Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 6, 1937
Place of Birth:
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Ned Beatty
Biography
Ned Thomas Beatty 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).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Big Ask | Old Man Carl |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Baggage Claim | Mr. Donaldson |
| 2012 | Casting By | Self |
| 2011 | Rango | Mayor (voice) |
| 2011 | Rampart | Hartshorn |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lotso (voice) |
| 2010 | The Killer Inside Me | Chester Conway |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Twinky LeMoyne |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War | Doc Long |
| 2007 | Shooter | Senator Charles F. Meachum |
| 2007 | The Walker | Jack Delorean |
| 2006 | The Making of 'Network' | Self |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Otis |
| 2005 | Sweet Land | Harmo |
| 2004 | The Wool Cap | Gigot's Father |
| 2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Sheriff Abe McConnell |
| 2002 | Thunderpants | Gen. Ed Sheppard |
| 2002 | Roughing It | Slade |
| 2001 | I Was a Rat | Mudduck |
| 2000 | Homicide: The Movie | Stanley Bolander |
| 2000 | Spring Forward | Murph |
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Lester Boyle |
| 1999 | Life | Dexter Wilkins |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Warden Wyatt |
| 1996 | The Curse of Inferno | Moles Huddenel |
| 1996 | Crazy Horse | Dr. McGillicuddy |
| 1995 | Just Cause | McNair |
| 1995 | The Affair | Col. Banning |
| 1995 | Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart | Sam Lawrence |
| 1994 | Radioland Murders | General Whalen |
| 1994 | Replikator | Insp. Victor Valiant |
| 1993 | Rudy | Daniel Ruettiger |
| 1993 | Ed and His Dead Mother | Uncle Benny |
| 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Frédéric (archive footage) |
| 1992 | Prelude to a Kiss | Dr. Boyle |
| 1992 | Illusions | Landlord |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Dennis Hanks (voice) |
| 1992 | Blind Vision | Sgt. Logan |
| 1992 | T Bone N Weasel | Doc Tatum |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) |
| 1992 | Trial: The Price of Passion | Scoot Shepard |
| 1991 | Hear My Song | Josef Locke |
| 1991 | Going Under | Admiral Malice |
| 1991 | Angel Square | |
| 1990 | Repossessed | Ernest Weller |
| 1990 | A Cry in the Wild | Pilot |
| 1990 | Captain America | Sam Kolawetz |
| 1990 | Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Duke of Bridgewater |
| 1990 | Big Bad John | Charlie Mitchelle |
| 1990 | The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | Edward C. Acker |
| 1990 | Chattahoochee | Dr. Harwood |
| 1989 | Physical Evidence | James Nicks |
| 1989 | Time Trackers | Harry Orth |
| 1989 | Ministry of Vengeance | Rev. Bloor |
| 1989 | Spy | Thomas Ludlow |
| 1989 | Tennessee Nights | Charlie Kiefer |
| 1989 | Last Train Home | Cornelius van Horne |
| 1989 | Sex and Buttered Popcorn | Self - Host |
| 1988 | Switching Channels | Roy Ridnitz |
| 1988 | Midnight Crossing | Ellis |
| 1988 | The Unholy | Lt. Stern |
| 1988 | Shadows in the Storm | Thelonious Pitt |
| 1988 | After the Rain | Matthew Bonner |
| 1988 | Purple People Eater | Grandpa |
| 1988 | Go Toward the Light | George |
| 1988 | Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide | Self |
| 1987 | The Fourth Protocol | Borisov |
| 1987 | Rolling Vengeance | Tiny Doyle |
| 1987 | The Trouble with Spies | Harry Lewis |
| 1987 | The Haunting of Barney Palmer | Cole Scholar |
| 1987 | Kiwi Magic | |
| 1986 | The Big Easy | Jack Kellom |
| 1986 | Back to School | Dean Martin |
| 1985 | Restless Natives | Bender |
| 1985 | Konrad | Mr. Thomas |
| 1985 | Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom | Rev. Mansfield French |
| 1985 | Answers | Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent") |
| 1985 | Hostage Flight | Art Hofstadter |
| 1984 | Don't Ask Me, Ask God | [Self] |
| 1983 | Stroker Ace | Clyde Torkle |
| 1983 | Touched | Herbie |
| 1983 | Kentucky Woman | Luke Telford |
| 1983 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Lynch Mob Leader |
| 1982 | The Toy | Sydney Morehouse |
| 1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Sen. Durward |
| 1982 | Rumpelstiltskin | The King |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self |
| 1982 | Pray TV | Rev. Freddy Stone |
| 1982 | A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion | Benjamin Hammett |
| 1981 | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Dan Beame |
| 1981 | The Violation of Sarah McDavid | Dr. Walter Keys |
| 1981 | All the Way Home | Ralph Follet |
| 1981 | Splendor in the Grass | Ace Stamper |
| 1980 | The American Success Company | Mr. Elliott |
| 1980 | Superman II | Otis |
| 1980 | Hopscotch | Myerson |
| 1980 | Friendly Fire | Gene Mullen |
| 1980 | All God's Children | Mike Naponic |
| 1979 | 1941 | Ward Douglas |
| 1979 | Wise Blood | Hoover Shoates |
| 1979 | Promises in the Dark | Bud Koenig |
| 1978 | Superman | Otis |
| 1978 | Gray Lady Down | Mickey |
| 1978 | The Great Bank Hoax | Julius Taggart |
| 1978 | A Question of Love | Dwayne Stabler |
| 1977 | Alambrista! | Anglo Coyote |
| 1977 | Our Town | Dr. Gibbs |
| 1977 | Tail Gunner Joe | Sylvester |
| 1977 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Edwards |
| 1977 | Lucan | Larry MacElwaine |
| 1977 | The Gardener's Son | Pinky |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Dardis |
| 1976 | Network | Arthur Jensen |
| 1976 | The Big Bus | Shorty Scotty |
| 1976 | Mikey and Nicky | Kinney |
| 1976 | Silver Streak | Bob Sweet |
| 1976 | Gator | Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited) |
| 1975 | Nashville | Delbert Reese |
| 1975 | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | Country Bull |
| 1975 | The Deadly Tower | Allan Crum |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Ollie Thompson |
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | Father Stafford |
| 1973 | White Lightning | Sheriff J.C. Connors |
| 1973 | The Last American Hero | Hackel |
| 1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Deams |
| 1973 | Dying Room Only | Tom King |
| 1973 | The Marcus-Nelson Murders | Det. Dan Corrigan |
| 1972 | Deliverance | Bobby Trippe |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Tector Crites |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Frank Powell |