Ned Beatty
Acting
Born: July 6, 1937 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: June 13, 2021 (aged 83)
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
Toy Story 3
2010
Rango
2011
Shooter
2007
Superman
1978
Superman II
1980
All the President's Men
1976
Network
1976
Deliverance
1972
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Life
1999
He Got Game
1998
Photos (4)
Movies (123)
Toy Story 3
Lotso (voice)
Rango
Mayor (voice)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Edwards
Superman
Otis
Network
Arthur Jensen
All the President's Men
Dardis
Deliverance
Bobby Trippe
White Lightning
Sheriff J.C. Connors
Shooter
Senator Charles F. Meachum
Silver Streak
Bob Sweet
Charlie Wilson's War
Doc Long
Superman II
Otis
Back to School
Dean Martin
Life
Dexter Wilkins
He Got Game
Warden Wyatt
The Walker
Jack Delorean
Captain America
Sam Kolawetz
Rampart
Hartshorn
The Fourth Protocol
Borisov
In the Electric Mist
Twinky LeMoyne
Nashville
Delbert Reese
The Big Easy
Jack Kellom
Switching Channels
Roy Ridnitz
1941
Ward Douglas
The Killer Inside Me
Chester Conway
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Tector Crites
Gray Lady Down
Mickey
Rudy
Daniel Ruettiger
Baggage Claim
Mr. Donaldson
Prelude to a Kiss
Dr. Boyle
The Unholy
Lt. Stern
Mikey and Nicky
Kinney
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Otis
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Dan Beame
Just Cause
McNair
Repossessed
Ernest Weller
Homicide: The Movie
Stanley Bolander
Gator
Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
Hopscotch
Myerson
Thunderpants
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Friendly Fire
Gene Mullen
Ed and His Dead Mother
Uncle Benny
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sheriff Abe McConnell
The Execution of Private Slovik
Father Stafford
The Big Bus
Shorty Scotty
Rolling Vengeance
Tiny Doyle
Sweet Land
Harmo
Wise Blood
Hoover Shoates
A Question of Love
Dwayne Stabler
The Toy
Sydney Morehouse
The Last American Hero
Hackel
Radioland Murders
General Whalen
Cookie's Fortune
Lester Boyle
Trial: The Price of Passion
Scoot Shepard
A Cry in the Wild
Pilot
Crazy Horse
Dr. McGillicuddy
Stroker Ace
Clyde Torkle
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Lynch Mob Leader
The Deadly Tower
Allan Crum
Touched
Herbie
Roughing It
Slade
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Det. Dan Corrigan
The Curse of Inferno
Moles Huddenel
A Woman Called Golda
Sen. Durward
La Classe américaine
Frédéric (archive footage)
Splendor in the Grass
Ace Stamper
Tennessee Nights
Charlie Kiefer
Going Under
Admiral Malice
Physical Evidence
James Nicks
The Big Ask
Old Man Carl
The Passage
Matthew Bonner
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Deams
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
The Wool Cap
Gigot's Father
Konrad
Mr. Thomas
Footsteps
Frank Powell
Purple People Eater
Grandpa
Go Toward the Light
George
Kiwi Magic
1987
Blind Vision
Sgt. Logan
All the Way Home
Ralph Follet
Ministry of Vengeance
Rev. Bloor
Time Trackers
Harry Orth
Angel Square
1991
The Affair
Col. Banning
The Trouble with Spies
Harry Lewis
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Dr. Walter Keys
All God's Children
Mike Naponic
The Gardener's Son
Pinky
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Country Bull
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Benjamin Hammett
Dying Room Only
Tom King
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Duke of Bridgewater
The American Success Company
Mr. Elliott
Big Bad John
Charlie Mitchelle
Midnight Crossing
Ellis
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Narrator (voice)
T Bone N Weasel
Doc Tatum
Hear My Song
Josef Locke
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Sam Lawrence
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Edward C. Acker
Restless Natives
Bender
Last Train Home
Cornelius van Horne
Hostage Flight
Art Hofstadter
Alambrista!
Anglo Coyote
Promises in the Dark
Bud Koenig
Chattahoochee
Dr. Harwood
I Was a Rat
Mudduck
The Great Bank Hoax
Julius Taggart
Tail Gunner Joe
Sylvester
Answers
Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Rev. Mansfield French
Spring Forward
Murph
Kentucky Woman
Luke Telford
Our Town
Dr. Gibbs
Pray TV
Rev. Freddy Stone
Spy
Thomas Ludlow
Rumpelstiltskin
The King
Illusions
Landlord
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Cole Scholar
Shadows in the Storm
Thelonious Pitt
Lucan
Larry MacElwaine
Replikator
Insp. Victor Valiant
TV Shows (34)
Law & Order
Malcolm Reynolds · 1 eps
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Roy Gunderson · 1 eps
M*A*S*H
Colonel Hollister · 1 eps
The Rockford Files
Leon Fielder · 2 eps
The Rockford Files
Al Brennan · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Caldwell · 1 eps
The Waltons
Curtis Norton · 1 eps
Homicide: Life on the Street
Stanley Bolander · 33 eps
Highway to Heaven
Bill Cassidy · 2 eps
American Playhouse
Lynch Mob Leader · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Reverend Mansfield French · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
Gunsmoke
Karp · 1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
Eddie Boggs · 1 eps
Faerie Tale Theatre
The King · 1 eps
Petrocelli
Gage · 1 eps
The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth · 1 eps
Go On
Coach Spence · 1 eps
Roseanne
Ed Conner · 6 eps
Delvecchio
Wakefield · 1 eps
Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad · 2 eps
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Rep. Leo Ryan · 2 eps
B.L. Stryker
1 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps
Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean · 3 eps
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1 eps
The Last Days of Pompeii
Diomed · 3 eps
Celebrity
Otto Leo · 3 eps
Robert Kennedy & His Times
J. Edgar Hoover · 3 eps
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Ollie Thompson · 2 eps
Nashville 99
Randy Blair · 1 eps
Roughing It
Slade · 2 eps
A Woman Called Golda
Senator Durward · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (9)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
The Making of 'Network'
Self
Casting By
Self
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Self
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
Self
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Self - Host