Ned Beatty
Ned Thomas Beatty ( born July 6, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actor who appeared in over 200 films. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in the comic book adaptation Superman ( 1978) and as the victim Bobby Trippe in his debut film Deliverance, each of the first (1972).
Life
Beatty is the son of Margaret Fortney Beatty, born Lennis, and Charles William Beatty. He has a sister, Mary Margaret Beatty Gwinner. Beatty was brought up religiously and began 1947 in gospel choirs to sing in the church choir of St. Matthews Church, but also in his local church and thus deserved money to help feed his family. At age 19 he made his first appearance at the theater in the piece Wilderness Road.
Beatty studied music at the Transylvania University in Lexington, KY, USA, the study but did not complete. Later, he appeared at Clarksville Little Theatre and at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He had his most famous appearance in 1966 on Broadway as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. John Boorman saw Beatty there and won it after the movie Deliverance, each of the first. So Beatty's career began as an actor in more than 200 films. During the filming of Deliverance, each of the first he met actress Belinda Rowley know.
Beatty's first wife was Walta Addott, after divorcing her in 1971 he married Belinda Rowley Beatty. On June 28, 1979, he married ( called Tinker ) Dorothy Adams Lindsay, from whom he was divorced in 1998. Since 20 November 1999, he is married to Sandra Johnsen. From his first three marriages Beatty has eight children. He is not related to actor Warren Beatty.
Beatty suffered from manic- depressive illness, from which he was cured, but has repeatedly depressive relapses. In 2006, he began to sing, and play the CD " In the Beginning Was the Word " field.
Beatty in movies
Beatty is the audience very popular and has by his appearance a high recognition factor. In most of his movie performances he played supporting roles, often as a fat, sweaty cop or as unpredictable gangsters. In the satirical film Network Beatty in 1976 played the station chief of the television station, where the main character lives out her anger in the live broadcasts. Ten years later, Beatty was in The Big Easy - The Big Easy the leader of a group of corrupt police officers. The award-winning British film Hear My Song of 1991, he represented the singer Josef Locke and more so entirely from its previous role type from. From 1993 to 1995 he worked in the crime series Homicide.
Awards
Beatty was nominated for an Academy Award for Network, he also received two nominations for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.