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).

Filmography

• 2014The Big Ask — Old Man Carl
• 2013Baggage Claim — Mr. Donaldson
• Go On — Coach Spence
• 2011Rampart — Hartshorn
• 2011Rango — Mayor (voice)
• 2010The Killer Inside Me — Chester Conway
• 2010Toy Story 3 — Lotso (voice)
• 2009In the Electric Mist — Twinky LeMoyne
• 2007Charlie Wilson's War — Doc Long
• 2007Shooter — Senator Charles F. Meachum
• 2007The Walker — Jack Delorean
• 2006Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut — Otis
• 2005Sweet Land — Harmo
• 2004The Wool Cap — Gigot's Father
• 2003Where the Red Fern Grows — Sheriff Abe McConnell
• 2002Roughing It — Slade
• Roughing It — Slade
• 2002Thunderpants — Gen. Ed Sheppard
• 2001I Was a Rat — Mudduck
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Dr. David Lowry
• 2000Homicide: The Movie — Stanley Bolander
• 2000Spring Forward — Murph
• 1999Cookie's Fortune — Lester Boyle
• 1999Life — Dexter Wilkins
• 1998He Got Game — Warden Wyatt
• 1996Crazy Horse — Dr. McGillicuddy
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Gulliver's Travels — Farmer Grultrad
• 1996The Curse of Inferno — Moles Huddenel
• 1995Just Cause — McNair
• 1995Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart — Sam Lawrence
• Streets of Laredo — Judge Roy Bean
• 1995The Affair — Col. Banning
• 1994Radioland Murders — General Whalen
• 1994Replikator — Insp. Victor Valiant
• 1993Ed and His Dead Mother — Uncle Benny
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Stanley Bolander
• 1993La Classe américaine — Frédéric (archive footage)
• 1993Rudy — Daniel Ruettiger
• The Boys — Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
• 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border — Narrator (voice)
• 1992Blind Vision — Sgt. Logan
• 1992Earth and the American Dream — Reader (voice)
• 1992Illusions — Landlord
• 1992Lincoln — Dennis Hanks (voice)
• 1992Prelude to a Kiss — Dr. Boyle
• 1992T Bone N Weasel — Doc Tatum
• The Golden Palace — Tad Hollingsworth
• 1992Trial: The Price of Passion — Scoot Shepard
• 1991Angel Square
• 1991Going Under — Admiral Malice
• 1991Hear My Song — Josef Locke
• 1990A Cry in the Wild — Pilot
• 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn — Duke of Bridgewater
• 1990Big Bad John — Charlie Mitchelle
• 1990Captain America — Sam Kolawetz
• 1990Chattahoochee — Dr. Harwood
• Law & Order — Malcolm Reynolds
• 1990Repossessed — Ernest Weller
• 1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story — Edward C. Acker
• B.L. Stryker
• 1989Last Train Home — Cornelius van Horne
• 1989Ministry of Vengeance — Rev. Bloor
• 1989Physical Evidence — James Nicks
• 1989Spy — Thomas Ludlow
• 1989Tennessee Nights — Charlie Kiefer
• 1989Time Trackers — Harry Orth
• 1988Go Toward the Light — George
• 1988Midnight Crossing — Ellis
• 1988Purple People Eater — Grandpa
• Roseanne — Ed Conner
• 1988Shadows in the Storm — Thelonious Pitt
• 1988Switching Channels — Roy Ridnitz
• 1988The Passage — Matthew Bonner
• 1988The Unholy — Lt. Stern
• 1987Kiwi Magic
• 1987Rolling Vengeance — Tiny Doyle
• 1987The Fourth Protocol — Borisov
• 1987The Haunting of Barney Palmer — Cole Scholar
• 1987The Trouble with Spies — Harry Lewis
• 1986Back to School — Dean Martin
• 1986The Big Easy — Jack Kellom
• 1985Answers — Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
• 1985Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom — Rev. Mansfield French
• 1985Hostage Flight — Art Hofstadter
• 1985Konrad — Mr. Thomas
• 1985Restless Natives — Bender
• Robert Kennedy & His Times — J. Edgar Hoover
• Celebrity — Otto Leo
• Highway to Heaven — Bill Cassidy
• Murder, She Wrote — Roy Gunderson
• The Last Days of Pompeii — Diomed
• 1983Kentucky Woman — Luke Telford
• 1983Stroker Ace — Clyde Torkle
• 1983The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez — Lynch Mob Leader
• 1983Touched — Herbie
• 1982A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion — Benjamin Hammett
• 1982A Woman Called Golda — Sen. Durward
• A Woman Called Golda — Senator Durward
• American Playhouse — Lynch Mob Leader, Reverend Mansfield French
• Faerie Tale Theatre — The King
• 1982Pray TV — Rev. Freddy Stone
• 1982Rumpelstiltskin — The King
• 1982The Toy — Sydney Morehouse
• 1981All the Way Home — Ralph Follet
• 1981Splendor in the Grass — Ace Stamper
• 1981The Incredible Shrinking Woman — Dan Beame
• 1981The Violation of Sarah McDavid — Dr. Walter Keys
• 1980All God's Children — Mike Naponic
• 1980Friendly Fire — Gene Mullen
• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones — Rep. Leo Ryan
• 1980Hopscotch — Myerson
• 1980Superman II — Otis
• 1980The American Success Company — Mr. Elliott
• 19791941 — Ward Douglas
• 1979Promises in the Dark — Bud Koenig
• 1979Wise Blood — Hoover Shoates
• 1978A Question of Love — Dwayne Stabler
• 1978Gray Lady Down — Mickey
• 1978Superman — Otis
• 1978The Great Bank Hoax — Julius Taggart
• 1977Alambrista! — Anglo Coyote
• 1977Exorcist II: The Heretic — Edwards
• 1977Lucan — Larry MacElwaine
• Nashville 99 — Randy Blair
• 1977Our Town — Dr. Gibbs
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
• Szysznyk
• 1977Tail Gunner Joe — Sylvester
• 1977The Gardener's Son — Pinky
• 1976All the President's Men — Dardis
• Delvecchio — Wakefield
• 1976Gator — Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
• 1976Mikey and Nicky — Kinney
• 1976Network — Arthur Jensen
• 1976Silver Streak — Bob Sweet
• 1976The Big Bus — Shorty Scotty
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan — Ollie Thompson
• NBC Special Treat — Big Henry
• 1975Nashville — Delbert Reese
• 1975The Deadly Tower — Allan Crum
• 1975W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings — Country Bull
• Petrocelli — Gage
• 1974The Execution of Private Slovik — Father Stafford
• The Rockford Files — Leon Fielder, Al Brennan
• 1973Dying Room Only — Tom King
• 1973The Last American Hero — Hackel
• 1973The Marcus-Nelson Murders — Det. Dan Corrigan
• 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner — Deams
• 1973White Lightning — Sheriff J.C. Connors
• 1972Deliverance — Bobby Trippe
• 1972Footsteps — Frank Powell
• M*A*S*H — Colonel Hollister
• 1972The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean — Tector Crites
• The Rookies
• The Streets of San Francisco — Eddie Boggs
• The Waltons — Curtis Norton
• Hawaii Five-O — Caldwell
• Gunsmoke — Karp
• Fat Monroe — Fat Monroe

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2006The Making of 'Network' — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1989Sex and Buttered Popcorn — Self - Host
• 1988Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide — Self
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — Self
• 1984Don't Ask Me, Ask God — Self
• 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' — Self
• 1972The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee