Ned Beatty

Ned Thomas Beatty
1937 -
American born Luisville, Kentucky

Nickname The busiest actor in Hollywood . Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) . 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 being brutalized in the back woods nightmare of Deliverance (1972). Beatty & 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 & 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) (mini). However, the overall caliber of the productions in general did not match up to those he had appeared in during the seventies. None the less, Beatty still shone in films including The Big Easy (1987), Fourth Protocol, The (1987)_ , and the delightful Hear My Song (1991). Into the 1990s, Beatty's work output swung between a mixture of roles in family orientated productions (Gullivers Travels, Huckleberry Finn 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). Sandra Johnson (20 November 1999 - present), Dorothy Tinker' Lindsey'
(28 June 1979 - March 1998) (divorced) 2 children, Belinda Beatty (1971 - ?) (divorced) 2 children, ? (? - ?) (divorced) 4 children.

The Walker (2007) , Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) , Sweet Land (2005) , The Wool Cap (2004) , Where the Red Fern Grows (2003) , Roughing It (2002) , This Beautiful Life (2002) , "I Was a Rat" (2001) , Homicide: The Movie (2000) , The Wilgus Stories (2000) , Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999) , Spring Forward (1999) , Life (1999/I) , Cookie's Fortune (1999) , He Got Game (1998) , The Curse of Inferno (1997) , Crazy Horse (1996) , Gulliver's Travels (1996) , "Streets of Laredo" (1995) , The Affair (1995) , The Gas Man (1995) , Colors (1995) , Nothing Personal (1995) , In Search of Crimes Past (1995) , The Old and the Dead (1995) , Just Cause (1995) , Radioland Murders (1994), "Roseanne" (1994) , Past Imperfect (1994) , The Wedding (1991) , The Courtship of Eddie, Dan's Father (1991) , The Outlaws: Legend of O.B. Taggart (1994) , Replikator (1994) , Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine (1994) , Rudy (1993) , "The Boys" (1993) , "The Golden Palace" (1993) , Ed and His Dead Mother (1993) , T Bone N Weasel (1992) , Prelude to a Kiss (1992) , Trial: The Price of Passion (1992), The Calamitious Courting of Hetty King (1992) , Blind Vision (1992) , Illusions (1992/I), Hear My Song (1991) , Captain America (1991) , The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990) , The Return of Preston Giles (1990) , Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990) , Repossessed (1990) , A Cry in the Wild (1990) , Going Under (1990) , Angel Square (1990) , Big Bad John (1990) , Last Train Home (1990) , King of Jazz (1990) , Spy (1989) , Ministry of Vengeance (1989) , The King of Jazz (1989) , hattahoochee (1989) , Tennessee Nights (1989) , Physical Evidence (1989) , Time Trackers (1989), Purple People Eater (1988) , Go Toward the Light (1988) , After the Rain (1988) , Midnight Crossing (1988) , The Unholy (1988) , Switching Channels (1988) , Shadows in the Storm (1988) , The Trouble with Spies (1987) , "Dolly" (1987) , Rolling Vengeance (1987) , The Fourth Protocol (1987) , The Big Easy (1987) , "Highway to Heaven" (1986) , The Banker and the Bum (1985) ,Back to School (1986) , Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide (1986), The Haunting of Barney Palmer (1986) , Hostage Flight (1985), Konrad (1985) , Restless Natives (1985) , Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) , "Robert Kennedy & His Times" (1985) , Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985) , The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984), "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1984) , "Celebrity" (1984) , Touched (1983) , Stroker Ace (1983) , Kentucky Woman (1983) , The Toy (1982) , Rumpelstiltskin (1982) , The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) , A Woman Called Golda (1982) , A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (1982) , Pray TV (1982) , All the Way Home (1981) , Splendor in the Grass (1981) , The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981) , The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) , Superman II (1980) , Hopscotch (1980) , All God's Children (1980) , Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) , The American Success Company (1980) , 1941 (1979) , Promises in the Dark (1979) , Wise Blood (1979) , Friendly Fire (1979) , Superman (1978) , The Great Bank Hoax (1978) , A Question of Love (1978) , Gray Lady Down (1978) , "Visions" (1977) , The Gardener's Son (1977) , Alambrista! (1977) , "Szysznyk" (1977) , Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) , Our Town (1977) ,Lucan (1977), "Nashville 99"(1977) , "Delvecchio" (1977) , "The Streets of San Francisco" (1977) , Tail Gunner Joe (1977) , Mikey and Nicky (1976) , Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) , Profit and Loss: Part 2 (1974) , Profit and Loss: Part 1 (1974) , Silver Streak (1976) , Network (1976) , Hunter (1976) , The Big Bus (1976) , All the President's Men (1976) , Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid (1976) , "The Rookies" (1975) , "M*A*S*H" (1975) , The Deadly Tower (1975), "Petrocelli" (1975) , Nashville (1975) , W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975) , "Lucas Tanner" (1975) , Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975) (TV) , The Hiders (1975) , The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) , Dying Room Only (1973) , White Lightning (1973) , The Last American Hero (1973) , "Kojak" (1973) , The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) , The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) , "The Waltons" (1973) , The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) , Footsteps (1972) , Deliverance (1972)