Ned Beatty
ActingAlso Known As
Ned Thomas Beatty, ند بیتی
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).
Movies
(132 total)
Toy Story 3
as Lotso (voice)
Rango
as Mayor (voice)
Shooter
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
Superman
as Otis
Superman II
as Otis
All the President's Men
as Dardis
Network
as Arthur Jensen
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe
Charlie Wilson's War
as Doc Long
Life
as Dexter Wilkins
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger
1941
as Ward Douglas
The Killer Inside Me
as Chester Conway
Just Cause
as McNair
Back to School
as Dean Martin
In the Electric Mist
as Twinky LeMoyne
Nashville
as Delbert Reese
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz
TV Shows
(37 total)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. David Lowry
M*A*S*H
as Colonel Hollister
Law & Order
as Malcolm Reynolds
Murder, She Wrote
as Roy Gunderson
Roseanne
as Ed Conner
Highway to Heaven
as Bill Cassidy
Hawaii Five-O
as Caldwell
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Stanley Bolander
Gulliver's Travels
as Farmer Grultrad
The Rockford Files
as Leon Fielder
The Rockford Files
as Al Brennan
Go On
as Coach Spence
Gunsmoke
as Karp
The Waltons
as Curtis Norton
The Streets of San Francisco
as Eddie Boggs
Streets of Laredo
as Judge Roy Bean
Petrocelli
as Gage