Posted on 06/13/2021 5:17:06 PM PDT by Cecily
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
Beatty's manager, Deborah Miller, said Beatty died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and loved ones.
After years in regional theater, Beatty was cast in “Deliverance” as Bobby Trippe, the happy-go-lucky member of a male river-boating party terrorized by backwoods thugs. The scene in which Trippe is brutalized 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 recognized.
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He did a heckuva lot of character roles. Always enjoyed him. RIP Ned Beatty.
Deliverance was his first real acting job....Wonder if he thought,crap,I hope all of them aren’t like this
Yeah, a tough role your first time out.
He was great in THE TOY.
Ned has made a lot of great old movies.
He played “Dean Martin” in Back To School. RIP
I wonder if he and Burt Reynolds were good friends?
That was a break through role for Beatty and Reynolds, Burt really never came as close again to that kind of acting job and he proved he could act. The Playgirl foldout may have hurt him for serious roles, although Hustle was pretty good and Beatty was in that to I think.
he was also the father of Rudy Ruttiger in Rudy.
He and Burt starred in several movies together.
“RIP, Otis (assistant to Lex Luthor)”
I suggest a town be named in his honor, Otisburgh. RIP.
Otisberg??!!
I thought Reynolds did a good job as the half breed blacksmith Quint Asper on the Gunsmoke TV series.
He was great in Hopscotch too.
Burt was good in The Longest Yard (correct title I believe?) A football prison movie.
Nice to read an obituary that doesn’t go on ‘bout the rona.
Yes, he was. How can I forget Rudy? Rudy is from my hometown :)
I always thought Burt Reynolds was hit and miss. It seemed - to me at least - that he could not string together consective good movies. He would have a very good movie followed by a bad one followed by a good one than a bad one and on.
Otis, will you take the gentleman’s cape?
I don’t think he wants me to, Mr. Luthor.
Hmmm...
I always thought he was older than me...
Good actor...R.I.P.
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