page_title: Ned Beatty
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Ned Beatty / Career / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: 42nd Emmy Awards - Sept. 1990- Permission granted to copy, publish or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can
context_page_description: Ned Thomas Beatty is a retired American actor and singer. He has appeared in more than 160 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 also won a Drama Desk Award.
  These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and television series, such as Network, Friendly Fire, Hear My Song, and Toy Story 3. He has had great commercial success in roles such as executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance, lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville, investigator Martin Dardis in All the President's Men, undercover federal agent Bob Sweet in Silver Streak, the priest, Father Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Lex Luthor's bumbling henchman Otis in Superman and Superman II, as a millionaire's right-hand man in The Toy, Pavel Borisov in The Fourth Protocol, TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed, Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy, attorney McNair in Just Cause, Dexter Wilkins in Life, the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows, the corrupt Senator Charles F.
context_section_description: Entering the 1990s, Beatty got his third nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special category for Last Train Home (1990). A year later, he appeared in the British film Hear My Song (1991), in which he portrayed tenor Josef Locke, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
  In 1990, Beatty worked again with Linda Blair in Repossessed (1990), a spoof of The Exorcist. He appeared in the Marvel Comics superhero adventure Captain America (1990). He portrayed the father of the bride in Prelude to a Kiss (1992), opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. In 1993, he appeared in the true story Rudy, playing a Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fan whose son, against all odds, makes the school's football team. Beatty starred in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Stanley Bolander for its first three seasons (1993–1995).
  Beatty made the 1994 science-fiction film Replikator (1994) and mystery-comedy Radioland Murders. In 1995, he worked with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the thriller Just Cause. He appeared as Judge Roy Bean in the TV miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's western novel, Streets of Laredo (1995). He appeared in a 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, He Got Game. In 1999, Beatty returned to work with Cookie's Fortune, Life, and Spring Forward.
caption: Beatty at the 1990 Annual Emmy Awards
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