Actor

Ned Beatty

Born 6 July 1937 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA · Died 13 June 2021

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).

Films and shows

  1. 2014The Big Ask1h 31mOld Man Carl
  2. 2013Baggage Claim1h 36mMr. Donaldson
  3. 2011Rango1h 47mMayor (voice)
  4. 2011Rampart1h 48mHartshorn
  5. 2010The Killer Inside Me1h 49mChester Conway
  6. 2010Toy Story 31h 43mLotso (voice)
  7. 2009In the Electric Mist1h 57mTwinky LeMoyne
  8. 2007The Walker1h 48mJack Delorean
  9. 2007Shooter2h 4mSenator Charles F. Meachum
  10. 2007Charlie Wilson's War1h 42mDoc Long
  11. 2006The Making of 'Network'1h 25mSelf
  12. 2006Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut1h 56mOtis
  13. 2005Sweet Land1h 50mHarmo
  14. 2004The Wool Cap1h 43mGigot's Father
  15. 2003Where the Red Fern Grows1h 26mSheriff Abe McConnell
  16. 2002Thunderpants1h 27mGen. Ed Sheppard
  17. 2002Roughing It3h 5mSlade
  18. 2002Roughing It1 seasonSlade
  19. 2001I Was a Rat1h 31mMudduck
  20. 2000Spring Forward1h 50mMurph
  21. 2000Homicide: The Movie1h 29mStanley Bolander
  22. 1999Cookie's Fortune1h 58mLester Boyle
  23. 1999Life1h 48mDexter Wilkins
  24. 1998He Got Game2h 16mWarden Wyatt
  25. 1996Crazy Horse1h 30mDr. McGillicuddy
  26. 1996The Curse of Inferno1h 27mMoles Huddenel
  27. 1996Gulliver's Travels1 seasonFarmer Grultrad
  28. 1995Streets of Laredo1 seasonJudge Roy Bean
  29. 1995The Affair1h 45mCol. Banning
  30. 1995Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart1h 34mSam Lawrence
  31. 1995Just Cause1h 42mMcNair
  32. 1994Replikator1h 45mInsp. Victor Valiant
  33. 1994Radioland Murders1h 48mGeneral Whalen
  34. 1993The Boys1 seasonHerbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
  35. 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border54mNarrator (voice)
  36. 1993Ed and His Dead Mother1h 33mUncle Benny
  37. 1993Rudy1h 54mDaniel Ruettiger
  38. 1992T Bone N Weasel1h 34mDoc Tatum
  39. 1992Blind Vision1h 32mSgt. Logan
  40. 1992Trial: The Price of Passion3h 2mScoot Shepard
  41. 1992Prelude to a Kiss1h 45mDr. Boyle
  42. 1992Illusions1h 40mLandlord
  43. 1992Lincoln4hDennis Hanks (voice)
  44. 1991Angel Square1h 44m
  45. 1991Hear My Song1h 44mJosef Locke
  46. 1991Going Under1h 20mAdmiral Malice
  47. 1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story2h 30mEdward C. Acker
  48. 1990Repossessed1h 24mErnest Weller
  49. 1990Captain America1h 37mSam Kolawetz
  50. 1990Big Bad John1h 32mCharlie Mitchelle
  51. 1990A Cry in the Wild1h 22mPilot
  52. 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn1h 28mDuke of Bridgewater
  53. 1990Chattahoochee1h 38mDr. Harwood
  54. 1989Sex and Buttered Popcorn1h 14mSelf - Host
  55. 1989Time Trackers1h 26mHarry Orth
  56. 1989Physical Evidence1h 39mJames Nicks
  57. 1989Spy1h 28mThomas Ludlow
  58. 1989Tennessee Nights1h 45mCharlie Kiefer
  59. 1989Ministry of Vengeance1h 36mRev. Bloor
  60. 1988Purple People Eater1h 30mGrandpa
  61. 1988Shadows in the Storm1h 25mThelonious Pitt
  62. 1988The Passage1h 45mMatthew Bonner
  63. 1988Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide1h 10mSelf
  64. 1988The Unholy1h 42mLt. Stern
  65. 1988Switching Channels1h 45mRoy Ridnitz
  66. 1988Go Toward the Light1h 33mGeorge
  67. 1988Midnight Crossing1h 37mEllis
  68. 1987Kiwi Magic25m
  69. 1987The Haunting of Barney Palmer54mCole Scholar
  70. 1987The Trouble with Spies1h 31mHarry Lewis
  71. 1987Rolling Vengeance1h 32mTiny Doyle
  72. 1987The Fourth Protocol1h 59mBorisov
  73. 1986The Big Easy1h 42mJack Kellom
  74. 1986Back to School1h 36mDean Martin
  75. 1985Hostage Flight1h 40mArt Hofstadter
  76. 1985Answers1h 56mSenator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
  77. 1985Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom1h 53mRev. Mansfield French
  78. 1985Restless Natives1h 29mBender
  79. 1985Konrad1h 43mMr. Thomas
  80. 1985Robert Kennedy & His Times1 seasonJ. Edgar Hoover
  81. 1984Don't Ask Me, Ask God57mSelf
  82. 1984Celebrity1 seasonOtto Leo
  83. 1984The Last Days of Pompeii1 seasonDiomed
  84. 1983Stroker Ace1h 34mClyde Torkle
  85. 1983Kentucky Woman1h 36mLuke Telford
  86. 1983Touched1h 33mHerbie
  87. 1982Rumpelstiltskin41mThe King
  88. 1982A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion1h 30mBenjamin Hammett
  89. 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'52mSelf
  90. 1982A Woman Called Golda1 seasonSenator Durward
  91. 1982Pray TV1h 40mRev. Freddy Stone
  92. 1982The Toy1h 42mSydney Morehouse
  93. 1982A Woman Called Golda3h 12mSen. Durward
  94. 1981The Violation of Sarah McDavid1h 40mDr. Walter Keys
  95. 1981The Incredible Shrinking Woman1h 28mDan Beame
  96. 1981Splendor in the Grass1h 40mAce Stamper
  97. 1981All the Way Home1h 43mRalph Follet
  98. 1980All God's Children1h 40mMike Naponic
  99. 1980Friendly Fire2h 27mGene Mullen
  100. 1980Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones1 seasonRep. Leo Ryan
  101. 1980The American Success Company1h 31mMr. Elliott
  102. 1980Hopscotch1h 44mMyerson
  103. 1980Superman II2h 7mOtis
  104. 197919411h 58mWard Douglas
  105. 1979Promises in the Dark1h 58mBud Koenig
  106. 1979Wise Blood1h 46mHoover Shoates
  107. 1978The Great Bank Hoax1h 27mJulius Taggart
  108. 1978A Question of Love1h 32mDwayne Stabler
  109. 1978Gray Lady Down1h 51mMickey
  110. 1978Superman2h 24mOtis
  111. 1977Szysznyk2 seasons
  112. 1977Our Town2hDr. Gibbs
  113. 1977Lucan1h 14mLarry MacElwaine
  114. 1977Alambrista!1h 36mAnglo Coyote
  115. 1977Tail Gunner Joe2h 25mSylvester
  116. 1977Exorcist II: The Heretic1h 58mEdwards
  117. 1977The Gardener's Son1h 54mPinky
  118. 1976Mikey and Nicky1h 46mKinney
  119. 1976Network2h 2mArthur Jensen
  120. 1976The Big Bus1h 28mShorty Scotty
  121. 1976Silver Streak1h 54mBob Sweet
  122. 1976All the President's Men2h 18mDardis
  123. 1975Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan1 seasonOllie Thompson
  124. 1975Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan3h 35mOllie Thompson
  125. 1975Nashville2h 40mDelbert Reese
  126. 1975The Deadly Tower1h 40mAllan Crum
  127. 1975W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings1h 31mCountry Bull
  128. 1974The Execution of Private Slovik1h 56mFather Stafford
  129. 1973White Lightning1h 41mSheriff J.C. Connors
  130. 1973Dying Room Only1h 14mTom King
  131. 1973The Last American Hero1h 35mHackel
  132. 1973The Marcus-Nelson Murders2h 5mDet. Dan Corrigan
  133. 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner1h 44mDeams
  134. 1972The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'10mSelf
  135. 1972Deliverance1h 49mBobby Trippe
  136. 1972The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean2hTector Crites
  137. 1972Footsteps1h 14mFrank Powell
  138. Fat Monroe15mFat Monroe