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