Ned Beatty
Known for: Acting
Born: July 6, 1937
Died: June 13, 2021
Place of birth: 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).
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Filmography
132 movies · 39 TV shows, newest first
5.0
The Big Ask
2014
5.3
Baggage Claim
2013
6.9
Casting By
2012
6.5
Go On
2012
5.5
Rampart
2011
6.9
Rango
2011
7.8
Toy Story 3
2010
5.8
The Killer Inside Me
2010
6.1
In the Electric Mist
2009
6.5
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
7.1
Shooter
2007
5.3
The Walker
2007
7.4
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
NR
The Making of 'Network'
2006
6.3
Sweet Land
2005
6.5
The Wool Cap
2004
6.5
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
3.4
Thunderpants
2002
5.5
Roughing It
2002
NR
Roughing It
2002
9.0
I Was a Rat
2001
6.5
Spring Forward
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
6.9
Homicide: The Movie
2000
6.7
Life
1999
6.4
Cookie's Fortune
1999
6.8
He Got Game
1998
5.0
The Curse of Inferno
1996
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.7
Crazy Horse
1996
7.3
Gulliver's Travels
1996
6.3
Streets of Laredo
1995
4.0
The Affair
1995
6.3
Just Cause
1995
6.0
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
5.8
Radioland Murders
1994
NR
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
3.4
Replikator
1994
7.6
La Classe américaine
1993
6.5
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
7.3
Rudy
19938.0
The Boys
1993
5.5
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
19937.3
Lincoln
1992
3.8
T Bone N Weasel
1992
4.6
Illusions
1992
6.7
Earth and the American Dream
1992
6.4
The Golden Palace
1992
5.6
Prelude to a Kiss
1992
3.6
Blind Vision
1992
7.0
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
5.9
Hear My Song
1991
8.0
Angel Square
1991
3.9
Going Under
1991
4.5
Captain America
1990
7.0
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
6.2
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
5.3
Repossessed
1990
7.3
Law & Order
1990
5.9
A Cry in the Wild
1990
5.7
Chattahoochee
1990
5.0
Big Bad John
1990
6.9
Spy
1989
4.3
Last Train Home
1989
3.8
Ministry of Vengeance
1989
5.6
Tennessee Nights
1989
4.0
Time Trackers
1989
6.1
B.L. Stryker
1989
5.1
Physical Evidence
1989
4.9
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
5.1
Purple People Eater
1988
7.7
Go Toward the Light
1988
6.8
Roseanne
1988
10.0
After the Rain
1988
4.6
Midnight Crossing
1988
5.4
The Unholy
19887.5
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
6.1
Switching Channels
198810.0
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
4.6
Shadows in the Storm
1988
4.7
The Trouble with Spies
1987
5.7
Rolling Vengeance
1987
7.0
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
6.3
The Fourth Protocol
1987
NR
Kiwi Magic
1987
6.2
The Big Easy
1986
6.3
Back to School
1986
6.1
Hostage Flight
1985
6.0
Konrad
1985
6.8
Restless Natives
1985
NR
Answers
1985
NR
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
7.8
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
6.7
Celebrity
1984
NR
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
7.8
Touched
1983
7.0
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
4.8
Stroker Ace
1983
6.5
Kentucky Woman
1983
5.9
The Toy
1982
5.9
Rumpelstiltskin
1982
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
7.7
A Woman Called Golda
1982
NR
A Woman Called Golda
1982
7.0
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
8.0
Pray TV
1982
6.8
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
7.0
All the Way Home
1981
6.6
Splendor in the Grass
1981
4.5
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
5.4
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
6.8
Superman II
1980
7.0
Friendly Fire
1980
7.0
Hopscotch
1980
6.5
All God's Children
1980
7.3
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
5.2
The American Success Company
1980
5.8
1941
1979
5.9
Promises in the Dark
1979
6.4
Wise Blood
1979
7.2
Superman
1978
5.2
A Question of Love
1978
5.0
The Great Bank Hoax
1978
6.5
Gray Lady Down
1978
5.9
Alambrista!
19777.0
Szysznyk
1977
4.5
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
9.5
Our Town
1977
7.0
Lucan
1977
8.0
Nashville 99
1977
6.0
Tail Gunner Joe
1977
6.8
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
4.4
The Gardener's Son
1977
6.9
Mikey and Nicky
1976
6.7
Silver Streak
1976
7.8
Network
1976
7.0
Delvecchio
1976
5.2
Gator
1976
5.3
The Big Bus
1976
7.7
All the President's Men
1976NR
NBC Special Treat
1975
6.7
The Deadly Tower
1975
7.3
Nashville
1975
6.0
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
NR
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
7.6
The Rockford Files
1974
7.2
Petrocelli
1974
7.4
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
6.6
Dying Room Only
1973
6.1
White Lightning
1973
5.7
The Last American Hero
1973
7.6
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
7.0
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
6.5
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
6.5
Footsteps
1972
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.9
M*A*S*H
1972
7.2
The Waltons
1972
6.9
The Rookies
1972
7.3
Deliverance
1972
7.0
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
19449.0
Fat Monroe
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