Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupations
Actor
film director
Years active
1904–1949
Spouses
Gloria Swanson
(m. 1916; div. 1918)
Rita Gilman
(m. 1924; div. 1939)
Children
1
Relatives
Noah Beery Sr. (brother)
Noah Beery Jr. (nephew)
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor.[1] He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930) opposite Marie Dressler, as General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (1934), and his title role in The Champ (1931), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Beery appeared in some 250 films during a 36-year career. His contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stipulated in 1932 that he would be paid $1 more than any other contract player at the studio. This made Beery the highest-paid film actor in the world during the early 1930s. He was the brother of actor Noah Beery and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr.
For his contributions to the film industry, Beery was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.[2]
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill...
Award-winning actor WallaceBeery as well as the father of prominent character actor Noah Beery Jr. He was billed as either Noah Beery or Noah Beery Sr. depending...
co-starred in Sweedie Goes to College with her future first husband WallaceBeery. Swanson's mother accompanied her to California in 1916 for her roles...
feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and WallaceBeery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in...
American pre-Code black-and-white film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring WallaceBeery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers in early...
At the 5th Academy Awards, Fredric March finished one vote ahead of WallaceBeery; under the rules of the time, this meant both actors were awarded, in...
Hood is a 1922 silent adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks and WallaceBeery. It was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere,...
Best Actor, a unique event in Academy history. Fredric March had led WallaceBeery in the balloting by only one vote, and the rules (later changed) said...
historian of mathematics Noah Beery (1882–1946), American actor Noah Beery Jr. (1913–1994), American actor WallaceBeery (1885–1949), American actor This...
Gilbert, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, WallaceBeery, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, and Norma Shearer, who became his wife...
Strickling (Mannix would later run the studio) as WallaceBeery was one of MGM's highest paid actors. Beery took a long vacation in Europe after the altercation...
book edition. Since then, the following actors have played the role: WallaceBeery in the 1925 film The Lost World. Francis L. Sullivan in the 1944 BBC...
character actor can also be the leading actor in their films, such as WallaceBeery, whose major silent film career exploded during the sound era. The term...
The Secret Six is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film starring WallaceBeery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone...
William C. deMille. The film stars Raymond Griffith, Vera Reynolds, WallaceBeery, Louise Fazenda, and William Austin. The film was released on April...
comedy-drama film, directed by George W. Hill and starring Marie Dressler and WallaceBeery. Adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson from Lorna Moon's 1929...
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