Ned Beatty Trippe in "Deliverance" (1972), starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, and set in northern Georgia. Beatty's character is forced to strip at gunpoint by two mountain men who humiliate and rape him, a scene so unprecedented, horrifying and shocking that it is still referenced as a screen milestone. In 1972, he also appeared in "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean", a western with Paul Newman. In 1973, Beatty made "The Thief Who Came to Dinner", "The Last American Hero" and "White Lightning". The latter film reunited Beatty with his "Deliverance" co-star, Burt Reynolds. He also appeared in an
Ned Beatty novel, "Streets of Laredo" (1995). He appeared in a 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, "He Got Game". In 1999, Beatty returned to work with "Cookie's Fortune", "Life", and "Spring Forward". In the beginning of the 2000s, he was a member of the original cast of the television police drama reunion film "Homicide: The Movie" (2000), reprising his role of Detective Stanley Bolander. In 2002, he appeared in Peter Hewitt's film "Thunderpants". In 2003, he portrayed a simple sheriff in "Where the Red Fern Grows". Beatty has also had a career as a