The term "character actor" lacks a precise definition. You could use it to describe performers who play stock types: the absent-minded professor, the jock. It works as shorthand for supporting players ...

NEW YORK — Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer raped by a backwoodsman in 1972′s “Deliverance” launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished ...

Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” was a booming, indelible presence in even the smallest ...

Ned Beatty was a character actor best known for his appearances in the movies "Deliverance," "Network" and "Superman." He died Sunday at age 83. NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas has this remembrance of ...

Beatty, who died June 13, made his film debut in Deliverance and then went on to appear in scores of movies, including Network, All the... Remembering Character Actor Ned Beatty DAVE DAVIES, HOST: ...

Film and TV actor Ned Beatty, who was Oscar nominated for his supporting role in “Network” and appeared in a number of the most significant American films of the 1970s, has died. He was 83. Beatty’s ...

This story has been updated. NEW YORK — Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” was a booming, ...