Ned Beatty
Acting
1937-07-06 · 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).
Filmography
The Big Ask
2014 · Movie
Baggage Claim
2013 · Movie
Casting By
2012 · Movie
Go On
2012 · Series
Rampart
2011 · Movie
Rango
2011 · Movie
Toy Story 3
2010 · Movie
The Killer Inside Me
2010 · Movie
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Movie
Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · Movie
Shooter
2007 · Movie
The Walker
2007 · Movie
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'Network'
2006 · Movie
Sweet Land
2005 · Movie
The Wool Cap
2004 · Movie
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003 · Movie
Thunderpants
2002 · Movie
Roughing It
2002 · Movie
Roughing It
2002 · Series
I Was a Rat
2001 · Movie
Spring Forward
2000 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Homicide: The Movie
2000 · Movie
Life
1999 · Movie
Cookie's Fortune
1999 · Movie
He Got Game
1998 · Movie
The Curse of Inferno
1996 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Crazy Horse
1996 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Series
Streets of Laredo
1995 · Series
The Affair
1995 · Movie
Just Cause
1995 · Movie
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995 · Movie
Radioland Murders
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Replikator
1994 · Movie
La Classe américaine
1993 · Movie
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993 · Movie
Rudy
1993 · Movie
The Boys
1993 · Series
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993 · Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Series
Lincoln
1992 · Movie
T Bone N Weasel
1992 · Movie
Illusions
1992 · Movie
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
The Golden Palace
1992 · Series
Prelude to a Kiss
1992 · Movie
Blind Vision
1992 · Movie
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992 · Movie
Hear My Song
1991 · Movie
Angel Square
1991 · Movie
Going Under
1991 · Movie
Captain America
1990 · Movie
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990 · Movie
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990 · Movie
Repossessed
1990 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
A Cry in the Wild
1990 · Movie
Chattahoochee
1990 · Movie
Big Bad John
1990 · Movie
Spy
1989 · Movie
Last Train Home
1989 · Movie
Ministry of Vengeance
1989 · Movie
Tennessee Nights
1989 · Movie
Time Trackers
1989 · Movie
B.L. Stryker
1989 · Series
Physical Evidence
1989 · Movie
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989 · Movie
Purple People Eater
1988 · Movie
Go Toward the Light
1988 · Movie
Roseanne
1988 · Series
After the Rain
1988 · Movie
Midnight Crossing
1988 · Movie
The Unholy
1988 · Movie
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988 · Series
Switching Channels
1988 · Movie
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988 · Movie
Shadows in the Storm
1988 · Movie
The Trouble with Spies
1987 · Movie
Rolling Vengeance
1987 · Movie
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987 · Movie
The Fourth Protocol
1987 · Movie
Kiwi Magic
1987 · Movie
The Big Easy
1986 · Movie
Back to School
1986 · Movie
Hostage Flight
1985 · Movie
Konrad
1985 · Movie
Restless Natives
1985 · Movie
Answers
1985 · Movie
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985 · Movie
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985 · Series
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Series
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984 · Series
Celebrity
1984 · Series
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984 · Movie
Touched
1983 · Movie
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983 · Movie
Stroker Ace
1983 · Movie
Kentucky Woman
1983 · Movie
The Toy
1982 · Movie
Rumpelstiltskin
1982 · Movie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · Series
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · Movie
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982 · Movie
Pray TV
1982 · Movie
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
All the Way Home
1981 · Movie
Splendor in the Grass
1981 · Movie
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981 · Movie
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981 · Movie
Superman II
1980 · Movie
Friendly Fire
1980 · Movie
Hopscotch
1980 · Movie
All God's Children
1980 · Movie
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980 · Series
The American Success Company
1980 · Movie
1941
1979 · Movie
Promises in the Dark
1979 · Movie
Wise Blood
1979 · Movie
Superman
1978 · Movie
A Question of Love
1978 · Movie
The Great Bank Hoax
1978 · Movie
Gray Lady Down
1978 · Movie
Alambrista!
1977 · Movie
Szysznyk
1977 · Series
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Movie
Our Town
1977 · Movie
Lucan
1977 · Movie
Nashville 99
1977 · Series
Tail Gunner Joe
1977 · Movie
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977 · Series
The Gardener's Son
1977 · Movie
Mikey and Nicky
1976 · Movie
Silver Streak
1976 · Movie
Network
1976 · Movie
Delvecchio
1976 · Series
Gator
1976 · Movie
The Big Bus
1976 · Movie
All the President's Men
1976 · Movie
NBC Special Treat
1975 · Series
The Deadly Tower
1975 · Movie
Nashville
1975 · Movie
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975 · Movie
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 · Series
The Rockford Files
1974 · Series
Petrocelli
1974 · Series
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974 · Movie
Dying Room Only
1973 · Movie
White Lightning
1973 · Movie
The Last American Hero
1973 · Movie
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973 · Movie
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973 · Movie
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 · Movie
Footsteps
1972 · Movie
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Series
M*A*S*H
1972 · Series
The Waltons
1972 · Series
The Rookies
1972 · Series
Deliverance
1972 · Movie
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972 · Movie
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Fat Monroe
Movie