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Ned Beatty
Ned Thomas Beatty was an American actor. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 film and television roles. Throughout his career, Beatty gained a reputation for being "the busiest actor in Hollywood". His film appearances included Deliverance (1972), White Lightning (1973), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), Back to Sch…
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entertainment · American actor (1937–2021) · comedian · film actor · television actor · voice actor · stage actor · actor · also Ned Beatty, Ned Thomas Beatty, Edward Thomas Beatty, Beatty
Born 6 July 1937 · Died 13 June 2021 · Q4212
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2021· 7 entries
The Guardian: Ned Beatty obituary
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The Guardian: Ned Beatty: the good ol’ boy who made playing the ordinary guy look easy
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The Guardian: Ned Beatty, star of Deliverance, Network and Superman, dies aged 83
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WTVF: Ned Beatty: Actor known for work in 'Deliverance' dies at 83
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At the age of 83, and he was cremated with his ashes given to his widow
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Died 2021-06-13.
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2012· 1 entry
Beatty attended a 40th anniversary screening of Deliverance at Warner Bros
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2011· 1 entry
Beatty worked with actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski in the animated film Rango (2011), playing the role of Tortoise John
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2010· 1 entry
Beatty starred in the thriller The Killer Inside Me (2010), which was part of the Sundance Film Festival
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2005· 1 entry
In an American independent film directed and written by Ali Selim, Sweet Land
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2003· 1 entry
Portrayed a simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows
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2002· 1 entry
Appeared in Peter Hewitt's film Thunderpants
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1999· 1 entry
Beatty returned to work with Cookie's Fortune, Life, and Spring Forward
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1995· 1 entry
Worked with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the thriller Just Cause
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1993· 1 entry
Appeared in the true story based film Rudy, playing a Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fan whose son, against all odds, makes the school's football team
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1992· 1 entry
Played Blanche Devereaux's developmentally disabled older brother in the TV show The Golden Palace
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1990· 1 entry
Beatty worked again with Linda Blair in Repossessed (1990), a spoof of The Exorcist
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1989· 1 entry
Beatty made Chattahoochee, portraying Dr
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1988· 1 entry
Beatty appeared with the main character Thelonious Pitt in Shadows in the Storm, and reunited with Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve for the comedy film Switching Channels, his fifth time in a movie with Reynolds
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1982· 1 entry
Beatty returned to work with Richard Donner and Richard Pryor in the comedy The Toy
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1981· 1 entry
Beatty appeared in the comedy/science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Lily Tomlin
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1980· 1 entry
Beatty appeared in Ronald Neame's film Hopscotch with Walter Matthau
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1979· 1 entry
Was also seen in Wise Blood, directed by John Huston, and 1941, directed by Steven Spielberg
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1978· 1 entry
Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down (1978), a drama aboard a submarine starring Charlton Heston
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1977· 1 entry
Returned to work with John Boorman in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), and appeared in "The Final Chapter", the first episode of the television series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
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1976· 1 entry
Also appeared in The Big Bus, Silver Streak, and Mikey and Nicky
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1973· 1 entry
Beatty had roles in The Thief Who Came to Dinner, The Last American Hero, and White Lightning
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1972· 2 entries
Also appeared in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, a western with Paul Newman
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Beatty made his film debut as Bobby Trippe in Deliverance, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, and set in northern Georgia
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1956· 1 entry
Beatty made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant located in Berea, Kentucky
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1947· 1 entry
Beatty began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets in St
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1937· 2 entries
In Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (née Fortney) and Charles William Beatty
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Born 1937-07-06.
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