
Ned Beatty
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 6, 1937
- Died
- June 13, 2021 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography
Fat Monroe
Movie · as Fat Monroe

The Big Ask
Movie · as Old Man Carl

Baggage Claim
Movie · as Mr. Donaldson

Casting By
Movie · as Self

Go On
TV · as Coach Spence · 1 ep

Rango
Movie · as Mayor (voice)

Rampart
Movie · as Hartshorn

Toy Story 3
Movie · as Lotso (voice)

The Killer Inside Me
Movie · as Chester Conway

In the Electric Mist
Movie · as Twinky LeMoyne

Charlie Wilson's War
Movie · as Doc Long

Shooter
Movie · as Senator Charles F. Meachum

The Walker
Movie · as Jack Delorean

The Making of 'Network'
Movie · as Self

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie · as Otis

Sweet Land
Movie · as Harmo

The Wool Cap
Movie · as Gigot's Father

Where the Red Fern Grows
Movie · as Sheriff Abe McConnell

Thunderpants
Movie · as Gen. Ed Sheppard

Roughing It
Movie · as Slade

Roughing It
TV · as Slade · 2 eps

I Was a Rat
Movie · as Mudduck

Homicide: The Movie
Movie · as Stanley Bolander

Spring Forward
Movie · as Murph

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · as Dr. David Lowry · 1 ep

Cookie's Fortune
Movie · as Lester Boyle

Life
Movie · as Dexter Wilkins

He Got Game
Movie · as Warden Wyatt

The Curse of Inferno
Movie · as Moles Huddenel

Crazy Horse
Movie · as Dr. McGillicuddy

E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep

Gulliver's Travels
TV · as Farmer Grultrad · 2 eps

Just Cause
Movie · as McNair

The Affair
Movie · as Col. Banning

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Movie · as Sam Lawrence

Streets of Laredo
TV · as Judge Roy Bean · 3 eps

Radioland Murders
Movie · as General Whalen

Replikator
Movie · as Insp. Victor Valiant

Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Rudy
Movie · as Daniel Ruettiger

Ed and His Dead Mother
Movie · as Uncle Benny

Warren Oates: Across the Border
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

La Classe américaine
Movie · as Frédéric (archive footage)

Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · as Stanley Bolander · 33 eps
The Boys
TV · as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt · 6 eps

Prelude to a Kiss
Movie · as Dr. Boyle

Illusions
Movie · as Landlord
Lincoln
Movie · as Dennis Hanks (voice)

Blind Vision
Movie · as Sgt. Logan

T Bone N Weasel
Movie · as Doc Tatum

Earth and the American Dream
Movie · as Reader (voice)

Trial: The Price of Passion
Movie · as Scoot Shepard

The Golden Palace
TV · as Tad Hollingsworth · 1 ep

Hear My Song
Movie · as Josef Locke

Going Under
Movie · as Admiral Malice

Angel Square
Movie

Repossessed
Movie · as Ernest Weller

A Cry in the Wild
Movie · as Pilot

Captain America
Movie · as Sam Kolawetz

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Movie · as Duke of Bridgewater

Big Bad John
Movie · as Charlie Mitchelle

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Movie · as Edward C. Acker

Chattahoochee
Movie · as Dr. Harwood

Law & Order
TV · as Malcolm Reynolds · 1 ep

Physical Evidence
Movie · as James Nicks

Time Trackers
Movie · as Harry Orth

Ministry of Vengeance
Movie · as Rev. Bloor

Spy
Movie · as Thomas Ludlow

Tennessee Nights
Movie · as Charlie Kiefer

Last Train Home
Movie · as Cornelius van Horne

Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Movie · as Self - Host

B.L. Stryker
TV · 1 ep

Switching Channels
Movie · as Roy Ridnitz

Midnight Crossing
Movie · as Ellis

The Unholy
Movie · as Lt. Stern

Shadows in the Storm
Movie · as Thelonious Pitt

The Passage
Movie · as Matthew Bonner

Purple People Eater
Movie · as Grandpa

Go Toward the Light
Movie · as George
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Movie · as Self

Roseanne
TV · as Ed Conner · 6 eps
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Fourth Protocol
Movie · as Borisov

Rolling Vengeance
Movie · as Tiny Doyle

The Trouble with Spies
Movie · as Harry Lewis

The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Movie · as Cole Scholar

Kiwi Magic
Movie

The Big Easy
Movie · as Jack Kellom

Back to School
Movie · as Dean Martin

Restless Natives
Movie · as Bender

Konrad
Movie · as Mr. Thomas

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Movie · as Rev. Mansfield French

Answers
Movie · as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")

Hostage Flight
Movie · as Art Hofstadter

Robert Kennedy & His Times
TV · as J. Edgar Hoover · 3 eps

Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Movie · as Self

Highway to Heaven
TV · as Bill Cassidy · 2 eps

The Last Days of Pompeii
TV · as Diomed · 3 eps

Celebrity
TV · as Otto Leo · 3 eps

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Roy Gunderson · 1 ep

Stroker Ace
Movie · as Clyde Torkle

Touched
Movie · as Herbie

Kentucky Woman
Movie · as Luke Telford

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Movie · as Lynch Mob Leader

The Toy
Movie · as Sydney Morehouse

A Woman Called Golda
Movie · as Sen. Durward

Rumpelstiltskin
Movie · as The King

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Movie · as Self

Pray TV
Movie · as Rev. Freddy Stone

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Movie · as Benjamin Hammett

Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as The King · 1 ep

A Woman Called Golda
TV · as Senator Durward · 2 eps

American Playhouse
TV · as Lynch Mob Leader, Reverend Mansfield French · 1 ep

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Movie · as Dan Beame

The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Movie · as Dr. Walter Keys

All the Way Home
Movie · as Ralph Follet

Splendor in the Grass
Movie · as Ace Stamper

The American Success Company
Movie · as Mr. Elliott

Superman II
Movie · as Otis

Hopscotch
Movie · as Myerson

Friendly Fire
Movie · as Gene Mullen

All God's Children
Movie · as Mike Naponic

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV · as Rep. Leo Ryan · 2 eps

1941
Movie · as Ward Douglas

Wise Blood
Movie · as Hoover Shoates

Promises in the Dark
Movie · as Bud Koenig

Superman
Movie · as Otis

Gray Lady Down
Movie · as Mickey

The Great Bank Hoax
Movie · as Julius Taggart

A Question of Love
Movie · as Dwayne Stabler

Alambrista!
Movie · as Anglo Coyote

Our Town
Movie · as Dr. Gibbs

Tail Gunner Joe
Movie · as Sylvester

Exorcist II: The Heretic
Movie · as Edwards

Lucan
Movie · as Larry MacElwaine

The Gardener's Son
Movie · as Pinky
Szysznyk
TV · 15 eps

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
TV · 1 ep

Nashville 99
TV · as Randy Blair · 1 ep

All the President's Men
Movie · as Dardis

Network
Movie · as Arthur Jensen

The Big Bus
Movie · as Shorty Scotty

Mikey and Nicky
Movie · as Kinney

Silver Streak
Movie · as Bob Sweet

Gator
Movie · as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)

Delvecchio
TV · as Wakefield · 1 ep

Nashville
Movie · as Delbert Reese

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Movie · as Country Bull

The Deadly Tower
Movie · as Allan Crum
NBC Special Treat
TV · as Big Henry · 1 ep

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
TV · as Ollie Thompson · 2 eps

The Execution of Private Slovik
Movie · as Father Stafford

The Rockford Files
TV · as Leon Fielder, Al Brennan · 2 eps

Petrocelli
TV · as Gage · 1 ep

White Lightning
Movie · as Sheriff J.C. Connors

The Last American Hero
Movie · as Hackel

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Movie · as Deams

Dying Room Only
Movie · as Tom King

The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Movie · as Det. Dan Corrigan

Deliverance
Movie · as Bobby Trippe

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Movie · as Tector Crites

Footsteps
Movie · as Frank Powell

The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
Movie · as Self

M*A*S*H
TV · as Colonel Hollister · 1 ep

The Rookies
TV · 1 ep

The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Eddie Boggs · 1 ep

The Waltons
TV · as Curtis Norton · 1 ep

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Caldwell · 1 ep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Gunsmoke
TV · as Karp · 1 ep

Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep



