Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms in his hometown of St. Matthews, Kentucky.
Ned Beatty
Deceased · Born: Jul 6, 1937 · Died: Jun 13, 2021
Known For
Career
2014
The Big Ask as Old Man Carl
2013
Baggage Claim as Mr. Donaldson
2011
Rango as Mayor (voice)
Rampart as Hartshorn
2010
Toy Story 3 as Lotso (voice)
The Killer Inside Me as Chester Conway
2009
In the Electric Mist as Twinky LeMoyne
2007
The Walker as Jack Delorean
Shooter as Senator Charles F. Meachum
Charlie Wilson's War as Doc Long
2006
2005
Sweet Land as Harmo
2004
The Wool Cap as Gigot's Father
2003
Where the Red Fern Grows as Sheriff Abe McConnell
2002
Roughing It as Slade
Thunderpants as Gen. Ed Sheppard
2001
I Was a Rat as Mudduck
2000
Homicide: The Movie as Stanley Bolander
Spring Forward as Murph
1999
Cookie's Fortune as Lester Boyle
Life as Dexter Wilkins
1998
He Got Game as Warden Wyatt
1996
The Curse of Inferno as Moles Huddenel
Crazy Horse as Dr. McGillicuddy
Gulliver's Travels as Farmer Grultrad
1995
Just Cause as McNair
The Affair as Col. Banning
Streets of Laredo as Judge Roy Bean
1994
Radioland Murders as General Whalen
Replikator as Insp. Victor Valiant
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sam Lawrence
Homicide: Life on the Street as Stanley Bolander
1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border as Narrator (voice)
Ed and His Dead Mother as Uncle Benny
Rudy as Daniel Ruettiger
Illusions as Landlord
The Boys as Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt
1992
Trial: The Price of Passion as Scoot Shepard
Prelude to a Kiss as Dr. Boyle
Blind Vision as Sgt. Logan
Lincoln as Dennis Hanks (voice)
T Bone N Weasel as Doc Tatum
1991
Going Under as Admiral Malice
Hear My Song as Josef Locke
Tennessee Waltz as Charlie Kiefer
1990
A Cry in the Wild as Pilot
Chattahoochee as Dr. Harwood
Captain America as Sam Kolawetz
Repossessed as Ernest Weller
Big Bad John as Charlie Mitchelle
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Edward C. Acker
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bridgewater
1989
Physical Evidence as James Nicks
Time Trackers as Harry Orth
Ministry of Vengeance as Rev. Bloor
Spy as Thomas Ludlow
Magic Hour: Tom Alone as Cornelius van Horne
1988
Midnight Crossing as Ellis
Switching Channels as Roy Ridnitz
The Unholy as Lt. Stern
Purple People Eater as Grandpa
Go Toward the Light as George
Shadows in the Storm as Thelonious Pitt
1987
The Trouble with Spies as Harry Lewis
Rolling Vengeance as Tiny Doyle
The Fourth Protocol as Borisov
The Haunting of Barney Palmer as Cole Scholar
1986
The Big Easy as Jack Kellom
Back to School as Dean Martin
1985
Konrad as Mr. Thomas
Hostage Flight as Art Hofstadter
Restless Natives as Bender
Answers as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Robert Kennedy and His Times as J. Edgar Hoover
1984
The Last Days of Pompeii as Diomed
Celebrity as Otto Leo
1983
Touched as Herbie
Stroker Ace as Clyde Torkle
Kentucky Woman as Luke Telford
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Lynch Mob Leader
1982
A Woman Called Golda as Sen. Durward
The Toy as Sydney Morehouse
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Benjamin Hammett
Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
Pray TV as Rev. Freddy Stone
Faerie Tale Theatre as The King
1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman as Dan Beame
Splendor in the Grass as Ace Stamper
All the Way Home as Ralph Follet
The Violation of Sarah McDavid as Dr. Walter Keys
1980
The American Success Company as Mr. Elliott
Superman II as Otis
Hopscotch as Myerson
Friendly Fire as Gene Mullen
All God's Children as Mike Naponic
1979
Promises in the Dark as Bud Koenig
Wise Blood as Hoover Shoates
1941 as Ward Douglas
1978
Superman as Otis
A Question of Love as Dwayne Stabler
Gray Lady Down as Mickey
The Great Bank Hoax as Julius Taggart
1977
Tail Gunner Joe as Sylvester
Our Town as Dr. Gibbs
Alambrista! as Anglo Coyote
Exorcist II: The Heretic as Edwards
1976
All the President's Men as Dardis
Silver Streak as Bob Sweet
Mikey and Nicky as Kinney
Network as Arthur Jensen
The Big Bus as Shorty Scotty
Gator as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
1975
The Deadly Tower as Allan Crum
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Ollie Thompson
Nashville as Delbert Reese
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Country Bull
1974
The Execution of Private Slovik as Father Stafford
1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Det. Dan Corrigan
The Last American Hero as Hackel
The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Deams
White Lightning as Sheriff J.C. Connors
Dying Room Only as Tom King
1972
Deliverance as Bobby Trippe
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Tector Crites
Footsteps as Frank Powell
