Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” was a booming, indelible presence in even the smallest parts, has died. He was 83.
Ned Beatty in 2005. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage
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Mon 14 Jun 2021 02.39 EDT
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Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including Deliverance, Network and Superman, was a booming, indelible presence in even the smallest parts, has died. He was 83.
Beatty’s manager, Deborah Miller, said Beatty died on Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, surrounded by friends and loved ones.
After years in regional theatre, Beatty was cast in 1972′s Deliverance as Bobby Trippe, the happy-go-lucky member of a male river-boating party terrorised by backwoods thugs in Deliverance. The scene in which Trippe is brutalised and forced to “squeal like a pig” became the most memorable in the movie and established Beatty as an actor whose name moviegoers may not have known but whose face they always recognised.
FILE - In this Thursday, March 8, 2007, file photo, actor Ned Beatty arrives at the premiere of the movie Shooter, in Los Angeles. Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role, as a genial vacationer brutally raped by a backwoodsman in 1972′s “Deliverance,†launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, died Sunday, June 13, 2021. He was 83. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File) Previous Next
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Ned Beatty, indelible in Deliverance, Network, dies, 83
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NEW YORK Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer raped by a backwoodsman in 1972 s “Deliverance” launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, has died. He was 83.