Ned Beatty dies at 83, popular actor for 'Deliverance' and 'Superman'

Ned Beatty with director Robert Altman at the 2000 'Nashville' 25th anniversary celebration.Michael Caulfield / AP

Ned Beatty, one of the most popular supporting actors in Hollywood in the seventies, eighties and nineties, and who knew how to prolong his career in animation, died on Sunday at the age of 83 at his home in Los Angeles from "natural causes and surrounded from his family and friends, ”according to Deborah Miller, his agent.

Beatty, with a round and good-natured face, was a popular performer among the general public thanks to films such as

(with which he was an Oscar nominee);

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for portraying Otis, Lex Luthor's henchman in

and

or the

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among many others.

He has left a curriculum with more than 150 films for the cinema, telefilms and television series.

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Beatty did not seem called to the cinema when he began his career in his native Louisville, Kentucky. At age 10, in 1947, in Lexington, where his family had moved, he was already a wonderful singer in his church choir. He even received a scholarship to develop his talent at the University of Transylvania in Lexington, but he did not graduate because on his way he crossed the theater, which became his great passion. And for a decade he made a living as an actor in theaters in the provinces with greater successes or more regular results - yes, always enjoying himself - although without attracting attention until he made his film debut in 1972 in

a powerful drama directed by John Boorman and with Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight as stars of a group of friends who go on a canoe trip, and in which Beatty played a very delicate role, the one of the guy forced to scream like a pig in a sequence brimming with violence.

Suddenly the actor entered the agendas of those responsible for casting any film. In those seventies he linked, and only naming the most outstanding,

(repeating with Boorman),

or

And also in that decade he won the nomination for best supporting actor for

by giving life to the executive Arthur Jensen, and achieved popularity among the general public as Otis, Lex Luthor's jerk assistant (Gene Hackman) in

and

Of course, all this with appearances in television series like

or

, which he starred in.

In addition, since

got on with Burt Reynolds, and he was calling her for the distributions of

Ned Beatty and Gene Hackman, in 'Superman' Warner Bros / Dc Comics / Kobal / Shut / Warner Bros / Dc Comics / Kobal / Shut

Beatty always joked in interviews that his category as an actor was "the one where people come up to you and say: 'I know you, I know you, but ... where have I seen you?" And he never cared, because in return, even if he came to the cinema at 35, he no longer got off the screen. His work in the eighties and nineties is, quite simply, immeasurable. Because between film and film, he returned to the stage or acted in series like

or playing John Goodman's father in

The rest of his filmography include

the Great

—with which he achieved his only Golden Globe nomination—,

(repeating with Robert Altman ),

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with his friends Reynolds and Reeves-,

(co-directed by his son Thomas, one of his eight offspring) or

Before retiring in 2013, he voiced Latso the bear in

and

villainous turtle