NED BEATTY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Ned Beatty was born on July 6th, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky with the middle name Thomas, born to Margaret Fortney and Charles William Beatty.  As a young boy he would sing in the local choir at church and after high school he was offered a scholarship to sing in the cappella choir at Transylvania university in Kentucky.
 
Prior to earning a college degree he left school to focus on a full time career in entertainment.  He began with working as a stage actor appearing in such productions as, "Wilderness Road", "Death of a Salesman", "The Great White Hope" and "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist".
 
Soon he was adding such film credits to his resume as, "Deliverance" (1972) starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (1972) starring Paul Newman, "White Lightning" (1973), "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings" (1975), "Nashville" (1975) and "Network" (1976), a role for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.  

Now he had begun to make a name for himself in Hollywood and more successful film roles followed such as, "Silver Streak" (1976), "All the President's Men" (1976) starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, "Superman" (1978) starring Christopher Reeve, "Superman II" (1980) and "Stroker Ace" (1983).
 
However, as his career entered the mid 1980's, although he was still working in the film industry his roles were not all as successful as his earlier career.  He did however add a couple prominent roles to his resume such as, "The Big Easy" (1986), "Hear My Song" (1991), "Prelude to a Kiss" (1992), "Just Cause" (1995), "He Got Game" (1998), "Cookie's Fortune" (1999), "Spring Forward" (1999). 
 
Beatty also appeared in numerous television movies such as, "Gulliver's Travels" (1996), "Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" (1990), "The Boys" (1993), "Streets of Laredo" (1995) and such television series as, "Highway to Heaven", "Law & Order", "C.S.I.", "Roseanne", "Murder, She Wrote", "American Playhouse" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
 
Ned never neglected his first love of live theater and has added alter in his career such theatrical credits as, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2001).
 
More recently he has graced the screen with roles in, "Where the Red Farm Grows" (2003), "The Walker" (2007), "Shooter" (2007) "In the Electric Mist" (2009), "The Killer Inside me" (2010) and "Teddy Bears" which is set to release in 2013.  He has also done voice over work for such films as, "Toy Story 3" (2010), "Toy Story 3: The Video Game" (2010) and "Rango" (2010).
 
Ned Beatty has married four times, first to Walta Abbott in 1959 and they had four children before they divorced in 1968.  He then married his second wife, Belinda Beatty in 1971 and together they had two children before the marriage came to an end in 1979.  His third time to wed was in 1979 to Dorothy Tinker Lindsey and they also had two children before another failed marriage ended in 1998.  He is currently married to his fourth wife, Sandra Johnson whom he married in 1999 and they own a home in Los Angeles, California as well as near her family in Minnesota. 

 
Filmography

2013   Teddy Bears

2011   Rampart 

2011   Rango

2010   Toy Story 3: The Video Game

2010   The Killer Inside Me

2009   In the Electric Mist

2008   Law & Order 

2007   Charlie Wilson's War 

2007   Shooter 

2007   The Walker

2007   CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2006   Superman II

2005   Sweet Land

2004   The Wool Cap 

2003   Where the Red Fern Grows 

2002   Thunderpants

2002   Roughing It

2002   This Beautiful Life 

2001   I Was a Rat 

2000   Homicide: The Movie

2000   The Wilgus Stories 

1999   Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

1999   Spring Forward 

1999   Life 

1999   Cookie's Fortune 

1998   He Got Game 

1997   The Curse of Inferno 

1996   Crazy Horse 

1996   Gulliver's Travels 

1996   Blind Vision

1996   The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

1995   Streets of Laredo

1995   The Affair

1993-1995  Homicide: Life on the Street 

1995   Just Cause 

1994   Radioland Murders 

1989-1994  Roseanne

1994   Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine 

1994   Replikator

1994   Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1993   Ed and His Dead Mother 

1993   Rudy 

1993   The Boys

1993   The Golden Palace 

1992   Lincoln 

1992   T Bone N Weasel 

1992   Illusions

1992   Prelude to a Kiss 

1992   Trial: The Price of Passion

1992   Avonlea

1991   Hear My Song 

1991   American Masters

1990   Captain America 

1990   The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990   Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 

1990   Fat Monroe 

1990   Repossessed 

1990   A Cry in the Wild 

1990   Big Bad John

1990   Going Under

1990   The Comic Book Christmas Caper

1990   Last Train Home

1989   Spy 

1989   B.L. Stryker 

1989   Ministry of Vengeance 

1989   Chattahoochee 

1989   Tennessee Waltz

1989   Time Trackers

1989   Physical Evidence

1989   Saturday Night with Connie Chung

1988   Purple People Eater 

1988   Go Toward the Light 

1988   Shadows in the Storm

1988   After the Rain 

1988   Midnight Crossing 

1988   The Unholy

1988   Switching Channels

1987   The Trouble with Spies

1987   Dolly

1987   Rolling Vengeance 

1987   The Haunting of Barney Palmer

1987   The Fourth Protocol 

1986   The Big Easy 

1985-1986  Highway to Heaven

1986   Back to School

1986   Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide

1985   Hostage Flight 

1985   Konrad 

1985   Restless Natives

1985   Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1982-1985  American Playhouse

1985   Robert Kennedy & His Times 

1984   Murder, She Wrote 

1984   The Last Days of Pompeii

1984   Celebrity 

1983   Touched

1983   Stroker Ace

1983   Kentucky Woman 

1982   The Toy

1982   Faerie Tale Theatre 

1982   A Woman Called Golda 

1982   A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

1982   Pray TV 

1981   All the Way Home 

1981   Splendor in the Grass 

1981   The Violation of Sarah McDavi

1981   The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1980   Superman II

1980   Hopscotch

1980   All God's Children

1980   Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

1980   The American Success Company 

1979   1941

1979   Promises in the Dark

1979   Wise Blood

1979   Friendly Fire

1978   Superman 

1978   The Great Bank Hoax

1978   A Question of Love

1978   Gray Lady Down 

1977-1978  Szysznyk 

1977   Alambrista!

1977   Visions 

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   Tales of the Unexpected

1976   Mikey and Nicky

1974-1976  The Rockford Files 

1976   Silver Streak 

1976   Network

1976   NBC Special Treat 

1976   Hawaii Five-O

1976   Hunter 

1976   Gator 

1976   The Big Bus

1976   All the President's Men

1975   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   Gunsmoke

1974   The Execution of Private Slovik 

1973   Dying Room Only 

1973   White Lightning 

1973   The Last American Hero 

1973   Kojak 

1973   The Waltons 

1973   The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1972   The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972   Footsteps

1972   Deliverance