Wallace Beery
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 (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 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 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 with a motion-picture star in...
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The Image Book
Judy Garland: By Myself
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
When Comedy Was King
Big Jack
A Date with Judy
Alias a Gentleman
The Mighty McGurk
Bad Bascomb
This Man's Navy
Rationing
Twenty Years After
Barbary Coast Gent
Salute to the Marines
Jackass Mail
The Bugle Sounds
Barnacle Bill
The Bad Man
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
The Man from Dakota
Wyoming
20 Mule Team
Sergeant Madden
Stand Up and Fight
Thunder Afloat
Stablemates
Port of Seven Seas
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Slave Ship
The Good Old Soak
Old Hutch
A Message to Garcia
Ah, Wilderness!
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
West Point of the Air
China Seas
The Mighty Barnum
Treasure Island
Viva Villa!
The Bowery
Tugboat Annie
Dinner at Eight
Flesh
Grand Hotel
We’re Switching to Hollywood
The Stolen Jools
Hell Divers
The Champ
The Secret 6
Way for a Sailor
Billy the Kid
A Lady's Morals
The Big House
Min and Bill
The River of Romance
Chinatown Nights
Stairs of Sand
The Big Killing
Partners in Crime
Beggars of Life
Two Flaming Youths
Now We're in the Air
Fireman, Save My Child
Casey at the Bat
Volcano
Behind the Front
Old Ironsides
We're in the Navy Now
The Wanderer
Rugged Water
The Night Club
Adventure
The Devil's Cargo
The Lost World
The Pony Express
Dynamite Smith
So Big
The Red Lily
The Signal Tower
The Sea Hawk
The Eternal Struggle
Three Ages
Drifting
The Spanish Dancer
Ashes of Vengeance
White Tiger
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Hurricane's Gal
My Wife's Relations
Wild Honey
A Blind Bargain
The Man from Hell's River
Robin Hood
A Tale of Two Worlds
The Round-Up
The Virgin of Stamboul
The Mollycoddle
The Last of the Mohicans
Soldiers of Fortune
The Life Line
Behind the Door
The Love Burglar
Victory
Johanna Enlists
Patria
The Slim Princess