Ned Beatty had the series regular role of Stanley Bolander in the first three seasons of the hit NBC TV drama Homicide: Life on the Street.
40 Facts About Ned Beatty
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Ned Beatty was 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.
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Ned Beatty was born on July 6,1937, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret and Charles William Ned Beatty.
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In 1947, Ned Beatty began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets in St Matthews, Kentucky, and at his local church.
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Ned Beatty received a scholarship to sing in the a cappella choir at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky; he attended but did not graduate.
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In 1956, Ned Beatty made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant located in Berea, Kentucky.
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In 1972, Ned 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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Ned Beatty admitted that most of the people who worked on the film did not want to do that scene, but it was an important one.
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In 1973, Ned Beatty had roles in The Thief Who Came to Dinner, The Last American Hero, and White Lightning.
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Ned Beatty appeared in an episode of the TV series The Waltons that year, as well as the TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders, which was the pilot for the series Kojak.
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Ned Beatty appeared in the NBC-TV movie Attack on Terror: The FBI vs the Ku Klux Klan as Deputy Sheriff Ollie Thompson.
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Ned Beatty made an appearance on Gunsmoke in "The Hiders" episode in 1975.
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Ned Beatty received his only Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actor category for the acclaimed film Network, portraying a television network's bombastic but shrewd chairman of the board who convinces the mad Howard Beale character that corporation-led global dehumanization is not only inevitable, but is a good thing.
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In 1978, Ned Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down, a drama aboard a submarine starring Charlton Heston.
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Later that year, Ned Beatty was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's inept henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie, as he would in the 1980 sequel, where we see his character being left behind in prison.
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Ned Beatty received his first nomination for Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for the television series Friendly Fire.
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In 1980, Ned Beatty appeared in Ronald Neame's film Hopscotch with Walter Matthau.
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In 1982, Beatty returned to work with Richard Donner and Richard Pryor in the comedy The Toy.
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Ned Beatty worked with Burt Reynolds again in the auto-racing farce Stroker Ace.
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Ned Beatty played a corrupt cop in the 1987 American neo-noir crime film The Big Easy, directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid, and continued with a spy drama, The Fourth Protocol, opposite Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan.
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In 1988, Ned 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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Ned Beatty appeared in Purple People Eater, portraying a simple grandfather.
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Ned Beatty had a recurring role as the father of John Goodman's character Dan Conner on the TV comedy series Roseanne.
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In 1990, Ned Beatty worked again with Linda Blair in Repossessed, a spoof of The Exorcist.
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Ned Beatty appeared in the Marvel Comics superhero adventure Captain America.
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Ned Beatty portrayed the father of the bride in Prelude to a Kiss, opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin.
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Ned Beatty starred in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Stanley Bolander for its first three seasons.
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Ned Beatty made the 1994 science-fiction film Replikator and mystery-comedy Radioland Murders.
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Ned Beatty appeared as Judge Roy Bean in the TV miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's western novel, Streets of Laredo.
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In 1999, Beatty returned to work with Cookie's Fortune, Life, and Spring Forward.
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Ned Beatty enjoyed a career as a stage actor, including a run in the Broadway and London productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Brendan Fraser and Frances O'Connor.
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Ned Beatty won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for playing Big Daddy in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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In March 2006, Ned Beatty received the RiverRun International Film Festival's "Master of Cinema" Award, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Ned Beatty worked with Tommy Lee Jones in the thriller In the Electric Mist.
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In 2010, Ned Beatty starred in the thriller The Killer Inside Me, which was part of the Sundance Film Festival.
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In 2011, Ned Beatty worked with actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski in the computer-animated film Rango, playing the role of Tortoise John.
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Ned Beatty appeared briefly in the film Funny Guy and in the film Rampart, opposite Woody Harrelson, which is set in 1999 Los Angeles.
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Ned Beatty was not related to fellow Hollywood star Warren Ned Beatty, born in 1937.
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On June 29,2012, Ned Beatty attended a 40th anniversary screening of Deliverance at Warner Bros.
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Ned Beatty died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, on June 13,2021, at the age of 83.