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I totally forgot about Rudy and playing the father. As most people I think of Deliverance will always be his most famous role, and it was his first movie part. I really liked him in Silver Streak as the detective on the train. In that film every star in the film as died, Ned Beatty, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston, Fred Willard and Clifton James, such an all-star cast and they're all gone. I actually saw that movie in the theater twice in 1976 when it came out, it was a dramaedy, but more comedy. That film had so many outstanding scenes, this scene doesn't contain Ned, but the late Clifton James as the Sheriff and he finds out that Gene Wilder is a killer and is sitting in the next room.
One of my all time favorite movies is Network, the main character is TV anchor Howard Beale and I use that name as a screen name on a couple of boards. There comes a time when Howard Beale on his daily TV show is ranting against the Arabs and the Japanese conglomerates that own the network, and Ned Beatty plays the TV executive who comes in to scare the shit out of Howard Beale. It sort like the Alec Baldwin rant in Glen Gary Glen Ross, you'll always remember that part. Here it is.
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