Ned Beatty
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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
Credits
Toy Story 3 (2010)
as Lotso (voice)
Rango (2011)
as Mayor (voice)
Shooter (2007)
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
Superman (1978)
as Otis
Superman II (1980)
as Otis
Life (1999)
as Dexter Wilkins
Network (1976)
as Arthur Jensen
Deliverance (1972)
as Bobby Trippe
The Making of 'Network' (2006)
as Self
Rudy (1993)
as Daniel Ruettiger
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
as Doc Long
1941 (1979)
as Ward Douglas
All the President's Men (1976)
as Dardis
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
as Edwards
He Got Game (1998)
as Warden Wyatt
Lincoln (1992)
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
Just Cause (1995)
as McNair
Nashville (1975)
as Delbert Reese
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
as Otis
Back to School (1986)
as Dean Martin
Rampart (2011)
as Hartshorn
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
as Chester Conway
Captain America (1990)
as Sam Kolawetz
Silver Streak (1976)
as Bob Sweet
In the Electric Mist (2009)
as Twinky LeMoyne
The Big Easy (1986)
as Jack Kellom
The Big Bus (1976)
as Shorty Scotty
Repossessed (1990)
as Ernest Weller
Sweet Land (2005)
as Harmo
Hear My Song (1991)
as Josef Locke
The Unholy (1988)
as Lt. Stern
White Lightning (1973)
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
The Walker (2007)
as Jack Delorean
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
as Tector Crites
The Toy (1982)
as Sydney Morehouse
Crazy Horse (1996)
as Dr. McGillicuddy
Casting By (2012)
as Self
Baggage Claim (2013)
as Mr. Donaldson
Gator (1976)
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
Physical Evidence (1989)
as James Nicks
Stroker Ace (1983)
as Clyde Torkle
Switching Channels (1988)
as Roy Ridnitz
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
as Lester Boyle
Thunderpants (2002)
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
Roughing It (2002)
as Slade
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
as Borisov
Wise Blood (1979)
as Hoover Shoates
Radioland Murders (1994)
as General Whalen
Gray Lady Down (1978)
as Mickey
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
Homicide: The Movie (2000)
as Stanley Bolander
The Affair (1995)
as Col. Banning
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
as Dr. Boyle
Hopscotch (1980)
as Myerson
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
as Kinney
La Classe américaine (1993)
as Frédéric (archive footage)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
as Dan Beame
The Wool Cap (2004)
as Gigot's Father
Splendor in the Grass (1981)
as Ace Stamper
The Big Ask (2014)
as Old Man Carl
Going Under (1991)
as Admiral Malice
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
as Reader (voice)
Pray TV (1982)
as Rev. Freddy Stone
I Was a Rat (2001)
as Mudduck
A Cry in the Wild (1990)
as Pilot
The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
as Dr. Walter Keys
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)
as Lynch Mob Leader
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
as Uncle Benny
The Last American Hero (1973)
as Hackel
Restless Natives (1985)
as Bender
Purple People Eater (1988)
as Grandpa
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
as Tiny Doyle
Our Town (1977)
as Dr. Gibbs
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' (1982)
as Self
Friendly Fire (1980)
as Gene Mullen
Hostage Flight (1985)
as Art Hofstadter
Chattahoochee (1990)
as Dr. Harwood
Angel Square (1991)
Actor
Spring Forward (2000)
as Murph
Big Bad John (1990)
as Charlie Mitchelle
All God's Children (1980)
as Mike Naponic
Blind Vision (1992)
as Sgt. Logan
The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)
as Det. Dan Corrigan
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
as Father Stafford
The Deadly Tower (1975)
as Allan Crum
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
as Sen. Durward
Don't Ask Me, Ask God (1984)
as Self
Time Trackers (1989)
as Harry Orth
Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
as Sylvester
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
as Deams
Kentucky Woman (1983)
as Luke Telford
Dying Room Only (1973)
as Tom King
Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
as Rev. Bloor
Footsteps (1972)
as Frank Powell
Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993)
as Narrator (voice)
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982)
as Benjamin Hammett
The American Success Company (1980)
as Mr. Elliott
Konrad (1985)
as Mr. Thomas
Trial: The Price of Passion (1992)
as Scoot Shepard
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
as Ollie Thompson
All the Way Home (1981)
as Ralph Follet
Spy (1989)
as Thomas Ludlow
T Bone N Weasel (1992)
as Doc Tatum
Go Toward the Light (1988)
as George
A Question of Love (1978)
as Dwayne Stabler
Tennessee Nights (1989)
as Charlie Kiefer
The Trouble with Spies (1987)
as Harry Lewis
Illusions (1992)
as Landlord
Midnight Crossing (1988)
as Ellis
The Great Bank Hoax (1978)
as Julius Taggart
The Gardener's Son (1977)
as Pinky
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
as Country Bull
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990)
as Duke of Bridgewater
Kiwi Magic (1987)
Actor
The Curse of Inferno (1996)
as Moles Huddenel
Promises in the Dark (1979)
as Bud Koenig
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)
as Edward C. Acker
Alambrista! (1977)
as Anglo Coyote
After the Rain (1988)
as Matthew Bonner
Shadows in the Storm (1988)
as Thelonious Pitt
Lucan (1977)
as Larry MacElwaine
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart (1995)
as Sam Lawrence
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide (1988)
as Self
Replikator (1994)
as Insp. Victor Valiant
Answers (1985)
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Sex and Buttered Popcorn (1989)
as Self - Host
Touched (1983)
as Herbie
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
as Rev. Mansfield French
Last Train Home (1989)
as Cornelius van Horne
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' (1972)
as Self
The Haunting of Barney Palmer (1987)
as Cole Scholar
Fat Monroe (—)
as Fat Monroe
Rumpelstiltskin (1982)
as The King