Ned Beatty
Born: 1937-07-06 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: 2021-06-13
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2014
- The Big Ask as Old Man Carl
2013
- Baggage Claim as Mr. Donaldson
2012
- Casting By as Self
- Go On as Coach Spence
2010
- Toy Story 3 as Lotso (voice)
- The Killer Inside Me as Chester Conway
2009
- In the Electric Mist as Twinky LeMoyne
2007
- Shooter as Senator Charles F. Meachum
- The Walker as Jack Delorean
- Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
2006
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Otis
- 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
- Roughing It as Slade
2001
- I Was a Rat as Mudduck
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Dr. David Lowry
- Spring Forward as Murph
- Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
1999
- Life as Dexter Wilkins
- Cookie's Fortune as Lester Boyle
1998
- He Got Game as Warden Wyatt
1996
- Gulliver's Travels as Farmer Grultrad
- Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
- The Curse of Inferno as Moles Huddenel
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- Just Cause as McNair
- The Affair as Col. Banning
- Streets of Laredo as Judge Roy Bean
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
1994
- Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
- Radioland Murders as General Whalen
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
- Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
- Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
- La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
- The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
1992
- Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
- The Golden Palace as Tad Hollingsworth
- Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
- Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
- T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
- Illusions as Landlord
1991
- Going Under as Admiral Malice
- Angel Square
- Hear My Song as Josef Locke
1990
- Law & Order as Malcolm Reynolds
- Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
- Repossessed as Ernest Weller
- Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
- A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
- Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
1989
- Physical Evidence as James Nicks
- B.L. Stryker
- Spy as Thomas Ludlow
- Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
- Time Trackers as Harry Orth
- Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
- Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
- Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
1988
- Midnight Crossing as Ellis
- Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
- The Unholy as Lt. Stern
- Roseanne as Ed Conner
- Purple People Eater as Grandpa
- Go Toward the Light as George
- Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
- Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- After the Rain as Matthew Bonner
1987
- Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
- The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
- The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
- The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
- Kiwi Magic
1986
- The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
- Back to School as Dean Martin
1985
- Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
- Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
- Restless Natives as Bender
- Konrad as Mr. Thomas
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Rev. Mansfield French
- Robert Kennedy & His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Roy Gunderson
- Highway to Heaven as Bill Cassidy
- Don't Ask Me, Ask God as Self
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Diomed
- Celebrity as Otto Leo
1983
- Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
- Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
- Touched as Herbie
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
- The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
- Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
- Rumpelstiltskin as The King
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
- A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
- A Woman Called Golda as Senator Durward
1981
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
- Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
- The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
- All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
1980
- Hopscotch as Myerson
- Superman II as Otis
- Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
- All God's Children as Mike Naponic
- The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Rep. Leo Ryan
1979
- Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
- 1941 as Ward Douglas
- Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
1978
- Superman as Otis
- Gray Lady Down as Mickey
- A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
- The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
1977
- Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
- Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
- Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
- Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
- Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
- The Gardener's Son as Pinky
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
- Nashville 99 as Randy Blair
- Szysznyk
1976
- Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
- Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
- Network as Arthur Jensen
- All the President's Men as Dardis
- The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
- Delvecchio as Wakefield
- Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
1975
- Nashville as Delbert Reese
- The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
- NBC Special Treat as Big Henry
- Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
- W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Country Bull
1974
- The Rockford Files as Leon Fielder
- Petrocelli as Gage
- The Execution of Private Slovik as Father Stafford
1973
- The Last American Hero as Hackel
- The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
- White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
- Dying Room Only as Tom King
1972
- M*A*S*H as Colonel Hollister
- The Waltons as Curtis Norton
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco as Eddie Boggs
- Footsteps as Frank Powell
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
- Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Caldwell
1962
1955
- Gunsmoke as Karp
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee