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Over the years, Michael Keaton has earned fame for a lot of projects, from stunning action-packed ones from the superhero genre to horror comedies and the likes that truly enthrall people. If anything, he has truly led a thoroughly successful career, considering how he is a part of both the Dcu and the MCU – two of the biggest and wealthiest franchises of all time.

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That said, of course, one might expect him to be a multi-millionaire, with his net worth ranging somewhere in the hundreds of millions range. However, it seems to be as humble as the actor himself, and one particular life event seems to have posed a barrier to Keaton becoming a richer celebrity in Hollywood: Becoming a father. And yet, the actor is anything but regretful about it all.

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Michael Keaton wasn’t exactly Hollywood’s golden boy when he landed his Oscar-winning role, and doors weren’t exactly flying open for him. But instead of panicking and going down the desperate path, Keaton doubled down on his iron will. With no offers rolling in, he could’ve jumped at the first subpar script thrown his way. But no, Keaton bided his time, keeping his cool in the chaotic world of showbiz.

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The result? A career renaissance that ended up with him snagging one of the most prestigious awards in film. Turns out, sometimes the best move in a dry spell’s to stand your ground, trust your talent, and wait for the right moment to pounce.

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Betty Anne Rees, who portrayed tough women who weren’t very nice in The Unholy Rollers and Sugar Hill, two 1970s offerings from the B-movie factory American International Pictures, has died. She was 81.

Rees died Monday at her home in Hemet, California, after a series of falls and a possible stroke, her niece, Kathleen Loucks, told The Hollywood Reporter. She also was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 1990s.

The Ohio native played Janet Ingram, the secretary for Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas, on the last of My Three Sons’ 12 seasons in 1971-72. (Abby Dalton was Janet on an episode three years earlier.)

In The Unholy Rollers (1972), directed by Vernon Zimmerman, Rees portrayed Mickey Martinez, a star of the Los Angeles Avengers roller derby team who does not get along with popular new player Karen Walker (1970 Playboy Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings).

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Actor Michael Keaton has a long list of credits, known for films such as Mr. Mom, Multiplicity, and Beetlejuice. In 1989, he landed the coveted role of Bruce Wayne in Batman.

Now in his seventies, Keaton has worked alongside many incredible A-list actors throughout his 45-year career in Hollywood. However, there he refused to work with one well-known actor due to a previous romantic relationship. Despite Keaton’s resistance, the popular A-lister made it into the Batman franchise.

Michael Keaton as Batman

Known for playing comedic roles, Keaton surprised audiences when he appeared in the 1989 Batman blockbuster film. Directed by Tim Burton, the film took a gothic spin on the classic Caped Crusader tale, redefining the superhero genre.

In 1992, Keaton reprised his role in Batman Returns, but when the 1995 Batman Forever film came out, Keaton was no longer donning the Dark Knight’s suit, instead replaced by Val Kilmer. Tim Burton...

Inga Swenson, best known for playing German cook Gretchen Kraus on 1980s TV sitcom “Benson”, has died at the age of 90.

Swenson’s son confirmed the news to TMZ, revealing that she died of natural causes on Sunday, July 23; he noted that her health had been declining for the past few months, and that her death was not unexpected.

Swenson portrayed the character for more than 150 episodes of the series, throughout its entire seven-season run from 1979-1986; she earned three Emmy nominations for her “Benson” role.

The “Benson” cast (L-r): Caroline McWilliams, Rene Auberjonois, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Ethan Phillips, Missy Gold, Robert Guillaume. Photo: The Everett Collection

Swenson also appeared in numerous TV series, including “The Golden Girls”, “Newhart” and “Hotel; in fact, her TV credits span back to the 1950s, and she appeared in such classic shows as “Bonanza”, “Dr. Kildare” and “The Defenders”.

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Michael Keaton thanked his son Sean Douglas, 31, in his acceptance speech for the best actor in a musical or comedy award during the Golden Globes, calling Douglas his "best friend." "My best friend is kind, intelligent, funny, talented, considerate, thoughtful," said a teary Keaton. "Did I say kind? He also - he also happens to be my son Sean. I love with you all my heart, buddy." Douglas (who uses his dad's original surname: Michael started using "Keaton" to avoid confusion with Michael Douglas and to pay tribute to Buster Keaton) is Keaton's son with Caroline McWilliams. But Sean Douglas...

When Michael Keaton met Barack Obama shortly before Obama would become president, the then-senator had a question for the actor.

"Why don't you make more movies?"

It's a quandary that has long bedeviled moviegoers just as it has, so it seems, heads of state. Why did the roundly beloved Keaton - a manic comic actor, an intense live wire, a real-deal movie star - become such an infrequent presence on the big screen?

Even at the height of Keaton's stardom in the 1980s and '90s, he was famously picky, usually doing a movie a year and turning down about as many hits (Splash, JFK, among them) as he said yes to. But after a handful of flops in the late '90s and early 2000s, Keaton all but disappeared from movies.

"I did turn a lot of things down. But a lot of the things I turned down, you would have turned down,...

Twenty-five years after he first donned the cape as Batman, Michael Keaton is back and exploring his superhero past.

Keaton got his start on "Mister Rogers," though, most of his work was surprisingly behind the scenes. It really wouldn't be until 1982 that the actor would break out in Ron Howard's "Night Shift," and a few years later, his career went into overdrive. After collaborating with Tim Burton on "Beetlejuice" (1988), the director cast him as the legendary Bruce Wayne in "Batman" (1989). This fall, he revisits his superhero past in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Birdman," and the acclaim is already rolling in.

From his connection to "Lost" to his history with Larry David, here are 29 things you probably don't know about Michael Keaton.

1. Michael Keaton was born September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to Leona Loftus and George A. Douglas.

2. His father worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, while his mother was a homemaker.

Michael Keaton hated his time filming Batman in London as his personal life was falling apart and he found himself all alone in a "dank, dark, cold place".

The actor took on the role of the superhero in Tim Burton's 1989 movie and he jetted to the British capital to shoot the picture at the famous Pinewood Studios.

Keaton admits he loathed the location and was constantly miserable during filming because he had separated from his wife Caroline McWilliams and was desperate to spend time with his young son, Sean.

He suffered from insomnia and rarely socialised with other people as his problems seemed to intensify during the "difficult" shoot.

He tells the Los Angeles Times, "It was a lonely time for me, which was great for the character, I suppose. I would run at night in London just trying to get tired enough so I could sleep. I didn’t talk to people much. My little boy was a toddler, and the woman I was married to at the time, we were not together but we were trying to figure it out and get back together.

"It was me in London, alone, and my sleep during that whole movie was never right. As often as I could, I was getting on the Concorde and trying to get back to spend some time with my kid.

“It was an extremely difficult undertaking... and there was so much pressure. We were in England for a long time shooting at Pinewood and it was long, difficult nights in that dank, dark, cold place, and we never knew if it was really working."...

The soap world lost a number of greats both in front of and behind the camera this year. Here is the annual We Love Soaps TV tribute to those who passed away in 2010 including Michael Gene Adams, Danny Aiello III, Himan Brown, Dixie Carter, Christopher Cazenove, Jill Clayburgh, Gary Coleman, Jacqueline Courtney, John Forsythe, David Froman, James Gammon, Harold Gould, Carl Gordon, Suzanne Grossman, Park Yong Ha, Peter Haskell, June Havoc, Carol Pfander Henderson, Bernard Kates, Larry Keith, Antonie Kamerling, Mick Lally, Simon MacCorkindale, Nan Martin, Kevin McCarthy, Rue McClanahan, Caroline McWilliams, Werner Michel, James Mitchell, Gordon Mulholland, Roger Newman, Michelle Nicastro, Leslie Nielsen, Vince O'Brien, Niek Pancras, Nancy Pinkerton, Addison Powell, Carla Princi, Bob Rappaport, Frances Reid, Lynn Redgrave, Rosa Rio, Zelda Rubinstein, Paul Ryan Rudd, Jean Simmons and Helen Wagner.

Caroline McWilliams was a popular television performer best known as Marcy Hill, the Governor’s secretary, on the sitcom Benson. She also starred as Sue Garner in the 1980 sci-fi tele-film The Aliens Are Coming, a Quinn Martin Production about extraterrestrial invaders.

McWilliams was born in Seattle, Washington, on April 4, 1945, and was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island. She studied drama at Carnegie Mellon and at the Pasadena Playhouse. She began her career on stage and television in the late 1960s, appearing regularly as Janet Mason Norris on The Guiding Light soap opera from 1969 to 1975. She was featured as Sally on the quirky sit-com Soap from 1978 to 1979, and starred on Benson from 1979 to 1981.

She starred as Claire Pritchard on the short-lived supernatural comedy series Nearly Departed with Eric Idle in 1989. McWilliams also guest-starred in episodes of such series as The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,...

Michael Keaton's ex-wife, actress Caroline McWilliams, has died after suffering complications from multiple myeloma.

McWilliams, who was married to Keaton for eight years, died at her home in Los Angeles on 11 February, aged 64.

Her TV credits include recurring roles on U.S. soap operas Guiding Light and Another World, Beverly Hills, 90210, and late 1980s comedy, Benson.

She also featured in 1990 movie Mermaids, starring Cher and Winona Ryder.

Keaton and McWilliams divorced in 1990. She is survived by their son Sean Douglas, 26.

The small screen has just lost one of its familiar faces. Benson and Soap star Caroline McWilliams died Feb. 11 at her home in Los Angeles from complications of multiple myeloma, her family told the Los Angeles Times. She was 64-years-old. McWilliams began her career on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1969 followed by a stint on Another World before she broke into prime time with Soap. That was soon followed by her most famous role, Marcy Hill opposite Robert Guillaume on Benson. In 1982, McWilliams married Michael Keaton. They had one son, Sean Douglas, but divorced in 1990. Around that time, she appeared in the movie Mermaids and on Beverly Hills, 90210, as the mother to Jamie Walters'...

Soap actress Caroline McWilliams has passed away on February 11 from complications of multiple myeloma, The L.A. Times has confirmed. She was 64.

Though McWilliams was popularly known for her role as Marcy Hill on Benson and Sally, she started her soap acting career with Guiding Light where she played Janet Norris from 1969 to 1975. Subsequently, she was cast in a short-term role on Another World as Tracy DeWitt before playing LuAnn Pruit, the mother of Jamie Walters' character Ray Pruit on Beverly Hills, 90210.