Wallace Beery

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.

Known For

Prof. Challenger

The Lost World

The Villain

Three Ages

General Director Preysing

Grand Hotel

Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio

The Secret Six

Andy 'Champ' Purcell

The Champ

Long John Silver

Treasure Island

Pancho Villa

Viva Villa!

William Kirk

The Last Trail

A Juror

The Hour and the Man

Looking for Trouble

The Cop

The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar

Willie Brace

One-to-Three

Horatio Algernon Botts

And He Came Back

Mr. Hunter

The Bargain Hunters

Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League

Mrs. Manly's Baby

Fritz Noodle

The Winner

The Constable

Grass County Goes Dry

Making Him Over -- For Minnie

The Plumber

Wrong All Around

A Queer Quarantine

Wallace Williams

Three Little Powders

Robert - the Husband

Curing a Husband

The Doctor

Jane

The Deaf Minister

Oh, Doctor

Actor James Finney

Actor Finney's Finish

Hiram Stebbins

This Is the Life

Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer

The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine

Sweedie (a Swedish maid)

Sweedie the Swatter

Texas Tommy

The Epidemic

Prof. Bunkum

The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps

Sweedie

Countess Sweedie

Sweedie

Sweedie the Trouble Maker

Sweedie

The Fickleness of Sweedie

Sweedie

Sweedie at the Fair

Sweedie

Sweedie's Hero

Sweedie

Sweedie Collects for Charity

Sweedie - the New Teacher

The New Teacher

Mr. Newlywed

Their Cheap Vacation

Homer Splivins

The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

Sweedie

Sweedie and the Hypnotist

The Lover

Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind

Madame Double X

Madame Double X

Sweedie

Sweedie and the Sultan's Present

Mr. Justwed

The Victor

Sweedie

Sweedie and Her Dog

Sweedie

Sweedie's Suicide

Fred

Two Hearts That Beat as Ten

Self (archive footage)

The Our Gang Story

The Coming Champion

The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed

The Plumber

Love and Soda

The Plum Tree

Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze

Three Boiled Down Fables

Attorney for Suggs

The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth

The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in

The Earl

When Knights Were Bold

Sweedie

Sweedie's Clean-Up

Wally

The Prevailing Craze

Sweedie

Sweedie Springs a Surprise

Sweedie

Topsy-Turvy Sweedie

Hans

In and Out

Sweedie

Sweedie and the Lord

Buck Gibson

A Pound for a Pound

Krautmeyer

Rivalry and War

The Ups and Downs

Sweedie

Sweedie and the Double Exposure

Sweedie

She Landed a Big One

Sweedie

Sweedie's Skate

Sweedie

Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie

Cheering a Husband

The Hobo

Done in Wax

Sweedie

Sweedie Learns to Ride

Harold Wallington

Ain't It the Truth?

Sweedie

Sweedie's Hopeless Love

Sweedie

Love and Trouble

Jack / Sweedie

Father's New Maid

Sweedie

The Bouquet

The Football Hero

The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man

Sweedie

A Maid of War

Sweedie

Sweedie in Vaudeville

The Villain

Maggie's First False Step

Fred

Just a Few Little Things

Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

A Bedroom Blunder

Popova

The Slim Princess

Milt

The Fable of the Roistering Blades

A Polished Gent

Cactus Nell

Sweedie

A Capable Lady Cook

Janitor

Bombs and Banknotes

Party Guest (uncredited)

Are Waitresses Safe?

Sweedie

Sweedie's Finish

Sweedie - the Janitor

Sweedie, the Janitor

John - the Hotel Janitor

The Janitor

The Cafe Proprietor

That Night

Only a Janitor

Coast-to-Coast Taylor

The Love Burglar

Undetermined role (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf's Daughter

Gustave Ludermann

Patsy

A Beach Nut

François Dupont

The Rookie's Return

Mendoza

Soldiers of Fortune

Maj. Parbury / Ribeira

813

Sleeping Acres

Convict #12896

The Ne'er to Return Road

The Crook

The Policeman and the Baby

Phil Culture

Sweet Revenge

Secondary Role

Love Incognito

The Uncle

A Successful Failure

Dad's Insanity

Bill the Iceman

Day by Day

The Right of Way

Mr. Jones

Their Wives' Indiscretion

The Dentist

The Usual Way

Hello, Trouble

Mike McManus

Kitty's Knight

Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid

At the Old Maid's Call

Jim Foley

A Foot of Romance

Prof. Smithy

Smithy's Grandma Party

Don Lowrie

The Flame of Life

Buck Roper

Wild Honey

Fu Chang

I Am the Law

Jim Brennan

Only a Shop Girl

Jean Scholast

Unseen Hands

Felix Bavu

Bavu

Captain Wolf

Another Man's Wife

Joe Lawler

Coming Through

Ben

The Devil's Cargo

Cap Bullwinkle

Let Women Alone

Glavis

In the Name of Love

Capt. Bartlett

Rugged Water

Elmer

Fireman, Save My Child

Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)

Two Flaming Youths

Louis Hosenozzle

Wife Savers

Dan Packard

Dinner at Eight

Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt

The Big House

Jamesy MacArdle

China Seas

Capt. Jasper Leigh

The Sea Hawk

Magua

The Last of the Mohicans

Police Sergeant

The Stolen Jools

First Tramp

Into Society and Out

The Cook

Money Talks

(archive footage)

Le Livre d'image

Bill

Min and Bill

Terry (Husband)

Tugboat Annie

Oklahoma Red

Beggars of Life

Melvin R. Foster

A Date with Judy

Sgt. Maj. William Bailey

Salute to the Marines

John Thorson

Thunder Afloat

Sgt. Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan

The Bugle Sounds

Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot

Jackass Mail

Ned Trumpet

This Man's Navy

Uncle Sid

Ah, Wilderness!

Phineas T. Barnum

The Mighty Barnum

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)

When Comedy Was King

King Philip IV

The Spanish Dancer

Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone

West Point of the Air

Roy 'Slag' McGurk

The Mighty McGurk

Henry von Holkar

The Mollycoddle

Polakai

Flesh

Sgt. Dory

A Message to Garcia

Captain Boss Starkey

Stand Up and Fight

Cesar

Port of Seven Seas

Ling Jo

A Tale of Two Worlds

Pat Garrett

Billy the Kid

August Schomberg

Victory

"Bar" Barstow

The Man from Dakota

Jack Thompson

Slave Ship

Bill Johansen

Barnacle Bill

Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy

20 Mule Team

Tripod

Way for a Sailor

Count Donelli / Hawkes

White Tiger

Bo-Bo

The Red Lily

"Windy" Riker

Hell Divers

Thomas Terry

Stablemates

Big Jack Horner

Big Jack

Sgt. Shaun Madden

Sergeant Madden

Zeb Bascomb alias Ezekiel 'Zeke' Smith

Bad Bascomb

Ben Barton

Rationing

Michael O'Shaughnessy

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

Duc de Tours

Ashes of Vengeance

Joe Standish

The Signal Tower

Chuck Connors

The Bowery

Lt. Brandt

Behind the Door

P.T. Barnum

A Lady's Morals

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

(archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Henry Black

Teddy at the Throttle

'Trigger' Bill

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Casey

Casey at the Bat

Himself (uncredited)

The Christmas Party

Photographer (uncredited)

My Wife's Relations

Honest Plush Brannon

Barbary Coast Gent

Detective Mike Doolan

Partners in Crime

Jim Breedin

Alias a Gentleman

Beast Man (uncredited)

A Blind Bargain

(archive footage)

Land of Liberty

"Hutch" Hutchins

Old Hutch

Gaspard, The Wolf

The Man from Hell's River

Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager

A Clever Dummy

Chuck Riley

Chinatown Nights

German Soldier (uncredited)

The Little American

Riff Swanson

Behind the Front

'Knockout' Hansen

We're in the Navy Now

General Orlando Jackson

The River of Romance

William McCabe

Stormswept

Lieut. Col. von Richthosen

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Morgan

Adventure

Bos'n

Old Ironsides

'Reb' Harkness

Wyoming

Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)

Going Hollywood

(archive footage) (uncredited)

That's Entertainment!

Buck McKee

The Round-Up

Gregor Karlov

The Drums of Jeopardy

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Robin Hood

Sweedie

Sweedie Learns to Swim

José Fagaro

The Sagebrush Trail

Pancho Villa

Patria

Col. Fanner

Johanna Enlists

Rhode Island Red

The Pony Express

Pancho Lopez

The Bad Man

Clem Hawley

The Good Old Soak

Klaus Poole

So Big

Self (uncredited)

Wir schalten um auf Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Wally

Now We're in the Air

José

The Night Club

Sweedie - the Laundress

The Laundress

Self

From the Ends of the Earth

Sheik Achmet Hamid

The Virgin of Stamboul

Jules Repin

Drifting

Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

Judy Garland: By Myself

Self (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Undetermined Role

Mr. Dippy Dipped

Mr. Strong

His Athletic Wife

Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

(archive footage)

Twenty Years After

Self

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Pharis

The Wanderer

Barode Dukane

The Eternal Struggle

Dutch

The Great Divide

Col. Klemm

The Unpardonable Sin

Bos

The Life Line

Ed Lee, the Plumber

Trouble

Powderhorn Pete

The Big Killing

Chris Borg

Hurricane's Gal

Terry (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

Bill Smythe

Madonna of the Streets

Dr. Lawler

The White Mouse

Kenwood Wright

The Rosary

Bram Johnson

The Golden Snare

Otto Franke

The Northern Trail

King Richard

Richard the Lion-Hearted

The Police Chief

A Dash of Courage

Minor Role

Hearts and Sparks

Quembo

Volcano

'Slugger' Rourke

Dynamite Smith

Percy

The Broken Pledge

Sweedie

Sweedie Goes to College

Lacey

Stairs of Sand

Self (archive footage)

Showbiz Ballyhoo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

260

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-03-31

Place of Birth

Clay County, Missouri, USA

Also Known As

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery