Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 06, 1937
Died
Jun 13, 2021
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Credits
172 titles
Ned Beatty
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
Filmography
The Big Ask
Old Man Carl
Baggage Claim
Mr. Donaldson
Casting By
Self
Go On
Coach Spence
Rampart
Hartshorn
Rango
Mayor (voice)
Toy Story 3
Lotso (voice)
The Killer Inside Me
Chester Conway
In the Electric Mist
Twinky LeMoyne
Charlie Wilson's War
Doc Long
Shooter
Senator Charles F. Meachum
The Walker
Jack Delorean
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Otis
The Making of 'Network'
Self
Sweet Land
Harmo
The Wool Cap
Gigot's Father
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sheriff Abe McConnell
Thunderpants
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Roughing It
Slade
Roughing It
Slade
I Was a Rat
Mudduck
Spring Forward
Murph
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry
Homicide: The Movie
Stanley Bolander
Life
Dexter Wilkins
Cookie's Fortune
Lester Boyle
He Got Game
Warden Wyatt
The Curse of Inferno
Moles Huddenel
E! True Hollywood Story
Crazy Horse
Dr. McGillicuddy
Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad
Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean
The Affair
Col. Banning
Just Cause
McNair
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Sam Lawrence
Radioland Murders
General Whalen
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Replikator
Insp. Victor Valiant
La Classe américaine
Frédéric (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Narrator (voice)
Rudy
Daniel Ruettiger
The Boys
Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
Ed and His Dead Mother
Uncle Benny
Homicide: Life on the Street
Stanley Bolander
Lincoln
Dennis Hanks (voice)
T Bone N Weasel
Doc Tatum
Illusions
Landlord
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth
Prelude to a Kiss
Dr. Boyle