Ned Beatty

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).

Known For

Law & Order

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Murder, She Wrote

Toy Story 3

Golden Globe Awards

M*A*S*H

Hawaii Five-O

All Movies (133)

• The Big Ask2014 · as Old Man Carl
• Baggage Claim2013 · as Mr. Donaldson
• Casting By2012 · as Self
• Rampart2011 · as Hartshorn
• Rango2011 · as Mayor (voice)
• Toy Story 32010 · as Lotso (voice)
• The Killer Inside Me2010 · as Chester Conway
• In the Electric Mist2009 · as Twinky LeMoyne
• Charlie Wilson's War2007 · as Doc Long
• Shooter2007 · as Senator Charles F. Meachum
• The Walker2007 · as Jack Delorean
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut2006 · as Otis
• The Making of 'Network'2006 · as Self
• Sweet Land2005 · as Harmo
• The Wool Cap2004 · as Gigot's Father
• Where the Red Fern Grows2003 · as Sheriff Abe McConnell
• Thunderpants2002 · as Gen. Ed Sheppard
• Roughing It2002 · as Slade
• I Was a Rat2001 · as Mudduck
• Spring Forward2000 · as Murph
• Homicide: The Movie2000 · as Stanley Bolander
• Life1999 · as Dexter Wilkins
• Cookie's Fortune1999 · as Lester Boyle
• He Got Game1998 · as Warden Wyatt
• The Curse of Inferno1996 · as Moles Huddenel
• Crazy Horse1996 · as Dr. McGillicuddy
• The Affair1995 · as Col. Banning
• Just Cause1995 · as McNair
• Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart1995 · as Sam Lawrence
• Radioland Murders1994 · as General Whalen
• Replikator1994 · as Insp. Victor Valiant
• La Classe américaine1993 · as Frédéric (archive footage)
• Warren Oates: Across the Border1993 · as Narrator (voice)
• Rudy1993 · as Daniel Ruettiger
• Ed and His Dead Mother1993 · as Uncle Benny
• Lincoln1992 · as Dennis Hanks (voice)
• T Bone N Weasel1992 · as Doc Tatum
• Illusions1992 · as Landlord
• Earth and the American Dream1992 · as Reader (voice)
• Prelude to a Kiss1992 · as Dr. Boyle
• Blind Vision1992 · as Sgt. Logan
• Trial: The Price of Passion1992 · as Scoot Shepard
• Hear My Song1991 · as Josef Locke
• Angel Square1991
• Going Under1991 · as Admiral Malice
• Captain America1990 · as Sam Kolawetz
• The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story1990 · as Edward C. Acker
• Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn1990 · as Duke of Bridgewater
• Repossessed1990 · as Ernest Weller
• A Cry in the Wild1990 · as Pilot
• Chattahoochee1990 · as Dr. Harwood
• Big Bad John1990 · as Charlie Mitchelle
• Spy1989 · as Thomas Ludlow
• Last Train Home1989 · as Cornelius van Horne
• Ministry of Vengeance1989 · as Rev. Bloor
• Tennessee Nights1989 · as Charlie Kiefer
• Time Trackers1989 · as Harry Orth
• Physical Evidence1989 · as James Nicks
• Sex and Buttered Popcorn1989 · as Self - Host
• Purple People Eater1988 · as Grandpa
• Go Toward the Light1988 · as George
• After the Rain1988 · as Matthew Bonner
• Midnight Crossing1988 · as Ellis
• The Unholy1988 · as Lt. Stern
• Switching Channels1988 · as Roy Ridnitz
• Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide1988 · as Self
• Shadows in the Storm1988 · as Thelonious Pitt
• The Trouble with Spies1987 · as Harry Lewis
• Rolling Vengeance1987 · as Tiny Doyle
• The Haunting of Barney Palmer1987 · as Cole Scholar
• The Fourth Protocol1987 · as Borisov
• Kiwi Magic1987
• The Big Easy1986 · as Jack Kellom
• Back to School1986 · as Dean Martin
• Hostage Flight1985 · as Art Hofstadter
• Konrad1985 · as Mr. Thomas
• Restless Natives1985 · as Bender
• Answers1985 · as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
• Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom1985 · as Rev. Mansfield French
• Don't Ask Me, Ask God1984 · as Self
• Touched1983 · as Herbie
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez1983 · as Lynch Mob Leader
• Stroker Ace1983 · as Clyde Torkle
• Kentucky Woman1983 · as Luke Telford
• The Toy1982 · as Sydney Morehouse
• Rumpelstiltskin1982 · as The King
• A Woman Called Golda1982 · as Sen. Durward
• A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion1982 · as Benjamin Hammett
• Pray TV1982 · as Rev. Freddy Stone
• The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'1982 · as Self
• All the Way Home1981 · as Ralph Follet
• Splendor in the Grass1981 · as Ace Stamper
• The Violation of Sarah McDavid1981 · as Dr. Walter Keys
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman1981 · as Dan Beame
• Superman II1980 · as Otis
• Friendly Fire1980 · as Gene Mullen
• Hopscotch1980 · as Myerson
• All God's Children1980 · as Mike Naponic
• The American Success Company1980 · as Mr. Elliott
• 19411979 · as Ward Douglas
• Promises in the Dark1979 · as Bud Koenig
• Wise Blood1979 · as Hoover Shoates
• Superman1978 · as Otis
• A Question of Love1978 · as Dwayne Stabler
• The Great Bank Hoax1978 · as Julius Taggart
• Gray Lady Down1978 · as Mickey
• Alambrista!1977 · as Anglo Coyote
• Exorcist II: The Heretic1977 · as Edwards
• Our Town1977 · as Dr. Gibbs
• Lucan1977 · as Larry MacElwaine
• Tail Gunner Joe1977 · as Sylvester
• The Gardener's Son1977 · as Pinky
• Mikey and Nicky1976 · as Kinney
• Silver Streak1976 · as Bob Sweet
• Network1976 · as Arthur Jensen
• Gator1976 · as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
• The Big Bus1976 · as Shorty Scotty
• All the President's Men1976 · as Dardis
• The Deadly Tower1975 · as Allan Crum
• Nashville1975 · as Delbert Reese
• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings1975 · as Country Bull
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan1975 · as Ollie Thompson
• The Execution of Private Slovik1974 · as Father Stafford
• Dying Room Only1973 · as Tom King
• White Lightning1973 · as Sheriff J.C. Connors
• The Last American Hero1973 · as Hackel
• The Marcus-Nelson Murders1973 · as Det. Dan Corrigan
• The Thief Who Came to Dinner1973 · as Deams
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean1972 · as Tector Crites
• Footsteps1972 · as Frank Powell
• Deliverance1972 · as Bobby Trippe
• The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'1972 · as Self
• Fat Monroe— · as Fat Monroe

All TV Shows (38)

• Go On2012 · as Coach Spence
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation2000 · as Dr. David Lowry
• E! True Hollywood Story1996
• Gulliver's Travels1996 · as Farmer Grultrad
• Streets of Laredo1995 · as Judge Roy Bean
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• The Boys1993 · as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
• Homicide: Life on the Street1993 · as Stanley Bolander
• The Golden Palace1992 · as Tad Hollingsworth
• Law & Order1990 · as Malcolm Reynolds
• B.L. Stryker1989
• Roseanne1988 · as Ed Conner
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour1988 · as Self
• Robert Kennedy & His Times1985 · as J. Edgar Hoover
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Roy Gunderson
• Highway to Heaven1984 · as Bill Cassidy
• The Last Days of Pompeii1984 · as Diomed
• Celebrity1984 · as Otto Leo
• Faerie Tale Theatre1982 · as The King
• A Woman Called Golda1982 · as Senator Durward
• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones1980 · as Rep. Leo Ryan
• Szysznyk1977
• Nashville 991977 · as Randy Blair
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected1977
• Delvecchio1976 · as Wakefield
• NBC Special Treat1975 · as Big Henry
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan1975 · as Ollie Thompson
• The Rockford Files1974 · as Leon Fielder
• The Rockford Files1974 · as Al Brennan
• Petrocelli1974 · as Gage
• The Streets of San Francisco1972 · as Eddie Boggs
• M*A*S*H1972 · as Colonel Hollister
• The Waltons1972 · as Curtis Norton
• The Rookies1972
• Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Caldwell
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Karp
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee