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)
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
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- 20 Mule Team as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
- Wyoming as 'Reb' Harkness
- The Man from Dakota as "Bar" Barstow
1939
- Stand Up and Fight as Captain Boss Starkey
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- Sergeant Madden as Sgt. Shaun Madden
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Thunder Afloat as John Thorson
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
- Old Hutch as "Hutch" Hutchins
- A Message to Garcia as Sgt. Dory
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
- Going Hollywood as Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
- The Bowery as Chuck Connors
- Tugboat Annie as Terry (Husband)
1932
- Grand Hotel as General Director Preysing
- Hell Divers as "Windy" Riker
- Flesh as Polakai
1931
- The Secret Six as Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio
- The Champ as Andy 'Champ' Purcell
- The Stolen Jools as Police Sergeant
- The Christmas Party as Himself (uncredited)
- We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
1930
- The Big House as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
- Way for a Sailor as Tripod
- Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett
- Min and Bill as Bill
- A Lady's Morals as P.T. Barnum
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
- The Big Killing as Powderhorn Pete
- Partners in Crime as Mike Doolan, The Detective
1927
- Casey at the Bat as Casey
- Fireman, Save My Child as Elmer
- Two Flaming Youths as Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
- Now We're in the Air as Wally
1926
- Old Ironsides as Bos'n
- Behind the Front as Riff Swanson
- We're in the Navy Now as 'Knockout' Hansen
- Volcano as Quembo
1925
- The Lost World as Prof. Challenger
- In the Name of Love as Glavis
- Adventure as Morgan
- The Devil's Cargo as Ben
- The Great Divide as Dutch
- Let Women Alone as Cap Bullwinkle
- Coming Through as Joe Lawler
- Rugged Water as Capt. Bartlett
- The Pony Express as Rhode Island Red
- The Wanderer as Pharis
- The Night Club as José
1924
- The Sea Hawk as Capt. Jasper Leigh
- Madonna of the Streets as Bill Smythe
- The Red Lily as Bo-Bo
- So Big as Klaus Poole
- The Signal Tower as Joe Standish
- Another Man's Wife as Captain Wolf
- Dynamite Smith as 'Slugger' Rourke
- Unseen Hands as Jean Scholast
1923
- Three Ages as The Villain
- Drifting as Jules Repin
- Stormswept as William McCabe
- Ashes of Vengeance as Duc de Tours
- The Drums of Jeopardy as Gregor Karlov
- The Eternal Struggle as Barode Dukane
- The Spanish Dancer as King Philip IV
- White Tiger as Count Donelli / Hawkes
- Richard the Lion-Hearted as King Richard
- The Flame of Life as Don Lowrie
- Bavu as Felix Bavu
1922
- Robin Hood as Richard the Lion-Hearted
- The Sagebrush Trail as José Fagaro
- My Wife's Relations as Photographer (uncredited)
- Alias Julius Caesar
- Trouble as Ed Lee, the Plumber
- I Am the Law as Fu Chang
- A Blind Bargain as Beast Man (uncredited)
- Wild Honey as Buck Roper
- The Rosary as Kenwood Wright
- Hurricane's Gal as Chris Borg
- Only a Shop Girl as Jim Brennan
- The Man from Hell's River as Gaspard, The Wolf
1921
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Lieut. Col. von Richthosen
- Patsy as Gustave Ludermann
- Sleeping Acres
- The White Mouse as Dr. Lawler
- A Tale of Two Worlds as Ling Jo
- The Northern Trail as Otto Franke
- The Policeman and the Baby as The Crook
- The Golden Snare as Bram Johnson
- The Last Trail as William Kirk
- The Ne'er to Return Road as Convict #12896
1920
- The Last of the Mohicans as Magua
- The Mollycoddle as Henry von Holkar
- The Round-Up as Buck McKee
- 813 as Maj. Parbury / Ribeira
- The Virgin of Stamboul as Sheik Achmet Hamid
- The Rookie's Return as François Dupont
1919
- Victory as August Schomberg
- The Unpardonable Sin as Col. Klemm
- The Lone Wolf's Daughter as Undetermined role (uncredited)
- Behind the Door as Lt. Brandt
- A Beach Nut
- Soldiers of Fortune as Mendoza
- The Life Line as Bos
- The Love Burglar as Coast-to-Coast Taylor
- Only a Janitor
1918
- Johanna Enlists as Col. Fanner
1917
- A Bedroom Blunder as Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- Teddy at the Throttle as Henry Black
- The Little American as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 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
- Bombs and Banknotes as Janitor
- Maggie's First False Step as The Villain
1916
- The Janitor as John - the Hotel Janitor
- Just a Few Little Things as Fred
- A Capable Lady Cook as Sweedie
- A Dash of Courage as The Police Chief
- Hearts and Sparks as Minor Role
- Sweedie, the Janitor as Sweedie - the Janitor
1915
- The Slim Princess as Popova
- The New Teacher as Sweedie - the New Teacher
- Sweedie's Finish as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Hopeless Love as Sweedie
- Two Hearts That Beat as Ten as Fred
- A Pound for a Pound as Buck Gibson
- Sweedie's Hero as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Roistering Blades as Milt
- Sweedie in Vaudeville as Sweedie
- Sweedie Goes to College as Sweedie
- Love and Trouble as Sweedie
- Snakeville’s Champion ... (Director)
- Father's New Maid as Jack / Sweedie
- The Broken Pledge as Percy
- Sweedie and Her Dog as Sweedie
- Sweedie's Suicide as Sweedie
- The Victor as Mr. Justwed
- Ain't It the Truth? as Harold Wallington
- Sweedie Learns to Ride as Sweedie
- Sweedie and the Sultan's Present as Sweedie
- Done in Wax as The Hobo
- The Bouquet as Sweedie
1914
- Jane as The Doctor
- The Winner as Fritz Noodle
- Into Society and Out as First Tramp
- The Plum Tree
- Oh, Doctor as The Deaf Minister
- The Hour and the Man as A Juror
- Money Talks as The Cook
- A Maid of War as Sweedie
- Countess Sweedie as Sweedie
- Wrong All Around as The Plumber
- The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine as Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer
- Three Little Powders as Wallace Williams
- The Laundress as Sweedie - the Laundress
- Sweedie Collects for Charity as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify as Homer Splivins
- The Prevailing Craze as Wally
- Love and Soda as The Plumber
- This Is the Life as Hiram Stebbins
- Actor Finney's Finish as Actor James Finney
- Sweedie and the Lord as Sweedie
- Curing a Husband as Robert - the Husband
- Three Boiled Down Fables as Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze
- The Ups and Downs
- The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar as The Cop
- Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind as The Lover
- Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie as Sweedie
- Madame Double X as Madame Double X
- Topsy-Turvy Sweedie as Sweedie
- One-to-Three as Willie Brace
- Grass County Goes Dry as The Constable
- The Epidemic as Texas Tommy
- Sweedie's Clean-Up as Sweedie
- In and Out as Hans
- Sweedie Learns to Swim as Sweedie
- Sweedie the Swatter as Sweedie (a Swedish maid)
- The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps as Prof. Bunkum
- Sweedie's Skate as Sweedie
- Sweedie and the Hypnotist as Sweedie
- She Landed a Big One as Sweedie
- Mrs. Manly's Baby as Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League
- The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth as Attorney for Suggs
- The Bargain Hunters as Mr. Hunter
- A Foot of Romance as Jim Foley
- And He Came Back as Horatio Algernon Botts
- Rivalry and War as Krautmeyer
- The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man as The Football Hero
- Sweedie Springs a Surprise as Sweedie
- The Fickleness of Sweedie as Sweedie
- The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
- Sweedie and the Double Exposure as Sweedie
- A Queer Quarantine
- When Knights Were Bold as The Earl
- Sweedie at the Fair as Sweedie
- Their Cheap Vacation as Mr. Newlywed
- The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed as The Coming Champion
- Making Him Over -- For Minnie
- Sweedie the Trouble Maker as Sweedie
- Looking for Trouble
- Cheering a Husband
1913
- Hello, Trouble
- Sweet Revenge as Phil Culture
- At the Old Maid's Call as Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid
- A Successful Failure as The Uncle
- The Right of Way
- Mr. Dippy Dipped as Undetermined Role
- Smithy's Grandma Party as Prof. Smithy
- Day by Day as Bill the Iceman
- Their Wives' Indiscretion as Mr. Jones
- Kitty's Knight as Mike McManus
- His Athletic Wife as Mr. Strong
- The Usual Way as The Dentist
- Love Incognito as Secondary Role
- Dad's Insanity