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Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an American actor. He now lives in the Springville, California, area.
ty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Margaret Fortney (née Lennis), a high school lunch lady, and Charles William Beatty. He has a sister, Mary Margaret. In 1947, he began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, as well as at his local church. He made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in, Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant.
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Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an American actor. He now lives in the Springville, California, area.
Biography
Early life
Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Margaret Fortney (née Lennis), a high school lunch lady, and Charles William Beatty. He has a sister, Mary Margaret. In 1947, he began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, as well as at his local church. He made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in, Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant. He attended college at Transylvania University, in Lexington, KY, although he did not graduate. Beatty found work in the Louisville area through the mid-1960s, at the Clarksville Little Theater (IN) and the recently founded Actors Theater of Louisville. His time at the latter included a memorable run as "Willy Loman" in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in 1966.
Career
Beatty has appeared in over 100 films including "Delbert Reese," a Tennessee lawyer and husband of Lily Tomlin's character, who attempts to have a sexual liaison with Gwen Welles' character, in Robert Altman's, Nashville (1975). Also memorable were Beatty's depictions as Dennis Quaid's co-worker in a drama about police corruption in New Orleans, The Big Easy (1987), as Lex Luthor's henchman "Otis" in, Superman (1978), as "Rudy Reuttiger's" father in the 1993 biopic, Rudy, and as rape victim "Bobby Trippe" in his debut film, Deliverance (1972).
Beatty was a member of the original cast of the television police drama Homicide: Life on the Street, playing "Detective Stanley Bolander," in the show's first three seasons. He also had a recurring role as "Dan Conner's" (John Goodman) philandering father, "Ed," on the hit television show, Roseanne.
Beatty was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Network (1976). He has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. In the award-winning 1991 British film, Hear My Song, he portrayed the singer Josef Locke.
In March 2006, Beatty received the RiverRun International Film Festival's "Master of Cinema" Award (the highest honor of the festival), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2007, Beatty played U.S. Congressman Clarence Long in the film Charlie Wilson's War.
Filmography
Kentucky Woman (1982) with Cheryl Ladd
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