Ned Beatty

Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an American actor. He now lives in the Springville, California area.
Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Margaret Fortney (née Lennis), a high school lunch lady, and Charles William Beatty. He has a sister, Mary Margaret. In 1947, he began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, as well as at his local church. He made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in, Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant. He attended college at Transylvania University in Lexington, although he did not graduate. Beatty found work in the Louisville area through the mid-1960s, at the Clarksville Little Theater (IN) and the recently founded Actors Theater of Louisville. His time at the latter included a memorable run as "Willy Loman" in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in 1966.
Beatty has appeared in more than 100 films, but is perhaps best-remembered for his role as rape victim Bobby Trippe in his debut film, Deliverance (1972). Later films include Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), as Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese; Superman (1978), as Lex Luthor's henchman Otis; and the 1993 biopic Rudy, as Rudy Reuttiger's