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Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

ActingBorn July 6, 1937Died June 13, 2021 (age 83)Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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

Movie
2013
Baggage Claim

as Mr. Donaldson

Movie
2012
Casting By

as Self

Movie
2012
Go On

as Coach Spence

TV
2011
Rampart

as Hartshorn

Movie
2011
Rango

as Mayor (voice)

Movie
2010
Toy Story 3

as Lotso (voice)

Movie
2010
The Killer Inside Me

as Chester Conway

Movie
2009
In the Electric Mist

as Twinky LeMoyne

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Shooter

as Senator Charles F. Meachum

Movie
2007
The Walker

as Jack Delorean

Movie
2006Movie
2005
Sweet Land

as Harmo

Movie
2004
The Wool Cap

as Gigot's Father

Movie
2003
Where the Red Fern Grows

as Sheriff Abe McConnell

Movie
2002
Thunderpants

as Gen. Ed Sheppard

Movie
2002
Roughing It

as Slade

Movie
2001
I Was a Rat

as Mudduck

Movie
2000Movie
2000TV
2000
Homicide: The Movie

as Stanley Bolander

Movie
1999
Life

as Dexter Wilkins

Movie
1999
Cookie's Fortune

as Lester Boyle

Movie
1998
He Got Game

as Warden Wyatt

Movie
1996
The Curse of Inferno

as Moles Huddenel

Movie
1996
Crazy Horse

as Dr. McGillicuddy

Movie
1996
Gulliver's Travels

as Farmer Grultrad

TV
1995
Streets of Laredo

as Judge Roy Bean

TV
1995
The Affair

as Col. Banning

Movie
1995
Just Cause

as McNair

Movie
1995Movie
1994
Radioland Murders

as General Whalen

Movie
1994
Replikator

as Insp. Victor Valiant

Movie
1993
La Classe américaine

as Frédéric (archive footage)

Movie
1993Movie
1993
Rudy

as Daniel Ruettiger

Movie
1993
The Boys

as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt

TV
1993Movie
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street

as Stanley Bolander

TV
1992
Lincoln

as Dennis Hanks (voice)

Movie
1992
T Bone N Weasel

as Doc Tatum

Movie
1992
Illusions

as Landlord

Movie
1992Movie
1992
The Golden Palace

as Tad Hollingsworth

TV
1992
Prelude to a Kiss

as Dr. Boyle

Movie
1992
Blind Vision

as Sgt. Logan

Movie
1992Movie
1991
Hear My Song

as Josef Locke

Movie
1991Movie
1991
Going Under

as Admiral Malice

Movie
1990
Captain America

as Sam Kolawetz

Movie
1990
Repossessed

as Ernest Weller

Movie
1990
Law & Order

as Malcolm Reynolds

TV
1990Movie
1990
Chattahoochee

as Dr. Harwood

Movie
1990
Big Bad John

as Charlie Mitchelle

Movie
1989
Spy

as Thomas Ludlow

Movie
1989
Last Train Home

as Cornelius van Horne

Movie
1989Movie
1989
Tennessee Nights

as Charlie Kiefer

Movie
1989
Time Trackers

as Harry Orth

Movie
1989
Physical Evidence

as James Nicks

Movie
1989Movie
1988Movie
1988Movie
1988
Roseanne

as Ed Conner

TV
1988
After the Rain

as Matthew Bonner

Movie
1988Movie
1988
The Unholy

as Lt. Stern

Movie
1988
Switching Channels

as Roy Ridnitz

Movie
1988
Shadows in the Storm

as Thelonious Pitt

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Rolling Vengeance

as Tiny Doyle

Movie
1987Movie
1987Movie
1987Movie
1986
The Big Easy

as Jack Kellom

Movie
1986
Back to School

as Dean Martin

Movie
1985
Hostage Flight

as Art Hofstadter

Movie
1985
Konrad

as Mr. Thomas

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Answers

as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Robert Kennedy & His Times

as J. Edgar Hoover

TV
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Roy Gunderson

TV
1984
Highway to Heaven

as Bill Cassidy

TV
1984
Celebrity

as Otto Leo

TV
1984Movie
1983
Touched

as Herbie

Movie
1983Movie
1983
Stroker Ace

as Clyde Torkle

Movie
1983
Kentucky Woman

as Luke Telford

Movie
1982
The Toy

as Sydney Morehouse

Movie
1982
Rumpelstiltskin

as The King

Movie
1982TV
1982
A Woman Called Golda

as Sen. Durward

Movie
1982
A Woman Called Golda

as Senator Durward

TV
1982Movie
1982
Pray TV

as Rev. Freddy Stone

Movie
1981
All the Way Home

as Ralph Follet

Movie
1981
Splendor in the Grass

as Ace Stamper

Movie
1981Movie
1981Movie
1980Movie
1980
Friendly Fire

as Gene Mullen

Movie
1980
Hopscotch

as Myerson

Movie
1980
All God's Children

as Mike Naponic

Movie
1980Movie
1979
1941

as Ward Douglas

Movie
1979Movie
1979
Wise Blood

as Hoover Shoates

Movie
1978
Superman

as Otis

Movie
1978
A Question of Love

as Dwayne Stabler

Movie
1978
The Great Bank Hoax

as Julius Taggart

Movie
1978Movie
1977
Alambrista!

as Anglo Coyote

Movie
1977TV
1977Movie
1977
Our Town

as Dr. Gibbs

Movie
1977
Lucan

as Larry MacElwaine

Movie
1977
Nashville 99

as Randy Blair

TV
1977
Tail Gunner Joe

as Sylvester

Movie
1977Movie
1976Movie
1976
Silver Streak

as Bob Sweet

Movie
1976
Network

as Arthur Jensen

Movie
1976
Delvecchio

as Wakefield

TV
1976
Gator

as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)

Movie
1976
The Big Bus

as Shorty Scotty

Movie
1976Movie
1975
NBC Special Treat

as Big Henry

TV
1975
The Deadly Tower

as Allan Crum

Movie
1975
Nashville

as Delbert Reese

Movie
1975Movie
1974
The Rockford Files

as Leon Fielder

TV
1974
The Rockford Files

as Al Brennan

TV
1974
Petrocelli

as Gage

TV
1974Movie
1973
Dying Room Only

as Tom King

Movie
1973
White Lightning

as Sheriff J.C. Connors

Movie
1973Movie
1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

as Det. Dan Corrigan

Movie
1972Movie
1972
Footsteps

as Frank Powell

Movie
1972TV
1972
M*A*S*H

as Colonel Hollister

TV
1972
The Waltons

as Curtis Norton

TV
1972
Deliverance

as Bobby Trippe

Movie
1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Caldwell

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Karp

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
Fat Monroe

as Fat Monroe

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 6, 1937
Day of DeathJune 13, 2021
Place of BirthLouisville, Kentucky, USA
Popularity1.6