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Ned Beatty

Actor

Ned Beatty

Acting
1972 — 2011 · 46 films
Lived
6 July 1937 — d. 2021
From
Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Ned 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.

Career Signature

How Ned Beatty’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

kinetic urgency
crowd-pleaser
joyful exuberance
grainy 70s grit
anxious dread

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet Walsh36 filmsRandy QuaidRandy Quaid40 filmsFred WardFred Ward36 filmsBeau BridgesBeau Bridges33 filmsRip TornRip Torn38 filmsEd LauterEd Lauter33 filmsRoscoe Lee BrowneRoscoe Lee Browne16 filmsWilliam WindomWilliam Windom14 films

Filmography

Rango

2011

Rampart

2011

The Killer Inside Me

2010

In the Electric Mist

2009

The Walker

2007

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006

Sweet Land

2005

Where the Red Fern Grows

2003

Thunderpants

2002

Cookie's Fortune

1999

He Got Game

1998

Radioland Murders

1994

Rudy

1993

Ed and His Dead Mother

1993

Prelude to a Kiss

1992

Repossessed

1990

Captain America

1990

A Cry in the Wild

1990

Physical Evidence

1989

Switching Channels

1988

Purple People Eater

1988

The Unholy

1988

The Fourth Protocol

1987

Rolling Vengeance

1987

The Big Easy

1986

Restless Natives

1985

Stroker Ace

1983

The Toy

1982

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981

Superman II

1980

Hopscotch

1980

1941

1979

Wise Blood

1979

Superman

1978

Gray Lady Down

1978

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

Alambrista!

1977

Network

1976

Silver Streak

1976

The Big Bus

1976

Mikey and Nicky

1976

Nashville

1975

White Lightning

1973

The Last American Hero

1973

Deliverance

1972

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972