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
2026
- Away with Words as Wallace Beery
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)
- 100 Years at the Movies 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
- Barnacle Bill as Bill Johansen
- The Bad Man as Pancho Lopez
1940
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- 20 Mule Team as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- The Man from Dakota as "Bar" Barstow
- Wyoming as 'Reb' Harkness
1939
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- Thunder Afloat as John Thorson
- Stand Up and Fight as Captain Boss Starkey
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Sergeant Madden as Sgt. Shaun Madden
1938
- Port of Seven Seas as Cesar
- Stablemates as Thomas Terry
1937
- Slave Ship as Jack Thompson
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as 'Trigger' Bill
- 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
- West Point of the Air as Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy as Michael O'Shaughnessy
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
- Going Hollywood as Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
- Tugboat Annie as Terry (Husband)
1932
- Grand Hotel as General Director Preysing
- Flesh as Polakai
- Hell Divers as "Windy" Riker
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Police Sergeant
- The Secret Six as Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio
- The Champ as Andy 'Champ' Purcell
- The Christmas Party as Himself (uncredited)
- We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
1930
- The Big House as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
- Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett
- Way for a Sailor as Tripod
- A Lady's Morals as P.T. Barnum
- Min and Bill as Bill
1929
- The River of Romance as General Orlando Jackson
- Chinatown Nights as Chuck Riley
- Stairs of Sand as Lacey
1928
- Wife Savers as Louis Hozenozzle
- Beggars of Life as Oklahoma Red
- Partners in Crime as Mike Doolan, The Detective
- The Big Killing as Powderhorn Pete
1927
- Casey at the Bat as Casey
- Two Flaming Youths as Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
- Now We're in the Air as Wally
- Fireman, Save My Child as Elmer
1926
- Old Ironsides as Bos'n
- Volcano as Quembo
- Behind the Front as Riff Swanson
- We're in the Navy Now as 'Knockout' Hansen
1925
- The Lost World as Prof. Challenger
- The Wanderer as Pharis
- In the Name of Love as Glavis
- Coming Through as Joe Lawler
- Rugged Water as Capt. Bartlett
- The Devil's Cargo as Ben
- Adventure as Morgan
- The Pony Express as Rhode Island Red
- The Great Divide as Dutch
- Let Women Alone as Cap Bullwinkle
- The Night Club as José
1924
- Unseen Hands as Jean Scholast
- The Red Lily as Bo-Bo
- Madonna of the Streets as Bill Smythe
- So Big as Klaus Poole
- The Signal Tower as Joe Standish
- Another Man's Wife as Captain Wolf
- The Sea Hawk as Capt. Jasper Leigh
- Dynamite Smith as 'Slugger' Rourke
1923
- Drifting as Jules Repin
- Stormswept as William McCabe
- White Tiger as Count Donelli / Hawkes
- Three Ages as The Villain
- The Spanish Dancer as King Philip IV
- The Drums of Jeopardy as Gregor Karlov
- Ashes of Vengeance as Duc de Tours
- The Flame of Life as Don Lowrie
- The Eternal Struggle as Barode Dukane
- Richard the Lion-Hearted as King Richard
- Bavu as Felix Bavu
1922
- Robin Hood as Richard the Lion-Hearted
- My Wife's Relations as Photographer (uncredited)
- Alias Julius Caesar
- The Sagebrush Trail as José Fagaro
- Trouble as Ed Lee, the Plumber
- I Am the Law as Fu Chang
- The Man from Hell's River as Gaspard, The Wolf
- The Rosary as Kenwood Wright
- Wild Honey as Buck Roper
- Only a Shop Girl as Jim Brennan
- A Blind Bargain as Beast Man (uncredited)
- Hurricane's Gal as Chris Borg
1921
- Patsy as Gustave Ludermann
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Lieut. Col. von Richthosen
- The White Mouse as Dr. Lawler
- The Golden Snare as Bram Johnson
- Sleeping Acres
- The Northern Trail as Otto Franke
- A Tale of Two Worlds as Ling Jo
- The Last Trail as William Kirk
- The Policeman and the Baby as The Crook
- The Ne'er to Return Road as Convict #12896
1920
- The Mollycoddle as Henry von Holkar
- The Last of the Mohicans as Magua
- The Round-Up as Buck McKee
- The Rookie's Return as François Dupont
- 813 as Maj. Parbury / Ribeira
- The Virgin of Stamboul as Sheik Achmet Hamid
1919
- Victory as August Schomberg
- Behind the Door as Lt. Brandt
- The Lone Wolf's Daughter as Undetermined role (uncredited)
- The Unpardonable Sin as Col. Klemm
- The Life Line as Bos
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mendoza
- A Beach Nut
- The Love Burglar as Coast-to-Coast Taylor
- 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
- Teddy at the Throttle as Henry Black
- Bombs and Banknotes as Janitor
- Maggie's First False Step as The Villain
- A Clever Dummy as Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager
- That Night as The Cafe Proprietor
- Are Waitresses Safe? as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Cactus Nell as A Polished Gent
1916
- A Dash of Courage as The Police Chief
- A Capable Lady Cook as Sweedie
- Hearts and Sparks as Minor Role
- Just a Few Little Things as Fred
- The Janitor as John - the Hotel Janitor
- Sweedie, the Janitor as Sweedie - the Janitor
1915
- Two Hearts That Beat as Ten as Fred
- The Slim Princess as Popova
- The Fable of the Roistering Blades as Milt
- Sweedie and Her Dog as Sweedie
- Sweedie Goes to College as Sweedie
- Sweedie and the Sultan's Present as Sweedie
- The Broken Pledge as Percy
- Sweedie's Hero as Sweedie
- Ain't It the Truth? as Harold Wallington
- Sweedie's Finish as Sweedie
- Love and Trouble as Sweedie
- The Victor as Mr. Justwed
- Sweedie in Vaudeville as Sweedie
- Snakeville’s Champion ... (Director)
- Father's New Maid as Jack / Sweedie
- Sweedie Learns to Ride as Sweedie
- A Pound for a Pound as Buck Gibson
- Done in Wax as The Hobo
- Sweedie's Suicide as Sweedie
- The Bouquet as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Hopeless Love as Sweedie
- The New Teacher as Sweedie - the New Teacher
1914
- The Plum Tree
- Three Boiled Down Fables as Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze
- Oh, Doctor as The Deaf Minister
- The Ups and Downs
- The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man as The Football Hero
- The Winner as Fritz Noodle
- Countess Sweedie as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
- Sweedie and the Lord as Sweedie
- Love and Soda as The Plumber
- Wrong All Around as The Plumber
- Jane as The Doctor
- The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps as Prof. Bunkum
- The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth as Attorney for Suggs
- The Hour and the Man as A Juror
- The Prevailing Craze as Wally
- The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar as The Cop
- The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify as Homer Splivins
- Rivalry and War as Krautmeyer
- One-to-Three as Willie Brace
- Into Society and Out as First Tramp
- Money Talks as The Cook
- The Laundress as Sweedie - the Laundress
- In and Out as Hans
- Curing a Husband as Robert - the Husband
- Sweedie's Skate as Sweedie
- Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie as Sweedie
- Sweedie Collects for Charity as Sweedie
- Sweedie and the Double Exposure as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed as The Coming Champion
- Sweedie the Swatter as Sweedie (a Swedish maid)
- When Knights Were Bold as The Earl
- Three Little Powders as Wallace Williams
- Topsy-Turvy Sweedie as Sweedie
- The Epidemic as Texas Tommy
- Madame Double X as Madame Double X
- Sweedie and the Hypnotist as Sweedie
- A Foot of Romance as Jim Foley
- Sweedie at the Fair as Sweedie
- Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind as The Lover
- The Fickleness of Sweedie as Sweedie
- Sweedie Learns to Swim as Sweedie
- Sweedie Springs a Surprise as Sweedie
- Actor Finney's Finish as Actor James Finney
- This Is the Life as Hiram Stebbins
- She Landed a Big One as Sweedie
- The Bargain Hunters as Mr. Hunter
- The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine as Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer
- A Maid of War as Sweedie
- Sweedie the Trouble Maker as Sweedie
- Mrs. Manly's Baby as Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League
- Making Him Over -- For Minnie
- Sweedie's Clean-Up as Sweedie
- Grass County Goes Dry as The Constable
- And He Came Back as Horatio Algernon Botts
- A Queer Quarantine
- Their Cheap Vacation as Mr. Newlywed
- Looking for Trouble
- Cheering a Husband
1913
- Hello, Trouble
- Mr. Dippy Dipped as Undetermined Role
- The Right of Way
- Smithy's Grandma Party as Prof. Smithy
- Kitty's Knight as Mike McManus
- Sweet Revenge as Phil Culture
- Their Wives' Indiscretion as Mr. Jones
- At the Old Maid's Call as Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid
- His Athletic Wife as Mr. Strong
- Love Incognito as Secondary Role
- A Successful Failure as The Uncle
- The Usual Way as The Dentist
- Dad's Insanity
- Day by Day as Bill the Iceman