Ned Beatty

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

167

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-07-06

Deathday

2021-06-13 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As

  • Ned Thomas Beatty

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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Known For

Toy Story 3
7.8%

Toy Story 3

Jun 16, 2010

Rango
6.8%

Rango

Mar 2, 2011

Shooter
7.1%

Shooter

Mar 22, 2007

Superman
7.1%

Superman

Dec 14, 1978

Superman II
6.7%

Superman II

Dec 9, 1980

Network
7.8%

Network

Nov 14, 1976

Deliverance
7.3%

Deliverance

Aug 18, 1972

Charlie Wilson's War
6.5%

Charlie Wilson's War

Dec 19, 2007

Life
6.6%

Life

Apr 16, 1999

Exorcist II: The Heretic
4.5%

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Jun 17, 1977

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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
Rampart as Hartshorn
2011
Rango as Mayor (voice)
2010
Toy Story 3 as Lotso (voice)
2010
The Killer Inside Me as Chester Conway
2009
In the Electric Mist as Twinky LeMoyne
2007
Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
2007
Shooter as Senator Charles F. Meachum
2007
The Walker as Jack Delorean
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Otis
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
Spring Forward as Murph
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Dr. David Lowry
2000
Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
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
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
1996
Gulliver's Travels as Farmer Grultrad
1995
Streets of Laredo as Judge Roy Bean
1995
The Affair as Col. Banning
1995
Just Cause as McNair
1995
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
1994
Radioland Murders as General Whalen
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994
Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
1993
La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
1993
Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
1993
The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
1993
Illusions as Landlord
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
1992
Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
1992
T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
1992
Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1992
The Golden Palace as Tad Hollingsworth
1992
Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
1992
Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
1992
Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
1991
Hear My Song as Josef Locke
1991
Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
1991
Angel Square
1991
Going Under as Admiral Malice
1990
Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
1990
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
1990
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
1990
Repossessed as Ernest Weller
1990
Law & Order as Malcolm Reynolds
1990
A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
1990
Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
1990
Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
1989
Spy as Thomas Ludlow
1989
Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
1989
Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
1989
Time Trackers as Harry Orth
1989
B.L. Stryker
1989
Physical Evidence as James Nicks
1989
Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
1988
Purple People Eater as Grandpa
1988
Go Toward the Light as George
1988
Roseanne as Ed Conner
1988
After the Rain as Matthew Bonner
1988
Midnight Crossing as Ellis
1988
The Unholy as Lt. Stern
1988
Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
1988
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
1988
Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
1987
The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
1987
Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
1987
The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
1987
The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
1986
The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
1986
Back to School as Dean Martin
1985
Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
1985
Konrad as Mr. Thomas
1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Larry Broome
1985
Restless Natives as Bender
1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Reverend Mansfield French
1985
Robert Kennedy & His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
1985
Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Roy Gunderson
1984
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Last Days of Pompeii as Diomed
1984
Celebrity as Otto Leo
1984
Don't Ask Me, Ask God as [Self]
1983
Touched as Herbie
1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
1983
Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
1983
Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
1982
The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
1982
Rumpelstiltskin as The King
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
1982
A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
1982
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
1982
Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
1981
All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
1981
Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
1980
Superman II as Otis
1980
Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
1980
Hopscotch as Myerson
1980
All God's Children as Mike Naponic
1980
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Rep. Leo Ryan
1980
The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
1980
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
1979
1941 as Ward Douglas
1979
Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
1979
Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
1978
Superman as Otis
1978
A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
1978
The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
1978
Gray Lady Down as Mickey
1977
Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
1977
Lucan
1977
Szysznyk
1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
1977
Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
1977
Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
1977
Nashville 99 as Randy Blair
1977
Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
1977
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
The Gardener's Son as Pinky
1976
Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
1976
Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
1976
Network as Arthur Jensen
1976
Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
1976
The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
1976
All the President's Men as Dardis
1975
NBC Special Treat as Big Henry
1975
The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
1975
Nashville as Delbert Reese
1975
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Country Bull
1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
1974
The Rockford Files as Leon Fielder
1974
The Rockford Files as Al Brennan
1974
Petrocelli as Gage
1974
The Execution of Private Slovik as Father Stafford
1973
Kojak as Det. Dan Corrigan
1973
Dying Room Only as Tom King
1973
White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
1973
The Last American Hero as Hackel
1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
1973
The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
1972
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
1972
Footsteps as Frank Powell
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
M*A*S*H as Colonel Hollister
1972
The Waltons
1972
The Rookies
1972
Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
1968
Hawaii Five-O as Caldwell
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1955
Gunsmoke as Karp
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