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).
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The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl
Baggage Claim
as Mr. Donaldson
Casting By
as Self
Go On
as Coach Spence
Rampart
as Hartshorn
Rango
as Mayor (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
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Otis
The Making of 'Network'
as Self
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
Roughing It
as Slade
I Was a Rat
as Mudduck
Spring Forward
as Murph
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. David Lowry
Homicide: The Movie
as Stanley Bolander
Life
as Dexter Wilkins
Cookie's Fortune
as Lester Boyle
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel
E! True Hollywood Story
as Unknown
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy
Gulliver's Travels
as Farmer Grultrad
Streets of Laredo
as Judge Roy Bean
The Affair
as Col. Banning
Just Cause
as McNair
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sam Lawrence
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Replikator
as Insp. Victor Valiant
La Classe américaine
as Frédéric (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Narrator (voice)
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Stanley Bolander
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
Illusions
as Landlord
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
The Golden Palace
as Tad Hollingsworth
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
Angel Square
as Unknown
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Edward C. Acker
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
as Duke of Bridgewater
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
Law & Order
as Malcolm Reynolds
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
B.L. Stryker
as Unknown
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
Go Toward the Light
as George
Roseanne
as Ed Conner
The Passage
as Matthew Bonner
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
as Cole Scholar
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov
Kiwi Magic
as Unknown
The Big Easy
as Jack Kellom
Back to School
as Dean Martin
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
Restless Natives
as Bender
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
Robert Kennedy & His Times
as J. Edgar Hoover
Murder, She Wrote
as Roy Gunderson
Highway to Heaven
as Bill Cassidy
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Diomed
Celebrity
as Otto Leo
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
as Self
Touched
as Herbie
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Lynch Mob Leader
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle
Kentucky Woman
as Luke Telford
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The King
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
A Woman Called Golda
as Senator Durward
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
American Playhouse
as Lynch Mob Leader
American Playhouse
as Reverend Mansfield French
All the Way Home
as Ralph Follet
Splendor in the Grass
as Ace Stamper
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
as Dr. Walter Keys
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame
Superman II
as Otis
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
Hopscotch
as Myerson
All God's Children
as Mike Naponic
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Rep. Leo Ryan
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
1941
as Ward Douglas
Promises in the Dark
as Bud Koenig
Wise Blood
as Hoover Shoates
Superman
as Otis
A Question of Love
as Dwayne Stabler
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart
Gray Lady Down
as Mickey
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
Lucan
as Larry MacElwaine
Nashville 99
as Randy Blair
Tail Gunner Joe
as Sylvester
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as Unknown
The Gardener's Son
as Pinky
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet
Network
as Arthur Jensen
Delvecchio
as Wakefield
Gator
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty
All the President's Men
as Dardis
The Deadly Tower
as Allan Crum
Nashville
as Delbert Reese
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
as Country Bull
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Ollie Thompson
The Rockford Files
as Leon Fielder
The Rockford Files
as Al Brennan
Petrocelli
as Gage
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Father Stafford
Dying Room Only
as Tom King
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Deams
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites
Footsteps
as Frank Powell
The Streets of San Francisco
as Eddie Boggs
M*A*S*H
as Colonel Hollister
The Waltons
as Curtis Norton
The Rookies
as Unknown
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
as Self
Hawaii Five-O
as Caldwell
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Gunsmoke
as Karp
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee