Ned Beatty

Actor Jul 6 (died age 83) Louisville, Kentucky, USA 1944–2026 (82 year career)

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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

Film

Toy Story 3

Lotso (voice)

Film

Rango

Mayor (voice)

Film

Shooter

Senator Charles F. Meachum

Film

Superman

Otis

Film

Network

Arthur Jensen

Film

All the President's Men

Dardis

Film

Deliverance

Bobby Trippe

Film

Superman II

Otis

Filmography

Acting (174)

Movies (134)

The Big Ask

as Old Man Carl

Baggage Claim

as Mr. Donaldson

Casting By

as Self

Rango

as Mayor (voice)

Rampart

as Hartshorn

Toy Story 3

as Lotso (voice)

The Killer Inside Me

as Chester Conway

In the Electric Mist

as Twinky LeMoyne

Shooter

as Senator Charles F. Meachum

Charlie Wilson's War

as Doc Long

The Walker

as Jack Delorean

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006

as Otis

7.4

The Making of 'Network'

2006

as Self

Sweet Land

as Harmo

The Wool Cap

as Gigot's Father

Where the Red Fern Grows

2003

as Sheriff Abe McConnell

Thunderpants

as Gen. Ed Sheppard

Roughing It

as Slade

I Was a Rat

as Mudduck

Spring Forward

as Murph

Homicide: The Movie

as Stanley Bolander

Life

as Dexter Wilkins

Cookie's Fortune

as Lester Boyle

He Got Game

as Warden Wyatt

The Curse of Inferno

as Moles Huddenel

Crazy Horse

as Dr. McGillicuddy

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

as Sam Lawrence

Just Cause

as McNair

The Affair

as Col. Banning

Radioland Murders

as General Whalen

Replikator

as Insp. Victor Valiant

Rudy

as Daniel Ruettiger

La Classe américaine

as Frédéric (archive footage)

7.6

Ed and His Dead Mother

1993

as Uncle Benny

5.4

Warren Oates: Across the Border

as Narrator (voice)

Prelude to a Kiss

as Dr. Boyle

Lincoln

as Dennis Hanks (voice)

Blind Vision

as Sgt. Logan

T Bone N Weasel

as Doc Tatum

Earth and the American Dream

as Reader (voice)

Illusions

as Landlord

Trial: The Price of Passion

1992

as Scoot Shepard

Going Under

as Admiral Malice

Angel Square

Hear My Song

as Josef Locke

Repossessed

as Ernest Weller

Captain America

as Sam Kolawetz

Big Bad John

as Charlie Mitchelle

Chattahoochee

as Dr. Harwood

A Cry in the Wild

as Pilot

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990

as Edward C. Acker

6.5

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

1990

as Duke of Bridgewater

6.1

Ministry of Vengeance

as Rev. Bloor

Spy

as Thomas Ludlow

Physical Evidence

as James Nicks

Last Train Home

as Cornelius van Horne

Time Trackers

as Harry Orth

Tennessee Nights

as Charlie Kiefer

Sex and Buttered Popcorn

as Self - Host

The Unholy

as Lt. Stern

Switching Channels

as Roy Ridnitz

Midnight Crossing

as Ellis

After the Rain

as Matthew Bonner

Purple People Eater

as Grandpa

Go Toward the Light

as George

Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide

1988

as Self

Shadows in the Storm

as Thelonious Pitt

Rolling Vengeance

as Tiny Doyle

The Fourth Protocol

as Borisov

Kiwi Magic

The Trouble with Spies

1987

as Harry Lewis

4.2

The Haunting of Barney Palmer

1987

as Cole Scholar

Back to School

as Dean Martin

The Big Easy

as Jack Kellom

Answers

as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")

Konrad

as Mr. Thomas

Restless Natives

as Bender

Hostage Flight

as Art Hofstadter

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985

as Rev. Mansfield French

Don't Ask Me, Ask God

1984

as Self

Kentucky Woman

1983

as Luke Telford

6.0

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

as Lynch Mob Leader

Stroker Ace

as Clyde Torkle

Touched

as Herbie

Pray TV

as Rev. Freddy Stone

The Toy

as Sydney Morehouse

Rumpelstiltskin

as The King

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

as Benjamin Hammett

A Woman Called Golda

as Sen. Durward

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

as Self

All the Way Home

as Ralph Follet

Splendor in the Grass

1981

as Ace Stamper

6.4

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981

as Dan Beame

5.4

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

as Dr. Walter Keys

Superman II

as Otis

The American Success Company

as Mr. Elliott

Hopscotch

as Myerson

Friendly Fire

as Gene Mullen

All God's Children

as Mike Naponic

1941

as Ward Douglas

Wise Blood

as Hoover Shoates

Promises in the Dark

as Bud Koenig

Superman

as Otis

A Question of Love

as Dwayne Stabler

Gray Lady Down

as Mickey

The Great Bank Hoax

as Julius Taggart

Exorcist II: The Heretic

as Edwards

Our Town

as Dr. Gibbs

Lucan

as Larry MacElwaine

Alambrista!

as Anglo Coyote

Tail Gunner Joe

as Sylvester

The Gardener's Son

as Pinky

Network

as Arthur Jensen

All the President's Men

1976

as Dardis

7.7

Gator

1976

as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)

Mikey and Nicky

as Kinney

Silver Streak

as Bob Sweet

The Big Bus

as Shorty Scotty

Nashville

as Delbert Reese

The Deadly Tower

as Allan Crum

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

1975

as Country Bull

5.9

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

1975

as Ollie Thompson

5.0

The Execution of Private Slovik

1974

as Father Stafford

7.2

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973

as Deams

6.9

White Lightning

1973

as Sheriff J.C. Connors

6.1

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

as Det. Dan Corrigan

7.4

The Last American Hero

as Hackel

Dying Room Only

as Tom King

Deliverance

as Bobby Trippe

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

as Tector Crites

Footsteps

as Frank Powell

The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'

1972

as Self

Superman Redeemed

as Otis

Fat Monroe

as Fat Monroe

Television (40)

The Ian and Smurfette Show

2026

as Lotso (voice)

10.0

The Ian and Smurfette Show

as Losto

Go On

as Coach Spence

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Dr. David Lowry

Gulliver's Travels

as Farmer Grultrad

E! True Hollywood Story

Streets of Laredo

as Judge Roy Bean

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

as Stanley Bolander

8.1

The Boys

1993

as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt

The Golden Palace

as Tad Hollingsworth

Law & Order

as Malcolm Reynolds

B.L. Stryker

Roseanne

as Ed Conner

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

1988

as Self

7.0

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1985

as Larry Broome

7.2

Robert Kennedy & His Times

as J. Edgar Hoover

Murder, She Wrote

as Roy Gunderson

Highway to Heaven

as Bill Cassidy

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Diomed

Celebrity

as Otto Leo

Faerie Tale Theatre

as The King

A Woman Called Golda

as Senator Durward

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

1980

as Rep. Leo Ryan

7.2

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Szysznyk

Nashville 99

as Randy Blair

Delvecchio

1976

as Wakefield

NBC Special Treat

1975

as Big Henry

The Rockford Files

as Leon Fielder

Petrocelli

as Gage

Kojak

as Det. Dan Corrigan

M*A*S*H

as Colonel Hollister

The Waltons

as Curtis Norton

The Streets of San Francisco

as Eddie Boggs

The Rookies

Hawaii Five-O

as Caldwell

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Gunsmoke

as Karp

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee