Ned Beatty
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-07-06
Day of Death
2021-06-13 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Ned Beatty
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).
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Acting
(2014)
The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Baggage Claim
as Mr. Donaldson
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2011)
Rango
as Mayor (voice)
(2011)
Rampart
as Hartshorn
(2010)
Toy Story 3
as Lotso (voice)
(2010)
The Killer Inside Me
as Chester Conway
(2009)
In the Electric Mist
as Twinky LeMoyne
(2007)
Shooter
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
(2007)
Charlie Wilson's War
as Doc Long
(2007)
The Walker
as Jack Delorean
(2006)
(2006)
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
as Self (archive footage)
(2006)
The Making of 'Network'
as Self
(2005)
Sweet Land
as Harmo
(2004)
The Wool Cap
as Gigot's Father
(2003)
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
(2002)
Thunderpants
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
(2002)
Roughing It
as Slade
(2001)
I Was a Rat
as Mudduck
(2000)
Homicide: The Movie
as Stanley Bolander
(2000)
Spring Forward
as Murph
(1999)
Life
as Dexter Wilkins
(1999)
Cookie's Fortune
as Lester Boyle
(1998)
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt
(1996)
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel
(1996)
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy
(1995)
Just Cause
as McNair
(1995)
The Affair
as Col. Banning
(1995)
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sam Lawrence
(1994)
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen
(1994)
Replikator
as Insp. Victor Valiant
(1993)
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
(1993)
La Classe américaine
as Frédéric (archive footage)
(1993)
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny
(1993)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle
(1992)
Lincoln
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
(1992)
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
(1992)
Illusions
as Landlord
(1992)
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
(1992)
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
(1992)
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
(1991)
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
(1991)
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
(1991)
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
(1991)
(1990)
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
(1990)
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
(1990)
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
(1990)
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
(1990)
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
(1990)
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
as Duke of Bridgewater
(1990)
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Edward C. Acker
(1989)
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
(1989)
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
(1989)
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
(1989)
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
(1989)
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
(1989)
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
(1988)
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
(1988)
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
(1988)
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
(1988)
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
(1988)
Go Toward the Light
as George
(1988)
(1988)
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
(1988)
After the Rain
as Matthew Bonner
(1987)
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov
(1987)
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle
(1987)
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis
(1987)
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
as Cole Scholar
(1987)
(1986)
Back to School
as Dean Martin
(1986)
The Big Easy
as Jack Kellom
(1985)
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
(1985)
Restless Natives
as Bender
(1985)
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
(1985)
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
(1985)
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
(1984)
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
as [Self]
(1983)
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle
(1983)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Lynch Mob Leader
(1983)
Touched
as Herbie
(1983)
Kentucky Woman
as Luke Telford
(1982)
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse
(1982)
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
(1982)
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
(1982)
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
(1982)
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
(1981)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame
(1981)
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
as Dr. Walter Keys
(1981)
Splendor in the Grass
as Ace Stamper
(1981)
All the Way Home
as Ralph Follet
(1980)
Superman II
as Otis
(1980)
Hopscotch
as Myerson
(1980)
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
(1980)
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
(1980)
(1980)
All God's Children
as Mike Naponic
(1979)
1941
as Ward Douglas
(1979)
Wise Blood
as Hoover Shoates
(1979)
Promises in the Dark
as Bud Koenig
(1978)
Superman
as Otis
(1978)
Gray Lady Down
as Mickey
(1978)
A Question of Love
as Dwayne Stabler
(1978)
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart
(1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
(1977)
Tail Gunner Joe
as Sylvester
(1977)
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
(1977)
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
(1977)
Lucan
as Larry MacElwaine
(1977)
The Gardener's Son
as Pinky
(1976)
Network
as Arthur Jensen
(1976)
All the President's Men
as Dardis
(1976)
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet
(1976)
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty
(1976)
Gator
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
(1976)
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney
(1975)
Nashville
as Delbert Reese
(1975)
The Deadly Tower
as Allan Crum
(1975)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Ollie Thompson
(1975)
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
as Country Bull
(1974)
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Father Stafford
(1973)
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
(1973)
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
(1973)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Deams
(1973)
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
(1973)
Dying Room Only
as Tom King
(1972)
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
(1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites
(1972)
Footsteps
as Frank Powell