Ned Beatty

Actor · 1937–2021 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA

IMDb

Highest rated as cast or director

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006

Mikey and Nicky

1976

Ned Beatty's 12 titles from the 1970s have a median Balasaur Score of 72, led by Network (82) and Nashville (82), against 63 for those from the 1980s.

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).

Acted in 154

2010s

2000s

2009
In the Electric Mist
Twinky LeMoyne
59
2007
Charlie Wilson's War
Doc Long
71
Shooter
Senator Charles F. Meachum
63
The Walker
Jack Delorean
55
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Otis
79
2005
Sweet Land
Harmo
74
2004
The Wool Cap
Gigot's Father
2003
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sheriff Abe McConnell
65
2002
Thunderpants
Gen. Ed Sheppard
45
Roughing It
Slade
Roughing It
Slade · 2 episodes
2001
I Was a Rat
Mudduck
2000
Spring Forward
Murph
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry · 1 episode
77
Homicide: The Movie
Stanley Bolander

1990s

1999
Life
Dexter Wilkins
64
Cookie's Fortune
Lester Boyle
1998
He Got Game
Warden Wyatt
70
1996
The Curse of Inferno
Moles Huddenel
44
E! True Hollywood Story
TV
Crazy Horse
Dr. McGillicuddy
70
Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad · 2 episodes
70
1995
Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean · 3 episodes
The Affair
Col. Banning
Just Cause
McNair
53
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Sam Lawrence
1994
Radioland Murders
General Whalen
Replikator
Insp. Victor Valiant
1993
La Classe américaine
Frédéric (archive footage)
Rudy
Daniel Ruettiger
75
Ed and His Dead Mother
Uncle Benny
56
Homicide: Life on the Street
Stanley Bolander · 33 episodes
85
1992
T Bone N Weasel
Doc Tatum
Illusions
Landlord
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth · 1 episode
69
Prelude to a Kiss
Dr. Boyle
58
Blind Vision
Sgt. Logan
Trial: The Price of Passion
Scoot Shepard
1991
Hear My Song
Josef Locke
Angel Square
Movie
Going Under
Admiral Malice
1990
Captain America
Sam Kolawetz
31
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Edward C. Acker
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Duke of Bridgewater
Repossessed
Ernest Weller
38
Law & Order
Malcolm Reynolds · 1 episode
77
A Cry in the Wild
Pilot
Chattahoochee
Dr. Harwood
Big Bad John
Charlie Mitchelle