Actor Ned Beatty, Otis in 'Superman' and voice of Lotso bear, dead at 83

2003 file photo of actor Ned Beatty poses at New York's Music Box Theatre. Beatty died Sunday, June 13, 2021. He was 83. – AP

Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer brutally raped by a backwoodsman in 1972's Deliverance launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, has died. He was 83.

Beatty's manager, Deborah Miller, said Beatty died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and loved ones.