Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostNed Beatty, the character actor whose first film role as a genial holidaymaker 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 he died on Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and loved ones.After years in regional theatre, Beatty was cast in Deliverance as Bobby Trippe, the happy-go-lucky member of a male river-boating party terrorised…Read More