
Ned Beatty
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).
Acting (129 movies)

All the President's Men
1976

Toy Story 3
2010

Nashville
1975

Superman
1978

Prelude to a Kiss
1992

Deliverance
1972

Network
1976

The Fourth Protocol
1987

The Big Easy
1986

White Lightning
1973

Repossessed
1990

Where the Red Fern Grows
2003

1941
1979

Homicide: The Movie
2000

The American Success Company
1980

Sweet Land
2005

Charlie Wilson's War
2007

The Toy
1982

Shooter
2007

Radioland Murders
1994

The Last American Hero
1973

Gray Lady Down
1978

Superman II
1980

Hopscotch
1980

A Cry in the Wild
1990

Replikator
1994

Cookie's Fortune
1999

Just Cause
1995

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981

The Walker
2007

Switching Channels
1988

Rolling Vengeance
1987

In the Electric Mist
2009

Captain America
1990

Wise Blood
1979

Rudy
1993

Physical Evidence
1989

Restless Natives
1985

The Killer Inside Me
2010

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993

Rango
2011

Midnight Crossing
1988

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975

The Big Bus
1976

Spring Forward
2000

Stroker Ace
1983

The Wool Cap
2004

Hear My Song
1991

The Deadly Tower
1975

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973

Rampart
2011

The Curse of Inferno
1996

The Unholy
1988

Dying Room Only
1973

The Execution of Private Slovik
1974

Alambrista!
1977

Mikey and Nicky
1976

Konrad
1985

The Great Bank Hoax
1978

The Affair
1995

Time Trackers
1989

Illusions
1992

Our Town
1977

Promises in the Dark
1979

The Trouble with Spies
1987

Ministry of Vengeance
1989

Going Under
1991

The Big Ask
2014

Spy
1989

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990

Big Bad John
1990

Tennessee Nights
1989

Shadows in the Storm
1988

Thunderpants
2002

Friendly Fire
1980

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990

Silver Streak
1976

Tail Gunner Joe
1977

Touched
1983

Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985

After the Rain
1988

Purple People Eater
1988

Lucan
1977

Crazy Horse
1996

A Woman Called Golda
1982

The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981

Angel Square
1991

Answers
1985

Go Toward the Light
1988

He Got Game
1998

A Question of Love
1978

Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993

Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984

All the Way Home
1981

Chattahoochee
1990

Back to School
1986

Hostage Flight
1985

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
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