Ned Beatty

Known for ActingBorn 1937-07-06Died 2021-06-13Louisville, 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).Read more

Movies & web series

After the Rain

Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide

Our Town

I Was a Rat

Crazy Horse

E! True Hollywood Story

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Boys

Faerie Tale Theatre

Angel Square

Toy Story 3

Pray TV

Nashville 99

M*A*S*H

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Robert Kennedy & His Times

Go Toward the Light

Touched

Inside the Actors Studio

Network

La Classe américaine

A Woman Called Golda

All the President's Men

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Murder, She Wrote

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Rockford Files

Friendly Fire

Lincoln

The Last Days of Pompeii

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Highway to Heaven

Rudy

Law & Order

Shooter

The Execution of Private Slovik

Gulliver's Travels

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Deliverance

Rango

Nashville

Superman

Casting By

Petrocelli

Trial: The Price of Passion

The Waltons

MAS*H