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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American film and stage actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930) opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (1934), and his titular 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 1930s. He was the brother of actor Noah Beery Sr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr.
Birth Name
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery
Born
Wednesday, 01 April 1885
Died
Friday, 15 April 1949
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Image Book | Un acteur | 2018 |
| The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various / Various roles (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| 100 Years at the Movies | Self | 1994 |
| The Our Gang Story | Self / Champ / Police Sergeant / Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
| American Masters | Self - Actor | 1986 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| America at the Movies | Dan Packard | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Image Book | Un acteur | 2018 |
| The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various / Various roles (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| 100 Years at the Movies | Self | 1994 |
| The Our Gang Story | Self / Champ / Police Sergeant / Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
| American Masters | Self - Actor | 1986 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| America at the Movies | Dan Packard | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| That's Entertainment! | Melvin Colner Foster | 1974 |
| Hollywood Babylon | (archive footage) | 1972 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Terry / (archive footage) | 1964 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Pancho Villa | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Her Rascally Guardian | 1961 |
| When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage) / Henry Black | 1960 |
| MGM Parade | Champ / Dan Packard | 1955 |
| Big Jack | Big Jack Horner | 1949 |
| A Date with Judy | Melvin Colner Foster / Melvin R. Foster | 1948 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Bill | 1948 |
| Alias a Gentleman | Jim Breedin | 1948 |
| The Mighty McGurk | Roy 'Slag' McGurk | 1947 |
| Bad Bascomb | Zeb Bascomb / Zeb Bascomb alias Ezekiel 'Zeke' Smith | 1946 |
| This Man's Navy | Ned Trumpet | 1945 |
| Barbary Coast Gent | Honest Plush Brannon | 1944 |
| Rationing | Ben Barton | 1944 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| Some of the Best | Butch / Bill / General Director Preysing / Terry / Dan Packard | 1944 |
| Salute to the Marines | Sgt. Maj. William Bailey | 1943 |
| Jackass Mail | Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot | 1942 |
| The Bugle Sounds | Sgt. Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan / 'Hap' Doan | 1942 |
| Barnacle Bill | Bill Johansen | 1941 |
| The Bad Man | Pancho Lopez | 1941 |
| The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940 |
| Wyoming | 'Reb' Harkness | 1940 |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940 |
| 20 Mule Team | Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy / Skinner Bill Bragg | 1940 |
| The Man from Dakota | Sgt. 'Bar' Barstow / "Bar" Barstow | 1940 |
| Thunder Afloat | John Thorson | 1939 |
| From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939 |
| Sergeant Madden | Sgt. Shaun Madden | 1939 |
| Stand Up and Fight | Captain Boss Starkey | 1939 |
| Land of Liberty | (archive footage) | 1939 |
| Stablemates | Tom Terry / Thomas 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 / "Hutch" Hutchins | 1936 |
| A Message to Garcia | Sgt. Dory / Sergeant Dory | 1936 |
| Ah Wilderness! | Sid Miller / Uncle Sid | 1935 |
| O'Shaughnessy's Boy | 'Windy' / Michael O'Shaughnessy | 1935 |
| China Seas | Jamesy MacArdle | 1935 |
| West Point of the Air | Big Mike Stone / Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone | 1935 |
| The Mighty Barnum | Phineas T. Barnum | 1934 |
| Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1934 |
| Viva Villa! | Pancho Villa | 1934 |
| Going Hollywood | Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) / Wallace Beery - Premiere Clip | 1933 |
| The Bowery | Chuck Connors | 1933 |
| Dinner at Eight | Dan Packard | 1933 |
| Tugboat Annie | Terry / Terry (Husband) | 1933 |
| Flesh | Polakai | 1932 |
| Grand Hotel | General Director Preysing | 1932 |
| Hell Divers | Windy Riker / "Windy" Riker | 1932 |
| The Christmas Party | Wallace Beery | 1931 |
| The Champ | Champ / Andy 'Champ' Purcell | 1931 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | Self | 1931 |
| The Secret 6 | Louis Scorpio / Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio | 1931 |
| The Stolen Jools | Police Sergeant | 1931 |
| Min and Bill | Bill | 1930 |
| A Lady's Morals | Barnum / P.T. Barnum | 1930 |
| Way for a Sailor | Tripod | 1930 |
| Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett | 1930 |
| The Big House | Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt / 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 | Casey / '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 |
| Rugged Water | Capt. Bartlett | 1925 |
| Coming Through | Joe Lawler | 1925 |
| The Lost World | Prof. Challenger | 1925 |
| The Night Club | José | 1925 |
| Adventure | Morgan | 1925 |
| Let Women Alone | Cap Bullwinkle | 1925 |
| Madonna of the Streets | Bill Smythe | 1924 |
| The Red Lily | Bo-Bo | 1924 |
| The Signal Tower | Joe Standish | 1924 |
| The Sea Hawk | Captain Jasper Leigh / Capt. Jasper Leigh | 1924 |
| Unseen Hands | Jean Scholast | 1924 |
| White Tiger | Count Donelli / Hawkes | 1923 |
| The Eternal Struggle | Barode Dukane | 1923 |
| The Spanish Dancer | King Philip IV | 1923 |
| Ashes of Vengeance | Duc de Tours | 1923 |
| Three Ages | The Villain | 1923 |
| Bavu | Felix Bavu | 1923 |
| Stormswept | William McCabe | 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 |
| My Wife's Relations | Photographer | 1922 |
| The Man from Hell's River | Gaspard, The Wolf | 1922 |
| The Sagebrush Trail | José Fagaro | 1922 |
| Wild Honey | Buck Roper | 1922 |
| Alias Julius Caesar | (unconfirmed) | 1922 |
| 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 / Lieut. Col. von Richthosen | 1921 |
| The Rookie's Return | François Dupont | 1921 |
| Sleeping Acres | 1921 | |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Magua | 1920 |
| 813 | Maj. Parbury / Ribeira | 1920 |
| The Round-up | Buck McKee | 1920 |
| The Mollycoddle | Henry von Holkar | 1920 |
| The Virgin of Stamboul | Sheik Achmet Hamid | 1920 |
| Behind the Door | Lt. Brandt / Submarine Commander | 1919 |
| Victory | August Schomberg | 1919 |
| The Love Burglar | Coast-to-Coast Taylor | 1919 |
| The Unpardonable Sin | Col. Klemm | 1919 |
| Johanna Enlists | Col. Fanner | 1918 |
| A Bedroom Blunder | Man in Hotel Lobby | 1917 |
| A Clever Dummy | Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager | 1917 |
| The Little American | German Soldier | 1917 |
| Teddy at the Throttle | Her Rascally Guardian / Henry Black | 1917 |
| Patria | Pancho Villa | 1917 |
| Patria (Serial) Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 | Pancho Villa | 1917 |
| The Janitor's Vacation | 1916 | |
| The Rosary | Kenwood Wright | 1915 |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | King Richard | 1911 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1932 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
