Cast & creator
Ned Beatty
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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).
Also known as: Ned Thomas Beatty, ند بیتی
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television credits
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1944–2014 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (173)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Law & Order
Malcolm Reynolds
1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dr. David Lowry
2000
Murder, She Wrote
Roy Gunderson
1984
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Hawaii Five-O
Caldwell
1969
M*A*S*H
Colonel Hollister
1972
American Playhouse
Lynch Mob Leader
1982American Playhouse
Reverend Mansfield French
1982
The Rockford Files
Leon Fielder
1974The Rockford Files
Al Brennan
1974
The Waltons
Curtis Norton
1972
Homicide: Life on the Street
Stanley Bolander
1993
Highway to Heaven
Bill Cassidy
1984
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
Karp
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
Eddie Boggs
1972
Toy Story 3
Lotso (voice)
2010
Shooter
Senator Charles F. Meachum
2007
Petrocelli
Gage
1974
Faerie Tale Theatre
The King
1982
Go On
Coach Spence
2012
The Golden Palace
Tad Hollingsworth
1992
Superman
Otis
1978
Rango
Mayor (voice)
2011
Superman II
Otis
1980
Roseanne
Ed Conner
1988
Charlie Wilson's War
Doc Long
2007
Delvecchio
Wakefield
1976
All the President's Men
Dardis
1976
Network
Arthur Jensen
1976
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Edwards
1977
B.L. Stryker
1989
Life
Dexter Wilkins
1999
Gulliver's Travels
Farmer Grultrad
1996
Deliverance
Bobby Trippe
1972
Just Cause
McNair
1995
Back to School
Dean Martin
1986
In the Electric Mist
Twinky LeMoyne
2009
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Otis
2006
1941
Ward Douglas
1979
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
The Killer Inside Me
Chester Conway
2010
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Rep. Leo Ryan
1980
Nashville
Delbert Reese
1975
E! True Hollywood Story
1996The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
1988
He Got Game
Warden Wyatt
1998
Baggage Claim
Mr. Donaldson
2013
Streets of Laredo
Judge Roy Bean
1995
Silver Streak
Bob Sweet
1976
Repossessed
Ernest Weller
1990
Prelude to a Kiss
Dr. Boyle
1992
The Last Days of Pompeii
Diomed
1984
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Tector Crites
1972
Celebrity
Otto Leo
1984
The Fourth Protocol
Borisov
1987
The Unholy
Lt. Stern
1988
Robert Kennedy & His Times
J. Edgar Hoover
1985
Rudy
Daniel Ruettiger
1993
The Big Easy
Jack Kellom
1986
Captain America
Sam Kolawetz
1990
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Ollie Thompson
1975
Rampart
Hartshorn
2011
Radioland Murders
General Whalen
1994
White Lightning
Sheriff J.C. Connors
1973
Gray Lady Down
Mickey
1978Szysznyk
1977
Mikey and Nicky
Kinney
1976
Switching Channels
Roy Ridnitz
1988
The Big Bus
Shorty Scotty
1976
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Rev. Mansfield French
1985
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sheriff Abe McConnell
2003
The Toy
Sydney Morehouse
1982
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Dan Beame
1981
Gator
Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
1976
The American Success Company
Mr. Elliott
1980
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
The Walker
Jack Delorean
2007The Boys
Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
1993
Thunderpants
Gen. Ed Sheppard
2002
Hopscotch
Myerson
1980
A Cry in the Wild
Pilot
1990
The Passage
Matthew Bonner
1988
Ed and His Dead Mother
Uncle Benny
1993
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Lynch Mob Leader
1983
Nashville 99
Randy Blair
1977
Physical Evidence
James Nicks
1989
The Last American Hero
Hackel
1973
The Execution of Private Slovik
Father Stafford
1974
A Woman Called Golda
Senator Durward
1982
Wise Blood
Hoover Shoates
1979
Casting By
Self
2012
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Det. Dan Corrigan
1973
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Benjamin Hammett
1982
Homicide: The Movie
Stanley Bolander
2000
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
1982
The Deadly Tower
Allan Crum
1975
A Woman Called Golda
Sen. Durward
1982
Crazy Horse
Dr. McGillicuddy
1996
Purple People Eater
Grandpa
1988
La Classe américaine
Frédéric (archive footage)
1993
Answers
Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
1985
Friendly Fire
Gene Mullen
1980
Sweet Land
Harmo
2005
Hear My Song
Josef Locke
1991
Roughing It
Slade
2002
Roughing It
Slade
2002
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Deams
1973
Touched
Herbie
1983
Cookie's Fortune
Lester Boyle
1999
Konrad
Mr. Thomas
1985
T Bone N Weasel
Doc Tatum
1992
A Question of Love
Dwayne Stabler
1978
Going Under
Admiral Malice
1991
The Making of 'Network'
Self
2006
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
Self
1972
All the Way Home
Ralph Follet
1981
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Country Bull
1975
Rolling Vengeance
Tiny Doyle
1987
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Duke of Bridgewater
1990
Go Toward the Light
George
1988
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992
The Trouble with Spies
Harry Lewis
1987
Tail Gunner Joe
Sylvester
1977
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Dr. Walter Keys
1981
Splendor in the Grass
Ace Stamper
1981
Stroker Ace
Clyde Torkle
1983
The Great Bank Hoax
Julius Taggart
1978
All God's Children
Mike Naponic
1980NBC Special Treat
Big Henry
1975
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Self
1984
The Affair
Col. Banning
1995
I Was a Rat
Mudduck
2001
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Edward C. Acker
1990
Trial: The Price of Passion
Scoot Shepard
1992
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Narrator (voice)
1993
Shadows in the Storm
Thelonious Pitt
1988
Footsteps
Frank Powell
1972Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Self
1988
Restless Natives
Bender
1985
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Sam Lawrence
1995
Angel Square
1991
Dying Room Only
Tom King
1973
Chattahoochee
Dr. Harwood
1990
Promises in the Dark
Bud Koenig
1979
The Curse of Inferno
Moles Huddenel
1996
Lucan
Larry MacElwaine
1977
Rumpelstiltskin
The King
1982
Tennessee Nights
Charlie Kiefer
1989
Ministry of Vengeance
Rev. Bloor
1989
The Gardener's Son
Pinky
1977
The Big Ask
Old Man Carl
2014
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Cole Scholar
1987
Time Trackers
Harry Orth
1989
Spring Forward
Murph
2000
The Wool Cap
Gigot's Father
2004
Pray TV
Rev. Freddy Stone
1982
Our Town
Dr. Gibbs
1977
Last Train Home
Cornelius van Horne
1989
Midnight Crossing
Ellis
1988Lincoln
Dennis Hanks (voice)
1992
Hostage Flight
Art Hofstadter
1985
Kentucky Woman
Luke Telford
1983
Kiwi Magic
1987
Illusions
Landlord
1992
Big Bad John
Charlie Mitchelle
1990
Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Self - Host
1989
Blind Vision
Sgt. Logan
1992
Replikator
Insp. Victor Valiant
1994
Spy
Thomas Ludlow
1989
Alambrista!
Anglo Coyote
1977Fat Monroe
Fat Monroe