Ned Beatty
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 6, 1937
- Died
- Jun 13, 2021 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Credits
- 171
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
2014Movie
Old Man Carl
Baggage Claim
2013Movie
Mr. Donaldson
Casting By
2012Movie
Self
Go On
2012TV
Coach Spence
Rampart
2011Movie
Hartshorn
Rango
2011Movie
Mayor (voice)
Toy Story 3
2010Movie
Lotso (voice)
The Killer Inside Me
2010Movie
Chester Conway
In the Electric Mist
2009Movie
Twinky LeMoyne
Charlie Wilson's War
2007Movie
Doc Long
Shooter
2007Movie
Senator Charles F. Meachum
The Walker
2007Movie
Jack Delorean
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006Movie
Otis
The Making of 'Network'
2006Movie
Self
Sweet Land
2005Movie
Harmo
The Wool Cap
2004Movie
Gigot's Father
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003Movie
Sheriff Abe McConnell
Thunderpants
2002Movie
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Roughing It
2002Movie
Slade
Roughing It
2002TV
Slade
I Was a Rat
2001Movie
Mudduck
Spring Forward
2000Movie
Murph
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000TV
Dr. David Lowry
Homicide: The Movie
2000Movie
Stanley Bolander
Life
1999Movie
Dexter Wilkins
Cookie's Fortune
1999Movie
Lester Boyle
He Got Game
1998Movie
Warden Wyatt
The Curse of Inferno
1996Movie
Moles Huddenel
E! True Hollywood Story
1996TV
Crazy Horse
1996Movie
Dr. McGillicuddy
Gulliver's Travels
1996TV
Farmer Grultrad
Streets of Laredo
1995TV
Judge Roy Bean
The Affair
1995Movie
Col. Banning
Just Cause
1995Movie
McNair
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995Movie
Sam Lawrence
Radioland Murders
1994Movie
General Whalen
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Replikator
1994Movie
Insp. Victor Valiant
La Classe américaine
1993Movie
Frédéric (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rudy
1993Movie
Daniel Ruettiger
The Boys
1993TV
Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993Movie
Uncle Benny
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993TV
Stanley Bolander
Lincoln
1992Movie
Dennis Hanks (voice)
T Bone N Weasel
1992Movie
Doc Tatum
Illusions
1992Movie
Landlord
Earth and the American Dream
1992Movie
Reader (voice)
The Golden Palace
1992TV
Tad Hollingsworth
Prelude to a Kiss
1992Movie
Dr. Boyle
Blind Vision
1992Movie
Sgt. Logan
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992Movie
Scoot Shepard
Hear My Song
1991Movie
Josef Locke
Angel Square
1991Movie
Going Under
1991Movie
Admiral Malice
Captain America
1990Movie
Sam Kolawetz
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990Movie
Edward C. Acker
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990Movie
Duke of Bridgewater
Repossessed
1990Movie
Ernest Weller
Law & Order
1990TV
Malcolm Reynolds
A Cry in the Wild
1990Movie
Pilot
Chattahoochee
1990Movie
Dr. Harwood
Big Bad John
1990Movie
Charlie Mitchelle
Spy
1989Movie
Thomas Ludlow
Last Train Home
1989Movie
Cornelius van Horne
Ministry of Vengeance
1989Movie
Rev. Bloor
Tennessee Nights
1989Movie
Charlie Kiefer
Time Trackers
1989Movie
Harry Orth
B.L. Stryker
1989TV
Physical Evidence
1989Movie
James Nicks
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989Movie
Self - Host
Purple People Eater
1988Movie
Grandpa
Go Toward the Light
1988Movie
George
Roseanne
1988TV
Ed Conner
The Passage
1988Movie
Matthew Bonner
Midnight Crossing
1988Movie
Ellis
The Unholy
1988Movie
Lt. Stern
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988TV
Self
Switching Channels
1988Movie
Roy Ridnitz
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988Movie
Self
Shadows in the Storm
1988Movie
Thelonious Pitt
The Trouble with Spies
1987Movie
Harry Lewis
Rolling Vengeance
1987Movie
Tiny Doyle
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987Movie
Cole Scholar
The Fourth Protocol
1987Movie
Borisov
Kiwi Magic
1987Movie
The Big Easy
1986Movie
Jack Kellom
Back to School
1986Movie
Dean Martin
Hostage Flight
1985Movie
Art Hofstadter
Konrad
1985Movie
Mr. Thomas
Restless Natives
1985Movie
Bender
Answers
1985Movie
Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985Movie
Rev. Mansfield French
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985TV
J. Edgar Hoover
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Roy Gunderson
Highway to Heaven
1984TV
Bill Cassidy
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984TV
Diomed
Celebrity
1984TV
Otto Leo
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984Movie
Self
Touched
1983Movie
Herbie
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983Movie
Lynch Mob Leader
Stroker Ace
1983Movie
Clyde Torkle
Kentucky Woman
1983Movie
Luke Telford
The Toy
1982Movie
Sydney Morehouse
Rumpelstiltskin
1982Movie
The King
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982TV
The King
A Woman Called Golda
1982Movie
Sen. Durward
A Woman Called Golda
1982TV
Senator Durward
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982Movie
Benjamin Hammett
Pray TV
1982Movie
Rev. Freddy Stone
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982Movie
Self
American Playhouse
1982TV
Lynch Mob Leader, Reverend Mansfield French
All the Way Home
1981Movie
Ralph Follet
Splendor in the Grass
1981Movie
Ace Stamper
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981Movie
Dr. Walter Keys
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981Movie
Dan Beame
Superman II
1980Movie
Otis
Friendly Fire
1980Movie
Gene Mullen
Hopscotch
1980Movie
Myerson
All God's Children
1980Movie
Mike Naponic
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980TV
Rep. Leo Ryan
The American Success Company
1980Movie
Mr. Elliott
1941
1979Movie
Ward Douglas
Promises in the Dark
1979Movie
Bud Koenig
Wise Blood
1979Movie
Hoover Shoates
Superman
1978Movie
Otis
A Question of Love
1978Movie
Dwayne Stabler
The Great Bank Hoax
1978Movie
Julius Taggart
Gray Lady Down
1978Movie
Mickey
Alambrista!
1977Movie
Anglo Coyote
Szysznyk
1977TV
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977Movie
Edwards
Our Town
1977Movie
Dr. Gibbs
Lucan
1977Movie
Larry MacElwaine
Nashville 99
1977TV
Randy Blair
Tail Gunner Joe
1977Movie
Sylvester
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977TV
The Gardener's Son
1977Movie
Pinky
Mikey and Nicky
1976Movie
Kinney
Silver Streak
1976Movie
Bob Sweet
Network
1976Movie
Arthur Jensen
Delvecchio
1976TV
Wakefield
Gator
1976Movie
Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
The Big Bus
1976Movie
Shorty Scotty
All the President's Men
1976Movie
Dardis
NBC Special Treat
1975TV
Big Henry
The Deadly Tower
1975Movie
Allan Crum
Nashville
1975Movie
Delbert Reese
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975Movie
Country Bull
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975TV
Ollie Thompson
The Rockford Files
1974TV
Leon Fielder, Al Brennan
Petrocelli
1974TV
Gage
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974Movie
Father Stafford
Dying Room Only
1973Movie
Tom King
White Lightning
1973Movie
Sheriff J.C. Connors
The Last American Hero
1973Movie
Hackel
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973Movie
Det. Dan Corrigan
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973Movie
Deams
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972Movie
Tector Crites
Footsteps
1972Movie
Frank Powell
The Streets of San Francisco
1972TV
Eddie Boggs
M*A*S*H
1972TV
Colonel Hollister
The Waltons
1972TV
Curtis Norton
The Rookies
1972TV
Deliverance
1972Movie
Bobby Trippe
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972Movie
Self
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Caldwell
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Karp
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Fat Monroe
Movie
Fat Monroe