NED BEATTY: HE IS ALSO AMAZING

he really underplays his hitman in Mikey & Nicky

i have met ned beatty! he is just as nice and cool as you would expect. also he's not a bad righty hitter.

he's great - always makes a crappy movie better

trademark ILX subtlety means no suspense on this winner (squeeeee)

i voted homicide

the show, i mean

What the hell is Alambrista!?? I MUST SEE THIS.

My vote: Cookie's Fortune.

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jeez, Deliverance shutout shocker. The Big Bus?

I don't even remember him in All the President's Men.

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Surprised Delbert (Nashville) didn't get a vote; he had that character down cold.

That scene of him making breakfast, perplexed by the eggs...

Bolander! :'(

just the best, always

RIP big man

I guess zero for Deliverance is even more or a surprise--he's central to one of the film's two most famous scenes.

I don't even remember him in All the President's Men.

Only one scene, but he's great (ditto his secretary) trying to dodge Hoffman.

I think more people have heard of Deliverance than have seen Deliverance, and don't realize it's way more than a crass punchline.

A lot of people have seen "Deliverance".

Quite charming in Altman's Cookie's Fortune.

His bit in ATPM as Dardis is one of his best: he creates a person in three minutes.

I definitely need to see Cookie's Fortune again; I forgot Beatty was even in it!

This may be controversial, but the only time I thought he was anything less than great was as Otis in the first two Superman movies (was he in the later ones at all?). For movies that got the comedy mostly right, his bumbling grates.

A lot of people have seen "Deliverance".

Of course. I'm talking about this very small collection of voters, though.

I watched Exorcist II: The Heretic (Kael likes it) once, ages ago, remember nothing. I'm going to guess he was clergy or something--unintentional laughs, I'm sure.

This may be controversial, but the only time I thought he was anything less than great was as Otis in the first two Superman movies (was he in the later ones at all?). For movies that got the comedy mostly right, his bumbling grates.

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the only time he played dumb well was in Network.

Two things he's definitely good in: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (Kojack pilot) and Lamont Johnson's The Last American Hero.

Two more I'll add: as the resigned hitman in Mickey & Nicky (noted by Morbs upthread), and as John Goodman's cad of a father on Roseanne.

Totally forgot Roseanne--he was great in that. My dad wasn't a womanizer, but he was a career salesman, and Beatty captured that temperament really well.

Kind of astounded to learn he was only in his early '50s on Roseanne, and mid/late '50s on Homicide.

Was just going to add that he was superb in Roseanne.

Kind of astounded to learn he was only in his early '50s on Roseanne, and mid/late '50s on Homicide.

A Brimleyesque figure for sure. (See also: Brian Dennehy.)

Another great Beatty tv performance was as a slimey Ken Lay-esque white collar crook on The Rockford Files 2-parter "Profit and Loss". He appeared as another character in a later episode, but it wasn't as good.