
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).
TV Shows(30)

Go On
Coach Spence

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry

E! True Hollywood Story

Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad

Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean

Inside the Actors Studio
Self

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

The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth

Law & Order
Malcolm Reynolds

B.L. Stryker

Roseanne
Ed Conner
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self

Robert Kennedy & His Times
J. Edgar Hoover

Highway to Heaven
Bill Cassidy

The Last Days of Pompeii
Diomed

Celebrity
Otto Leo

Murder, She Wrote
Roy Gunderson

Faerie Tale Theatre
The King

A Woman Called Golda
Senator Durward