Wallace Beery (1885–1949)

Actor | Director | Writer

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In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the ...

Born: April 1, 1885
Died: April 15, 1949 (age 64)

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Filmography

Known For

Dinner at Eight Dan Packard (1933)
A Date with Judy Melvin Colner Foster (1948)
Viva Villa! Pancho Villa (1934)
Known For

Grand Hotel General Director Preysing (1932)
Actor

Big Jack Big Jack Horner (1949)
A Date with Judy Melvin Colner Foster (1948)
Alias a Gentleman Jim Breedin (1948)
The Mighty McGurk Roy 'Slag' McGurk (1947)
Bad Bascomb Zeb Bascomb (1946)
This Man's Navy Ned Trumpet (1945)
Barbary Coast Gent Honest Plush Brannon (1944)
Rationing Ben Barton (1944)
Salute to the Marines Sgt. Maj. William Bailey (1943)
Jackass Mail Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot (1942)
The Bugle Sounds 'Hap' Doan (1942)
Barnacle Bill Bill Johansen (1941)
The Bad Man Pancho Lopez (1941)
Wyoming 'Reb' Harkness (1940)
20 Mule Team Skinner Bill Bragg (1940)
The Man from Dakota Sgt. 'Bar' Barstow (1940)
Thunder Afloat John Thorson (1939)
Sergeant Madden Sgt. Shaun Madden (1939)
Stand Up and Fight Captain Boss Starkey (1939)
Stablemates Tom Terry (1938)
Port of Seven Seas Cesar (1938)
The Bad Man of Brimstone 'Trigger' Bill (1937)
Slave Ship Jack Thompson (1937)
The Good Old Soak Clem Hawley (1937)
Old Hutch 'Hutch' Hutchins (1936)
A Message to Garcia Sergeant Dory (1936)
Ah Wilderness! Sid Miller (1935)
O'Shaughnessy's Boy 'Windy' (1935)
China Seas Jamesy MacArdle (1935)
West Point of the Air Big Mike Stone (1935)
The Mighty Barnum Phineas T. Barnum (1934)
Treasure Island Long John Silver (1934)
Viva Villa! Pancho Villa (1934)
The Bowery Chuck Connors (1933)
Dinner at Eight Dan Packard (1933)
Tugboat Annie Terry (1933)
Flesh Polakai (1932)
Grand Hotel General Director Preysing (1932)
The Christmas Party Wallace Beery (1931)
The Champ Andy 'Champ' Purcell (1931)
Hell Divers Windy Riker (1931)
The Secret 6 Louis Scorpio (1931)
The Stolen Jools Police Sergeant (1931)
Min and Bill Bill (1930)
A Lady's Morals Barnum (1930)
Way for a Sailor Tripod (1930)
Billy the Kid Pat Garrett (1930)
The Big House Butch (1930)
The River of Romance General Orlando Jackson (1929)
Stairs of Sand Lacey (1929)
Chinatown Nights Chuck Riley (1929)
Beggars of Life Oklahoma Red (1928)
The Big Killing Powderhorn Pete (1928)
Partners in Crime Detective Mike Doolan (1928)
Wife Savers Louis Hosenozzle (1928)
Two Flaming Youths Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (1927)
Now We're in the Air Wally (1927)
Fireman, Save My Child Elmer (1927)
Casey at the Bat 'Home Run' Casey (1927)
Old Ironsides Bos'n (1926)
We're in the Navy Now 'Knockout' Hansen (1926)
Volcano Quembo (1926)
Behind the Front Riff Swanson (1926)
The Pony Express Rhode Island Red (1925)
The Wanderer Pharis (1925)
Rugged Water Capt. Bartlett (1925)
In the Name of Love Glavis (1925)
Coming Through Joe Lawler (1925)
The Great Divide Dutch (1925)
The Lost World Prof. Challenger (1925)
The Devil's Cargo Ben (1925)
The Night Club José (1925)
Adventure Morgan (1925)
Let Women Alone Cap Bullwinkle (1925)
So Big Klaus Poole (1924)
Madonna of the Streets Bill Smythe (1924)
Dynamite Smith 'Slugger' Rourke (1924)
The Red Lily Bo-Bo (1924)
Another Man's Wife Captain Wolf (1924)
The Signal Tower Joe Standish (1924)
The Sea Hawk Captain Jasper Leigh (1924)
Unseen Hands Jean Scholast (1924)
The Drums of Jeopardy Gregor Karlov (1923)
White Tiger Count Donelli / Hawkes (1923)
Richard the Lion-Hearted King Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
The Eternal Struggle Barode Dukane (1923)
The Spanish Dancer King Philip IV (1923)
Drifting Jules Repin (1923)
Ashes of Vengeance Duc de Tours (1923)
Three Ages The Villain (1923)
Bavu Felix Bavu (1923)
Stormswept William McCabe (1923)
The Flame of Life Don Lowrie (1923)
Only a Shop Girl Jim Brennan (1922)
A Blind Bargain Beast Man (1922)
Robin Hood Richard the Lion-Hearted (1922)
Trouble Ed Lee, the Plumber (1922)
Hurricane's Gal Chris Borg (1922)
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
I Am the Law Fu Chang (1922)
The Sagebrush Trail José Fagaro (1922)
The Man from Hell's River Gaspard, The Wolf (1922)
My Wife's Relations Photographer (1922)
Wild Honey Buck Roper (1922)
The Rosary Kenwood Wright (1922)
Sleeping Acres (1921)
The Last Trail William Kirk (1921)
The White Mouse Dr. Lawler (1921)
The Ne'er to Return Road Convict #12896 (1921)
The Policeman and the Baby The Crook (1921)
The Golden Snare Bram Johnson (1921)
The Northern Trail Otto Franke (1921)
A Tale of Two Worlds Ling Jo (1921)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Lt. Col. von Richthosen (1921)
Patsy Gustave Ludermann (1921)
The Rookie's Return François Dupont (1921)
813 Maj. Parbury / Ribeira (1920)
The Last of the Mohicans Magua (1920)
The Round-up Buck McKee (1920)
The Mollycoddle Henry von Holkar (1920)
The Virgin of Stamboul Sheik Achmet Hamid (1920)
The Lone Wolf's Daughter Undetermined role (1919)
Behind the Door Submarine Commander (1919)
Victory August Schomberg (1919)
Soldiers of Fortune Mendoza (1919)
The Life Line Bos (1919)
The Love Burglar Coast-to-Coast Taylor (1919)
The Unpardonable Sin Col. Klemm (1919)
A Beach Nut (1919)
Only a Janitor (1919)
Johanna Enlists Col. Fanner (1918)
That Night The Cafe Proprietor (1917)
Are Waitresses Safe? Party Guest (1917)
A Bedroom Blunder Man in Hotel Lobby (1917)
A Clever Dummy Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager (1917)
The Little American German Soldier (1917)
Cactus Nell A Polished Gent (1917)
Teddy at the Throttle Her Rascally Guardian (1917)
Maggie's First False Step The Villain (1917)
Patria Pancho Villa (1917)
Bombs and Banknotes Janitor (1917)
The Janitor's Vacation (1916)
A Capable Lady Cook Sweedie (1916)
Sweedie, the Janitor Sweedie - the Janitor (1916)
Just a Few Little Things Fred (1916)
The Janitor John - the Hotel Janitor (1916)
Hearts and Sparks Minor Role (1916)
A Dash of Courage The Police Chief (1916)
The Fable of the Roistering Blades Milt (1915)
Education Bob (1915)
The Broken Pledge Percy (1915)
Sweedie's Finish Sweedie (1915)
The Slim Princess Popova (1915)
Sweedie's Hero Sweedie (1915)
Sweedie in Vaudeville Sweedie (1915)
Done in Wax The Hobo (1915)
The Bouquet Sweedie (1915)
Sweedie Learns to Ride Sweedie (1915)
Love and Trouble Sweedie (1915)
Father's New Maid Jack / Sweedie (1915)
Sweedie's Hopeless Love Sweedie (1915)
Ain't It the Truth? Harold Wallington (1915)
A Pound for a Pound Buck Gibson (1915)
The Victor Mr. Justwed (1915)
Sweedie Goes to College Sweedie (1915)
The New Teacher Sweedie - the New Teacher (1915)
Two Hearts That Beat as Ten Fred (1915)
Sweedie and Her Dog Sweedie (1915)
Sweedie's Suicide Sweedie (1915)
Sweedie and the Sultan's Present Sweedie (1915)
The Ups and Downs (1914)
Cheering a Husband (1914)
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind The Lover (1914)
Sweedie Collects for Charity Sweedie (1914)
Their Cheap Vacation Mr. Newlywed (1914)
Madame Double X Madame Double X (1914)
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify Homer Splivins (1914)
Sweedie and the Hypnotist Sweedie (1914)
A Maid of War Sweedie (1914)
Sweedie at the Fair Sweedie (1914)
Countess Sweedie Sweedie (1914)
Three Boiled Down Fables Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze (1914)
The Prevailing Craze (1914)
Sweedie the Trouble Maker Sweedie (1914)
The Laundress Sweedie - the Laundress (1914)
Rivalry and War Krautmeyer (1914)
She Landed a Big One Sweedie (1914)
Sweedie Learns to Swim Sweedie (1914)
The Fickleness of Sweedie Sweedie (1914)
Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie Sweedie (1914)
Sweedie's Clean-Up Sweedie (1914)
Sweedie's Skate Sweedie (1914)
The Plum Tree (1914)
When Knights Were Bold The Earl (1914)
Love and Soda The Plumber (1914)
Sweedie Springs a Surprise Sweedie (1914)
Sweedie and the Double Exposure Sweedie (1914)
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth Attorney for Suggs (1914)
Topsy-Turvy Sweedie Sweedie (1914)
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in (1914)
In and Out Hans (1914)
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed The Coming Champion (1914)
Sweedie and the Lord Sweedie (1914)
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man The Football Hero (1914)
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps Prof. Bunkum (1914)
Sweedie the Swatter Sweedie (a Swedish maid) (1914)
The Epidemic (1914)
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer (1914)
This Is the Life Hiram Stebbins (1914)
Jane The Doctor (1914)
Actor Finney's Finish Actor James Finney (1914)
Three Little Powders Wallace Williams (1914)
Making Him Over -- For Minnie (1914)
Curing a Husband Robert - the Husband (1914)
Wrong All Around The Plumber (1914)
The Winner Fritz Noodle (1914)
And He Came Back Horatio Algernon Botts (1914)
The Bargain Hunters Mr. Hunter (1914)
A Queer Quarantine Mrs. Potter (1914)
Oh, Doctor The Deaf Minister (1914)
Grass County Goes Dry The Constable (1914)
The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar Jack Hazard (1914)
Mrs. Manly's Baby (1914)
One-to-Three Willie Brace (1914)
Looking for Trouble (1914)
The Hour and the Man A Juror (1914)
A Foot of Romance Jim Foley (1914)
At the Old Maid's Call Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid (1913)
Hello, Trouble (1913)
Smithy's Grandma Party Prof. Smithy (1913)
Kitty's Knight Mike McManus (1913)
The Usual Way The Dentist (1913)
Their Wives' Indiscretion Mr. Jones (1913)
Day by Day Bill the Iceman (1913)
Dad's Insanity (1913)
A Successful Failure The Uncle (1913)
Love Incognito Secondary Role (1913)
The Right of Way (1913)
Sweet Revenge Phil Culture (1913)
Mr. Dippy Dipped Undetermined Role (1913)
Actor

His Athletic Wife Mr. Strong (1913)
Director

A Beach Nut (1919)
Only a Janitor (1919)
She Wasn't Hungry, But... (1919)
Perils of the Parlor (1918)
The Bathhouse Scandal (1918)
Pete's Pants (1917)
Two Laughs (1917)
Bombs and Banknotes (1917)
The Janitor's Vacation (1916)
Taking the Count (1916)
A Capable Lady Cook (1916)
Sweedie, the Janitor (1916)
Fame at Last (1916)
Breaking Into Society (1916)
Borrowed Plumes (1916)
A Hero by Proxy (1916)
He Almost Lands an Angel (1916)
Hired and Fired (1916)
From the Rogue's Gallery (1916)
He Becomes a Cop (1916)
A Thousand Dollars a Week (1916)
The Sody Clerk (1916)
Just a Few Little Things (1916)
The Janitor (1916)
Snakeville's Champion (1915)
The Merry Models (1915)
Rivalry and War (1914)
She Landed a Big One (1914)
Director

Kitty's Knight (1913)
Soundtrack

A Date with Judy (1948)
The Bugle Sounds (1942)
Wyoming (1940)
Stablemates (1938)
The Christmas Party (1931)
The Champ (1931)
Hell Divers (1931)
Soundtrack

Way for a Sailor (1930)
Writer

A Beach Nut (1919)
Sweedie, the Janitor (1916)
Just a Few Little Things (1916)
Writer

The Janitor (1916)
Archive footage

The Oscars Library: A Tribute to the Academy Awards (2019)
The Image Book (2018)
Compression (2017)
The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One (2014)
Spisok korabley (2008)
Private Screenings (2006)
American Masters (2004)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Complicated Women (2003)
Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 7: the Race is on! (1998)
Biography (1995)
Century of Cinema (1995)
The Our Gang Story (1994)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982)
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
America at the Movies (1976)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Hollywood Babylon (1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963)
Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
MGM Parade (1955-1956)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1954)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (1951)
The Soundman (1950)
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)
Some of the Best (1944)
Twenty Years After (1944)
The Miracle of Sound (1940)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
Land of Liberty (1939)
A Lost World (1938)
Personality Parade (1938)
Archive footage

Going Hollywood (1933)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)

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Awards

Won 1 Oscar.

Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.

Did You Know

Trivia

He got a big break while appearing in the Raymond Hitchcock musical farce "A Yankee Tourist", which opened on August 12, 1907. Beery had a featured role and as understudy to the star stepped into the lead role when Hitchcock reportedly had emergency...

Quotes

I never let anyone sucker me, not even for a nickel.

Nickname

Wally

Star Sign

Aries

Personal Details

Born

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery
April 1, 1885
Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Died

April 15, 1949 (age 64)
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height:

5' 11½" (1.82 m)

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