Ned Beatty
Acting • Born 1937-07-06 – Died 2021-06-13
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
169 credits
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Dardis
Toy Story 3
Movie • 2010
Lotso (voice)
Nashville
Movie • 1975
Delbert Reese
Superman
Movie • 1978
Otis
Prelude to a Kiss
Movie • 1992
Dr. Boyle
Deliverance
Movie • 1972
Bobby Trippe
Network
Movie • 1976
Arthur Jensen
The Fourth Protocol
Movie • 1987
Borisov
The Big Easy
Movie • 1986
Jack Kellom
White Lightning
Movie • 1973
Sheriff J.C. Connors
Repossessed
Movie • 1990
Ernest Weller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Movie • 2003
Sheriff Abe McConnell
1941
Movie • 1979
Ward Douglas
Homicide: The Movie
Movie • 2000
Stanley Bolander
The American Success Company
Movie • 1980
Mr. Elliott
Sweet Land
Movie • 2005
Harmo
Charlie Wilson's War
Movie • 2007
Doc Long
The Toy
Movie • 1982
Sydney Morehouse
Shooter
Movie • 2007
Senator Charles F. Meachum
Radioland Murders
Movie • 1994
General Whalen
The Last American Hero
Movie • 1973
Hackel
Gray Lady Down
Movie • 1978
Mickey
Superman II
Movie • 1980
Otis
Hopscotch
Movie • 1980
Myerson
A Cry in the Wild
Movie • 1990
Pilot
Replikator
Movie • 1994
Insp. Victor Valiant
Cookie's Fortune
Movie • 1999
Lester Boyle
Just Cause
Movie • 1995
McNair
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Movie • 1972
Tector Crites
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Movie • 1981
Dan Beame
The Walker
Movie • 2007
Jack Delorean
Switching Channels
Movie • 1988
Roy Ridnitz
Rolling Vengeance
Movie • 1987
Tiny Doyle
In the Electric Mist
Movie • 2009
Twinky LeMoyne
Captain America
Movie • 1990
Sam Kolawetz
Wise Blood
Movie • 1979
Hoover Shoates
Rudy
Movie • 1993
Daniel Ruettiger
Physical Evidence
Movie • 1989
James Nicks
Restless Natives
Movie • 1985
Bender
The Killer Inside Me
Movie • 2010
Chester Conway
Ed and His Dead Mother
Movie • 1993
Uncle Benny
Rango
Movie • 2011
Mayor (voice)
Midnight Crossing
Movie • 1988
Ellis
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Movie • 1975
Country Bull
The Big Bus
Movie • 1976
Shorty Scotty
Spring Forward
Movie • 2000
Murph
Stroker Ace
Movie • 1983
Clyde Torkle
The Wool Cap
Movie • 2004
Gigot's Father
Hear My Song
Movie • 1991
Josef Locke
The Deadly Tower
Movie • 1975
Allan Crum
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Movie • 1973
Deams
Rampart
Movie • 2011
Hartshorn
The Curse of Inferno
Movie • 1996
Moles Huddenel
The Unholy
Movie • 1988
Lt. Stern
Dying Room Only
Movie • 1973
Tom King
The Execution of Private Slovik
Movie • 1974
Father Stafford
Alambrista!
Movie • 1977
Anglo Coyote
Mikey and Nicky
Movie • 1976
Kinney
Konrad
Movie • 1985
Mr. Thomas
The Great Bank Hoax
Movie • 1978
Julius Taggart
The Affair
Movie • 1995
Col. Banning
Time Trackers
Movie • 1989
Harry Orth
Illusions
Movie • 1992
Landlord
Our Town
Movie • 1977
Dr. Gibbs
Promises in the Dark
Movie • 1979
Bud Koenig
The Trouble with Spies
Movie • 1987
Harry Lewis
Ministry of Vengeance
Movie • 1989
Rev. Bloor
Going Under
Movie • 1991
Admiral Malice
The Big Ask
Movie • 2014
Old Man Carl
Spy
Movie • 1989
Thomas Ludlow
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1990
Duke of Bridgewater
Big Bad John
Movie • 1990
Charlie Mitchelle
Tennessee Nights
Movie • 1989
Charlie Kiefer
Shadows in the Storm
Movie • 1988
Thelonious Pitt
Thunderpants
Movie • 2002
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Friendly Fire
Movie • 1980
Gene Mullen
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Movie • 1990
Edward C. Acker
Silver Streak
Movie • 1976
Bob Sweet
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie • 1977
Sylvester
Touched
Movie • 1983
Herbie
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Movie • 1977
Edwards
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Movie • 1985
Rev. Mansfield French
After the Rain
Movie • 1988
Matthew Bonner
Purple People Eater
Movie • 1988
Grandpa
Lucan
Movie • 1977
Larry MacElwaine
Crazy Horse
Movie • 1996
Dr. McGillicuddy
A Woman Called Golda
Movie • 1982
Sen. Durward
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Movie • 1981
Dr. Walter Keys
Angel Square
Movie • 1991
Answers
Movie • 1985
Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Go Toward the Light
Movie • 1988
George
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Dennis Hanks (voice)
He Got Game
Movie • 1998
Warden Wyatt
A Question of Love
Movie • 1978
Dwayne Stabler
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Movie • 1984
Self
All the Way Home
Movie • 1981
Ralph Follet
Chattahoochee
Movie • 1990
Dr. Harwood
Back to School
Movie • 1986
Dean Martin
Hostage Flight
Movie • 1985
Art Hofstadter
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Movie • 1975
Ollie Thompson
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Movie • 1995
Sam Lawrence
Blind Vision
Movie • 1992
Sgt. Logan
Rumpelstiltskin
Movie • 1982
The King
All God's Children
Movie • 1980
Mike Naponic
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Movie • 1982
Self
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Movie • 1973
Det. Dan Corrigan
Splendor in the Grass
Movie • 1981
Ace Stamper
Last Train Home
Movie • 1989
Cornelius van Horne
Footsteps
Movie • 1972
Frank Powell
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Movie • 1989
Self - Host
I Was a Rat
Movie • 2001
Mudduck
Pray TV
Movie • 1982
Rev. Freddy Stone
The Making of 'Network'
Movie • 2006
Self
Roughing It
Movie • 2002
Slade
Life
Movie • 1999
Dexter Wilkins
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie • 2006
Otis
T Bone N Weasel
Movie • 1992
Doc Tatum
The Gardener's Son
Movie • 1977
Pinky
Earth and the American Dream
Movie • 1992
Reader (voice)
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
Frédéric (archive footage)
Baggage Claim
Movie • 2013
Mr. Donaldson
Trial: The Price of Passion
Movie • 1992
Scoot Shepard
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Movie • 1987
Cole Scholar
Kentucky Woman
Movie • 1983
Luke Telford
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Movie • 1988
Self
Gator
Movie • 1976
Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Movie • 1982
Benjamin Hammett
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
Kiwi Magic
Movie • 1987
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Movie • 1983
Lynch Mob Leader
Fat Monroe
Movie
Fat Monroe
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Colonel Hollister
The Rookies
TV • 1972
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Dr. David Lowry
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Caldwell
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Bill Cassidy
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Eddie Boggs
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Karp
Roseanne
TV • 1988
Ed Conner
The Golden Palace
TV • 1992
Tad Hollingsworth
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The King
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Stanley Bolander
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Curtis Norton
Gulliver's Travels
TV • 1996
Farmer Grultrad
Szysznyk
TV • 1977
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1977
Nashville 99
TV • 1977
Randy Blair
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Malcolm Reynolds
The Boys
TV • 1993
Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
Streets of Laredo
TV • 1995
Judge Roy Bean
B.L. Stryker
TV • 1989
Robert Kennedy & His Times
TV • 1985
J. Edgar Hoover
The Last Days of Pompeii
TV • 1984
Diomed
Celebrity
TV • 1984
Otto Leo
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV • 1980
Rep. Leo Ryan
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Leon Fielder
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Roy Gunderson
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Al Brennan
NBC Special Treat
TV • 1975
Big Henry
Go On
TV • 2012
Coach Spence
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1988
Self
Delvecchio
TV • 1976
Wakefield
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
A Woman Called Golda
TV • 1982
Senator Durward
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Gage