Ned Beatty: movies and TV shows
Ned Beatty has 174 credits in the archive: 133 films and 41 TV series, from 1944 to 2014. Highest rated: Homicide: Life on the Street (8.1/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2014 · busiest year: 1982 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Big Ask | Old Man Carl | Film | 5.0 | 76 |
| 2013 | Baggage Claim | Mr. Donaldson | Film | 5.3 | 75 |
| 2012 | Go On | Coach Spence | TV | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2012 | Casting By | Self | Film | 6.9 | 74 |
| 2011 | Rango | Mayor (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2011 | Rampart | Hartshorn | Film | 5.5 | 73 |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lotso (voice) | Film | 7.8 | 72 |
| 2010 | The Killer Inside Me | Chester Conway | Film | 5.8 | 72 |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Twinky LeMoyne | Film | 6.1 | 71 |
| 2007 | Shooter | Senator Charles F. Meachum | Film | 7.1 | 69 |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War | Doc Long | Film | 6.5 | 69 |
| 2007 | The Walker | Jack Delorean | Film | 5.3 | 69 |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Otis | Film | 7.4 | 68 |
| 2006 | The Making of 'Network' | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2005 | Sweet Land | Harmo | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2004 | The Wool Cap | Gigot's Father | Film | 6.6 | 66 |
| 2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Sheriff Abe McConnell | Film | 6.3 | 65 |
| 2002 | Roughing It | Slade | Film | 5.5 | 64 |
| 2002 | Thunderpants | Gen. Ed Sheppard | Film | 3.4 | 64 |
| 2002 | Roughing It | Slade | TV | — | 64 |
| 2001 | I Was a Rat | Mudduck | Film | 9.0 | 63 |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. David Lowry | TV | 7.6 | 62 |
| 2000 | Spring Forward | Murph | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2000 | Homicide: The Movie | Stanley Bolander | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 1999 | Life | Dexter Wilkins | Film | 6.7 | 61 |
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Lester Boyle | Film | 6.4 | 61 |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Warden Wyatt | Film | 6.7 | 60 |
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Farmer Grultrad | TV | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 58 | |
| 1996 | The Curse of Inferno | Moles Huddenel | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1996 | Crazy Horse | Dr. McGillicuddy | Film | 8.7 | 58 |
| 1995 | Streets of Laredo | Judge Roy Bean | TV | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1995 | Just Cause | McNair | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1995 | The Affair | Col. Banning | Film | 4.2 | 57 |
| 1995 | Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart | Sam Lawrence | Film | 6.0 | 57 |
| 1994 | Radioland Murders | General Whalen | Film | 5.9 | 56 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 56 |
| 1994 | Replikator | Insp. Victor Valiant | Film | 3.4 | 56 |
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Stanley Bolander | TV | 8.1 | 55 |
| 1993 | Rudy | Daniel Ruettiger | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Frédéric (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1993 | The Boys | Herbert Francis 'Bert' Greenblatt | TV | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1993 | Ed and His Dead Mother | Uncle Benny | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1992 | The Golden Palace | Tad Hollingsworth | TV | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1992 | T Bone N Weasel | Doc Tatum | Film | 3.8 | 54 |
| 1992 | Prelude to a Kiss | Dr. Boyle | Film | 5.6 | 54 |
| 1992 | Blind Vision | Sgt. Logan | Film | 3.6 | 54 |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Dennis Hanks (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1992 | Illusions | Landlord | Film | 4.9 | 54 |
| 1992 | Trial: The Price of Passion | Scoot Shepard | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1991 | Hear My Song | Josef Locke | Film | 5.9 | 53 |
| 1991 | Going Under | Admiral Malice | Film | 3.9 | 53 |
| 1991 | Angel Square | Film | 8.0 | 53 | |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Malcolm Reynolds | TV | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1990 | Repossessed | Ernest Weller | Film | 5.3 | 52 |
| 1990 | Captain America | Sam Kolawetz | Film | 4.5 | 52 |
| 1990 | The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | Edward C. Acker | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1990 | A Cry in the Wild | Pilot | Film | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1990 | Chattahoochee | Dr. Harwood | Film | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1990 | Big Bad John | Charlie Mitchelle | Film | 5.0 | 52 |
| 1990 | Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Duke of Bridgewater | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1989 | B.L. Stryker | TV | 6.1 | 51 | |
| 1989 | Ministry of Vengeance | Rev. Bloor | Film | 3.8 | 51 |
| 1989 | Physical Evidence | James Nicks | Film | 5.1 | 51 |
| 1989 | Tennessee Nights | Charlie Kiefer | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1989 | Time Trackers | Harry Orth | Film | 4.0 | 51 |
| 1989 | Last Train Home | Cornelius van Horne | Film | 4.3 | 51 |
| 1989 | Sex and Buttered Popcorn | Self - Host | Film | 4.9 | 51 |
| 1989 | Spy | Thomas Ludlow | Film | 6.9 | 51 |
| 1988 | The Unholy | Lt. Stern | Film | 5.4 | 50 |
| 1988 | Roseanne | Ed Conner | TV | 6.8 | 50 |
| 1988 | Purple People Eater | Grandpa | Film | 5.1 | 50 |
| 1988 | Switching Channels | Roy Ridnitz | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 1988 | Go Toward the Light | George | Film | 7.7 | 50 |
| 1988 | Shadows in the Storm | Thelonious Pitt | Film | 4.6 | 50 |
| 1988 | After the Rain | Matthew Bonner | Film | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1988 | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Self | TV | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1988 | Midnight Crossing | Ellis | Film | 4.6 | 50 |
| 1988 | Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide | Self | Film | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1987 | The Fourth Protocol | Borisov | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1987 | Kiwi Magic | Film | — | 49 | |
| 1987 | The Trouble with Spies | Harry Lewis | Film | 4.7 | 49 |
| 1987 | Rolling Vengeance | Tiny Doyle | Film | 5.7 | 49 |
| 1987 | The Haunting of Barney Palmer | Cole Scholar | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1986 | Back to School | Dean Martin | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 1986 | The Big Easy | Jack Kellom | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 1985 | Konrad | Mr. Thomas | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1985 | Answers | Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent") | Film | — | 47 |
| 1985 | Hostage Flight | Art Hofstadter | Film | 6.1 | 47 |
| 1985 | Robert Kennedy & His Times | J. Edgar Hoover | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1985 | Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom | Rev. Mansfield French | Film | — | 47 |
| 1985 | Restless Natives | Bender | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Roy Gunderson | TV | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | Bill Cassidy | TV | 7.4 | 46 |
| 1984 | Don't Ask Me, Ask God | Self | Film | — | 46 |
| 1984 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Diomed | TV | 7.4 | 46 |
| 1984 | Celebrity | Otto Leo | TV | 6.7 | 46 |
| 1983 | Touched | Herbie | Film | 7.8 | 45 |
| 1983 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Lynch Mob Leader | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1983 | Stroker Ace | Clyde Torkle | Film | 4.9 | 45 |
| 1983 | Kentucky Woman | Luke Telford | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Lynch Mob Leader | TV | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Reverend Mansfield French | TV | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The King | TV | 8.1 | 44 |
| 1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Sen. Durward | Film | 7.7 | 44 |
| 1982 | A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion | Benjamin Hammett | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1982 | The Toy | Sydney Morehouse | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Senator Durward | TV | — | 44 |
| 1982 | Rumpelstiltskin | The King | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1982 | Pray TV | Rev. Freddy Stone | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1981 | Splendor in the Grass | Ace Stamper | Film | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1981 | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Dan Beame | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1981 | All the Way Home | Ralph Follet | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1981 | The Violation of Sarah McDavid | Dr. Walter Keys | Film | 4.5 | 43 |
| 1980 | Superman II | Otis | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1980 | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | Rep. Leo Ryan | TV | 7.3 | 42 |
| 1980 | Friendly Fire | Gene Mullen | Film | 7.5 | 42 |
| 1980 | Hopscotch | Myerson | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1980 | All God's Children | Mike Naponic | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1980 | The American Success Company | Mr. Elliott | Film | 5.2 | 42 |
| 1979 | 1941 | Ward Douglas | Film | 5.8 | 41 |
| 1979 | Promises in the Dark | Bud Koenig | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1979 | Wise Blood | Hoover Shoates | Film | 6.4 | 41 |
| 1978 | Superman | Otis | Film | 7.2 | 40 |
| 1978 | Gray Lady Down | Mickey | Film | 6.5 | 40 |
| 1978 | The Great Bank Hoax | Julius Taggart | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1978 | A Question of Love | Dwayne Stabler | Film | 5.2 | 40 |
| 1977 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Edwards | Film | 4.6 | 39 |
| 1977 | Tail Gunner Joe | Sylvester | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1977 | Lucan | Larry MacElwaine | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1977 | Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | TV | 6.8 | 39 | |
| 1977 | Alambrista! | Anglo Coyote | Film | 5.9 | 39 |
| 1977 | The Gardener's Son | Pinky | Film | 4.4 | 39 |
| 1977 | Szysznyk | TV | 7.0 | 39 | |
| 1977 | Our Town | Dr. Gibbs | Film | 9.5 | 39 |
| 1977 | Nashville 99 | Randy Blair | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Dardis | Film | 7.7 | 38 |
| 1976 | Mikey and Nicky | Kinney | Film | 6.9 | 38 |
| 1976 | Delvecchio | Wakefield | TV | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1976 | Network | Arthur Jensen | Film | 7.8 | 38 |
| 1976 | Gator | Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited) | Film | 5.2 | 38 |
| 1976 | Silver Streak | Bob Sweet | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1976 | The Big Bus | Shorty Scotty | Film | 5.3 | 38 |
| 1975 | Nashville | Delbert Reese | Film | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1975 | The Deadly Tower | Allan Crum | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Ollie Thompson | Film | 7.5 | 37 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Ollie Thompson | TV | — | 37 |
| 1975 | NBC Special Treat | Big Henry | TV | — | 37 |
| 1975 | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | Country Bull | Film | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Leon Fielder | TV | 7.6 | 36 |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Al Brennan | TV | 7.6 | 36 |
| 1974 | Petrocelli | Gage | TV | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | Father Stafford | Film | 7.4 | 36 |
| 1973 | Dying Room Only | Tom King | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Deams | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1973 | The Last American Hero | Hackel | Film | 5.7 | 35 |
| 1973 | White Lightning | Sheriff J.C. Connors | Film | 6.1 | 35 |
| 1973 | The Marcus-Nelson Murders | Det. Dan Corrigan | Film | 7.6 | 35 |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | Colonel Hollister | TV | 7.9 | 34 |
| 1972 | The Waltons | Curtis Norton | TV | 7.2 | 34 |
| 1972 | The Rookies | TV | 6.9 | 34 | |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | Eddie Boggs | TV | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1972 | Deliverance | Bobby Trippe | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1972 | The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Tector Crites | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Frank Powell | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Caldwell | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 24 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Karp | TV | 6.7 | 17 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 6 |
| Fat Monroe | Fat Monroe | Film | 9.0 | — |