Ned Beatty
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 · 165
Law & Order
1990 · Malcolm Reynolds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Dr. David Lowry
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Roy Gunderson
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Caldwell
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
M*A*S*H
1972 · Colonel Hollister
The Waltons
1972 · Curtis Norton
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Stanley Bolander
The Rockford Files
1974 · Leon Fielder
Toy Story 3
2010 · Lotso (voice)
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Bill Cassidy
Gunsmoke
1955 · Karp
American Playhouse
1982 · Lynch Mob Leader
The Rookies
1972
Rango
2011 · Mayor (voice)
Shooter
2007 · Senator Charles F. Mea...
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · The King
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Eddie Boggs
Superman
1978 · Otis
Petrocelli
1974 · Gage
Superman II
1980 · Otis
All the President's Men
1976 · Dardis
1941
1979 · Ward Douglas
The Golden Palace
1992 · Tad Hollingsworth
Go On
2012 · Coach Spence
Life
1999 · Dexter Wilkins
Network
1976 · Arthur Jensen
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Farmer Grultrad
Deliverance
1972 · Bobby Trippe
Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · Doc Long
Roseanne
1988 · Ed Conner
Delvecchio
1976 · Wakefield
Rudy
1993 · Daniel Ruettiger
Just Cause
1995 · McNair
B.L. Stryker
1989
Nashville
1975 · Delbert Reese
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Edwards
Back to School
1986 · Dean Martin
Streets of Laredo
1995 · Judge Roy Bean
He Got Game
1998 · Warden Wyatt
Konrad
1985 · Mr. Thomas
Silver Streak
1976 · Bob Sweet
Rampart
2011 · Hartshorn
Repossessed
1990 · Ernest Weller
The Killer Inside Me
2010 · Chester Conway
Gator
1976 · Sheriff J.C. Connors (...
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Otis
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Twinky LeMoyne
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980 · Rep. Leo Ryan
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984 · Diomed
White Lightning
1973 · Sheriff J.C. Connors
Captain America
1990 · Sam Kolawetz
The Big Easy
1986 · Jack Kellom
The Unholy
1988 · Lt. Stern
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003 · Sheriff Abe McConnell
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 · Ollie Thompson
Thunderpants
2002 · Gen. Ed Sheppard
Mikey and Nicky
1976 · Kinney
The Fourth Protocol
1987 · Borisov
La Classe américaine
1993 · Frédéric (archive foot...
The Walker
2007 · Jack Delorean
Switching Channels
1988 · Roy Ridnitz
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 · Tector Crites
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985 · J. Edgar Hoover
The Toy
1982 · Sydney Morehouse
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Celebrity
1984 · Otto Leo
Gray Lady Down
1978 · Mickey
Baggage Claim
2013 · Mr. Donaldson
The Last American Hero
1973 · Hackel
The Big Bus
1976 · Shorty Scotty
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · Sen. Durward
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
Radioland Murders
1994 · General Whalen
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981 · Dan Beame
Prelude to a Kiss
1992 · Dr. Boyle
Nashville 99
1977 · Randy Blair
Homicide: The Movie
2000 · Stanley Bolander
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · Senator Durward
Roughing It
2002 · Slade
Hopscotch
1980 · Myerson
Crazy Horse
1996 · Dr. McGillicuddy
Roughing It
2002 · Slade
Purple People Eater
1988 · Grandpa
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974 · Father Stafford
Physical Evidence
1989 · James Nicks
Cookie's Fortune
1999 · Lester Boyle
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983 · Lynch Mob Leader
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993 · Uncle Benny
Wise Blood
1979 · Hoover Shoates
Stroker Ace
1983 · Clyde Torkle
Chattahoochee
1990 · Dr. Harwood
Sweet Land
2005 · Harmo
Angel Square
1991
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Self
Answers
1985 · Senator William Blaine...
Touched
1983 · Herbie
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992 · Scoot Shepard
A Cry in the Wild
1990 · Pilot
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Rolling Vengeance
1987 · Tiny Doyle
Kiwi Magic
1987
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984 · Self
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982 · Benjamin Hammett
The American Success Company
1980 · Mr. Elliott
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973 · Deams
Splendor in the Grass
1981 · Ace Stamper
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981 · Dr. Walter Keys
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975 · Country Bull
Go Toward the Light
1988 · George
Hear My Song
1991 · Josef Locke
Alambrista!
1977 · Anglo Coyote
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993 · Narrator (voice)
Ministry of Vengeance
1989 · Rev. Bloor
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972 · Self
The Affair
1995 · Col. Banning
Casting By
2012 · Self
Tail Gunner Joe
1977 · Sylvester
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 · Ollie Thompson
Shadows in the Storm
1988 · Thelonious Pitt
Hostage Flight
1985 · Art Hofstadter
Footsteps
1972 · Frank Powell
The Deadly Tower
1975 · Allan Crum
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995 · Sam Lawrence
Going Under
1991 · Admiral Malice
Dying Room Only
1973 · Tom King
Midnight Crossing
1988 · Ellis
Spring Forward
2000 · Murph
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990 · Edward C. Acker
The Wool Cap
2004 · Gigot's Father
The Trouble with Spies
1987 · Harry Lewis
Time Trackers
1989 · Harry Orth
Friendly Fire
1980 · Gene Mullen
Blind Vision
1992 · Sgt. Logan
Promises in the Dark
1979 · Bud Koenig
The Making of 'Network'
2006 · Self
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973 · Det. Dan Corrigan
A Question of Love
1978 · Dwayne Stabler
Pray TV
1982 · Rev. Freddy Stone
The Curse of Inferno
1996 · Moles Huddenel
T Bone N Weasel
1992 · Doc Tatum
Replikator
1994 · Insp. Victor Valiant
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989 · Self - Host
Spy
1989 · Thomas Ludlow
The Gardener's Son
1977 · Pinky
Restless Natives
1985 · Bender
I Was a Rat
2001 · Mudduck
All the Way Home
1981 · Ralph Follet
Illusions
1992 · Landlord
After the Rain
1988 · Matthew Bonner
All God's Children
1980 · Mike Naponic
Big Bad John
1990 · Charlie Mitchelle
Last Train Home
1989 · Cornelius van Horne
Kentucky Woman
1983 · Luke Telford
The Great Bank Hoax
1978 · Julius Taggart
Our Town
1977 · Dr. Gibbs
Tennessee Nights
1989 · Charlie Kiefer
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985 · Rev. Mansfield French
Rumpelstiltskin
1982 · The King
The Big Ask
2014 · Old Man Carl
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990 · Duke of Bridgewater
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987 · Cole Scholar
Lucan
1977 · Larry MacElwaine