ALSO PLAYED ON BROADWAY: Ned Beatty at the Music Box Theater in New York in 2003, where he played Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Photo: Gino Domenico / AP
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The actor, who had his breakthrough in “Picnic with Death” in 1972, turned 83 years old.
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Beatty died of natural causes in her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, daughter Blossom Beatty informs Hollywood Reporter.
According to the news agency AP The actor has appeared in over 150 films and TV series, and he has often had iconic, albeit smaller, roles.
– For people like me, there are many who say “I recognize you, what have I seen you in?”, He said about his own career in 1992, writes NTB.
Beatty had her big breakthrough as Bobby Trippe, one of four fellow hikers who turn the boy ride on a canoe into a nightmare in the movie “Picnic with Death” – “Deliverance” in English – from 1972. A scene where Beatty’s character is subjected to a brutal assault one of the film’s most talked about.
– A fantastic actor
The news agency AP also highlights Beatty’s roles as Lex Luthor’s sidekick Otis in the Superman films of 1978 and 1980 and as the company manager Arthur Jensen in “Network” from 1976. The latter he was also nominated for an Oscar for, in the category of best supporting role.
Beatty also starred in the 1976 blockbuster “All the President’s Men.”
– Ned Beatty was a fantastic actor. Good in everything he was ever involved in, writes crime writer Don Winslow on Twitter.
Ned Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937.
“He started acting professionally when he was ten years old, when he earned pocket money by singing in gospel quartets and with the barber,” Beatty’s management agency Shelter Entertainment Group told CNN.
In 2010, Beatty also voiced the teddy bear Lotso in “Toy Story 3”:
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