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
- 2014
The Big Ask1h 31mOld Man Carl - 2013
Baggage Claim1h 36mMr. Donaldson - 2011
Rango1h 47mMayor (voice) - 2011
Rampart1h 48mHartshorn - 2010
The Killer Inside Me1h 49mChester Conway - 2010
Toy Story 31h 43mLotso (voice) - 2009
In the Electric Mist1h 57mTwinky LeMoyne - 2007
The Walker1h 48mJack Delorean - 2007
Shooter2h 4mSenator Charles F. Meachum - 2007
Charlie Wilson's War1h 42mDoc Long - 2006
The Making of 'Network'1h 25mSelf - 2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut1h 56mOtis - 2005
Sweet Land1h 50mHarmo - 2004
The Wool Cap1h 43mGigot's Father - 2003
Where the Red Fern Grows1h 26mSheriff Abe McConnell - 2002
Thunderpants1h 27mGen. Ed Sheppard - 2002
Roughing It3h 5mSlade - 2002
Roughing It1 seasonSlade - 2001
I Was a Rat1h 31mMudduck - 2000
Spring Forward1h 50mMurph - 2000
Homicide: The Movie1h 29mStanley Bolander - 1999
Cookie's Fortune1h 58mLester Boyle - 1999
Life1h 48mDexter Wilkins - 1998
He Got Game2h 16mWarden Wyatt - 1996
Crazy Horse1h 30mDr. McGillicuddy - 1996
The Curse of Inferno1h 27mMoles Huddenel - 1996
Gulliver's Travels1 seasonFarmer Grultrad - 1995
Streets of Laredo1 seasonJudge Roy Bean - 1995
The Affair1h 45mCol. Banning - 1995
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart1h 34mSam Lawrence - 1995
Just Cause1h 42mMcNair - 1994
Replikator1h 45mInsp. Victor Valiant - 1994
Radioland Murders1h 48mGeneral Whalen - 1993The Boys1 seasonHerbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
- 1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border54mNarrator (voice) - 1993
Ed and His Dead Mother1h 33mUncle Benny - 1993
Rudy1h 54mDaniel Ruettiger - 1992
T Bone N Weasel1h 34mDoc Tatum - 1992
Blind Vision1h 32mSgt. Logan - 1992
Trial: The Price of Passion3h 2mScoot Shepard - 1992
Prelude to a Kiss1h 45mDr. Boyle - 1992
Illusions1h 40mLandlord - 1992Lincoln4hDennis Hanks (voice)
- 1991
Angel Square1h 44m - 1991
Hear My Song1h 44mJosef Locke - 1991
Going Under1h 20mAdmiral Malice - 1990
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story2h 30mEdward C. Acker - 1990
Repossessed1h 24mErnest Weller - 1990
Captain America1h 37mSam Kolawetz - 1990
Big Bad John1h 32mCharlie Mitchelle - 1990
A Cry in the Wild1h 22mPilot - 1990
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn1h 28mDuke of Bridgewater - 1990
Chattahoochee1h 38mDr. Harwood - 1989
Sex and Buttered Popcorn1h 14mSelf - Host - 1989
Time Trackers1h 26mHarry Orth - 1989
Physical Evidence1h 39mJames Nicks - 1989
Spy1h 28mThomas Ludlow - 1989
Tennessee Nights1h 45mCharlie Kiefer - 1989
Ministry of Vengeance1h 36mRev. Bloor - 1988
Purple People Eater1h 30mGrandpa - 1988
Shadows in the Storm1h 25mThelonious Pitt - 1988
The Passage1h 45mMatthew Bonner - 1988Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide1h 10mSelf
- 1988
The Unholy1h 42mLt. Stern - 1988
Switching Channels1h 45mRoy Ridnitz - 1988
Go Toward the Light1h 33mGeorge - 1988
Midnight Crossing1h 37mEllis - 1987
Kiwi Magic25m - 1987
The Haunting of Barney Palmer54mCole Scholar - 1987
The Trouble with Spies1h 31mHarry Lewis - 1987
Rolling Vengeance1h 32mTiny Doyle - 1987
The Fourth Protocol1h 59mBorisov - 1986
The Big Easy1h 42mJack Kellom - 1986
Back to School1h 36mDean Martin - 1985
Hostage Flight1h 40mArt Hofstadter - 1985
Answers1h 56mSenator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent") - 1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom1h 53mRev. Mansfield French - 1985
Restless Natives1h 29mBender - 1985
Konrad1h 43mMr. Thomas - 1985
Robert Kennedy & His Times1 seasonJ. Edgar Hoover - 1984
Don't Ask Me, Ask God57mSelf - 1984
Celebrity1 seasonOtto Leo - 1984
The Last Days of Pompeii1 seasonDiomed - 1983
Stroker Ace1h 34mClyde Torkle - 1983
Kentucky Woman1h 36mLuke Telford - 1983
Touched1h 33mHerbie - 1982
Rumpelstiltskin41mThe King - 1982
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion1h 30mBenjamin Hammett - 1982
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'52mSelf - 1982
A Woman Called Golda1 seasonSenator Durward - 1982
Pray TV1h 40mRev. Freddy Stone - 1982
The Toy1h 42mSydney Morehouse - 1982
A Woman Called Golda3h 12mSen. Durward - 1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid1h 40mDr. Walter Keys - 1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman1h 28mDan Beame - 1981
Splendor in the Grass1h 40mAce Stamper - 1981
All the Way Home1h 43mRalph Follet - 1980
All God's Children1h 40mMike Naponic - 1980
Friendly Fire2h 27mGene Mullen - 1980
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones1 seasonRep. Leo Ryan - 1980
The American Success Company1h 31mMr. Elliott - 1980
Hopscotch1h 44mMyerson - 1980
Superman II2h 7mOtis - 1979
19411h 58mWard Douglas - 1979
Promises in the Dark1h 58mBud Koenig - 1979
Wise Blood1h 46mHoover Shoates - 1978
The Great Bank Hoax1h 27mJulius Taggart - 1978
A Question of Love1h 32mDwayne Stabler - 1978
Gray Lady Down1h 51mMickey - 1978
Superman2h 24mOtis - 1977Szysznyk2 seasons
- 1977
Our Town2hDr. Gibbs - 1977
Lucan1h 14mLarry MacElwaine - 1977
Alambrista!1h 36mAnglo Coyote - 1977
Tail Gunner Joe2h 25mSylvester - 1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic1h 58mEdwards - 1977
The Gardener's Son1h 54mPinky - 1976
Mikey and Nicky1h 46mKinney - 1976
Network2h 2mArthur Jensen - 1976
The Big Bus1h 28mShorty Scotty - 1976
Silver Streak1h 54mBob Sweet - 1976
All the President's Men2h 18mDardis - 1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan1 seasonOllie Thompson - 1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan3h 35mOllie Thompson - 1975
Nashville2h 40mDelbert Reese - 1975
The Deadly Tower1h 40mAllan Crum - 1975
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings1h 31mCountry Bull - 1974
The Execution of Private Slovik1h 56mFather Stafford - 1973
White Lightning1h 41mSheriff J.C. Connors - 1973
Dying Room Only1h 14mTom King - 1973
The Last American Hero1h 35mHackel - 1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders2h 5mDet. Dan Corrigan - 1973
The Thief Who Came to Dinner1h 44mDeams - 1972
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'10mSelf - 1972
Deliverance1h 49mBobby Trippe - 1972
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean2hTector Crites - 1972
Footsteps1h 14mFrank Powell - Fat Monroe15mFat Monroe
