Beatty, Warren (1937– )

US actor, director, and producer. He produced and starred in the hugely successful Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Subsequently he starred in McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), before going on to direct and perform in Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and Dick Tracy (1990).

Beatty attracted attention as a young man in such films as Splendour in the Grass (1961) and Lilith (1964). In the 1990s he appeared in Bugsy (1991), in which he played the gangster Bugsy Siegel, and Love Affair (1994), with his wife Annette Bening. In 1998 he shared the Best Screenplay award (with Jeremy Pisker) for Bulworth at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. At the 2000 Academy Awards, he received the Thalberg Award for lifetime cinematic achievement. He also starred in the poorly-received Town and Country (2001).

He is the brother of the actor Shirley MacLaine.