Ned Beatty
Acting
Born July 6, 1937 · 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).
Films (131)
The Big Ask
2014
Baggage Claim
2013
Casting By
2012
Rampart
2011
Rango
2011
Toy Story 3
2010
The Killer Inside Me
2010
In the Electric Mist
2009
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
Shooter
2007
The Walker
2007
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
The Making of 'Network'
2006
Sweet Land
2005
The Wool Cap
2004
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
Thunderpants
2002
Roughing It
2002
I Was a Rat
2001
Spring Forward
2000
Homicide: The Movie
2000
Life
1999
Cookie's Fortune
1999
He Got Game
1998
The Curse of Inferno
1996
Crazy Horse
1996
The Affair
1995
Just Cause
1995
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
Radioland Murders
1994
Replikator
1994
La Classe américaine
1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
Rudy
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Lincoln
1992
T Bone N Weasel
1992
Illusions
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Prelude to a Kiss
1992
Blind Vision
1992
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
Hear My Song
1991
Angel Square
1991
Going Under
1991
Captain America
1990
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
Repossessed
1990
A Cry in the Wild
1990
Chattahoochee
1990
Big Bad John
1990
Spy
1989
Last Train Home
1989
Ministry of Vengeance
1989
Tennessee Nights
1989
Time Trackers
1989
Physical Evidence
1989
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
Purple People Eater
1988
Go Toward the Light
1988
After the Rain
1988
Midnight Crossing
1988
The Unholy
1988
Switching Channels
1988
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
Shadows in the Storm
1988
The Trouble with Spies
1987
Rolling Vengeance
1987
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Kiwi Magic
1987
The Big Easy
1986
Back to School
1986
Hostage Flight
1985
Konrad
1985
Restless Natives
1985
Answers
1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
Touched
1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
Stroker Ace
1983
Kentucky Woman
1983
The Toy
1982
Rumpelstiltskin
1982
A Woman Called Golda
1982
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
Pray TV
1982
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
All the Way Home
1981
Splendor in the Grass
1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
Superman II
1980
Friendly Fire
1980
Hopscotch
1980
All God's Children
1980
The American Success Company
1980
1941
1979
Promises in the Dark
1979
Wise Blood
1979
Superman
1978
A Question of Love
1978
The Great Bank Hoax
1978
Gray Lady Down
1978
Alambrista!
1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
Our Town
1977
Lucan
1977
Tail Gunner Joe
1977
The Gardener's Son
1977
Mikey and Nicky
1976
Silver Streak
1976
Network
1976
Gator
1976
The Big Bus
1976
All the President's Men
1976
The Deadly Tower
1975
Nashville
1975
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
Dying Room Only
1973
White Lightning
1973
The Last American Hero
1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
Footsteps
1972
Deliverance
1972