Ned Thomas Beatty is an American actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and a Golden Globe Award; he won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performanc...
Thomas Beatty, Walter Beatty, Dorothy Beatty, Blossom Beatty, John Beatty, Charles Beatty, Douglas Beatty, Lennis Beatty
Parents
Margaret Fortney Lennis, Charles William Beatty
Siblings
Mary Margaret Beatty
Nicknames
The busiest actor in Hollywood , Ned Thomas Beatty
Awards
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Ser...
Movies
Deliverance, Superman, Toy Story 3, Superman II, Rango, Network, Shooter, Rudy, The Killer Inside Me, Stroker Ace, 1941, The Big Easy, The Toy, White Lightning, Silver Streak, Hear My Song, Charlie Wilson's War, All the President's Men, Back to School, Wise Blood, The Fourth Protocol, Nashville, The...
TV Shows
Homicide: Life on the Street, Streets of Laredo, Lucan, Szysznyk, The Boys, Last Train Home
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Often plays charismatic villains
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Quote
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[on the creation of the "squeal like a pig" scene in Deliverance (1972)] Bill McKinney and I and the director [John Boorman] were both throwing stuff in the pot and that's where all that stuff came from. The way he caught me when I ran, it was scripted. It was just the way I gave in to what the situation was. I made myself available to whatever he wanted to do to me. But [Boorman] didn't believe that. He thought, "Well, aren't you gonna try to do something?". So what he really wanted was for me to run, and when I ran, I remembered how we were dealing with the situation of big boar hogs and how this older man would have to grab this one of the back legs, and I would have to hit it with the tackle and roll up on top of it and put the rope around the legs. All this was going and that's where we came to the squealing of the pig thing. I must tell you that most of the people that were on the film did not want us to do the scene. But the scene was important.
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I want to see the writers strike, God bless them. They are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
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[on Sweet Land (2005): We want to see a story about us, about people. Here's a girl who comes from Norway and gets all the way to Minnesota. She doesn't speak a word of English, just German, and people still hated Germans from the first World War. Talk about strength. She's traveled alone and far to marry a guy through an arrangement with his parents. You wonder at the strength for just that, much less what it takes to hold on once she gets there. This is about people you know. I love it. I love what it's about. One scene summarizes the delicious sense of the movie. It's where Olaf is sleeping in the barn, and Inge is sleeping in the house and there's a sense of tension between them because they are going here and there and trying to get married, but they can't. They get into an argument, and they are talking in German and Norwegian. I love that scene. I love the fact that we know exactly what they are talking about, even though I don't speak any Norwegian or German.The performances are wonderful. The acting is as good as anything I've ever been in. I am proud. The two leads are good, boy, they are good. I think when people see this movie, they won't have seen anybody like her [Elizabeth Reaser] in quite some time.
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[on John Huston] A wondrous man . . . it's not like talking to God, but it's so close!
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1997 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Lead Actor in a Musical for "Show Boat" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Beatty was offered the role of John Doe in Se7en (1995) but rejected because the script was pure evil.
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He appeared in two films with the word "Toy" in the title: The Toy (1982) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
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He appeared in the two Oscar winning scripts of 1976: in Network (1976), which won as Best Original Screenplay, and in All the President's Men (1976), which won as Best Adapted Screenplay.
He made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in United States television history: Gunsmoke (1955) and Law & Order (1990).
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His son (from his first marriage) Charles Beatty works as a grip in Hollywood, mostly on commercials.
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He and his wife Sandra Johnson were building a home in northern Minnesota near her family (2004).
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He was nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role of 2001 for his performance in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Lyric Theatre in London.