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Ned Beatty
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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…
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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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2014
The Big Ask
Movie Old Man Carl
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2013
Baggage Claim
Movie Mr. Donaldson
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2012
Casting By
Movie Self
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2012
Go On
TV show Coach Spence
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2011
Rampart
Movie Hartshorn
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2011
Rango
Movie Mayor (voice)
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2010
Toy Story 3
Movie Lotso (voice)
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2010
The Killer Inside Me
Movie Chester Conway
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2009
In the Electric Mist
Movie Twinky LeMoyne
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2007
Charlie Wilson's War
Movie Doc Long
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2007
Shooter
Movie Senator Charles F. Meachum
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2007
The Walker
Movie Jack Delorean
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2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie Otis
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2006
The Making of 'Network'
Movie Self
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2005
Sweet Land
Movie Harmo
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2004
The Wool Cap
Movie Gigot's Father
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2003
Where the Red Fern Grows
Movie Sheriff Abe McConnell
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2002
Thunderpants
Movie Gen. Ed Sheppard
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2002
Roughing It
Movie Slade
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2002
Roughing It
TV show Slade
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2001
I Was a Rat
Movie Mudduck
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2000
Spring Forward
Movie Murph
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2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV show Dr. David Lowry
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2000
Homicide: The Movie
Movie Stanley Bolander
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1999
Life
Movie Dexter Wilkins
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1999
Cookie's Fortune
Movie Lester Boyle
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1998
He Got Game
Movie Warden Wyatt
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1996
The Curse of Inferno
Movie Moles Huddenel
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1996
Crazy Horse
Movie Dr. McGillicuddy
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1996
Gulliver's Travels
TV show Farmer Grultrad
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1995
Streets of Laredo
TV show Judge Roy Bean
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1995
The Affair
Movie Col. Banning
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1995
Just Cause
Movie McNair
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1995
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Movie Sam Lawrence
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1994
Radioland Murders
Movie General Whalen
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1994
Inside the Actors Studio
TV show Self
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1994
Replikator
Movie Insp. Victor Valiant
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1993
La Classe américaine
Movie Frédéric (archive footage)
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1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Movie Narrator (voice)
