Deliverance, Superman, has died aged 83. Beatty's manager, Deborah Miller, said the actor died on Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and loved ones. After years in regional theatre, Beatty was cast in 1972's Deliverance as Bobby Trippe, the happy-go-lucky member of a male river-boating party terrorised by backwoods thugs. The scene in which Trippe is brutalised became the most memorable in the film and established Beatty as an actor whose name moviegoers may not have known but whose face they always recognised. Beatty was an actor whose name moviegoers may not have known but whose face they always recognised