
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

