Acting
Ned Beatty
EN, FR cinema · 132 credits
Born
6 July 1937
Died
13 June 2021 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also known as Ned Thomas Beatty · ند بیتی
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).
Known for
Filmography
Fat Monroe
Fat Monroe
as Fat Monroe
The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl
Baggage Claim
as Mr. Donaldson
Casting By
as Self
Rango
as Mayor (voice)
Rampart
as Hartshorn
Toy Story 3
as Lotso (voice)
The Killer Inside Me
as Chester Conway
In the Electric Mist
as Twinky LeMoyne
Charlie Wilson's War
as Doc Long
Shooter
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
The Walker
as Jack Delorean
Sweet Land
as Harmo
The Wool Cap
as Gigot's Father
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
Thunderpants
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
Roughing It
as Slade
I Was a Rat
as Mudduck
Homicide: The Movie
as Stanley Bolander
Spring Forward
as Murph
Cookie's Fortune
as Lester Boyle
Life
as Dexter Wilkins
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy
Just Cause
as McNair
The Affair
as Col. Banning
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sam Lawrence
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen
Replikator
as Insp. Victor Valiant
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Narrator (voice)
La Classe américaine
as Frédéric (archive footage)
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle
Illusions
as Landlord
Lincoln
1992
Lincoln
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
as Duke of Bridgewater
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Edward C. Acker
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
The Passage
as Matthew Bonner
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
Go Toward the Light
as George
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
as Cole Scholar
The Big Easy
as Jack Kellom
Back to School
as Dean Martin
Restless Natives
as Bender
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle
Touched
as Herbie
Kentucky Woman
as Luke Telford
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Lynch Mob Leader
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
as Dr. Walter Keys
All the Way Home
as Ralph Follet
Splendor in the Grass
as Ace Stamper
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
Superman II
as Otis
Hopscotch
as Myerson
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
All God's Children
as Mike Naponic
1941
as Ward Douglas
Wise Blood
as Hoover Shoates
Promises in the Dark
as Bud Koenig
Superman
as Otis
Gray Lady Down
as Mickey
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart
A Question of Love
as Dwayne Stabler
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
Tail Gunner Joe
as Sylvester
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
Lucan
as Larry MacElwaine
The Gardener's Son
as Pinky
All the President's Men
as Dardis
Network
as Arthur Jensen
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet
Gator
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
Nashville
as Delbert Reese
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
as Country Bull
The Deadly Tower
as Allan Crum
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Father Stafford
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
Dying Room Only
as Tom King
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites
Footsteps
as Frank Powell
