Ned Beatty Net Worth

Ned Beatty's Quotes

• [on John Huston] A wondrous man . . . it's not like talking to God, but it's so close!
• [on Sweet Land (2005): We want to see a story about us, about people. Here's a girl who comes from Norway and gets all the way to Minnesota. She doesn't speak a word of English, just German, and people still hated Germans from the first World War. Talk about strength. She's traveled alone and far to marry a guy through an arrangement with his parents. You wonder at the strength for just that, much less what it takes to hold on once she gets there. This is about people you know. I love it. I love what it's about. One scene summarizes the delicious sense of the movie. It's where Olaf is sleeping in the barn, and Inge is sleeping in the house and there's a sense of tension between them because they are going here and there and trying to get married, but they can't. They get into an argument, and they are talking in German and Norwegian. I love that scene. I love the fact that we know exactly what they are talking about, even though I don't speak any Norwegian or German.The performances are wonderful. The acting is as good as anything I've ever been in. I am proud. The two leads are good, boy, they are good. I think when people see this movie, they won't have seen anybody like her [Elizabeth Reaser] in quite some time.
• I want to see the writers strike, God bless them. They are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
• [on the creation of the "squeal like a pig" scene in Deliverance (1972)] Bill McKinney and I and the director [John Boorman] were both throwing stuff in the pot and that's where all that stuff came from. The way he caught me when I ran, it was scripted. It was just the way I gave in to what the situation was. I made myself available to whatever he wanted to do to me. But [Boorman] didn't believe that. He thought, "Well, aren't you gonna try to do something?". So what he really wanted was for me to run, and when I ran, I remembered how we were dealing with the situation of big boar hogs and how this older man would have to grab this one of the back legs, and I would have to hit it with the tackle and roll up on top of it and put the rope around the legs. All this was going and that's where we came to the squealing of the pig thing. I must tell you that most of the people that were on the film did not want us to do the scene. But the scene was important.

Interesting Facts about Ned Beatty

1. He was nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role of 2001 for his performance in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Lyric Theatre in London.
2. He and his wife Sandra Johnson were building a home in northern Minnesota near her family (2004).
3. His son (from his first marriage) Charles Beatty works as a grip in Hollywood, mostly on commercials.
4. He made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in United States television history: Gunsmoke (1955) and Law & Order (1990).
5. He appeared with Clifton James in four films: The Deadly Tower (1975), Silver Streak (1976), Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) and Superman II (1980).
6. He appeared with Burt Reynolds in six films: Deliverance (1972), White Lightning (1973), W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), Stroker Ace (1983), Switching Channels (1988) and Physical Evidence (1989).
7. He appeared with Christopher Reeve in four films: Gray Lady Down (1978), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Switching Channels (1988).
8. He appeared in five movies that have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award: Deliverance (1972), Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
9. He appeared in the two Oscar winning scripts of 1976: in Network (1976), which won as Best Original Screenplay, and in All the President's Men (1976), which won as Best Adapted Screenplay.
10. He appeared in two films with the word "Toy" in the title: The Toy (1982) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
11. Beatty was offered the role of John Doe in Seven (1995) but rejected because the script was pure evil.
12. Father, with Tinker Lindsay, of Thomas Beatty & Dorothy Beatty.
13. He was awarded the 1997 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Lead Actor in a Musical for "Show Boat" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
14. One of the few actors whose work can connect three, unrelated protagonists from separate studios AND link back full circle: 'Superman' (1978), 'RoboCop' (1988) and 'The Terminator' (1984). Played in "Superman", which his "Deliverance" co-star Burt Reynolds turned down the lead role. Ronny Cox (who also co-started with Beatty) in "Deliverance" played the antagonist in "RoboCop". Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for that lead role and later went on to act in "Total Recall" (1990) with Cox. Richard Pryor acted in both "The Toy" (1982) and "Superman III" (1983); Beatty was in the former, not latter film. Jackie Gleason (who co-starred in 'The Toy') also played a supporting role with Burt Reynolds in the "Smokey and the Bandit" franchise, as Reynolds was originally to be cast as Superman/Clark Kent. Finally, Ned Beatty also acted in "Shooter" which, by extension, links him indirectly to the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990) universe. Actor Elias Koteas was in both movies. Mark Wahlberg (who was also casted in "Shooter") has brother Donnie Wahlberg who performed with pop group New Kids on the Block, alongside the height of TMNT's popularity at the same time.
15. Father-in-law of Rebecca Fishman.
16. Father, with Belinda Beatty, of Jon Beatty & Blossom Beatty Pidduck.
17. He has appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Deliverance (1972), Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976) and Superman (1978).
18. Beatty's performance in "Network" ran only five minutes and 53 seconds. But, it earned his his only Oscar nomination.