Ned Beatty Ned Beatty Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is a retired American actor. He has appeared in more than 160 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and a Golden Globe Award; he also won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and television series, such as "Network" (1976), "Friendly Fire" (1979), "Hear My Song" (1991), and "Toy Story 3" (2010). He has had great commercial success in roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in "Deliverance" (1972), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese
Jon Voight In 1968 Voight took a role in director Paul Williams's "Out of It". In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking "Midnight Cowboy", a film that would make his career. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a