
Ned Beatty
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Acting Credits
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 (...
Known For
Filmography

The Big Ask
2014
as Old Man Carl

Baggage Claim
2013
as Mr. Donaldson

Casting By
2012
as Self

Go On
2012
as Coach Spence

Rango
2011
as Mayor (voice)

Rampart
2011
as Hartshorn

Toy Story 3
2010
as Lotso (voice)

The Killer Inside Me
2010
as Chester Conway

In the Electric Mist
2009
as Twinky LeMoyne

Charlie Wilson's War
2007
as Doc Long

Shooter
2007
as Senator Charles F. Meachum

The Walker
2007
as Jack Delorean

The Making of 'Network'
2006
as Self

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Otis

Sweet Land
2005
as Harmo

The Wool Cap
2004
as Gigot's Father

Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
as Sheriff Abe McConnell

Thunderpants
2002
as Gen. Ed Sheppard

Roughing It
2002
as Slade

Roughing It
2002
as Slade

I Was a Rat
2001
as Mudduck

Homicide: The Movie
2000
as Stanley Bolander

Spring Forward
2000
as Murph

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Dr. David Lowry

Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Lester Boyle

Life
1999
as Dexter Wilkins

He Got Game
1998
as Warden Wyatt

The Curse of Inferno
1996
as Moles Huddenel

Crazy Horse
1996
as Dr. McGillicuddy

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Gulliver's Travels
1996
as Farmer Grultrad

Just Cause
1995
as McNair

The Affair
1995
as Col. Banning

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
as Sam Lawrence

Streets of Laredo
1995
as Judge Roy Bean

Radioland Murders
1994
as General Whalen

Replikator
1994
as Insp. Victor Valiant

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Rudy
1993
as Daniel Ruettiger

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Uncle Benny

Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
as Narrator (voice)

La Classe américaine
1993
as Frédéric (archive footage)

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Stanley Bolander
The Boys
1993
as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt

Prelude to a Kiss
1992
as Dr. Boyle

Illusions
1992
as Landlord
Lincoln
1992
as Dennis Hanks (voice)

Blind Vision
1992
as Sgt. Logan

T Bone N Weasel
1992
as Doc Tatum

Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)

Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
as Scoot Shepard

The Golden Palace
1992
as Tad Hollingsworth

Hear My Song
1991
as Josef Locke

Going Under
1991
as Admiral Malice

Angel Square
1991

Repossessed
1990
as Ernest Weller

A Cry in the Wild
1990
as Pilot

Captain America
1990
as Sam Kolawetz

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

Big Bad John
1990
as Charlie Mitchelle

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Edward C. Acker

Chattahoochee
1990
as Dr. Harwood

Law & Order
1990
as Malcolm Reynolds

Physical Evidence
1989
as James Nicks

Time Trackers
1989
as Harry Orth

Ministry of Vengeance
1989
as Rev. Bloor

Spy
1989
as Thomas Ludlow

Tennessee Nights
1989
as Charlie Kiefer

Last Train Home
1989
as Cornelius van Horne

Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
as Self - Host

B.L. Stryker
1989

Switching Channels
1988
as Roy Ridnitz

Midnight Crossing
1988
as Ellis

The Unholy
1988
as Lt. Stern

Shadows in the Storm
1988
as Thelonious Pitt

The Passage
1988
as Matthew Bonner

Purple People Eater
1988
as Grandpa

Go Toward the Light
1988
as George
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
as Self

Roseanne
1988
as Ed Conner
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
as Self

The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Borisov

Rolling Vengeance
1987
as Tiny Doyle

The Trouble with Spies
1987
as Harry Lewis

The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
as Cole Scholar

Kiwi Magic
1987

The Big Easy
1986
as Jack Kellom

Back to School
1986
as Dean Martin

Restless Natives
1985
as Bender

Konrad
1985
as Mr. Thomas

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
as Rev. Mansfield French

Answers
1985
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")

Hostage Flight
1985
as Art Hofstadter

Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985
as J. Edgar Hoover

Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
as Self

Highway to Heaven
1984
as Bill Cassidy

The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
as Diomed

Celebrity
1984
as Otto Leo

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Roy Gunderson

Stroker Ace
1983
as Clyde Torkle

Touched
1983
as Herbie

Kentucky Woman
1983
as Luke Telford

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
as Lynch Mob Leader

The Toy
1982
as Sydney Morehouse

A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Sen. Durward

Rumpelstiltskin
1982
as The King

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
as Self

Pray TV
1982
as Rev. Freddy Stone

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
as Benjamin Hammett

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The King

A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Senator Durward

American Playhouse
1982
as Lynch Mob Leader

American Playhouse
1982
as Reverend Mansfield French

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Dan Beame

The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
as Dr. Walter Keys

All the Way Home
1981
as Ralph Follet

Splendor in the Grass
1981
as Ace Stamper

The American Success Company
1980
as Mr. Elliott

Superman II
1980
as Otis

Hopscotch
1980
as Myerson

Friendly Fire
1980
as Gene Mullen

All God's Children
1980
as Mike Naponic

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
as Rep. Leo Ryan

1941
1979
as Ward Douglas

Wise Blood
1979
as Hoover Shoates

Promises in the Dark
1979
as Bud Koenig

Superman
1978
as Otis

Gray Lady Down
1978
as Mickey

The Great Bank Hoax
1978
as Julius Taggart

A Question of Love
1978
as Dwayne Stabler

Alambrista!
1977
as Anglo Coyote

Our Town
1977
as Dr. Gibbs

Tail Gunner Joe
1977
as Sylvester

Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
as Edwards

Lucan
1977
as Larry MacElwaine

The Gardener's Son
1977
as Pinky
Szysznyk
1977

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977

Nashville 99
1977
as Randy Blair

All the President's Men
1976
as Dardis

Network
1976
as Arthur Jensen

The Big Bus
1976
as Shorty Scotty

Mikey and Nicky
1976
as Kinney

Silver Streak
1976
as Bob Sweet

Gator
1976
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)

Delvecchio
1976
as Wakefield

Nashville
1975
as Delbert Reese

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
as Country Bull

The Deadly Tower
1975
as Allan Crum
NBC Special Treat
1975
as Big Henry

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

The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Father Stafford

The Rockford Files
1974
as Leon Fielder

The Rockford Files
1974
as Al Brennan

Petrocelli
1974
as Gage

White Lightning
1973
as Sheriff J.C. Connors

The Last American Hero
1973
as Hackel

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
as Deams

Dying Room Only
1973
as Tom King

The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
as Det. Dan Corrigan

Deliverance
1972
as Bobby Trippe

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
as Tector Crites

Footsteps
1972
as Frank Powell

The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972
as Self

M*A*S*H
1972
as Colonel Hollister

The Rookies
1972

The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Eddie Boggs

The Waltons
1972
as Curtis Norton

Hawaii Five-O
1969
as Caldwell

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Gunsmoke
1955
as Karp

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee