but was greeted with lukewarm reviews. Following this came Bugsy (1991), a biopic of the life of gangster and Las Vegas visionary Bugsy Siegel, which was another box office failure. He later revisited his "Ishtar" nadir with the 2001 comedy Town & Country, which was also doomed to failure at the box office.

In 1998, he expressed his left-wing politics through highly successful and much acclaimed political satire 'Bulworth'. A longtime activist in various liberal political causes, Beatty has been extremely active in the Democratic Party.

Beatty's long and well-documented history of high-profile romances with such actresses as Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/512:0/Diane_Keaton.htm]Diane Keaton[/urlnew], and [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/726:0/Madonna_Louise_Veronica_Ciccone.htm]Madonna[/urlnew] came to an end with his 1992 marriage to 'Bugsy' co-star [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/1850:0/Annette_Bening.htm]Annette Bening[/urlnew], with whom he later starred in 1994's 'Love Affair'.
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- It is rumored that Beatty may have been the subject of the Carly Simon hit, 'You're So Vain'.

- He has a photographic memory for phone numbers. He can dial a touch tone phone using the same hand technique that telephone operators use!

- In the films he produces, he usually plays characters who lose something important by the end of the film!



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Town & Country (2001)

Bulworth (1998)

Love Affair (1994)

Bugsy (1991)

Dick Tracy (1990)

Ishtar (1987)

Reds (1981)

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

The Fortune (1975)

Shampoo (1975)

The Parallax View (1974)

$ (1971)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

The Only Game in Town (1970)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Kaleidoscope (1966)

Promise Her Anything (1965)

Mickey One (1965)

Lilith (1964)

All Fall Down (1962)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Warren Beatty biography