Farewell to Ned Beatty, star of “A quiet weekend of fear” and “Nashville”

Many will remember him as the courageous reporter of All the president’s men, or like the fearful Bobby of A quiet weekend of fear: it’s about Ned Beatty, versatile actor both in cinema and on TV, famous above all at the turn of the seventies, and passed away at the age of 83 on June 14, at his home in Los Angeles. The disappearance, as reported Variety, it happened for natural causes. Over the course of his long career, Ned has taken part in more than 150 films, including four Academy Award nominated, such as Nashville e Network.

The younger ones will remember him, perhaps, for having lent his voice to the character of the evil Hairy Bear of Toy Story 3, also in contention for the Oscars. Beatty’s luck began thanks to her first role on the big screen: that of the Atlanta hunter victim of sexual abuse in John Boorman’s 1972 film A quiet weekend of fear. Since then, the actor has proven his talent in masterpieces such as Nashville by Robert Altman, in the role of a lawyer impatient with deaf children, and in Network, in a small part that the Times he called “a folk messiah”. In the mid-1970s, Beatty also became a familiar face to television audiences thanks to series such as The Rockford Files, Hawaii 5-0, Hunter e Friendly Fire, for which he earned an Emmy nomination.

Born on July 6, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, Beatty first made his mark by singing in his church choir and then acting from the theater. He never had a real protagonist role, but he managed to get noticed thanks to his charisma giving memorable scenes such as that of 1941 – Alarm in Hollywood of Spielberg, in which he destroys his house with a cannon trying to defend it from the Japanese, e Fifth Estate, thanks to a very famous conspiracy monologue that earned him an Oscar nomination. In recent years, we’ve seen him as a guest star on an episode of Law and Order 2006 (played a judge) and one of CSI 2007 (played a dentist). He has been married four times: the first with Walta Abbott, with whom he had four children; the second with actress Belinda Beatty, from whom he had two others; the third with Dorothy “Tinker” Lindsey, who allowed him to become a father two more times; and the fourth with Sandra Johnson.

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