Ned Beatty
- Acting
- July 6, 1937 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- June 13, 2021
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 · Old Man Carl
- Baggage Claim · Mr. Donaldson
- Casting By · Self
- Go On · Coach Spence
- Rampart · Hartshorn
- Rango · Mayor (Voice)
- Toy Story 3 · Lotso (Voice)
- The Killer Inside Me · Chester Conway
- In the Electric Mist · Twinky LeMoyne
- Charlie Wilson's War · Doc Long
- Shooter · Senator Charles F. Meachum
- The Walker · Jack Delorean
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut · Otis
- The Making of 'Network' · Self
- Sweet Land · Harmo
- The Wool Cap · Gigot's Father
- Where the Red Fern Grows · Sheriff Abe McConnell
- Thunderpants · Gen. Ed Sheppard
- Roughing It · Slade
- Roughing It · Slade
- I Was a Rat · Mudduck
- Spring Forward · Murph
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation · Dr. David Lowry
- Homicide: The Movie · Stanley Bolander
- Life · Dexter Wilkins
- Cookie's Fortune · Lester Boyle
- He Got Game · Warden Wyatt
- The Curse of Inferno · Moles Huddenel
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Crazy Horse · Dr. McGillicuddy
- Gulliver's Travels · Farmer Grultrad
- Streets of Laredo · Judge Roy Bean
- The Affair · Col. Banning
- Just Cause · McNair
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart · Sam Lawrence
- Radioland Murders · General Whalen
- Inside the Actors Studio · Self
- Replikator · Insp. Victor Valiant
- La Classe américaine · Frédéric (archive footage)
- Warren Oates: Across the Border · Narrator (Voice)
- Rudy · Daniel Ruettiger
- The Boys · Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
- Ed and His Dead Mother · Uncle Benny
- Homicide: Life on the Street · Stanley Bolander
- Lincoln · Dennis Hanks (Voice)
- T Bone N Weasel · Doc Tatum
- Illusions · Landlord
- Earth and the American Dream · Reader (Voice)
- The Golden Palace · Tad Hollingsworth
- Prelude to a Kiss · Dr. Boyle
- Blind Vision · Sgt. Logan
- Trial: The Price of Passion · Scoot Shepard
- Hear My Song · Josef Locke
- Angel Square
- Going Under · Admiral Malice
- Captain America · Sam Kolawetz
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story · Edward C. Acker
- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn · Duke of Bridgewater
- Repossessed · Ernest Weller
- Law & Order · Malcolm Reynolds
- A Cry in the Wild · Pilot
- Chattahoochee · Dr. Harwood
- Big Bad John · Charlie Mitchelle
- Spy · Thomas Ludlow
- Last Train Home · Cornelius van Horne
- Ministry of Vengeance · Rev. Bloor
- Tennessee Nights · Charlie Kiefer
- Time Trackers · Harry Orth
- B.L. Stryker
- Physical Evidence · James Nicks
- Sex and Buttered Popcorn · Self
- Purple People Eater · Grandpa
- Go Toward the Light · George
- Roseanne · Ed Conner
- The Passage · Matthew Bonner
- Midnight Crossing · Ellis
- The Unholy · Lt. Stern
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour · Self
- Switching Channels · Roy Ridnitz
- Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide · Self