Ned Beatty
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 Beatty at the 1990 Annual Emmy Awards |
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| Born | Ned Thomas Beatty July 6, 1937 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Spouse | Walta Addott (1959–1968) Belinda Rowley (1971–197?) Dorothy Tinker (1979–1998) Sandra Johnson (1999–present) |
Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an American actor. He made his stage debut at age 19 in 1956, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant located in Berea, Kentucky and worked in the Louisville area through the mid-1960s, at the Clarksville Little Theater (IN) and the recently founded Actors Theater of Louisville, and his time at the latter included a run as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in 1966
Beatty appeared in more than 100 sucessful blockbuster films and have some memorable roles including the executive adventurer Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (1972), Tenessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville (1975), general-attorney Mr. Dardis in [[ All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]] (1976), CCA chairman Arthur Jensen in Network (1976), priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie (1978) (plus one of it sequel), Mullen's husband Gene in Friendly Fire (1979), twice characters Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol (1987), Florida State Hospital Dr. Harwood in Chattahoochee (1989), Irish tenor Josef Locke in Hear My Song (1991), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy (1993), general officer Walt Whalen in Radioland Murders (1994), detective McNair in Just Cause (1995), Ray and Claude's friend Dexter Wilkins in Life (1999), Montana's Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter (2007), congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and antagonist voice Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010).
Beatty was nominated by an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 2004, he won a Drama Desk Award for the movie adaptation called "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play category
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Early life
Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Margaret Fortney (née Lennis) and Charles William Beatty.[1] He has a sister, Mary Margaret, and a brother. Before Beatty became an actor, in 1947, he began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, as well as at his local church. He received a scholarship to sing in the a cappella choir at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky; he attended but did not graduate.[2]
Career
In 1956, he made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant located in Berea, Kentucky and he worked 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 run as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in 1966.
1970s
In 1972, Beatty made his film debut with the role of Bobby Trippe in the hit thriller Deliverance (1972), starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. One of the most memorable scenes of the film involved Beatty's character being told to "squeal like a pig" while being sodomized. In the same year, Beatty appeared in a western film starring Paul Newman, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972). In 1973, Beatty made a comedy film, based on a novel by Terrence Lore Smith The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Last American Hero (1973), opposite Jeff Bridges and White Lightning (1973). In 1974, Beatty he appeared in the TV series called The Execution of Private Slovik (1974), based on a novel of William Bradford Huie, directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Martin Sheen. In 1975, he made W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), once again with Burt Reynolds; Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), portraying the Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese and he also appeared as Col. Hollister in an episode of M*A*S*H (1975).
Beatty received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor category for Network (1976). He was one of two primary actors in the film - along with William Holden - to not win an Oscar. The other three acting awards was swept by Network performers: Best Actor for Peter Finch, Best Actress for Faye Dunaway, and Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Straight.
In 1976, he appeared in Alan J. Pakula's film All the President's Men (1976), opposite Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; a comedy film The Big Bus (1976); Silver Streak (1976), with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor and Mikey and Nicky (1976), portraying Kinney. In 1977, Beatty returns to work with John Boorman in the horror film Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), starring Linda Blair. In 1978, Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down (1978), portraying Mickey and was guesting by Richard Donner to portrayed Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie (1978), with Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman, as he would in the 1980 sequel, directed by Richard Lester.
Once again, Beatty got it his second nomination for an Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' for the TV series Friendly Fire (1979).
By the end of the 1970s, Beatty was seen in two films, Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (1979) and 1941 (1979), with Dan Aykroyd.
1980s
In 1980s, Beatty appeared in Ronald Neame's 1980 American film Hopscotch (1980). In 1981, Beatty appeared in the comedy/science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring by Lily Tomlin. In 1982, Beatty return to work with Richard Donner and Richard Pryor in the classic The Toy (1982). In 1983, Beatty worked with Burt Reynolds again in Stroker Ace (1983).
In the middle of 1980s, Beatty appeared in comedy Restless Natives (1985), directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Vincent Friell.
By the end of the 1980s, Beatty appeared in another comedy film Back to School (1986). In 1987, Beatty appeared in the 1987 American neo-noir crime film The Big Easy (1987) directed by Jim McBride and starring by Dennis Quaid and continued with The Fourth Protocol (1987), opposite Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. In 1988, Beatty appeared with the main character Thelonious Pitt in Shadows in the Storm (1988), returned to work with Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve; in 1988 comedy film Switching Channels (1988) and Purple People Eater (1988), portraying a simple grandpa. In 1989, Beatty made Chattahoochee (1989), portraying Dr. Harwood and also had a recurring role as Dan Conner's philandering father on Roseanne (1989–1994).
1990s
Entering in the 1990s, Beatty got it the third nomination for an Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' category in Last Train Home (1990) and appeared in the 1991 British film, Hear My Song (1991), which he portrayed Irish tenor Josef Locke, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture.
In 1990, Beatty worked again with Linda Blair in Repossessed (1990) and appeared in the DC Comics American hero Captain America (1990). In 1992, he portrayed Dr. Boyle in Prelude to a Kiss (1992); opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. In 1993, Beatty appeared in the 1993 biopic Rudy (1994); portraying Rudy Reuttiger's father, with Sean Astin.
By the middle of the 1990s, Beatty made the 1994 science fiction film Replikator (1994), directed by Philip Jackson and Radioland Murders (1994), portraying General Walt Whalen. In 1995, Beatty worked with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the thriller Just Cause (1995).
And in the end of 1990s, Beatty appeared in the 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring by Denzel Washington, He Got Game (1998). In 1999, Beatty returned to work with director Robert Altman in Cookie's Fortune (1999), with Glenn Close, Julianne Moore and Liv Tyler; and continues with Life (1999); opposite Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and Spring Forward (1999), with Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott.
2000s
In the beginning of 2000s, Beatty was a member of the original cast of the television police drama Homicide: The Movie (2000), playing "Detective Stanley Bolander", in the show's first three seasons. In 2002, he appeared in Peter Hewitt's film Thunderpants (2002) and in 2003, Beatty portrayed a simply sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows (2003).
Beatty has also had a career as a stage actor, including a run in the London production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" along with Brendan Fraser and Frances O'Connor, which we won a Drama Desk Award.
In the middle of 2000s, Beatty appeared in the TV series The Wool Cap (2004), with William H. Macy and in 2005 American independent film directed and written by Ali Selim, Sweet Land (2005).
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.
By the end of the 2000s, Beatty appeared in the movie version of Stephen Hunter's novel "Point of Impact" retitled Shooter (2007), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring by Mark Walberg, Michael Peña and Danny Glover; the 2007 drama film that was written and directed by Paul Schrader The Walker (2007); the U.S. Congressman Doc Long in the film Charlie Wilson's War (2007), with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and worked with Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman in the thriller In the Electric Mist (2009).
2010s
In 2010, Beatty starred in the thriller The Killer Inside Me (2010), which was part of the Sundance Film Festival,[3] and voiced the antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010). In 2011, Beatty worked with actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski in computer-animated film Rango (2011).
Personal life
In 1959 Beatty married Walta Addott, with whom he has four children: Douglas Beatty, Charles Beatty, Lennis Beatty, and Wallace Beatty. They divorced in 1968. In 1971 he married his second wife, the actress Belinda Rowley, with whom he had two children: John Beatty and Blossom Beatty. He married his third wife, Dorothy Adams Tinker Lindsey, on June 28, 1979, and with her he had two more children: Thomas "Tinker" Beatty in 1980 and Dorothy Beatty in 1983. He married his fourth wife, Sandra Johnson, on November 20, 1999.
Beatty currently resides in California. He also maintains a residence in Karlstad, Minnesota, his wife's hometown.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1972 | Deliverance | Bobby Trippe | |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Tector Crites (Jackson gang/Narrator/Jersey Lily bartender) | ||
| 1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Deams | |
| The Last American Hero | Hackel, Derby Promoter | ||
| White Lightning | Sheriff J.C. Connors | ||
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | Father Stafford | TV |
| 1975 | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | Country Bull | |
| Nashville | Delbert Reese | ||
| The Deadly Tower | Allan Crum | TV | |
| M*A*S*H | Col. Hollister | ||
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Dardis | |
| The Big Bus | Shorty Scotty | ||
| Network | Arthur Jensen | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
| Silver Streak | Bob Sweet | ||
| Mikey and Nicky | Kinney | ||
| 1977 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Edwards | |
| Alambrista! | Anglo Coyote | TV | |
| 1978 | Gray Lady Down | Mickey | |
| The Great Bank Hoax | Julius Taggart | ||
| Superman | Otis | ||
| 1979 | Promises in the Dark | Bud Koenig | |
| Wise Blood | Hoover Shoates | ||
| Friendly Fire | Gene Mullen | TV
Nominated - Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' |
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| 1941 | Ward Douglas | ||
| 1980 | The American Success Company | Mr. Elliott | |
| Hopscotch | Myerson | ||
| Superman II | Otis | ||
| 1981 | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Dan Beame | |
| 1982 | Rumpelstiltskin | The King | TV |
| Kentucky Woman | Luke Telford | ||
| The Toy | Sydney Morehouse | ||
| 1983 | Stroker Ace | Clyde Torkle | |
| Touched | Herbie | ||
| 1985 | Restless Natives | Bender | |
| 1986 | Back to School | Dean David Martin | |
| 1987 | The Big Easy | Jack Kellom | |
| The Fourth Protocol | Borisov/Pavel Petrovic | ||
| Rolling Vengeance | Tiny Doyle | ||
| The Trouble with Spies | Harry Lewis | ||
| 1988 | Shadows in the Storm | Thelonious Pitt | |
| Switching Channels | Roy Ridnitz | ||
| The Unholy | Lt. Stern | ||
| Midnight Crossing | Ellis | ||
| After the Rain | Kozen | ||
| Purple People Eater | Grandpa | ||
| 1989 | Time Trackers | Harry Orth | |
| Physical Evidence | James Nicks | ||
| Tennessee Nights | Charlie Kiefer | ||
| Chattahoochee | Dr. Harwood | ||
| Ministry of Vengeance | Rev. Bloor | ||
| 1989–1994 | Roseanne | Ed Conner | TV |
| 1990 | Last Train Home | Cornelius van Horne | TV
Nominated - Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' |
| Going Under | Admiral Malice | ||
| Big Bad John | Charlie | ||
| Angel Square | Officer Ozzie O'Driscoll / Santa Claus | ||
| A Cry in the Wild | Pilot Jake Holcomb | ||
| Repossessed | Ernest Weller | ||
| Fat Monroe | Fat Monroe | (Short feature) | |
| Captain America | Sam Kolawetz | ||
| 1991 | Hear My Song | Josef Locke | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture |
| 1992 | Blind Vision | Sgt. Logan | |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Dr. Boyle | ||
| 1993 | The Golden Palace | Tad Hollingsworth | TV |
| Warren Oates: Across the Border | Himself/Narrator | Documentary | |
| Rudy | Daniel Ruettiger | ||
| Ed and His Dead Mother | Uncle Benny | ||
| 1994 | Replikator | Insp. Victor Valiant | |
| The Outlaws: Legend of O.B. Taggart | Unknown | ||
| Radioland Murders | General Walt Whalen | ||
| 1995 | Just Cause | McNair | |
| 1996 | Crazy Horse | Dr. McGillicuddy | TV |
| Gulliver's Travels | Farmer Grultrud | ||
| 1997 | The Curse of Inferno | Moles Huddenel | |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Warden Wyatt | |
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Lester Boyle | |
| Life | Dexter Wilkins | ||
| Spring Forward | Murph | ||
| Hard Time: Hostage Hotel | Tony | TV | |
| 2000 | The Wilgus Stories | Fat Monroe | |
| Homicide: The Movie | Det. Stanley 'The Big Man' Bolander | ||
| 2001 | I Was a Rat | Mudduck | TV |
| 2002 | This Beautiful Life | Bum | |
| Roughing It | Slade | TV | |
| Thunderpants | Gen. Ed Sheppard | ||
| 2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows | The sheriff | |
| 2004 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Unknown | Adaptation into a motion picture in 1958 , revised by Williams in 1974 and refilmed for Showtime in 1984.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| The Wool Cap | Gigot's Father | TV | |
| 2005 | Sweet Land | Harmo | |
| 2007 | Shooter | Senator Charles F. Meachum | |
| The Walker | Jack Delorean | ||
| Charlie Wilson's War | Doc Long | ||
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Twinky LeMoyne | |
| 2010 | The Killer Inside Me | Chester Conway | Sundance Film Festival 2010 |
| Toy Story 3 | Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear | Voice only | |
| 2011 | Rango | Tortoise John |
Awards
During his career, Beatty got it his first nomination by an Academy Award in Best Supporting Actor category for Network (1976), which he's portrayed Arthur Jensen. His second nomination, an Emmy Award, came for Friendly Fire (1979) in 'Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' category and the third nomination is another Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special' category for Last Train Home (1990). He got it the fourth nomination for a Golden Globe Award in category Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for Hear My Song (1990), portraying the Irish tenor Josef Locke.
He won a Drama Desk Award for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004) in Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play category, alongside with Brendan Fraser and Frances O'Connor.
Won
Drama Desk Award
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004)
Nominated
Academy Award
- Best Supporting Actor - Network (1976)
Emmy Award
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special - Friendly Fire (1979)
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special - Last Train Home (1990)
Golden Globe Award
- Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture - Hear My Song (1991)
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
- Ned Beatty CD on CDBaby
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