Ned Beatty
July 6, 1937 (87 years old) in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ned Beatty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2014 · The Big Ask as Old Man Carl
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Baggage Claim as Mr. Donaldson
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Go On as Coach Spence
- 2011 · Rampart as Hartshorn
- 2011 · Rango as Mayor (voice)
- 2010 · Toy Story 3 as Lotso (voice)
- 2010 · The Killer Inside Me as Chester Conway
- 2009 · In the Electric Mist as Twinky LeMoyne
- 2007 · Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
- 2007 · Shooter as Senator Charles F. Meachum
- 2007 · The Walker as Jack Delorean
- 2006 · Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Otis
- 2006 · Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · 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
- 2002 · Roughing It as Slade
- 2001 · I Was a Rat as Mudduck
- 2000 · Spring Forward as Murph
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Dr. David Lowry
- 2000 · Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
- 1999 · Life as Dexter Wilkins
- 1999 · Cookie's Fortune as Lester Boyle
- 1998 · He Got Game as Warden Wyatt
- 1996 · The Curse of Inferno as Moles Huddenel
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
- 1996 · Gulliver's Travels as Farmer Grultrad
- 1995 · Streets of Laredo as Judge Roy Bean
- 1995 · The Affair as Col. Banning
- 1995 · Just Cause as McNair
- 1995 · Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
- 1994 · Radioland Murders as General Whalen
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
- 1993 · La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
- 1993 · Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
- 1993 · The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
- 1993 · Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
- 1993 · Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
- 1992 · Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
- 1992 · T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
- 1992 · Illusions as Landlord
- 1992 · Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992 · The Golden Palace as Tad Hollingsworth
- 1992 · Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
- 1992 · Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
- 1992 · Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
- 1991 · Hear My Song as Josef Locke
- 1991 · Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
- 1991 · Angel Square as
- 1991 · Going Under as Admiral Malice
- 1990 · Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
- 1990 · The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
- 1990 · Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
- 1990 · Repossessed as Ernest Weller
- 1990 · Law & Order as Malcolm Reynolds
- 1990 · A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
- 1990 · Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
- 1990 · Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
- 1989 · Spy as Thomas Ludlow
- 1989 · Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
- 1989 · Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
- 1989 · Time Trackers as Harry Orth
- 1989 · B.L. Stryker as
- 1989 · Physical Evidence as James Nicks
- 1989 · Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
- 1988 · Purple People Eater as Grandpa
- 1988 · Go Toward the Light as George
- 1988 · Roseanne as Ed Conner
- 1988 · After the Rain as Matthew Bonner
- 1988 · Midnight Crossing as Ellis
- 1988 · The Unholy as Lt. Stern
- 1988 · The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- 1988 · Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
- 1988 · Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
- 1988 · Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
- 1987 · The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
- 1987 · Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
- 1987 · The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
- 1987 · The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
- 1987 · Kiwi Magic as
- 1986 · The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
- 1986 · Back to School as Dean Martin
- 1985 · Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
- 1985 · Konrad as Mr. Thomas
- 1985 · The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Larry Broome
- 1985 · Restless Natives as Bender
- 1985 · The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Larry Broome (segment "Incident in a Small Jail")
- 1985 · Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Rev. Mansfield French
- 1985 · Robert Kennedy & His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
- 1985 · Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Roy Gunderson
- 1984 · Highway to Heaven as Bill Cassidy
- 1984 · The Last Days of Pompeii as Diomed
- 1984 · Celebrity as Otto Leo
- 1984 · Don't Ask Me, Ask God as [Self]
- 1983 · Touched as Herbie
- 1983 · The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
- 1983 · Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
- 1983 · Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
- 1982 · The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
- 1982 · Rumpelstiltskin as The King
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
- 1982 · A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
- 1982 · A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
- 1982 · Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
- 1981 · All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
- 1981 · Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
- 1981 · The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
- 1981 · The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
- 1980 · Superman II as Otis
- 1980 · Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
- 1980 · Hopscotch as Myerson
- 1980 · All God's Children as Mike Naponic
- 1980 · Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Rep. Leo Ryan
- 1980 · The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
- 1980 · The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- 1979 · 1941 as Ward Douglas
- 1979 · Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
- 1979 · Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
- 1978 · Superman as Otis
- 1978 · A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
- 1978 · The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
- 1978 · Gray Lady Down as Mickey
- 1977 · Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
- 1977 · Szysznyk as
- 1977 · Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
- 1977 · Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
- 1977 · Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
- 1977 · Nashville 99 as Randy Blair
- 1977 · Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
- 1977 · Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected as
- 1977 · The Gardener's Son as Pinky
- 1976 · Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
- 1976 · Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
- 1976 · Network as Arthur Jensen
- 1976 · Delvecchio as Wakefield
- 1976 · Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
- 1976 · The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
- 1976 · All the President's Men as Dardis
- 1975 · NBC Special Treat as Big Henry
- 1975 · The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
- 1975 · Nashville as Delbert Reese
- 1975 · W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Country Bull
- 1975 · Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Leon Fielder
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Al Brennan
- 1974 · Petrocelli as Gage
- 1974 · The Execution of Private Slovik as Father Stafford
- 1973 · Kojak as Det. Dan Corrigan
- 1973 · Dying Room Only as Tom King
- 1973 · White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
- 1973 · The Last American Hero as Hackel
- 1973 · The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
- 1973 · The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
- 1972 · The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
- 1972 · Footsteps as Frank Powell
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Eddie Boggs
- 1972 · M*A*S*H as Colonel Hollister
- 1972 · The Waltons as Curtis Norton
- 1972 · The Rookies as
- 1972 · Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Caldwell
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Karp
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee