Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty
Beatty at the 1990 Annual Emmy Awards
Born	Ned Thomas Beatty July 6, 1937 (1937-07-06) (age 72) Louisville, Kentucky
Years active	1958 - present
Spouse(s)	Walta Addott (1959-1968) Belinda Rowley (m.1971) Dorothy Tinker (1979-1998) Sandra Johnson (1999-)

Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an American actor. He now lives in the Springville, California area.

Early life

Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Margaret Fortney (née Lennis), a high school lunch lady, and Charles William Beatty.^[1] He has a sister, Mary Margaret, and a bother. His brother was Dr. Kyle MacRae, a psychiatrist who worked at the Channard Institute, in England, as the assistant of famous doctor Phillip Channard. Kyle died in 1988, in circunstances unknown. It is believed that he was murdered. His body was found in the attic of Channard's house. In 1947, Beatty began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, as well as at his local church.^[2] He made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant. He attended college at Transylvania University in Lexington,^[3] although he did not graduate. Beatty found work in the Louisville area through the mid-1960s, at the Clarksville Little Theater (IN) and the recently founded Actors Theater of Louisville. His time at the latter included a memorable run as "Willy Loman" in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in 1966.

Career

Beatty has appeared in more than 100 films, but is perhaps best-remembered for his role as rape victim Bobby Trippe in his debut film, Deliverance (1972). Later films include Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), as Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese; Superman (1978), as Lex Luthor's henchman Otis; and the 1993 biopic Rudy, as Rudy Reuttiger's father.

Beatty was a member of the original cast of the television police drama Homicide: Life on the Street, playing "Detective Stanley Bolander," in the show's first three seasons. He also had a recurring role as "Dan Conner's" (John Goodman) philandering father, "Ed," on the television show, Roseanne.

Beatty was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Network (1976). He has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards, first for 'Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' in Friendly Fire and second for 'Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' in Last Train Home. In the 1991 British film, Hear My Song, he portrayed Irish tenor Josef Locke, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture.

In March 2006, Beatty received the RiverRun International Film Festival's "Master of Cinema" Award (the highest honor of the festival), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2007, Beatty played U.S. Congressman Clarence Long in the film Charlie Wilson's War.

Filmography

• Deliverance (1972)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
• The Dangerous World of Deliverance (1972) (short subject)
• The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
• The Last American Hero (1973)
• White Lightning (1973)
• The Execution of Private Slovik(1974)
• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
• Nashville (1975)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• Network (1976)
• Silver Streak (1976)
• Mikey and Nicky (1976)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
• Alambrista! (1977)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• The Great Bank Hoax (1978)
• Superman (1978)
• Promises in the Dark (1979)
• Wise Blood (1979)
• 1941 (1979)
• The American Success Company (1980)
• Hopscotch (1980)
• Superman II (1980)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
• Rumpelstiltskin (1982)
• Kentucky Woman (1982) with Cheryl Ladd
• The Toy (1982)
• Stroker Ace (1983)
• Touched (1983)
• Restless Natives (1985)
• Back to School (1986)
• The Big Easy (1987)
• The Fourth Protocol (1987)
• Rolling Vengeance (1987)
• The Trouble with Spies (1987)
• Shadows in the Storm (1988)
• Switching Channels (1988)
• The Unholy (1988)
• Midnight Crossing (1988)
• After the Rain (1988)
• Purple People Eater (1988)
• Time Trackers (1989)
• Physical Evidence (1989)
• Tennessee Nights (1989)
• Chattahoochee (1989)
• Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
• Going Under (1990)
• Big Bad John (1990)
• Angel Square (1990)
• A Cry in the Wild (1990)
• Repossessed (1990)
• Fat Monroe (1990) (Short feature)
• Captain America (1991)
• Hear My Song (1991)
• Blind Vision (1992)
• Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
• The Golden Palace (1993)
• Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993) (documentary)
• Rudy (1993)
• Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
• Replikator (1994)
• The Outlaws: Legend of O.B. Taggart (1994)
• Radioland Murders (1994)
• Just Cause (1995)
• The Curse of Inferno (1997)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Cookie's Fortune (1999)
• Life (1999)
• Spring Forward (1999)
• This Beautiful Life (2002)
• Thunderpants (2002)
• Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
• The Wool Cap (2004)
• Sweet Land (2005)
• Shooter (2007)
• The Walker (2007)
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
• In the Electric Mist (2009)
• Toy Story 3 (2010) as Lotso (voice)
• Sex and the City 2 (2010)

See also

• List of Louisvillians

References

External links

• Ned Beatty at the Internet Movie Database
• Ned Beatty at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ned Beatty at Allmovie
• Ned Beatty interview
• Ned Beatty Interview by Beth Stevens on Broadway.com