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).
171 acting credits
Acting · 171
Law & Order
1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Golden Globe Awards
1944
M*A*S*H
1972
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Waltons
1972
The Rockford Files
1974
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
1955
Toy Story 3
2010
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Rango
2011
Shooter
2007
Petrocelli
1974
Superman
1978
Go On
2012
The Golden Palace
1992
Roseanne
1988
Life
1999
Superman II
1980
Network
1976
Delvecchio
1976
1941
1979
B.L. Stryker
1989
Gulliver's Travels
1996
All the President's Men
1976
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
Deliverance
1972
Rudy
1993
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
Just Cause
1995
Streets of Laredo
1995
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
In the Electric Mist
2009
Baggage Claim
2013
He Got Game
1998
Rampart
2011
Nashville
1975
Captain America
1990
The Big Bus
1976
Gator
1976
Silver Streak
1976
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
The Killer Inside Me
2010
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Celebrity
1984
Back to School
1986
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
Hopscotch
1980
Szysznyk
1977
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
White Lightning
1973
The Big Easy
1986
Thunderpants
2002
Repossessed
1990
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
The Boys
1993
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Mikey and Nicky
1976
NBC Special Treat
1975
Prelude to a Kiss
1992
Nashville 99
1977
Radioland Murders
1994
Homicide: The Movie
2000
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
La Classe américaine
1993
Casting By
2012
Gray Lady Down
1978
The Toy
1982
The Deadly Tower
1975
Sweet Land
2005
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Stroker Ace
1983
Crazy Horse
1996
A Woman Called Golda
1982
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
The Walker
2007
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
Cookie's Fortune
1999
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
Hear My Song
1991
Lincoln
1992
Wise Blood
1979
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
Chattahoochee
1990
A Woman Called Golda
1982
The Last American Hero
1973
A Cry in the Wild
1990
Physical Evidence
1989
Rolling Vengeance
1987
The Wool Cap
2004
The Affair
1995
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
Pray TV
1982
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
The Unholy
1988
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
Purple People Eater
1988
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
The Trouble with Spies
1987
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
I Was a Rat
2001
Switching Channels
1988
Restless Natives
1985
Spy
1989
Konrad
1985
Going Under
1991
Splendor in the Grass
1981
The Great Bank Hoax
1978
Midnight Crossing
1988
The Gardener's Son
1977
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
Spring Forward
2000
KSonic: Into the Multi-World
2026
Alambrista!
1977
The American Success Company
1980
Our Town
1977
Friendly Fire
1980
Replikator
1994
All the Way Home
1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
Touched
1983
Tail Gunner Joe
1977
The Big Ask
2014
Go Toward the Light
1988
Time Trackers
1989
All God's Children
1980
T Bone N Weasel
1992
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
Dying Room Only
1973
The Curse of Inferno
1996
A Question of Love
1978
Answers
1985
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
Hostage Flight
1985
Tennessee Nights
1989
Footsteps
1972
Big Bad John
1990
Last Train Home
1989
The Making of 'Network'
2006
Shadows in the Storm
1988
Illusions
1992
Ministry of Vengeance
1989
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
Kentucky Woman
1983
Roughing It
2002
Rumpelstiltskin
1982
Lucan
1977
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
Blind Vision
1992
Promises in the Dark
1979
Angel Square
1991
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
After the Rain
1988
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972
Kiwi Magic
1987
Fat Monroe
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