Acting · Louisville, Kentucky, USA · Born July 6, 1937
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).
MovieThe Big Ask
2014
as Old Man Carl
MovieBaggage Claim
2013
as Mr. Donaldson
MovieCasting By
2012
as Self
TVGo On
2012
as Coach Spence
MovieRampart
2011
as Hartshorn
MovieRango
2011
as Mayor (voice)
MovieToy Story 3
2010
as Lotso (voice)
MovieThe Killer Inside Me
2010
as Chester Conway
MovieIn the Electric Mist
2009
as Twinky LeMoyne
MovieCharlie Wilson's War
2007
as Doc Long
MovieShooter
2007
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
MovieThe Walker
2007
as Jack Delorean
MovieSuperman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Otis
MovieThe Making of 'Network'
2006
as Self
MovieSweet Land
2005
as Harmo
MovieThe Wool Cap
2004
as Gigot's Father
MovieWhere the Red Fern Grows
2003
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
MovieThunderpants
2002
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
MovieRoughing It
2002
as Slade
TVRoughing It
2002
as Slade
MovieI Was a Rat
2001
as Mudduck
MovieSpring Forward
2000
as Murph
TVCSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Dr. David Lowry
MovieHomicide: The Movie
2000
as Stanley Bolander
MovieLife
1999
as Dexter Wilkins
MovieCookie's Fortune
1999
as Lester Boyle
MovieHe Got Game
1998
as Warden Wyatt
MovieThe Curse of Inferno
1996
as Moles Huddenel
TVE! True Hollywood Story
1996
MovieCrazy Horse
1996
as Dr. McGillicuddy
TVGulliver's Travels
1996
as Farmer Grultrad
TVStreets of Laredo
1995
as Judge Roy Bean
MovieThe Affair
1995
as Col. Banning
MovieJust Cause
1995
as McNair
MovieOutlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
as Sam Lawrence
MovieRadioland Murders
1994
as General Whalen
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieReplikator
1994
as Insp. Victor Valiant
MovieLa Classe américaine
1993
as Frédéric (archive footage)
MovieWarren Oates: Across the Border
1993
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRudy
1993
as Daniel Ruettiger
The Boys
1993
as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
MovieEd and His Dead Mother
1993
as Uncle Benny
TVHomicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Stanley Bolander
Lincoln
1992
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
MovieT Bone N Weasel
1992
as Doc Tatum
MovieIllusions
1992
as Landlord
MovieEarth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
TVThe Golden Palace
1992
as Tad Hollingsworth
MoviePrelude to a Kiss
1992
as Dr. Boyle
MovieBlind Vision
1992
as Sgt. Logan
MovieTrial: The Price of Passion
1992
as Scoot Shepard
MovieHear My Song
1991
as Josef Locke
MovieAngel Square
1991
MovieGoing Under
1991
as Admiral Malice
MovieCaptain America
1990
as Sam Kolawetz
MovieThe Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Edward C. Acker
MovieBack to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
as Duke of Bridgewater
MovieRepossessed
1990
as Ernest Weller
TVLaw & Order
1990
as Malcolm Reynolds
MovieA Cry in the Wild
1990
as Pilot
MovieChattahoochee
1990
as Dr. Harwood
MovieBig Bad John
1990
as Charlie Mitchelle
MovieSpy
1989
as Thomas Ludlow
MovieLast Train Home
1989
as Cornelius van Horne
MovieMinistry of Vengeance
1989
as Rev. Bloor
MovieTennessee Nights
1989
as Charlie Kiefer
MovieTime Trackers
1989
as Harry Orth
TVB.L. Stryker
1989
MoviePhysical Evidence
1989
as James Nicks
MovieSex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
as Self - Host
MoviePurple People Eater
1988
as Grandpa
MovieGo Toward the Light
1988
as George
TVRoseanne
1988
as Ed Conner
MovieAfter the Rain
1988
as Matthew Bonner
MovieMidnight Crossing
1988
as Ellis
MovieThe Unholy
1988
as Lt. Stern
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
as Self
MovieSwitching Channels
1988
as Roy Ridnitz
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
as Self
MovieShadows in the Storm
1988
as Thelonious Pitt
MovieThe Trouble with Spies
1987
as Harry Lewis
MovieRolling Vengeance
1987
as Tiny Doyle
MovieThe Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
as Cole Scholar
MovieThe Fourth Protocol
1987
as Borisov
MovieKiwi Magic
1987
MovieThe Big Easy
1986
as Jack Kellom
MovieBack to School
1986
as Dean Martin
MovieHostage Flight
1985
as Art Hofstadter
MovieKonrad
1985
as Mr. Thomas
MovieRestless Natives
1985
as Bender
MovieAnswers
1985
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
MovieCharlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
as Rev. Mansfield French
TVRobert Kennedy & His Times
1985
as J. Edgar Hoover
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Roy Gunderson
TVHighway to Heaven
1984
as Bill Cassidy
TVThe Last Days of Pompeii
1984
as Diomed
TVCelebrity
1984
as Otto Leo
MovieDon't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
as Self
MovieTouched
1983
as Herbie
MovieThe Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
as Lynch Mob Leader
MovieStroker Ace
1983
as Clyde Torkle
MovieKentucky Woman
1983
as Luke Telford
MovieThe Toy
1982
as Sydney Morehouse
MovieRumpelstiltskin
1982
as The King
TVFaerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The King
MovieA Woman Called Golda
1982
as Sen. Durward
TVA Woman Called Golda
1982
as Senator Durward
MovieA House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
as Benjamin Hammett
MoviePray TV
1982
as Rev. Freddy Stone
MovieThe Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
as Self
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Lynch Mob Leader
MovieAll the Way Home
1981
as Ralph Follet
MovieSplendor in the Grass
1981
as Ace Stamper
MovieThe Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
as Dr. Walter Keys
MovieThe Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Dan Beame
MovieSuperman II
1980
as Otis
MovieFriendly Fire
1980
as Gene Mullen
MovieHopscotch
1980
as Myerson
MovieAll God's Children
1980
as Mike Naponic
TVGuyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
as Rep. Leo Ryan
MovieThe American Success Company
1980
as Mr. Elliott
Movie1941
1979
as Ward Douglas
MoviePromises in the Dark
1979
as Bud Koenig
MovieWise Blood
1979
as Hoover Shoates
MovieSuperman
1978
as Otis
MovieA Question of Love
1978
as Dwayne Stabler
MovieThe Great Bank Hoax
1978
as Julius Taggart
MovieGray Lady Down
1978
as Mickey
MovieAlambrista!
1977
as Anglo Coyote
Szysznyk
1977
MovieExorcist II: The Heretic
1977
as Edwards
MovieOur Town
1977
as Dr. Gibbs
MovieLucan
1977
as Larry MacElwaine
TVNashville 99
1977
as Randy Blair
MovieTail Gunner Joe
1977
as Sylvester
TVQuinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
MovieThe Gardener's Son
1977
as Pinky
MovieMikey and Nicky
1976
as Kinney
MovieSilver Streak
1976
as Bob Sweet
MovieNetwork
1976
as Arthur Jensen
TVDelvecchio
1976
as Wakefield
MovieGator
1976
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
MovieThe Big Bus
1976
as Shorty Scotty
MovieAll the President's Men
1976
as Dardis
NBC Special Treat
1975
as Big Henry
MovieThe Deadly Tower
1975
as Allan Crum
MovieNashville
1975
as Delbert Reese
MovieW.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
as Country Bull
MovieAttack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Ollie Thompson
TVAttack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Ollie Thompson
TVThe Rockford Files
1974
as Leon Fielder
TVPetrocelli
1974
as Gage
MovieThe Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Father Stafford
MovieDying Room Only
1973
as Tom King
MovieWhite Lightning
1973
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
MovieThe Last American Hero
1973
as Hackel
MovieThe Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
as Det. Dan Corrigan
MovieThe Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
as Deams
MovieThe Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
as Tector Crites
MovieFootsteps
1972
as Frank Powell
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Eddie Boggs
TVM*A*S*H
1972
as Colonel Hollister
TVThe Waltons
1972
as Curtis Norton
TVThe Rookies
1972
MovieDeliverance
1972
as Bobby Trippe
MovieThe Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
1972
as Self
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Caldwell
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Karp
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Fat Monroe
as Fat Monroe
