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).
Acting
(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)
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)
Replikator
as Insp. Victor Valiant
(1994)
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen
(1993)
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
(1993)
La Classe américaine
as Frédéric (archive footage)
(1993)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny
(1992)
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle
(1992)
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
(1992)
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
(1992)
Lincoln
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
(1992)
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
(1992)
Illusions
as Landlord
(1992)
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
(1991)
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
(1991)
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
(1991)
(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)
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
(1990)
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
(1990)
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
(1990)
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
(1990)
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
(1989)
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
(1989)
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
(1989)
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
(1989)
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
(1989)
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
(1989)
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
(1989)
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
(1988)
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
(1988)
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
(1988)
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
(1988)
Go Toward the Light
as George
(1988)
(1988)
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
(1988)
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
(1988)
After the Rain
as Matthew Bonner
(1987)
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis
(1987)
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle
(1987)
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov
(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)
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
(1985)
Restless Natives
as Bender
(1985)
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
(1985)
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
(1985)
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
(1984)
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
as Self
(1983)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Lynch Mob Leader
(1983)
Kentucky Woman
as Luke Telford
(1983)
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle
(1983)
Touched
as Herbie
(1982)
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
(1982)
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse
(1982)
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
(1982)
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
(1982)
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
(1982)
(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)
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
(1980)
All God's Children
as Mike Naponic
(1980)
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
(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)
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart
(1978)
A Question of Love
as Dwayne Stabler
(1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
(1977)
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
(1977)
Lucan
as Larry MacElwaine
(1977)
Tail Gunner Joe
as Sylvester
(1977)
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
(1977)
The Gardener's Son
as Pinky
(1976)
All the President's Men
as Dardis
(1976)
Network
as Arthur Jensen
(1976)
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty
(1976)
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet
(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)
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
(1973)
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
(1973)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Deams
(1973)
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
(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