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Ned Beatty
Known for: ActingNed Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and TV series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991) and the adaptation movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004). He had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (1972), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville (1975), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men (1976), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), Bates' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy (1982), twice characters Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol (1987), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed (1990), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy (1993), detective McNair in Just Cause (1995), Ray and Claude's warden/employer Dexter Wilkins in Life (1999), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows (2003), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter (2007), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010).
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Toy Story 3
as Lotso (voice) 
Rango
as Mayor (voice) 
Network
as Arthur Jensen 
Deliverance
as Bobby Trippe 
Superman
as Otis 
White Lightning
as Sheriff J.C. Connors 
Silver Streak
as Bob Sweet 
Shooter
as Senator Charles F. Meachum 
The Walker
as Jack Delorean 
Charlie Wilson's War
as Doc Long 
Superman II
as Otis 
The Fourth Protocol
as Borisov 
All the President's Men
as Dardis 
Life
as Dexter Wilkins 
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Edwards 
Rampart
as Hartshorn 
Switching Channels
as Roy Ridnitz 
Back to School
as Dean Martin 
Gulliver's Travels
as Farmer Grultrad 
The Big Easy
as Jack Kellom 
In the Electric Mist
as Twinky LeMoyne 
Streets of Laredo
as Judge Roy Bean 
1941
as Ward Douglas 
Nashville
as Delbert Reese 
He Got Game
as Warden Wyatt 
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Tector Crites 
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Rep. Leo Ryan 
Rudy
as Daniel Ruettiger 
Baggage Claim
as Mr. Donaldson 
Friendly Fire
as Gene Mullen 
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Diomed 
The Killer Inside Me
as Chester Conway 
Captain America
as Sam Kolawetz 
Prelude to a Kiss
as Dr. Boyle 
Just Cause
as McNair 
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sheriff Abe McConnell 
Repossessed
as Ernest Weller 
Cookie's Fortune
as Lester Boyle 
Thunderpants
as Gen. Ed Sheppard 
Gray Lady Down
as Mickey 
The Big Bus
as Shorty Scotty 
Sweet Land
as Harmo 
Mikey and Nicky
as Kinney 
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Dan Beame 
Homicide: The Movie
as Stanley Bolander 
Roughing It
as Slade 
The Toy
as Sydney Morehouse 
Radioland Murders
as General Whalen 
Going Under
as Admiral Malice 
Physical Evidence
as James Nicks 
Hopscotch
as Myerson 
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Uncle Benny 
Stroker Ace
as Clyde Torkle 
Crazy Horse
as Dr. McGillicuddy 
Rolling Vengeance
as Tiny Doyle 
The Last American Hero
as Hackel 
Konrad
as Mr. Thomas 
Wise Blood
as Hoover Shoates 
The Big Ask
as Old Man Carl 
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Det. Dan Corrigan 
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Rev. Mansfield French 
Restless Natives
as Bender 
The Deadly Tower
as Allan Crum 
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
as Benjamin Hammett 
The Trouble with Spies
as Harry Lewis 
The American Success Company
as Mr. Elliott 
Ministry of Vengeance
as Rev. Bloor 
Hear My Song
as Josef Locke 
The Curse of Inferno
as Moles Huddenel 
The Great Bank Hoax
as Julius Taggart 
Promises in the Dark
as Bud Koenig 
Chattahoochee
as Dr. Harwood 
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sam Lawrence 
Shadows in the Storm
as Thelonious Pitt 
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
as Cole Scholar