# RIP Ned Beatty **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [June 14, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204 "2021-06-14T00:45:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/1 "2021-06-14T00:45:38Z")
[Dead at 83.](https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/13/ned-beatty-dead-dies-actor-network-superman-deliverance/) Quite the actor. I still like him best in _Silver Streak_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/2 "2021-06-14T01:03:19Z")
I still think of Ned every time I go on a canoe trip. RIP. 🙁 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/3 "2021-06-14T01:18:25Z")
Silver Streak was great. And yes, canoe trip. RIP Ned Beatty. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/4 "2021-06-14T01:41:43Z")
YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE! RIP Mr. Beatty. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/5 "2021-06-14T02:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > [Lex stands on his library sliding ladder searching for a book] > > Lex Luthor : n… n… n… > > Otis : ‘M’! You want ‘M’ Mr. Luthor? > > [Otis moves the sliding ladder Lex is standing on, leaving Lex hanging from a shelf] > > Otis : So, there you go, ‘M’. > > Lex Luthor : ‘M’ as in moron, Otis? No, no, no, it’s ‘N’! ‘N’ as in Neanderthal, nincompoop, nitwit and ‘L’ as in ladder! So long, Otis. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/6 "2021-06-14T02:55:51Z")
There is no joy in Otisville. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/7 "2021-06-14T02:56:33Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > So long, Otis. “He’s SERVIN’ NOTICE! Ta YOU!!” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/8 "2021-06-14T03:44:14Z")
Makes me want to squeal. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/9 "2021-06-14T03:50:24Z")
Otisburg. Possibly one of Gene Hackman’s best line readings ever. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tWiwYApseDk/hqdefault.jpg "Otisburgh") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWiwYApseDk) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/10 "2021-06-14T10:11:15Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE! Best five-minute monologue in film history. Also, when I heard the sad news this morning, I searched up that clip so I could honor him by watching it. I was then offered a couple of related links, and upon watching one, I learned something amazing, which I can’t believe I never knew before, considering _Network_ is probably my all-around all-time favorite movie. From the time Beatty was officially cast in that role and received his script, to the moment he walked in front of the camera to deliver that speech, the time elapsed was… _three days._ He was a rapid replacement for a previous actor who wasn’t working out. The producer was talking to Robert Altman socially, Altman suggested Beatty, they called him and cast him and put him on an airplane, and three days later he was delivering the greatest sustained monologue in all of cinema. Hell of an actor. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/11 "2021-06-14T12:20:27Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Best five-minute monologue in film history. Beatty was fantastic in a lot of roles, and I love _Network_, but that monologue in _Network_ never really worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/12 "2021-06-14T12:27:05Z")
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ned-beatty/944204/13 "2021-06-14T14:33:29Z")
Dan Conner’s dad died. I kept hoping Beatty would reprise the role just once on The Conners. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. Beatty created so many memorable roles. I loved his pompous Director of the CIA in Hopscotch with Walter Matthau. Beatty tries to humiliate Matthau. The result is Matthau torments Beatty throughout the entire film. Beatty’s house gets shot up by a Swat team. RIP Ned