Portrait of Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Acting

Biography

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).

Born: July 6, 1937

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Filmography

2014
The Big Ask

as Old Man Carl

2013
Baggage Claim

as Mr. Donaldson

2012
Casting By

as Self

2012
Go On

as Coach Spence

2011
Rampart

as Hartshorn

2011
Rango

as Mayor (voice)

2010
Toy Story 3

as Lotso (voice)

2010
The Killer Inside Me

as Chester Conway

2009
In the Electric Mist

as Twinky LeMoyne

2007
2007
Shooter

as Senator Charles F. Meachum

2007
The Walker

as Jack Delorean

2005
Sweet Land

as Harmo

2004
The Wool Cap

as Gigot's Father

2003
Where the Red Fern Grows

as Sheriff Abe McConnell

2002
Thunderpants

as Gen. Ed Sheppard

2002
Roughing It

as Slade

2001
I Was a Rat

as Mudduck

2000
2000
2000
Homicide: The Movie

as Stanley Bolander

1999
Life

as Dexter Wilkins

1999
Cookie's Fortune

as Lester Boyle

1998
He Got Game

as Warden Wyatt

1996
The Curse of Inferno

as Moles Huddenel

1996
Crazy Horse

as Dr. McGillicuddy

1996
Gulliver's Travels

as Farmer Grultrad

1995
Streets of Laredo

as Judge Roy Bean

1995
The Affair

as Col. Banning

1995
Just Cause

as McNair

1994
Radioland Murders

as General Whalen

1994
Replikator

as Insp. Victor Valiant

1993
La Classe américaine

as Frédéric (archive footage)

1993
1993
Rudy

as Daniel Ruettiger

1993
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street

as Stanley Bolander

1992
T Bone N Weasel

as Doc Tatum

1992
Illusions

as Landlord

1992
1992
The Golden Palace

as Tad Hollingsworth

1992
Prelude to a Kiss

as Dr. Boyle

1992
Blind Vision

as Sgt. Logan

1992
1991
Hear My Song

as Josef Locke

1991
Going Under

as Admiral Malice

1990
Captain America

as Sam Kolawetz

1990
Repossessed

as Ernest Weller

1990
Law & Order

as Malcolm Reynolds

1990
1990
Chattahoochee

as Dr. Harwood

1990
Big Bad John

as Charlie Mitchelle

1989
Spy

as Thomas Ludlow

1989
Last Train Home

as Cornelius van Horne

1989
1989
Tennessee Nights

as Charlie Kiefer

1989
Time Trackers

as Harry Orth

1989
Physical Evidence

as James Nicks

1989
1988
1988
1988
Roseanne

as Ed Conner

1988
After the Rain

as Matthew Bonner

1988
1988
The Unholy

as Lt. Stern

1988
Switching Channels

as Roy Ridnitz

1988
Shadows in the Storm

as Thelonious Pitt

1987
1987
Rolling Vengeance

as Tiny Doyle

1987
1986
The Big Easy

as Jack Kellom

1986
Back to School

as Dean Martin

1985
Hostage Flight

as Art Hofstadter

1985
Konrad

as Mr. Thomas

1985
1985
Answers

as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")

1985
Robert Kennedy & His Times

as J. Edgar Hoover

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Roy Gunderson

1984
Highway to Heaven

as Bill Cassidy

1984
Celebrity

as Otto Leo

1983
Touched

as Herbie

1983
1983
Stroker Ace

as Clyde Torkle

1983
Kentucky Woman

as Luke Telford

1982
The Toy

as Sydney Morehouse

1982
Rumpelstiltskin

as The King

1982
1982
A Woman Called Golda

as Sen. Durward

1982
A Woman Called Golda

as Senator Durward

1982
Pray TV

as Rev. Freddy Stone

1981
All the Way Home

as Ralph Follet

1981
Splendor in the Grass

as Ace Stamper

1981
1980
1980
Friendly Fire

as Gene Mullen

1980
Hopscotch

as Myerson

1980
All God's Children

as Mike Naponic

1979
1941

as Ward Douglas

1979
1979
Wise Blood

as Hoover Shoates

1978
Superman

as Otis

1978
A Question of Love

as Dwayne Stabler

1978
The Great Bank Hoax

as Julius Taggart

1978
1977
Alambrista!

as Anglo Coyote

1977
Our Town

as Dr. Gibbs

1977
Lucan

as Larry MacElwaine

1977
Nashville 99

as Randy Blair

1977
Tail Gunner Joe

as Sylvester

1977
1976
1976
Silver Streak

as Bob Sweet

1976
Network

as Arthur Jensen

1976
Delvecchio

as Wakefield

1976
Gator

as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)

1976
The Big Bus

as Shorty Scotty

1975
The Deadly Tower

as Allan Crum

1975
Nashville

as Delbert Reese

1974
The Rockford Files

as Leon Fielder

1974
The Rockford Files

as Al Brennan

1974
Petrocelli

as Gage

1974
1973
Dying Room Only

as Tom King

1973
White Lightning

as Sheriff J.C. Connors

1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

as Det. Dan Corrigan

1972
Footsteps

as Frank Powell

1972
M*A*S*H

as Colonel Hollister

1972
The Waltons

as Curtis Norton

1972
Deliverance

as Bobby Trippe

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Caldwell

1955
Gunsmoke

as Karp

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee