Ned Beatty
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 6 July 1937 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- 13 June 2021
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
Acting 137
- 2026Fat Monroe as Fat Monroe
- 2026KSonic: Into the Multi-World as Lotso (archive footage) (voice)
- 2026Superman Redeemed as Otis
- 2014The Big Ask as Old Man Carl
- 2013Baggage Claim as Mr. Donaldson
- 2012Casting By as Self
- 2011Rampart as Hartshorn
- 2011Rango as Mayor (voice)
- 2010Toy Story 3 as Lotso (voice)
- 2010The Killer Inside Me as Chester Conway
- 2009In the Electric Mist as Twinky LeMoyne
- 2007Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
- 2007Shooter as Senator Charles F. Meachum
- 2007The Walker as Jack Delorean
- 2006Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Otis
- 2006The Making of 'Network' as Self
- 2005Sweet Land as Harmo
- 2004The Wool Cap as Gigot's Father
- 2003Where the Red Fern Grows as Sheriff Abe McConnell
- 2002Thunderpants as Gen. Ed Sheppard
- 2002Roughing It as Slade
- 2001I Was a Rat as Mudduck
- 2000Spring Forward as Murph
- 2000Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
- 2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Dr. David Lowry · 1 episode
- 1999Life as Dexter Wilkins
- 1999Cookie's Fortune as Lester Boyle
- 1998He Got Game as Warden Wyatt
- 1996The Curse of Inferno as Moles Huddenel
- 1996Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
- 1995The Affair as Col. Banning
- 1995Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
- 1995Just Cause as McNair
- 1994Radioland Murders as General Whalen
- 1994Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
- 1993La Classe américaine as Frédéric (archive footage)
- 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
- 1993Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
- 1993Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
- 1992Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
- 1992T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
- 1992Illusions as Landlord
- 1992Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
- 1992Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
- 1992Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
- 1991Hear My Song as Josef Locke
- 1991Angel Square
- 1991Going Under as Admiral Malice
- 1990Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
- 1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
- 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
- 1990Repossessed as Ernest Weller
- 1990A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
- 1990Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
- 1990Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
- 1989Spy as Thomas Ludlow
- 1989Last Train Home as Cornelius van Horne
- 1989Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
- 1989Tennessee Nights as Charlie Kiefer
- 1989Time Trackers as Harry Orth
- 1989Physical Evidence as James Nicks
- 1989Sex and Buttered Popcorn as Self - Host
- 1988Purple People Eater as Grandpa
- 1988Go Toward the Light as George
- 1988The Passage as Matthew Bonner
- 1988Midnight Crossing as Ellis
- 1988The Unholy as Lt. Stern
- 1988Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
- 1988Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide as Self
- 1988Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
- 1987The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
- 1987Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
- 1987The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
- 1987The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
- 1987Kiwi Magic
- 1986The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
- 1986Back to School as Dean Martin
- 1985Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
- 1985Konrad as Mr. Thomas
- 1985Restless Natives as Bender
- 1985Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
- 1985Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Rev. Mansfield French
- 1984Don't Ask Me, Ask God as Self
- 1983Touched as Herbie
- 1983The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
- 1983Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
- 1983Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
- 1982The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
- 1982Rumpelstiltskin as The King
- 1982A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
- 1982A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
- 1982Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
- 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- 1981All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
- 1981Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
- 1981The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
- 1981The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
- 1980Superman II as Otis
- 1980Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
- 1980Hopscotch as Myerson
- 1980All God's Children as Mike Naponic
- 1980The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
- 19791941 as Ward Douglas
- 1979Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
- 1979Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
- 1978Superman as Otis
- 1978A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
- 1978The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
- 1978Gray Lady Down as Mickey
- 1977Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
- 1977Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
- 1977Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
- 1977Lucan as Larry MacElwaine
- 1977Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
- 1977The Gardener's Son as Pinky
- 1976Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
- 1976Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
- 1976Network as Arthur Jensen
- 1976Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
- 1976The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
- 1976All the President's Men as Dardis
- 1975The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
- 1975Nashville as Delbert Reese
- 1975W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Country Bull
- 1975Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
- 1974The Execution of Private Slovik as Father Stafford
- 1973Dying Room Only as Tom King
- 1973White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
- 1973The Last American Hero as Hackel
- 1973The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
- 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
- 1972The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
- 1972Footsteps as Frank Powell
- 1972Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
- 1972The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' as Self
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self · 2 episodes