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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 6, 1937
Died
June 13, 2021
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- Ned Thomas Beatty
- ند بیتی
Ned Beatty
1.0 Popularity
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
5.0
Old Man Carl
The Big Ask
2014
5.3
Mr. Donaldson
Baggage Claim
2013
6.9
Self
Casting By
2012
6.4
Coach Spence
Go On
2012
5.4
Hartshorn
Rampart
2011
6.9
Mayor (voice)
Rango
2011
7.8
Lotso (voice)
Toy Story 3
2010
5.8
Chester Conway
The Killer Inside Me
2010
6.1
Twinky LeMoyne
In the Electric Mist
2009
6.5
Doc Long
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
Credits
The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl
2014
5.0
Baggage Claim
as Mr. Donaldson
2013
5.3
Casting By
as Self
2012
6.9
Go On
as Coach Spence
2012
6.4
Rampart
as Hartshorn
2011
5.4
Rango
as Mayor (voice)
2011
6.9
Toy Story 3
as Lotso (voice)
2010
7.8
The Killer Inside Me
as Chester Conway
2010
5.8
In the Electric Mist
as Twinky LeMoyne
2009
6.1
Charlie Wilson's War
as Doc Long
2007
6.5
Shooter
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
2007
7.1
The Walker
as Jack Delorean
2007
5.2
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Otis
2006
7.4
The Making of 'Network'
as Self
2006
0.0
Sweet Land
as Harmo
2005
6.4
The Wool Cap
as Gigot's Father
2004
6.2
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
2003
5.9
Thunderpants
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
2002
3.4
Roughing It
as Slade
2002
4.7
I Was a Rat
as Mudduck
2001
0.0
Spring Forward
as Murph
2000
6.4
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. David Lowry
2000
7.6
Homicide: The Movie
as Stanley Bolander
2000
6.8
Life
as Dexter Wilkins
1999
6.7
Cookie's Fortune
as Lester Boyle
1999
6.3
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt
1998
6.7
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel
1996
4.9
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy
1996
9.6
Gulliver's Travels
as Farmer Grultrad
1996
7.1
Streets of Laredo
as Judge Roy Bean
1995
6.3
The Affair
as Col. Banning
1995
3.8
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sam Lawrence
1995
5.0
Just Cause
as McNair
1995
6.3
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen
1994
5.9
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Replikator
as Insp. Victor Valiant
1994
3.0
La Classe américaine
as Frédéric (archive footage)
1993
7.6
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Narrator (voice)
1993
5.7
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
1993
7.3
🎬
The Boys
as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
1993
0.0
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny
1993
5.4
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Stanley Bolander
1993
8.1
🎬
Lincoln
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
1992
6.8
T Bone N Weasel
as Doc Tatum
1992
3.0
Illusions
as Landlord
1992
4.3
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
The Golden Palace
as Tad Hollingsworth
1992
6.2
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle
1992
5.6
Blind Vision
as Sgt. Logan
1992
2.3
Trial: The Price of Passion
as Scoot Shepard
1992
0.0
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke
1991
5.8
Angel Square
1991
0.0
Going Under
as Admiral Malice
1991
3.7
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
1990
4.5
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Edward C. Acker
1990
6.5
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
as Duke of Bridgewater
1990
6.1
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller
1990
5.2
Law & Order
as Malcolm Reynolds
1990
7.4
A Cry in the Wild
as Pilot
1990
5.5
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood
1990
5.6
Big Bad John
as Charlie Mitchelle
1990
4.0
Spy
as Thomas Ludlow
1989
6.9
Last Train Home
as Cornelius van Horne
1989
0.5
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor
1989
3.0
Tennessee Nights
as Charlie Kiefer
1989
5.0
Time Trackers
as Harry Orth
1989
3.2
B.L. Stryker
1989
6.0
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks
1989
5.1
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
as Self - Host
1989
4.4
Purple People Eater
as Grandpa
1988
4.8
Go Toward the Light
as George
1988
7.2
Roseanne
as Ed Conner
1988
6.8
After the Rain
as Matthew Bonner
1988
0.0
Midnight Crossing
as Ellis
1988
4.5
The Unholy
as Lt. Stern
1988
5.3
🎬
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
1988
7.0
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz
1988
6.1
🎬
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
as Self
1988
0.0
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt
1988
3.8
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis
1987
4.2
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle
1987
5.6
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
as Cole Scholar
1987
0.0
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov
1987
6.3
Kiwi Magic
1987
0.0
The Big Easy
as Jack Kellom
1986
6.2
Back to School
as Dean Martin
1986
6.3
Hostage Flight
as Art Hofstadter
1985
5.9
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas
1985
5.6
Restless Natives
as Bender
1985
6.7
Answers
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
1985
0.0
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French
1985
0.0
Robert Kennedy & His Times
as J. Edgar Hoover
1985
7.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Roy Gunderson
1984
7.5
Highway to Heaven
as Bill Cassidy
1984
7.4
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Diomed
1984
7.3
Celebrity
as Otto Leo
1984
6.0
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
as Self
1984
0.0
Touched
as Herbie
1983
7.0
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Lynch Mob Leader
1983
6.9
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle
1983
4.9
Kentucky Woman
as Luke Telford
1983
6.0
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse
1982
5.9
Rumpelstiltskin
as The King
1982
5.8
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The King
1982
8.1
A Woman Called Golda
as Senator Durward
1982
0.0
A Woman Called Golda
as Sen. Durward
1982
7.7
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett
1982
6.0
Pray TV
as Rev. Freddy Stone
1982
0.0
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
1982
6.4
All the Way Home
as Ralph Follet
1981
7.0
Splendor in the Grass
as Ace Stamper
1981
6.4
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
as Dr. Walter Keys
1981
3.0
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame
1981
5.4
Superman II
as Otis
1980
6.7
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen
1980
7.5
Hopscotch
as Myerson
1980
7.0
All God's Children
as Mike Naponic
1980
4.0
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Rep. Leo Ryan
1980
7.2
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott
1980
4.9
1941
as Ward Douglas
1979
5.8
Promises in the Dark
as Bud Koenig
1979
5.7
Wise Blood
as Hoover Shoates
1979
6.3
Superman
as Otis
1978
7.2
A Question of Love
as Dwayne Stabler
1978
4.8
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart
1978
4.4
Gray Lady Down
as Mickey
1978
6.4
Alambrista!
as Anglo Coyote
1977
5.7
🎬
Szysznyk
1977
0.0
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
1977
4.5
Our Town
as Dr. Gibbs
1977
9.0
Lucan
as Larry MacElwaine
1977
0.0
Nashville 99
as Randy Blair
1977
0.0
Tail Gunner Joe
as Sylvester
1977
6.0
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
6.0
The Gardener's Son
as Pinky
1977
4.4
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney
1976
6.8
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet
1976
6.7
Network
as Arthur Jensen
1976
7.8
Delvecchio
as Wakefield
1976
0.0
Gator
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
1976
5.1
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty
1976
5.2
All the President's Men
as Dardis
1976
7.7
🎬
NBC Special Treat
as Big Henry
1975
0.0
The Deadly Tower
as Allan Crum
1975
6.6
Nashville
as Delbert Reese
1975
7.2
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
as Country Bull
1975
5.9
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Ollie Thompson
1975
5.0
The Rockford Files
as Leon Fielder
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Al Brennan
1974
7.6
Petrocelli
as Gage
1974
7.2
The Execution of Private Slovik
as Father Stafford
1974
7.2
Dying Room Only
as Tom King
1973
6.6
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
1973
6.1
The Last American Hero
as Hackel
1973
5.6
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan
1973
7.4
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Deams
1973
6.9
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites
1972
6.4
Footsteps
as Frank Powell
1972
0.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as Eddie Boggs
1972
7.0
M*A*S*H
as Colonel Hollister
1972
7.9
The Waltons
as Curtis Norton
1972
7.2
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
1972
7.3
Hawaii Five-O
as Caldwell
1968
7.1
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Gunsmoke
as Karp
1955
6.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Superman Redeemed
as Otis
N/A
0.0
🎬
Fat Monroe
as Fat Monroe
N/A
0.0