WALLACE BEERY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Wallace Beery was born on April 1st, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri with the birth name Wallace Fitzgerald Beery. He had two brothers, William and Noah Beery Sr. who both also went on to become working actors. At the age of sixteen he joined the circus with the Ringling Brothers and worked as an assistant elephant trainer. After two years of working with the circus he then relocated to New York City and found work in musical variety shows.
Beery then found work on Broadway and traveling in stock companies. He then decided to relocate to Hollywood and see if he could get involved in the film industry. In 1915 he worked on the film, "Sweedie Goes to College" (1915) a series. This role followed with a number of film roles such as, "Patria" (1917), "The Four Horsemen of the Apolalypse" (1921) featuring Rudolph Valentino and Alan Hale, "Robin Hood" (1922) starring Douglas Fairbanks, "The Sea Hawk" (1924) and "The Pony Express" (1925) co-starring with Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez and George Bancroft.
He was working with Paramount under contract and they decided to put him back into comedy films such as, "Behind the Front" (1926). When talkies came about, MGM saw something in Beery and chose to sign him to a contract with them. He was cast in "The Big House" (1930) which was very successful and earned him an Academy Award nomination. He then worked on, "Min and Bill" (1930) which was one of the biggest film money makes of the year.
His career was highly successful with his next role on, "The Champ" co-starring with child actor Jackie Cooper, winning the Oscar for Best Actor and again put on an amazing performance in, "Treasure Island" (1934) again starring with Jackie Cooper plus gifted actors Nigel Bruce, Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone. Roles were coming at him from all directions in films such as, "Flesh" (1932), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Wyoming" (1940), and "Barnacle Bill " (1941).
As he began to age, his career began to slow down and on April 15th, 1949 he passed away in Beverly Hills, California from a heart attack at the age of sixty four. He was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Although he had a incredibly successful professional career, his personal life with women was not as successful. Wallace Beery married twice, first to famed actress Gloria Swanson from 1916 through 1919 and then to Rita Gilman from 1924 through 1939 and having one child together. He then remained single the remainder of his life.
Filmography
1949 Big Jack
1948 A Date with Judy
1948 Alias a Gentleman
1947 The Mighty McGurk
1946 Bad Bascomb
1945 This Man's Navy
1944 Barbary Coast Gent
1944 Rationing
1943 Salute to the Marines
1942 Jackass Mail
1942 The Bugle Sounds
1941 Barnacle Bill
1941 The Bad Man
1940 Wyoming
1940 20 Mule Team
1940 The Man from Dakota
1939 Thunder Afloat
1939 Sergeant Madden
1939 Stand Up and Fight
1938 Stablemates
1938 Port of Seven Seas
1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937 Slave Ship
1937 The Good Old Soak
1936 Old Hutch
1936 A Message to Garcia
1935 Ah, Wilderness!
1935 O'shaughnessy's Boy
1935 China Seas
1935 West Point of the Air
1934 The Mighty Barnum
1934 Treasure Island
1934 Viva Villa!
1933 The Bowery
1933 Dinner at Eight
1933 Tugboat Annie
1932 Flesh
1932 Grand Hotel
1931 Hell Divers
1931 I The Champ
1931 The Secret Six
1931 The Stolen Jools
1930 A Lady's Morals
1930 Way for a Sailor
1930 Billy the Kid
1930 The Big House
1929 River of Romance
1929 Stairs of Sand
1929 Chinatown Nights
1928 Beggars of Life
1928 The Big Killing
1928 Partners in Crime
1928 Wife Savers
1927 Now We're in the Air
1927 Fireman, Save My Child
1927 Casey at the Bat
1926 Old Ironsides
1926 We're in the Navy Now
1926 Volcano
1926 Behind the Front
1925 The Pony Express
1925 Rugged Water
1925 In the Name of Love
1925 The Wanderer
1925 The Night Club
1925 Adventure
1925 Coming Through
1925 The Great Divide
1925 The Devil's Cargo
1925 The Lost World
1925 Let Women Alone
1924 So Big
1924 Madonna of the Streets
1924 Dynamite Smith
1924 The Red Lily
1924 Another Man's Wife
1924 The Signal Tower
1924 The Sea Hawk
1924 Unseen Hands
1923 White Tiger
1923 The Drums of Jeopardy
1923 Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923 The Eternal Struggle
1923 The Spanish Dancer
1923 Three Ages
1923 Drifting
1923 Ashes of Vengeance
1923 Bavu
1923 Stormswept
1923 The Flame of Life
1923 Patsy
1922 Only a Shop Girl
1922 A Blind Bargain
1922 Robin Hood
1922 Trouble
1922 Alias Julius Caesar
1922 Hurricane's Gal
1922 I Am the Law
1922 The Man from Hell's River
1922 The Sagebrush Trail
1922 Wild Honey
1922 The Rosary
1921 The Last Trail
1921 The White Mouse
1921 The Ne'er to Return Road
1921 The Policeman and the Baby
1921 The Golden Snare
1921 The Northern Trail
1921 A Tale of Two Worlds
1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921 Patsy
1921 Sleeping Acres
1920 The Rookie's Return
1920 The Last of the Mohicans
1920 813
1920 The Round-Up
1920 The Mollycoddle
1920 The Virgin of Stamboul
1919 Behind the Door
1919 Victory
1919 Soldiers of Fortune
1919 The Life Line
1919 The Love Burglar
1919 The Unpardonable Sin
1919 A Beach Nut
1919 Only a Janitor
1918 Johanna Enlists
1917 That Night
1917 Are Waitresses Safe?
1917 A Bedroom Blunder
1917 The Little American
1917 A Clever Dummy
1917 Cactus Nell
1917 Teddy at the Throttle
1917 Maggie's First False Step
1917 Patria
1917 Bombs and Banknotes
1916 A Capable Lady Cook
1916 Sweedie, the Janitor
1916 Just a Few Little Things
1916 The Janitor
1916 A Dash of Courage
1916 The Janitor's Vacation
1915 The Fable of the Roistering Blades
1915 Education
1915 The Broken Pledge
1915 Sweedie's Finish
1915 The Slim Princess
1915 Sweedie's Hero
1915 Sweedie in Vaudeville
1915 Done in Wax
1915 The Bouquet
1915 Sweedie Learns to Ride
1915 Love and Trouble
1915 Father's New Maid
1915 Sweedie's Hopeless Love
1915 Ain't It the Truth?
1915 A Pound for a Pound
1915 The Victor
1915 Sweedie Goes to College
1915 The New Teacher
1915 Two Hearts That Beat as Ten
1915 Sweedie and Her Dog
1915 Sweedie's Suicide
1915 Sweedie and the Sultan's Present
1914 Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind
1914 Sweedie Collects for Charity
1914 Their Cheap Vacation
1914 Madame Double X
1914 The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
1914 Sweedie and the Hypnotist
1914 A Maid of War
1914 Sweedie at the Fair
1914 Countess Sweedie
1914 The Prevailing Craze
1914 Three Boiled Down Fables
1914 Sweedie the Trouble Maker
1914 The Laundress
1914 Rivalry and War
1914 She Landed a Big One
1914 Sweedie Learns to Swim
1914 The Fickleness of Sweedie
1914 Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie
1914 Sweedie's Clean-Up
1914 Sweedie's Skate
1914 The Plum Tree
1914 Love and Soda
1914 Sweedie Springs a Surprise
1914 Sweedie and the Double Exposure
1914 Topsy-Turvy Sweedie
1914 The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-In
1914 I In and Out
1914 The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
1914 Sweedie and the Lord
1914 The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man
1914 The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps
1914 Sweedie the Swatter
1914 The Epidemic
1914 The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
1914 I This Is the Life
1914 Jane
1914 Actor Finney's Finish
1914 Three Little Powders
1914 Making Him Over -- For Minnie
1914 Curing a Husband
1914 The Winner
1914 The Bargain Hunters
1914 A Queer Quarantine
1914 Oh, Doctor
1914 Grass County Goes Dry
1914 The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
1914 Mrs. Manly's Baby
1914 One-to-Three
1914 Looking for Trouble
1914 The Hour and the Man
1914 A Foot of Romance
1914 Cheering a Husband
1914 The Ups and Downs
1913 At the Old Maid's Call
1913 Hello, Trouble
1913 Smithy's Grandma Party
1913 The Usual Way
1913 Their Wives' Indiscretion
1913 Day by Day
1913 Dad's Insanity
1913 A Successful Failure
1913 Love Incognito
1913 I The Right of Way
1913 Sweet Revenge
1913 Mr. Dippy Dipped
1913 His Athletic Wife
