Birthday:
Mar 31, 1885
Place of Birth: Clay County, Missouri, USA
Place of Birth: Clay County, Missouri, USA
Wallace Beery
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost World | Prof. Challenger | 1925 |
| Three Ages | The Villain | 1923 |
| Grand Hotel | General Director Preysing | 1932 |
| The Secret Six | Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio | 1931 |
| The Champ | Andy 'Champ' Purcell | 1931 |
| Viva Villa! | Pancho Villa | 1934 |
| Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1934 |
| The Last Trail | William Kirk | 1921 |
| The Hour and the Man | A Juror | 1914 |
| Looking for Trouble | 1914 | |
| One-to-Three | Willie Brace | 1914 |
| Mrs. Manly's Baby | Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League | 1914 |
| The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar | The Cop | 1914 |
| Grass County Goes Dry | The Constable | 1914 |
| A Queer Quarantine | 1914 | |
| The Bargain Hunters | Mr. Hunter | 1914 |
| And He Came Back | Horatio Algernon Botts | 1914 |
| The Winner | Fritz Noodle | 1914 |
| Wrong All Around | The Plumber | 1914 |
| Curing a Husband | Robert - the Husband | 1914 |
| Making Him Over -- For Minnie | 1914 | |
| Three Little Powders | Wallace Williams | 1914 |
| Actor Finney's Finish | Actor James Finney | 1914 |
| Jane | The Doctor | 1914 |
| Oh, Doctor | The Deaf Minister | 1914 |
| This Is the Life | Hiram Stebbins | 1914 |
| The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine | Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer | 1914 |
| The Epidemic | Texas Tommy | 1914 |
| Sweedie the Swatter | Sweedie (a Swedish maid) | 1914 |
| The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps | Prof. Bunkum | 1914 |
| Countess Sweedie | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie Collects for Charity | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie's Hero | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Fickleness of Sweedie | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie at the Fair | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie the Trouble Maker | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Their Cheap Vacation | Mr. Newlywed | 1914 |
| The New Teacher | Sweedie - the New Teacher | 1915 |
| The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify | Homer Splivins | 1914 |
| Sweedie and the Hypnotist | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Madame Double X | Madame Double X | 1914 |
| Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind | The Lover | 1914 |
| Sweedie and the Sultan's Present | Sweedie | 1915 |
| Sweedie's Suicide | Sweedie | 1915 |
| Sweedie and Her Dog | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Victor | Mr. Justwed | 1915 |
| Two Hearts That Beat as Ten | Fred | 1915 |
| The Our Gang Story | Self (archive footage) | 1994 |
| The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man | The Football Hero | 1914 |
| Sweedie and the Lord | Sweedie | 1914 |
| The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed | The Coming Champion | 1914 |
| In and Out | Hans | 1914 |
| The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in | 1914 | |
| Topsy-Turvy Sweedie | Sweedie | 1914 |
| The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth | Attorney for Suggs | 1914 |
| Sweedie and the Double Exposure | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie Springs a Surprise | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Love and Soda | The Plumber | 1914 |
| When Knights Were Bold | The Earl | 1914 |
| The Plum Tree | 1914 | |
| Sweedie's Skate | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Sweedie's Clean-Up | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie | Sweedie | 1914 |
| She Landed a Big One | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Rivalry and War | Krautmeyer | 1914 |
| Three Boiled Down Fables | Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze | 1914 |
| The Prevailing Craze | Wally | 1914 |
| A Maid of War | Sweedie | 1914 |
| The Ups and Downs | 1914 | |
| Cheering a Husband | 1914 | |
| A Pound for a Pound | Buck Gibson | 1915 |
| Ain't It the Truth? | Harold Wallington | 1915 |
| Sweedie's Hopeless Love | Sweedie | 1915 |
| Father's New Maid | Jack / Sweedie | 1915 |
| Love and Trouble | Sweedie | 1915 |
| Sweedie Learns to Ride | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Bouquet | Sweedie | 1915 |
| Done in Wax | The Hobo | 1915 |
| Sweedie in Vaudeville | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Slim Princess | Popova | 1915 |
| Sweedie's Finish | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Fable of the Roistering Blades | Milt | 1915 |
| The Janitor | John - the Hotel Janitor | 1916 |
| Just a Few Little Things | Fred | 1916 |
| Sweedie, the Janitor | Sweedie - the Janitor | 1916 |
| A Capable Lady Cook | Sweedie | 1916 |
| Bombs and Banknotes | Janitor | 1917 |
| Maggie's First False Step | The Villain | 1917 |
| Cactus Nell | A Polished Gent | 1917 |
| A Bedroom Blunder | Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited) | 1917 |
| Are Waitresses Safe? | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1917 |
| That Night | The Cafe Proprietor | 1917 |
| Only a Janitor | 1919 | |
| A Beach Nut | 1919 | |
| The Love Burglar | Coast-to-Coast Taylor | 1919 |
| Soldiers of Fortune | Mendoza | 1919 |
| The Lone Wolf's Daughter | Undetermined role (uncredited) | 1919 |
| 813 | Maj. Parbury / Ribeira | 1920 |
| The Rookie's Return | François Dupont | 1920 |
| Patsy | Gustave Ludermann | 1921 |
| The Policeman and the Baby | The Crook | 1921 |
| The Ne'er to Return Road | Convict #12896 | 1921 |
| Sleeping Acres | 1921 | |
| Sweet Revenge | Phil Culture | 1913 |
| The Right of Way | 1913 | |
| Love Incognito | Secondary Role | 1913 |
| A Successful Failure | The Uncle | 1913 |
| Dad's Insanity | 1913 | |
| Day by Day | Bill the Iceman | 1913 |
| Their Wives' Indiscretion | Mr. Jones | 1913 |
| The Usual Way | The Dentist | 1913 |
| Kitty's Knight | Mike McManus | 1913 |
| Smithy's Grandma Party | Prof. Smithy | 1913 |
| Hello, Trouble | 1913 | |
| At the Old Maid's Call | Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid | 1913 |
| A Foot of Romance | Jim Foley | 1914 |
| Wild Honey | Buck Roper | 1922 |
| I Am the Law | Fu Chang | 1922 |
| Only a Shop Girl | Jim Brennan | 1922 |
| The Flame of Life | Don Lowrie | 1923 |
| Bavu | Felix Bavu | 1923 |
| Unseen Hands | Jean Scholast | 1924 |
| Another Man's Wife | Captain Wolf | 1924 |
| Let Women Alone | Cap Bullwinkle | 1925 |
| The Devil's Cargo | Ben | 1925 |
| Coming Through | Joe Lawler | 1925 |
| In the Name of Love | Glavis | 1925 |
| Rugged Water | Capt. Bartlett | 1925 |
| Fireman, Save My Child | Elmer | 1927 |
| Two Flaming Youths | Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited) | 1927 |
| Wife Savers | Louis Hosenozzle | 1928 |
| Dinner at Eight | Dan Packard | 1933 |
| The Big House | Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt | 1930 |
| China Seas | Jamesy MacArdle | 1935 |
| The Sea Hawk | Capt. Jasper Leigh | 1924 |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Magua | 1920 |
| The Stolen Jools | Police Sergeant | 1931 |
| Into Society and Out | First Tramp | 1914 |
| Money Talks | The Cook | 1914 |
| The Image Book | (archive footage) | 2018 |
| Min and Bill | Bill | 1930 |
| Tugboat Annie | Terry (Husband) | 1933 |
| Beggars of Life | Oklahoma Red | 1928 |
| A Date with Judy | Melvin R. Foster | 1948 |
| Salute to the Marines | Sgt. Maj. William Bailey | 1943 |
| Thunder Afloat | John Thorson | 1939 |
| The Bugle Sounds | Sgt. Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan | 1942 |
| This Man's Navy | Ned Trumpet | 1945 |
| Jackass Mail | Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot | 1942 |
| Ah, Wilderness! | Uncle Sid | 1935 |
| The Mighty Barnum | Phineas T. Barnum | 1934 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage) | 1960 |
| The Spanish Dancer | King Philip IV | 1923 |
| West Point of the Air | Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone | 1935 |
| The Mighty McGurk | Roy 'Slag' McGurk | 1947 |
| The Mollycoddle | Henry von Holkar | 1920 |
| Flesh | Polakai | 1932 |
| A Message to Garcia | Sgt. Dory | 1936 |
| Stand Up and Fight | Captain Boss Starkey | 1939 |
| Port of Seven Seas | Cesar | 1938 |
| A Tale of Two Worlds | Ling Jo | 1921 |
| Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett | 1930 |
| Victory | August Schomberg | 1919 |
| The Man from Dakota | "Bar" Barstow | 1940 |
| Slave Ship | Jack Thompson | 1937 |
| Barnacle Bill | Bill Johansen | 1941 |
| 20 Mule Team | Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy | 1940 |
| Way for a Sailor | Tripod | 1930 |
| White Tiger | Count Donelli / Hawkes | 1923 |
| The Red Lily | Bo-Bo | 1924 |
| Hell Divers | "Windy" Riker | 1932 |
| Stablemates | Thomas Terry | 1938 |
| Big Jack | Big Jack Horner | 1949 |
| Sergeant Madden | Sgt. Shaun Madden | 1939 |
| Bad Bascomb | Zeb Bascomb alias Ezekiel 'Zeke' Smith | 1946 |
| Rationing | Ben Barton | 1944 |
| O'Shaughnessy's Boy | Michael O'Shaughnessy | 1935 |
| Ashes of Vengeance | Duc de Tours | 1923 |
| The Signal Tower | Joe Standish | 1924 |
| The Bowery | Chuck Connors | 1933 |
| Behind the Door | Lt. Brandt | 1919 |
| A Lady's Morals | P.T. Barnum | 1930 |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self / Various roles (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Pancho Villa (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961 |
| Teddy at the Throttle | Henry Black | 1917 |
| The Bad Man of Brimstone | 'Trigger' Bill | 1937 |
| Casey at the Bat | Casey | 1927 |
| The Christmas Party | Himself (uncredited) | 1931 |
| My Wife's Relations | Photographer (uncredited) | 1922 |
| Barbary Coast Gent | Honest Plush Brannon | 1944 |
| Partners in Crime | Detective Mike Doolan | 1928 |
| Alias a Gentleman | Jim Breedin | 1948 |
| A Blind Bargain | Beast Man (uncredited) | 1922 |
| Land of Liberty | (archive footage) | 1939 |
| Old Hutch | "Hutch" Hutchins | 1936 |
| The Man from Hell's River | Gaspard, The Wolf | 1922 |
| A Clever Dummy | Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager | 1917 |
| Chinatown Nights | Chuck Riley | 1929 |
| The Little American | German Soldier (uncredited) | 1917 |
| We're in the Navy Now | 'Knockout' Hansen | 1926 |
| Behind the Front | Riff Swanson | 1926 |
| The River of Romance | General Orlando Jackson | 1929 |
| Stormswept | William McCabe | 1923 |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Lieut. Col. von Richthosen | 1921 |
| Adventure | Morgan | 1925 |
| Old Ironsides | Bos'n | 1926 |
| Wyoming | 'Reb' Harkness | 1940 |
| Going Hollywood | Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage) | 1933 |
| That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974 |
| The Round-Up | Buck McKee | 1920 |
| The Drums of Jeopardy | Gregor Karlov | 1923 |
| Sweedie Learns to Swim | Sweedie | 1914 |
| Robin Hood | Richard the Lion-Hearted | 1922 |
| The Sagebrush Trail | José Fagaro | 1922 |
| Patria | Pancho Villa | 1917 |
| Johanna Enlists | Col. Fanner | 1918 |
| The Pony Express | Rhode Island Red | 1925 |
| The Bad Man | Pancho Lopez | 1941 |
| The Good Old Soak | Clem Hawley | 1937 |
| So Big | Klaus Poole | 1924 |
| We're switching to Hollywood | Self (uncredited) | 1931 |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor | Self (archive footage) | 1973 |
| Now We're in the Air | Wally | 1927 |
| The Night Club | José | 1925 |
| The Laundress | Sweedie - the Laundress | 1914 |
| From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939 |
| The Virgin of Stamboul | Sheik Achmet Hamid | 1920 |
| Drifting | Jules Repin | 1923 |
| Judy Garland: By Myself | Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940 |
| His Athletic Wife | Mr. Strong | 1913 |
| Mr. Dippy Dipped | Undetermined Role | 1913 |
| Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| The Wanderer | Pharis | 1925 |
| The Eternal Struggle | Barode Dukane | 1923 |
| The Great Divide | Dutch | 1925 |
| The Unpardonable Sin | Col. Klemm | 1919 |
| The Life Line | Bos | 1919 |
| Trouble | Ed Lee, the Plumber | 1922 |
| The Big Killing | Powderhorn Pete | 1928 |
| Hurricane's Gal | Chris Borg | 1922 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Terry (archive footage) | 1964 |
| Madonna of the Streets | Bill Smythe | 1924 |
| The Rosary | Kenwood Wright | 1922 |
| The White Mouse | Dr. Lawler | 1921 |
| The Golden Snare | Bram Johnson | 1921 |
| The Northern Trail | Otto Franke | 1921 |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | King Richard | 1923 |
| A Dash of Courage | The Police Chief | 1916 |
| Hearts and Sparks | Minor Role | 1916 |
| Volcano | Quembo | 1926 |
| Dynamite Smith | 'Slugger' Rourke | 1924 |
| Sweedie Goes to College | Sweedie | 1915 |
| The Broken Pledge | Percy | 1915 |
| Stairs of Sand | Lacey | 1929 | Series | Cast | Year |
| MGM Parade | Champ in 'The Champ' (archive footage) | 1955 |
