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
- 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
- The Affair as Col. Banning
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
1994
- Radioland Murders as General Whalen
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
- Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
- The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
- La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
- 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
- T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
- Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
- Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
- Illusions as Landlord
1991
- Hear My Song as Josef Locke
- Angel Square
- Going Under as Admiral Malice
1990
- Law & Order as Malcolm Reynolds
- Repossessed as Ernest Weller
- Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
- A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
- Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
- Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
- 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
1989
- B.L. Stryker
- Physical Evidence as James Nicks
- Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
- Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
- Time Trackers as Harry Orth
- Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
- Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
- Spy as Thomas Ludlow
1988
- Roseanne as Ed Conner
- Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
- The Unholy as Lt. Stern
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- Purple People Eater as Grandpa
- Go Toward the Light as George
- Midnight Crossing as Ellis
- After the Rain as Matthew Bonner
- Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
- Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
1987
- Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
- The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
- The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
- Kiwi Magic
- The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
1986
- Back to School as Dean Martin
- The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
1985
- Robert Kennedy & His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
- Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
- Konrad as Mr. Thomas
- Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
- Restless Natives as Bender
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Rev. Mansfield French
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
- American Playhouse as Lynch Mob Leader
- Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
- A Woman Called Golda as Senator Durward
- A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
- A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
- Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
- Rumpelstiltskin as The King
1981
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
- All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
- Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
- 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
- Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
- Hopscotch as Myerson
- All God's Children as Mike Naponic
- The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
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
- Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
- Nashville 99 as Randy Blair
- Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
- Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
- Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
- The Gardener's Son as Pinky
1976
- Delvecchio as Wakefield
- Network as Arthur Jensen
- All the President's Men as Dardis
- Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
- Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
- Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
- The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
1975
- Nashville as Delbert Reese
- Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
- 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
- White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
- Dying Room Only as Tom King
- The Last American Hero as Hackel
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
- The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
1972
- The Waltons as Curtis Norton
- M*A*S*H as Colonel Hollister
- 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
- The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' as Self
- Footsteps as Frank Powell
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Caldwell
1962
1955
- Gunsmoke as Karp
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee