Remembering Ned Beatty: From ‘Deliverance’ to ‘Network’ to ‘Nashville,’ He Found the Soul of Every Character
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIf the only performance Ned Beatty had ever given was the six minutes he appeared in “Network,” he’d be an actor the world would remember. In that visionary satire-that’s-not-really-a-satire, Beatty, who died Sunday at 83, does one of the most towering one-stop scene steals of all time as Arthur Jensen, the corporate communications overlord who comes in to read the riot act to Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the mad prophet of the airwaves.