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).
Known for
Law & Order
Malcolm Reynolds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry
Murder, She Wrote
Roy Gunderson
M*A*S*H
Colonel Hollister
The Waltons
Curtis Norton
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Homicide: Life on the Street
Stanley Bolander
Hawaii Five-O
Caldwell
The Rockford Files
Leon Fielder
The Rockford Files
Al Brennan
Toy Story 3
Lotso (voice)
Highway to Heaven
Bill Cassidy
Gunsmoke
Karp
Shooter
Senator Charles F. Meachum
Faerie Tale Theatre
The King
Captain America
Sam Kolawetz
The Rookies
Baggage Claim
Mr. Donaldson
Hopscotch
Myerson
Rango
Mayor (voice)
Friendly Fire
Gene Mullen
Nashville
Delbert Reese
Rolling Vengeance
Tiny Doyle
Stroker Ace
Clyde Torkle
Rudy
Daniel Ruettiger
Just Cause
McNair
The Streets of San Francisco
Eddie Boggs
Rampart
Hartshorn
Gator
Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
Superman
Otis
Midnight Crossing
Ellis
The Toy
Sydney Morehouse
Going Under
Admiral Malice
Life
Dexter Wilkins
Casting By
Self
Ed and His Dead Mother
Uncle Benny
Tennessee Nights
Charlie Kiefer
Silver Streak
Bob Sweet
Sweet Land
Harmo
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Otis
Petrocelli
Gage
Wise Blood
Hoover Shoates
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Ollie Thompson
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Dan Beame
Crazy Horse
Dr. McGillicuddy
1941
Ward Douglas
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Tector Crites
Charlie Wilson's War
Doc Long
Physical Evidence
James Nicks
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Deams
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sheriff Abe McConnell
The Big Easy
Jack Kellom
Cookie's Fortune
Lester Boyle
In the Electric Mist
Twinky LeMoyne
The Walker
Jack Delorean
The Deadly Tower
Allan Crum
Repossessed
Ernest Weller
La Classe américaine
Frédéric (archive footage)
Back to School
Dean Martin
Prelude to a Kiss
Dr. Boyle
Superman II
Otis
Switching Channels
Roy Ridnitz
The Last American Hero
Hackel
The Big Bus
Shorty Scotty
The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth
Thunderpants
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Gray Lady Down
Mickey
The Killer Inside Me
Chester Conway
The Fourth Protocol
Borisov
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Det. Dan Corrigan
Alambrista!
Anglo Coyote
Hostage Flight
Art Hofstadter
Blind Vision
Sgt. Logan
Our Town
Dr. Gibbs
Spring Forward
Murph
Hear My Song
Josef Locke
He Got Game
Warden Wyatt
Kentucky Woman
Luke Telford
Trial: The Price of Passion
Scoot Shepard
The Affair
Col. Banning
Go On
Coach Spence
The Unholy
Lt. Stern
Chattahoochee
Dr. Harwood
All the President's Men
Dardis
Replikator
Insp. Victor Valiant
The Execution of Private Slovik
Father Stafford
A Woman Called Golda
Sen. Durward
A Cry in the Wild
Pilot
Time Trackers
Harry Orth
Splendor in the Grass
Ace Stamper
Lucan
Larry MacElwaine
Pray TV
Rev. Freddy Stone
A Question of Love
Dwayne Stabler
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Roseanne
Ed Conner
The Curse of Inferno
Moles Huddenel
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Rev. Mansfield French
Deliverance
Bobby Trippe
Touched
Herbie
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Edwards
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Narrator (voice)
Network
Arthur Jensen
Delvecchio
Wakefield
Footsteps
Frank Powell
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Duke of Bridgewater
I Was a Rat
Mudduck
Lincoln
Dennis Hanks (voice)
Spy
Thomas Ludlow
Konrad
Mr. Thomas
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
Rumpelstiltskin
The King
The American Success Company
Mr. Elliott
All God's Children
Mike Naponic
Roughing It
Slade
Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad
The Making of 'Network'
Self
Tail Gunner Joe
Sylvester
The Big Ask
Old Man Carl
The Wool Cap
Gigot's Father
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Dr. Walter Keys
B.L. Stryker
Last Train Home
Cornelius van Horne
Angel Square
Purple People Eater
Grandpa
Ministry of Vengeance
Rev. Bloor
Restless Natives
Bender
The Trouble with Spies
Harry Lewis
Mikey and Nicky
Kinney
All the Way Home
Ralph Follet
Homicide: The Movie
Stanley Bolander
The Great Bank Hoax
Julius Taggart
Big Bad John
Charlie Mitchelle
T Bone N Weasel
Doc Tatum
Shadows in the Storm
Thelonious Pitt
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Benjamin Hammett
Answers
Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Rep. Leo Ryan
Go Toward the Light
George
Promises in the Dark
Bud Koenig
Dying Room Only
Tom King
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Self
The Gardener's Son
Pinky
White Lightning
Sheriff J.C. Connors
The Last Days of Pompeii
Diomed
Celebrity
Otto Leo
E! True Hollywood Story
Nashville 99
Randy Blair
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
The Boys
Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
Robert Kennedy & His Times
J. Edgar Hoover
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Self
Radioland Murders
General Whalen
Szysznyk
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Sam Lawrence
NBC Special Treat
Big Henry
After the Rain
Matthew Bonner
Illusions
Landlord
A Woman Called Golda
Senator Durward
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Country Bull
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Lynch Mob Leader
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Edward C. Acker
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Self - Host
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Cole Scholar
Kiwi Magic
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Fat Monroe
Fat Monroe
Inside the Actors Studio
Self