Ned Beatty

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

Dir. Lee Unkrich · With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Dir. John Boorman · With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.

Dir. Richard Lester · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

Dir. David Anspaugh · With Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

Dir. Ronald Neame · With Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dir. Robert Altman · With David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

Dir. Elaine May · With Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Dir. John Huston · With Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

Dir. John Mackenzie · With Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

Dir. Robert Altman · With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

Dir. Arne Glimcher · With Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Ned Beatty

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.

Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Dir. Joseph Sargent · With Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.

Dir. Jim McBride · With Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi

After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.

Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?

Dir. James Frawley · With Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba

It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess her! With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller plans to air the exorcism live on TV.

Dir. Bob Logan · With Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen

A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

Dir. Norman René · With Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall