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Ned Beatty

Ned Thomas Beatty had a career that spanned more than four decades and included more than 150 movies, beginning with Deliverance in 1972 and his retirement from the industry following Baggage Claim in 2013

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Filmography

TCM: Twenty Classic Moments

2014
as Ned Beatty

The Big Ask

2014
as Old Man Carl

Rampart

2011
as Hartshorn

Rango

2011
as Tortoise John (voice)

Toy Story 3

2010
as Lotso (voice)

The Killer Inside Me

2010
as Chester Conway

In the Electric Mist

2009
as Twinky LeMoyne

Charlie Wilson's War

2007
as Doc Long

Shooter

2007
as Senator Charles F. Meachum

The Walker

2007
as Jack Delorean

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006
as Otis

Sweet Land

2005
as Harmo

The Wool Cap

2004
as Gigot's Father

Where the Red Fern Grows

2003
as The Sheriff

Thunderpants

2002
as Gen. Ed Sheppard

Roughing It

2002
as Slade

I Was a Rat

2001
as Mudduck

Homicide: The Movie

2000
as Stanley Bolander

The Wilgus Stories

2000
as Fat Monroe

Cookie's Fortune

1999
as Lester Boyle

Spring Forward

1999
as Murph

He Got Game

1998
as Warden Wyatt

Crazy Horse

1996
as Dr. McGillicuddy

The Curse of Inferno

1996
as Moles Huddenel

Just Cause

1995
as McNair

The Affair

1995
as Col. Banning

Streets of Laredo

1995
as Judge Roy Bean

Replikator

1994
as Insp. Victor Valiant

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1994

Radioland Murders

1994
as General Walt Whalen

The Boys (1993)

1993

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993
as Stanley Bolander

Warren Oates: Across the Border

1993
as Ned Beatty

Ed and His Dead Mother

1993
as Uncle Benny

Rudy

1993
as Daniel Ruettiger

Prelude to a Kiss

1992
as Dr. Boyle

T Bone N Weasel

1992
as Doc Tatum

Illusions

1992
as Landlord

Blind Vision

1992
as Sgt. Logan

Earth and the American Dream

1992
as Reader

Trial: The Price of Passion

1992
as Scoot Shepard

Lincoln

1992

Tennessee Nights

1991
as Charlie Kiefer

Hear My Song

1991
as Josef Locke

Angel Square

1991

Going Under

1991
as Admiral Malice

Captain America

1990
as Sam Kolawetz

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990
as Edward C. Acker

Repossessed

1990
as Ernest Weller

Big Bad John

1990
as Charlie

A Cry in the Wild

1990
as Pilot Jake Holcomb

Physical Evidence

1989
as James Nicks

Ministry of Vengeance

1989
as Rev. Bloor

Spy

1989
as Thomas Ludlow

Sex and Buttered Popcorn

1989
as Ned Beatty

Time Trackers

1989
as Harry Orth

Chattahoochee

1989
as Dr. Harwood

Shadows in the Storm

1988

Purple People Eater

1988
as Grandpa

The Unholy

1988
as Lt. Stern

Midnight Crossing

1988
as Ellis

Switching Channels

1988
as Roy Ridnitz

Go Toward the Light

1988
as George

Go Toward the Light

1988
as Dr. Gladstone

The Haunting of Barney Palmer

1987
as Cole Scholar

The Fourth Protocol

1987
as Borisov / Petrovic

Rolling Vengeance

1987
as Tiny Doyle

The Trouble with Spies

1987
as Harry Lewis

The Big Easy

1986
as Jack Kellom

Back to School

1986
as Dean David Martin

Answers

1985
as Senator William Blaine (segment "The Constituent")

Konrad

1985
as Mr. Thomas

Restless Natives

1985
as Bender

Hostage Flight

1985
as Art Hofstadter

The Last Days of Pompeii

1984
as Diomed

Stroker Ace

1983
as Clyde Torkle

Touched

1983

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

1983
as Lynch Mob Leader

Rumpelstiltskin

1982
as The King

The Toy

1982
as Sydney Morehouse

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982
as The King

A Woman Called Golda

1982
as Sen. Durward

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

1981
as Dr. Walter Keys

All the Way Home

1981
as Ralph Follet

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981
as Dan Beame

Splendor in the Grass

1981
as Ace Stamper

The American Success Company

1980
as Mr. Elliott

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

1980
as Ned Beatty

Superman II

1980
as Otis

Hopscotch

1980
as Myerson

Wise Blood

1979
as Hoover Shoates

1941

1979
as Ward Douglas

Friendly Fire

1979
as Gene Mullen

Promises in the Dark

1979
as Bud Koenig

Superman

1978
as Otis

Gray Lady Down

1978
as Mickey

A Question of Love

1978
as Dwayne Stabler

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977
as Edwards

Alambrista!

1977
as Anglo Coyote

The Great Bank Hoax

1977
as Julius Taggart

Tail Gunner Joe

1977
as Sylvester

Our Town

1977
as Dr. Gibbs

The Gardener's Son

1977
as Pinky

Silver Streak

1976
as Bob Sweet

Mikey and Nicky

1976
as Kinney

The Big Bus

1976
as Shorty Scotty

Network

1976
as Arthur Jensen

All the President's Men

1976
as Martin Dardis

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

1975
as Ollie Thompson

Nashville

1975
as Delbert Reese

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

1975
as Country Bull

The Deadly Tower

1975
as Allan Crum

The Execution of Private Slovik

1974
as Father Stafford

Dying Room Only

1973
as Tom King

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973
as Deams

White Lightning

1973
as Sheriff J.C. Connors

The Last American Hero

1973
as Hackel

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973
as Det. Dan Corrigan

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972
as Tector Crites

Deliverance

1972
as Bobby Trippe

Guest Star

Episode Law & Order
Zero 		2008
Episode CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sweet Jane 		2007
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' 		1998
Episode The Golden Palace
Tad 		1993
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Susan Lucci, Ned Beatty, Michael Richards, Dave Barry 		1992
Episode B.L. Stryker
The King of Jazz 		1989
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Incident in a Small Jail (Pilot) 		1985
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Incident in a Small Jail 		1985
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Hang Tough 		1977
Episode The Rockford Files
Return to the 38th Parallel 		1976
Episode M*A*S*H
Dear Peggy 		1975
Episode Gunsmoke
The Hiders 		1975
Episode Petrocelli
Death Ride 		1975
Episode The Rockford Files
Profit and Loss (2) 		1974
Episode The Rockford Files
Profit and Loss (1) 		1974
Episode Kojak
The Marcus-Nelson Murders 		1973