Ned Beatty
Acting
- Born:
- 1937-07-06
- Died:
- 2021-06-13
- Place of birth:
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Biography
Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and TV series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991) and the adaptation movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004). He had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (1972), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville (1975), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men (1976), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), Bates' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy (1982), twice characters Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol (1987), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed (1990), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy (1993), detective McNair in Just Cause (1995), Ray and Claude's warden/employer Dexter Wilkins in Life (1999), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows (2003), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter (2007), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010).
Known For
Filmography
The Big Ask
Baggage Claim
Casting By
Go On
Rampart
Rango
Toy Story 3
The Killer Inside Me
In the Electric Mist
Charlie Wilson's War
Shooter
The Walker
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
The Making of 'Network'
Sweet Land
The Wool Cap
Where the Red Fern Grows
Thunderpants
Roughing It
Roughing It
I Was a Rat
Spring Forward
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Homicide: The Movie
Life
Cookie's Fortune
He Got Game
The Curse of Inferno
E! True Hollywood Story
Crazy Horse
Gulliver's Travels
Streets of Laredo
The Affair
Just Cause
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Radioland Murders
Inside the Actors Studio
Replikator
La Classe américaine
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Rudy
The Boys
Ed and His Dead Mother
Homicide: Life on the Street
Lincoln
T Bone N Weasel
Illusions
Earth and the American Dream
The Golden Palace
Prelude to a Kiss
Blind Vision
Trial: The Price of Passion
Hear My Song
Angel Square
Going Under
Captain America
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Repossessed
Law & Order
A Cry in the Wild
Chattahoochee
Big Bad John
Spy
Last Train Home
Ministry of Vengeance
Tennessee Nights
Time Trackers
B.L. Stryker
Physical Evidence
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Purple People Eater
Go Toward the Light
Roseanne
The Passage
Midnight Crossing
The Unholy
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Switching Channels
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Shadows in the Storm
The Trouble with Spies
Rolling Vengeance
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
The Fourth Protocol
Kiwi Magic
The Big Easy
Back to School
Hostage Flight
Konrad
Restless Natives
Answers
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Robert Kennedy & His Times
Murder, She Wrote
Highway to Heaven
The Last Days of Pompeii
Celebrity
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Touched
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Stroker Ace
Kentucky Woman
The Toy
Rumpelstiltskin
Faerie Tale Theatre
A Woman Called Golda
A Woman Called Golda
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Pray TV
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
American Playhouse
All the Way Home
Splendor in the Grass
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Superman II
Friendly Fire
Hopscotch
All God's Children
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
The American Success Company
1941
Promises in the Dark
Wise Blood
Superman
A Question of Love
The Great Bank Hoax
Gray Lady Down
Alambrista!
Szysznyk
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Our Town
Lucan
Nashville 99
Tail Gunner Joe
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Gardener's Son
Mikey and Nicky
Silver Streak
Network
Delvecchio
Gator
The Big Bus
All the President's Men
NBC Special Treat
The Deadly Tower
Nashville
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
The Rockford Files
Petrocelli
The Execution of Private Slovik
Dying Room Only
White Lightning
The Last American Hero
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Footsteps
The Streets of San Francisco
M*A*S*H
The Waltons
The Rookies
Deliverance
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
Hawaii Five-O
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Gunsmoke
Golden Globe Awards
Fat Monroe