Ned Beatty Add to My Celebs Age 74 Birthday Jul. 6th, 1937 Born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA Height 5' 7"

Ned Beatty's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Nashville 99 Randy Blair NBC Special Treat Big Henry Szysznyk Nick Szysznyk The Boys Herbert Fra…

Main Movie Roles 2011 - Rango 2010 - Toy Story 3 2010 - The Killer Inside Me 2009 - In the Electric Mist 2007 - Shooter 2007 - Charlie Wilson's War 2007 - The Walker 2005 - Sweet Land 2003 - Where The Red Fern Grows 2002 - Thunderpants 1999 - Life 1998 - He Got Game 1995 - Just Cause 1994 - Replikator 1994 - Radioland Murders 1993 - Rudy 1992 - Prelude to a Kiss 1990 - Captain America 1990 - A Cry in the Wild 1990 - Repossessed 1989 - Physical Evidence 1988 - Switching Channels 1987 - Rolling Vengeance 1987 - The Fourth Protocol 1986 - Back to School 1985 - Restless Natives 1983 - Stroker Ace 1982 - The Toy 1981 - The Incredible Shrinking Woman 1980 - Superman II 1980 - Hopscotch 1980 - The American Success Company 1979 - 1941 1979 - Wise Blood 1978 - Gray Lady Down 1978 - Superman 1977 - Exorcist II: The Heretic 1976 - The Big Bus 1976 - All the President's Men 1976 - Network 1976 - Gator 1976 - Silver Streak 1975 - Nashville 1975 - W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings 1973 - The Last American Hero 1973 - White Lightning 1972 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972 - Deliverance

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Stocky, genial looking supporting actor born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, who has continually displayed his versatility in cinema since first appearing alongside Burt Reynolds (I) being brutalized in the back woods nightmare of Deliverance (1972). Beatty and Reynolds struck up a friendship together, and Ned has since been cast by Burt in several other films together including White Lightning (1973), W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), and the abysmal Stroker Ace (1983).

Ned's talents were also noticed by others in Hollywood and he was cast in many key productions of the 1970s turning in stellar performance, including an Academy Award nomination of Best Supporting Actor for his role in Network (1976). Beatty was also marvelous in Nashville (1975), under fire from a crazed sniper in The Deadly Tower (1975) (TV), an undercover FBI man in the action/comedy Silver Streak (1976), as Lex Luthor's bumbling assistant, Otis, in the blockbuster Superman (1978)....and he returned again with Gene Hackman to play Otis and Lex Luthor again in Superman II (1980).

Beatty continued to remain busy throughout the 1980s with appearances in several big budget TV productions including "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1984). However, the overall caliber of the productions in general did not match up to those he had appeared in during the '70s. Nonetheless, Beatty still shone in films including The Big Easy (1986), Fourth Protocol, Th (1987)_ )qv), and the delightful Hear My Song (1991). Into the 1990s, Beatty's work output swung between a mixture of roles in family orientated productions (Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV), Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990) (TV), etc.) taking advantage of his "fatherly" type looks, but he could still accentuate a hard edge, and additionally was cast in Radioland Murders (1994), the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) and Just Cause (1995).

Most recently, Beatty turned out a terrific performance in the popular Where the Red Fern Grows (2003).


TRIVIA:

• Son (from first marriage) Charles Beatty works as a grip in Hollywood, mostly on commercials.
• He was nominated for a 2002 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role of 2001 for his performance in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Lyric Theatre in London.
• (2004) He and wife Sandra are building a home in Northern Minnesota near her family.

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