Warren Beatty more comfortable behind the camera," she says. "He's in the total-control aspect. He has to have control over everything. Beatty doesn't deny that need; in speaking about his earliest parts, he said "When I acted in films I used to come with suggestions about the script, the lighting, the wardrobe, and people used to say 'Waddya want, to produce the picture as well?' And I used to say that I supposed I did." Beatty was a star football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington. Encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who had recently established herself as
William Beatty (surgeon) by the 1805 Club, a society dedicated to maintaining the memory of the men of Trafalgar. Beatty was portrayed by Francis Magee in the 2005 Channel 4 documentary "Trafalgar: Battle Surgeon", which focused on his actions during that battle. Beatty's instrument case can be seen at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. William Beatty (surgeon) Sir William Beatty (April 1773–25 March 1842) was an Irish surgeon who served in the Royal Navy. Born in Derry, Ireland, he joined as a surgeon's mate in 1791 at the age of 18. He is best known as the Ship's Surgeon