Ned Beatty, Who Made Quite the First Impression in 'Deliverance,' Dies at 83
Source: Hollywood Reporter
The actor also had memorable roles in 'Nashville,' 'Network' and 'Homicide: Life on the Street.'
BY MIKE BARNES
Ned Beatty, who made an indelible first impression in Deliverance before turning in noteworthy efforts in Nashville, Network and Homicide: Life on the Street as one of the most respected character actors of his time, has died. He was 83.
Beatty died Sunday of natural causes at his Los Angeles home, his daughter Blossom Beatty told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Kentucky native also portrayed Lily Tomlin’s good ol’ boy hustler-lawyer husband in Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975), was a slippery Miami district attorney in Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men (1976) and elicited laughs as Lex Luthor’s (Gene Hackman) bumbling sidekick Otis in Superman (1978) and its 1980 sequel.
On television, Beatty was at his best as Det. Stanley “The Big Man” Bolander on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street and as the chaplain assigned to an American private (Martin Sheen) in his final hours on the somber 1974 NBC telefilm The Execution of Private Slovik.
Ned Beatty in 1979's 'Wise Blood' NEW LINE CINEMA/PHOTOFEST
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It’s just a little bitty place.
-Superman, 1978
RIP, Ned.
