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
- Go On as Coach Spence
- Casting By as Self
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
- Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
- The Walker as Jack Delorean
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
- Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
- Spring Forward as Murph
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
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
- The Curse of Inferno as Moles Huddenel
1995
- Streets of Laredo as Judge Roy Bean
- Just Cause as McNair
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
- The Affair as Col. Banning
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- Radioland Murders as General Whalen
- Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
- Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
- La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
- The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
- Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
1992
- The Golden Palace as Tad Hollingsworth
- Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
- Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
- T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
- Illusions as Landlord
- Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
1991
- Hear My Song as Josef Locke
- Going Under as Admiral Malice
- Angel Square
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
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
- Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
1989
- B.L. Stryker
- Physical Evidence as James Nicks
- Spy as Thomas Ludlow
- Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
- Time Trackers as Harry Orth
- Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
- Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
- Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
1988
- Roseanne as Ed Conner
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
- Purple People Eater as Grandpa
- The Unholy as Lt. Stern
- Midnight Crossing as Ellis
- Go Toward the Light as George
- Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
- Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
- After the Rain as Matthew Bonner
1987
- The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
- Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
- The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
- The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
- Kiwi Magic
1986
- Back to School as Dean Martin
- The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
1985
- Robert Kennedy & His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
- Restless Natives as Bender
- Konrad as Mr. Thomas
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Rev. Mansfield French
- Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
- Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Roy Gunderson
- Highway to Heaven as Bill Cassidy
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Diomed
- Celebrity as Otto Leo
- Don't Ask Me, Ask God as Self
1983
- Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
- Touched as Herbie
- Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
- The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
- A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
- A Woman Called Golda as Senator Durward
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
- A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
- Rumpelstiltskin as The King
1981
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
- Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
- All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
- The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
1980
- Superman II as Otis
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Rep. Leo Ryan
- Hopscotch as Myerson
- Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
- The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
- All God's Children as Mike Naponic
1979
- 1941 as Ward Douglas
- Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
- Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
1978
- Superman as Otis
- Gray Lady Down as Mickey
- The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
- A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
1977
- Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
- Szysznyk
- Nashville 99 as Randy Blair
- Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
- Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
- Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
- The Gardener's Son as Pinky
- Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
1976
- Network as Arthur Jensen
- Delvecchio as Wakefield
- All the President's Men as Dardis
- Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
- Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
- Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
- The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
1975
- Nashville as Delbert Reese
- NBC Special Treat as Big Henry
- Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
- The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
- 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
- White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
- The Last American Hero as Hackel
- The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
- 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
- Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
- Footsteps as Frank Powell
- The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' as Self
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Caldwell
1962
1955
- Gunsmoke as Karp
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee