Ned Beatty dies

Awwww...RIP

“Are we going to Addis Abbaba Mr. Luther?”

Aww, I liked him a lot. 😢

I'm going to Otisburgh in his memory

Do better, OP.

C'mon.

I love you, r3.

Beatty was freaking brilliant in Network.

Brilliant in NETWORK. Unforgettable.

Also great in NASHVILLE as Lily Tomin's bumbling husband.

He was also really good whenever he was on 'Roseanne' as Dan's dad. Such an awkward, cringe-inducing character.

He was the kind of character actor whose verastility was never recognized enough.

I saw him in Deliverance when I was very young. Could never think of him again without the sight of him in his underwear acting like a pig. Gruesome. Couldn't they have a cute guy doing it? It was like seeing Burgess Meredith dancing naked in Such Good Friends. Ruined The Reivers for me.

Do you actually SEE the sodomy in 'Deliverance'?

He had a hot ass butt he couldn't live forever

Great, great character actor whose performances I will aways admire. Thank you, Mr Beatty.

Was he related to Warren?

He's really good in Magnolia and Boogie Nights. RIP.

He had a nice ass but he couldn’t live forever.

Notice they omitted his role on Roseanne.

I thought he was great as Bolander on Homicide. He had such great chemistry with everyone.

Tad!

His career suffered after he reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks.

Awww, Big Man!

I was sodomized.

[quote] he reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks.

Is he of Palestinian heritage?

He was teased relentlessly over the years after making that movie. People would yell at him on the street, “Squeal lik a pig, Bobby!”.

They were mostly men, of course.

He was funny in Superman.

[quote] His career suffered after he reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks.

What?

Married FOUR Times? I like him as an actor, but jeez, I can't see any woman (or man) getting sexy with this fat fug with excruciatingly bad teeth.

Why him, why not Jon Voight?

Mr Luthor, sorry 😛

^ that's what someone said when John Lennon was shot: why not Paul McCartney?

[quote]He was the kind of character actor whose versatility was never recognized enough.

He seemed like more of a bottom to us.

Was the pig squeal an earlier generation's "Princess Diana scream?"

R20, R26 I see nothing on Google.

Google says Gary Oldman was ruled to have uttered Antisemitic language.

He was an acclaimed Big Daddy in the 2001 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Too bad he never played the role on film.

Never confused him with Jack Warden, but with both, as soon as either would come onscreen, I could sit back secure in the fact that I was most likely going to enjoy that movie.

Addis Ababa

We’re really horny and we’ve got Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds right here, but ya know what? Let’s fuck Ned Beatty!

R27, it's called being rich and famous

Was it… natural causes?

This is the original thread and it's grayed out, I guess the person who said a couple weeks ago that the "dead to me" meme was started by a troll was right. The troll is now gaming the system to get threads that don't use "dead to me" deleted. Fantastic. It's always so fun here on Datalounge and not a minefield of mental illness or anything.

He should have gotten an Oscar nom for Deliverance. I thought Burt Reynolds should have gotten on, too. I don't know why Beatty wasn't nominated (maybe because of the distastefulness of the "squeal like a pig" scene?) but Reynolds always thought he didn't get nominated because he did that silly nude spread in Cosmopolitan.

He played Blanche's handicapped brother on Golden Girls

Hollywood was okay with movies like Midnight Cowboy which were basically X-rated versions of the old sleep-to-the-top pre-codes, but they weren't so happy with a movie that portrayed hillbillies as rapists who wished their human victims were pigs instead.

[quote]Could never think of him again without the sight of him in his underwear acting like a pig. Gruesome. Couldn't they have a cute guy doing it?

Wow. You're not shallow at all.

Ned Beatty is another actor, like Hal Holbrook, who should have gotten an Honorary Oscar. 50+ years of solid performances in all sorts of films, always elevating the material. But instead, they gave one to Cicely Tyson for pretty much doing nothing special.

R45, the OSAR is not an entitlement

OSCAR, before someone says "oh dear."

He didn’t always look like that R27.

Married four times with eight kids! He was quite fertile, obviously!

He was a great actor, though. He claimed he never took one acting class, that he just learned by watching others.

He was one of the great character actors. "Deliverance" was his first movie! What a role for your first film, something that unforgettable.

[quote]Do you actually SEE the sodomy in 'Deliverance'?

Yes, Rose, they show five solid minutes of rock-hard hillbilly cock busting up his fartbox.

Beatty also appeared in the 1984 mini-series "The Last Days of Pompeii" with DL fave Nicholas Clay.

Ned Beatty dead, but Donald Trump lives on.

What a fucking world.

He also appeared in Superman (1978) and Superman 2 (1980)

Right, R48. Beatty in his youth:

Wow!

[quote] We’re really horny and we’ve got Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds right here, but ya know what? Let’s fuck Ned Beatty!

Hey, fuck you! You can’t handle this jelly.

He was quite handsome when he was young R55. Did Ned have a car accident or something?

[quote] We’re really horny and we’ve got Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds right here, but ya know what? Let’s fuck Ned Beatty!

We spared Mr Voight because we recognized a future Trump supporter!

The other hillbilly was about to force Jon Voight to blow him when Burt shot him with an arrow.

[quote]He was quite handsome when he was young R55. Did Ned have a car accident or something?

That's exactly what happened. Before the accident, Ned was a dead ringer for the young Warren Beatty.

Who is Warren Beatty? I thought that was a young Ned Beatty at R155. He was much better looking when he was young. I think some accident must have changed his nose though? The rest is getting so fat and losing his hair. He was very old, so that picture must be 65 years old too right? Ned was very cute when he was young. Barely recognizable.

Wow. Ned Beatty looked a lot like Shirley MacLaine.

R62, I hope you're joking.

On his best day, Ned Beatty looked like this. He was a character actor not a lead.

WARREN Beatty

R64... you are an old poop!

I loved him as Dean Martin.

Ned and Warren grew up calling Shirley “Oink” because of her pistachio pudding fetish.

They are the reason that woman is mentally unstable.

It was a really big check, r67.

I just rewatched Back to School last week and Superman the week before that. He was great in both. Beatty did an episode of CSI 15 years ago where he played a serial killer with the facade of a kindly grandpa. He was genuinely creepy.

Although Ned Beatty was very handsome and powerful, I didn't know that he had played Superman? I guess his old photo at R55 was when he was just a teen. Nice enough looking, but kind of a weakling. RIP Ned, Superman!!

When I was a teenager I raped Minnie pearls dead body!