Wallace Beery
Born: 1885-03-31 in Clay County, Missouri, USA
Died: 1949-04-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, his titular role in a series of films featuring the character Sweedie, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies over a 36-year span. He was the brother of actor Noah Berry.
Filmography
2018
- The Image Book as (archive footage)
2004
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1994
- The Our Gang Story as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
- Showbiz Ballyhoo as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Terry (archive footage)
1960
- When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
1955
- MGM Parade as Champ in 'The Champ' (archive footage)
1949
- Big Jack as Big Jack Horner
1948
- A Date with Judy as Melvin R. Foster
- Alias a Gentleman as Jim Breedin
1947
- The Mighty McGurk as Roy 'Slag' McGurk
1946
- Bad Bascomb as Zeb Bascomb alias Ezekiel 'Zeke' Smith
1945
- This Man's Navy as Ned Trumpet
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- Barbary Coast Gent as Honest Plush Brannon
- Rationing as Ben Barton
1943
- Salute to the Marines as Sgt. Maj. William Bailey
1942
- Jackass Mail as Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot
- The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan
1941
- The Bad Man as Pancho Lopez
- Barnacle Bill as Bill Johansen
1940
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Wyoming as 'Reb' Harkness
- 20 Mule Team as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
- The Man from Dakota as "Bar" Barstow
1939
- Stand Up and Fight as Captain Boss Starkey
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Sergeant Madden as Sgt. Shaun Madden
- Thunder Afloat as John Thorson
1938
- Stablemates as Thomas Terry
- Port of Seven Seas as Cesar
1937
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as 'Trigger' Bill
- Slave Ship as Jack Thompson
- The Good Old Soak as Clem Hawley
1936
- A Message to Garcia as Sgt. Dory
- Old Hutch as "Hutch" Hutchins
1935
- China Seas as Jamesy MacArdle
- Ah, Wilderness! as Uncle Sid
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy as Michael O'Shaughnessy
- West Point of the Air as Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone
1934
- Treasure Island as Long John Silver
- Viva Villa! as Pancho Villa
- The Mighty Barnum as Phineas T. Barnum
1933
- Dinner at Eight as Dan Packard
- The Bowery as Chuck Connors
- Tugboat Annie as Terry (Husband)
- Going Hollywood as Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
1932
- Grand Hotel as General Director Preysing
- Flesh as Polakai
- Hell Divers as "Windy" Riker
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Police Sergeant
- The Christmas Party as Himself (uncredited)
- The Secret Six as Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio
- The Champ as Andy 'Champ' Purcell
- We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
1930
- The Big House as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
- Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett
- Min and Bill as Bill
- A Lady's Morals as P.T. Barnum
- Way for a Sailor as Tripod
1929
- The River of Romance as General Orlando Jackson
- Stairs of Sand as Lacey
- Chinatown Nights as Chuck Riley
1928
- Beggars of Life as Oklahoma Red
- Partners in Crime as Detective Mike Doolan
- Wife Savers as Louis Hosenozzle
- The Big Killing as Powderhorn Pete
1927
- Two Flaming Youths as Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
- Fireman, Save My Child as Elmer
- Now We're in the Air as Wally
- Casey at the Bat as Casey
1926
- Old Ironsides as Bos'n
- Behind the Front as Riff Swanson
- Volcano as Quembo
- We're in the Navy Now as 'Knockout' Hansen
1925
- The Lost World as Prof. Challenger
- Let Women Alone as Cap Bullwinkle
- The Great Divide as Dutch
- In the Name of Love as Glavis
- Coming Through as Joe Lawler
- The Pony Express as Rhode Island Red
- The Night Club as José
- The Wanderer as Pharis
- Rugged Water as Capt. Bartlett
- Adventure as Morgan
- The Devil's Cargo as Ben
1924
- So Big as Klaus Poole
- The Red Lily as Bo-Bo
- The Sea Hawk as Capt. Jasper Leigh
- Unseen Hands as Jean Scholast
- Madonna of the Streets as Bill Smythe
- The Signal Tower as Joe Standish
- Another Man's Wife as Captain Wolf
- Dynamite Smith as 'Slugger' Rourke
1923
- Three Ages as The Villain
- Stormswept as William McCabe
- The Drums of Jeopardy as Gregor Karlov
- Drifting as Jules Repin
- The Spanish Dancer as King Philip IV
- White Tiger as Count Donelli / Hawkes
- Richard the Lion-Hearted as King Richard
- Ashes of Vengeance as Duc de Tours
- Bavu as Felix Bavu
- The Eternal Struggle as Barode Dukane
- The Flame of Life as Don Lowrie
1922
- Robin Hood as Richard the Lion-Hearted
- Trouble as Ed Lee, the Plumber
- I Am the Law as Fu Chang
- My Wife's Relations as Photographer (uncredited)
- A Blind Bargain as Beast Man (uncredited)
- The Man from Hell's River as Gaspard, The Wolf
- Wild Honey as Buck Roper
- The Rosary as Kenwood Wright
- Only a Shop Girl as Jim Brennan
- Alias Julius Caesar
- Hurricane's Gal as Chris Borg
- The Sagebrush Trail as José Fagaro
1921
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Lieut. Col. von Richthosen
- A Tale of Two Worlds as Ling Jo
- The Golden Snare as Bram Johnson
- The White Mouse as Dr. Lawler
- Patsy as Gustave Ludermann
- The Northern Trail as Otto Franke
- Sleeping Acres
- The Ne'er to Return Road as Convict #12896
- The Last Trail as William Kirk
- The Policeman and the Baby as The Crook
1920
- The Last of the Mohicans as Magua
- The Mollycoddle as Henry von Holkar
- The Rookie's Return as François Dupont
- The Virgin of Stamboul as Sheik Achmet Hamid
- 813 as Maj. Parbury / Ribeira
- The Round-Up as Buck McKee
1919
- The Unpardonable Sin as Col. Klemm
- Behind the Door as Lt. Brandt
- Victory as August Schomberg
- The Life Line as Bos
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mendoza
- The Lone Wolf's Daughter as Undetermined role (uncredited)
- The Love Burglar as Coast-to-Coast Taylor
- A Beach Nut
- Only a Janitor
1918
- Johanna Enlists as Col. Fanner
1917
- The Little American as German Soldier (uncredited)
- A Bedroom Blunder as Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- Patria as Pancho Villa
- A Clever Dummy as Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager
- Teddy at the Throttle as Henry Black
- Are Waitresses Safe? as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Cactus Nell as A Polished Gent
- Maggie's First False Step as The Villain
- That Night as The Cafe Proprietor
- Bombs and Banknotes as Janitor
1916
- A Dash of Courage as The Police Chief
- Hearts and Sparks as Minor Role
- Sweedie, the Janitor as Sweedie - the Janitor
- A Capable Lady Cook as Sweedie
- Just a Few Little Things as Fred
- The Janitor as John - the Hotel Janitor
1915
- The Broken Pledge as Percy
- The Slim Princess as Popova
- Sweedie Goes to College as Sweedie
- A Pound for a Pound as Buck Gibson
- Sweedie's Hero as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Suicide as Sweedie
- Sweedie Learns to Ride as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Finish as Sweedie
- The Victor as Mr. Justwed
- Snakeville’s Champion ... (Director)
- Sweedie's Hopeless Love as Sweedie
- Father's New Maid as Jack / Sweedie
- Two Hearts That Beat as Ten as Fred
- Sweedie and Her Dog as Sweedie
- Sweedie in Vaudeville as Sweedie
- The New Teacher as Sweedie - the New Teacher
- Sweedie and the Sultan's Present as Sweedie
- Ain't It the Truth? as Harold Wallington
- The Bouquet as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Roistering Blades as Milt
- Love and Trouble as Sweedie
- Done in Wax as The Hobo
1914
- Into Society and Out as First Tramp
- Sweedie's Skate as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Clean-Up as Sweedie
- Sweedie Learns to Swim as Sweedie
- Sweedie Springs a Surprise as Sweedie
- Curing a Husband as Robert - the Husband
- The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar as The Cop
- Sweedie and the Double Exposure as Sweedie
- The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man as The Football Hero
- The Laundress as Sweedie - the Laundress
- The Fickleness of Sweedie as Sweedie
- Sweedie at the Fair as Sweedie
- Sweedie and the Lord as Sweedie
- She Landed a Big One as Sweedie
- Rivalry and War as Krautmeyer
- The Plum Tree
- A Maid of War as Sweedie
- Grass County Goes Dry as The Constable
- Topsy-Turvy Sweedie as Sweedie
- In and Out as Hans
- Countess Sweedie as Sweedie
- When Knights Were Bold as The Earl
- Mrs. Manly's Baby as Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League
- The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine as Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer
- Three Boiled Down Fables as Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze
- The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth as Attorney for Suggs
- Jane as The Doctor
- Sweedie the Trouble Maker as Sweedie
- The Hour and the Man as A Juror
- Making Him Over -- For Minnie
- Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie as Sweedie
- Love and Soda as The Plumber
- Sweedie Collects for Charity as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify as Homer Splivins
- Sweedie and the Hypnotist as Sweedie
- A Queer Quarantine
- The Epidemic as Texas Tommy
- Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind as The Lover
- The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed as The Coming Champion
- The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
- Sweedie the Swatter as Sweedie (a Swedish maid)
- Their Cheap Vacation as Mr. Newlywed
- One-to-Three as Willie Brace
- The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps as Prof. Bunkum
- Money Talks as The Cook
- The Ups and Downs
- This Is the Life as Hiram Stebbins
- The Prevailing Craze as Wally
- The Winner as Fritz Noodle
- Madame Double X as Madame Double X
- Cheering a Husband
- Oh, Doctor as The Deaf Minister
- A Foot of Romance as Jim Foley
- Looking for Trouble
- Wrong All Around as The Plumber
- Three Little Powders as Wallace Williams
- The Bargain Hunters as Mr. Hunter
- And He Came Back as Horatio Algernon Botts
- Actor Finney's Finish as Actor James Finney
1913
- The Right of Way
- Smithy's Grandma Party as Prof. Smithy
- Mr. Dippy Dipped as Undetermined Role
- Dad's Insanity
- His Athletic Wife as Mr. Strong
- Kitty's Knight as Mike McManus
- Love Incognito as Secondary Role
- At the Old Maid's Call as Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid
- Day by Day as Bill the Iceman
- Their Wives' Indiscretion as Mr. Jones
- The Usual Way as The Dentist
- Hello, Trouble
- A Successful Failure as The Uncle
- Sweet Revenge as Phil Culture