Ned Beatty
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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 (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).
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Known For
Law & Order
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Murder, She Wrote
Gunsmoke
Kojak
Hawaii Five-O
The Rookies
E! True Hollywood Story
Golden Globe Awards
Highway to Heaven
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Waltons
M*A*S*H
Go On
The Rockford Files
Faerie Tale Theatre
Roseanne
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The Golden Palace
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Earth and the American Dream
Life
Homicide: Life on the Street
Charlie Wilson's War
Gulliver's Travels
Robert Kennedy & His Times
Toy Story 3
All the President's Men
Exorcist II: The Heretic
A Woman Called Golda
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Where the Red Fern Grows
He Got Game
Superman
The Big Bus
Superman II
Spy
The Killer Inside Me
The Affair
Celebrity
Shooter
Deliverance
Radioland Murders
Nashville
Mikey and Nicky
Captain America
Rango
Rudy
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1941
Repossessed
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Petrocelli
The Boys
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