Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Actor (1937 - 2021)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Ned Beatty (73.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 32 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Ned's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

32
Movies
73.2%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Ned Beatty’s films higher than 65% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Network (YouTube) · Mikey and Nicky (Kanopy) · Hopscotch (Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · Rango (Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · The Killer Inside Me (Pluto TV, Kanopy) · All the President's Men (YouTube) and 7 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Christopher Reeve (2)Margot Kidder (2)Gene Hackman (2)Jackie Cooper (2)Jack O'Halloran (2)

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. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and TV series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991) and the adaptation movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004). He had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (1972), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville (1975), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men (1976), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), Bates' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy (1982), twice characters Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol (1987), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed (1990), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy (1993), detective McNair in Just Cause (1995), Ray and Claude's warden/employer Dexter Wilkins in Life (1999), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows (2003), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter (2007), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3 (2010).

Born 1937-07-06 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Died 2021-06-13.

On ThumbScore, Ned Beatty appears in 32 films with an average audience score of 73.2%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Ned Beatty movie, ranked by audience score

Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3
2010
👍 88%
The Fourth Protocol
The Fourth Protocol
1987
👍 87%
Superman II
Superman II
1980
👍 82%
Network
Network
1976
👍 80%
Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky
1976
👍 80%
Silver Streak
Silver Streak
1976
👍 80%
Hopscotch
Hopscotch
1980
👍 78%
Superman
Superman
1978
👍 77%
Rango
Rango
2011
👍 76%
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me
2010
👍 76%
Cookie's Fortune
Cookie's Fortune
1999
👍 76%
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
👍 76%
He Got Game
He Got Game
1998
👍 75%
All the President's Men
All the President's Men
1976
👍 75%
1941
1941
1979
👍 75%
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
👍 74%
The Toy
The Toy
1982
👍 74%
Deliverance
Deliverance
1972
👍 73%
In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist
2009
👍 73%
White Lightning
White Lightning
1973
👍 73%
Nashville
Nashville
1975
👍 72%
Wise Blood
Wise Blood
1979
👍 72%
Repossessed
Repossessed
1990
👍 70%
Rudy
Rudy
1993
👍 69%
The Big Easy
The Big Easy
1986
👍 69%
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
👍 68%
The Big Bus
The Big Bus
1976
👍 68%
Just Cause
Just Cause
1995
👍 67%
Prelude to a Kiss
Prelude to a Kiss
1992
👍 65%
Rampart
Rampart
2011
👍 60%
Captain America
Captain America
1990
👍 58%
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
👍 57%