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)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl
(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)
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy
(1996)
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel
(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)
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
(1992)
Lincoln
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
(1992)
Illusions
as Landlord
(1992)
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
(1992)
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
(1992)
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
(1991)
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
(1991)
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
(1991)
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
(1991)
(1990)
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
(1990)
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
(1990)
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
(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
(1990)
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
(1990)
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
(1989)
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
(1989)
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
(1989)
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
(1989)
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
(1989)
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
(1989)
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
(1988)
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
(1988)
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
(1988)
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
(1988)
Go Toward the Light
as George
(1988)
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
(1988)
After the Rain
as Matthew Bonner
(1988)
(1988)
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
(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)
Restless Natives
as Bender
(1985)
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
(1985)
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
(1985)
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
(1985)
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
(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)
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
(1982)
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
(1982)
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
(1982)
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
(1981)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame
(1981)
Splendor in the Grass
as Ace Stamper
(1981)
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
as Dr. Walter Keys
(1981)
All the Way Home
as Ralph Follet
(1980)
Superman II
as Otis
(1980)
Hopscotch
as Myerson
(1980)
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
(1980)
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
(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)
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
(1977)
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
(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)
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney
(1976)
Gator
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
(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 Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
(1973)
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
(1973)
Dying Room Only
as Tom King
(1973)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Deams
(1972)
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
(1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites
(1972)
Footsteps
as Frank Powell