Wallace Beery
Acting • Born 1885-03-31 – Died 1949-04-15
Biography
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
264 credits
The Lost World
Movie • 1925
Prof. Challenger
Three Ages
Movie • 1923
The Villain
Grand Hotel
Movie • 1932
General Director Preysing
The Secret Six
Movie • 1931
Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio
The Champ
Movie • 1931
Andy 'Champ' Purcell
Treasure Island
Movie • 1934
Long John Silver
Viva Villa!
Movie • 1934
Pancho Villa
The Last Trail
Movie • 1921
William Kirk
The Hour and the Man
Movie • 1914
A Juror
Looking for Trouble
Movie • 1914
The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
Movie • 1914
The Cop
One-to-Three
Movie • 1914
Willie Brace
And He Came Back
Movie • 1914
Horatio Algernon Botts
The Bargain Hunters
Movie • 1914
Mr. Hunter
Mrs. Manly's Baby
Movie • 1914
Mrs G. Howe Wise, Pres. Suffrage League
The Winner
Movie • 1914
Fritz Noodle
Grass County Goes Dry
Movie • 1914
The Constable
Making Him Over -- For Minnie
Movie • 1914
Wrong All Around
Movie • 1914
The Plumber
A Queer Quarantine
Movie • 1914
Three Little Powders
Movie • 1914
Wallace Williams
Curing a Husband
Movie • 1914
Robert - the Husband
Jane
Movie • 1914
The Doctor
Oh, Doctor
Movie • 1914
The Deaf Minister
Actor Finney's Finish
Movie • 1914
Actor James Finney
This Is the Life
Movie • 1914
Hiram Stebbins
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
Movie • 1914
Gabby Gus - the Brash Drummer
Sweedie the Swatter
Movie • 1914
Sweedie (a Swedish maid)
The Epidemic
Movie • 1914
Texas Tommy
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps
Movie • 1914
Prof. Bunkum
Countess Sweedie
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Sweedie the Trouble Maker
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
The Fickleness of Sweedie
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Sweedie at the Fair
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Sweedie's Hero
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Sweedie Collects for Charity
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
The New Teacher
Movie • 1915
Sweedie - the New Teacher
Their Cheap Vacation
Movie • 1914
Mr. Newlywed
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
Movie • 1914
Homer Splivins
Sweedie and the Hypnotist
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind
Movie • 1914
The Lover
Madame Double X
Movie • 1914
Madame Double X
Sweedie and the Sultan's Present
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
The Victor
Movie • 1915
Mr. Justwed
Sweedie and Her Dog
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Sweedie's Suicide
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Two Hearts That Beat as Ten
Movie • 1915
Fred
The Our Gang Story
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
Movie • 1914
The Coming Champion
Love and Soda
Movie • 1914
The Plumber
The Plum Tree
Movie • 1914
Three Boiled Down Fables
Movie • 1914
Speeding Driver, Episode #3, The Prevailing Craze
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
Movie • 1914
Attorney for Suggs
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
Movie • 1914
When Knights Were Bold
Movie • 1914
The Earl
Sweedie's Clean-Up
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
The Prevailing Craze
Movie • 1914
Wally
Sweedie Springs a Surprise
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Topsy-Turvy Sweedie
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
In and Out
Movie • 1914
Hans
Sweedie and the Lord
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
A Pound for a Pound
Movie • 1915
Buck Gibson
Rivalry and War
Movie • 1914
Krautmeyer
The Ups and Downs
Movie • 1914
Sweedie and the Double Exposure
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
She Landed a Big One
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Sweedie's Skate
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Cheering a Husband
Movie • 1914
Done in Wax
Movie • 1915
The Hobo
Sweedie Learns to Ride
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Ain't It the Truth?
Movie • 1915
Harold Wallington
Sweedie's Hopeless Love
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Love and Trouble
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Father's New Maid
Movie • 1915
Jack / Sweedie
The Bouquet
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man
Movie • 1914
The Football Hero
A Maid of War
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
Sweedie in Vaudeville
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Maggie's First False Step
Movie • 1917
The Villain
Just a Few Little Things
Movie • 1916
Fred
A Bedroom Blunder
Movie • 1917
Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
The Slim Princess
Movie • 1915
Popova
The Fable of the Roistering Blades
Movie • 1915
Milt
Cactus Nell
Movie • 1917
A Polished Gent
A Capable Lady Cook
Movie • 1916
Sweedie
Bombs and Banknotes
Movie • 1917
Janitor
Are Waitresses Safe?
Movie • 1917
Party Guest (uncredited)
Sweedie's Finish
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Sweedie, the Janitor
Movie • 1916
Sweedie - the Janitor
The Janitor
Movie • 1916
John - the Hotel Janitor
That Night
Movie • 1917
The Cafe Proprietor
Only a Janitor
Movie • 1919
The Love Burglar
Movie • 1919
Coast-to-Coast Taylor
The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Movie • 1919
Undetermined role (uncredited)
Patsy
Movie • 1921
Gustave Ludermann
A Beach Nut
Movie • 1919
The Rookie's Return
Movie • 1920
François Dupont
Soldiers of Fortune
Movie • 1919
Mendoza
813
Movie • 1920
Maj. Parbury / Ribeira
Sleeping Acres
Movie • 1921
The Ne'er to Return Road
Movie • 1921
Convict #12896
The Policeman and the Baby
Movie • 1921
The Crook
Sweet Revenge
Movie • 1913
Phil Culture
Love Incognito
Movie • 1913
Secondary Role
A Successful Failure
Movie • 1913
The Uncle
Dad's Insanity
Movie • 1913
Day by Day
Movie • 1913
Bill the Iceman
The Right of Way
Movie • 1913
Their Wives' Indiscretion
Movie • 1913
Mr. Jones
The Usual Way
Movie • 1913
The Dentist
Hello, Trouble
Movie • 1913
Kitty's Knight
Movie • 1913
Mike McManus
At the Old Maid's Call
Movie • 1913
Miss Muchmoney - the Old Maid
A Foot of Romance
Movie • 1914
Jim Foley
Smithy's Grandma Party
Movie • 1913
Prof. Smithy
The Flame of Life
Movie • 1923
Don Lowrie
Wild Honey
Movie • 1922
Buck Roper
I Am the Law
Movie • 1922
Fu Chang
Only a Shop Girl
Movie • 1922
Jim Brennan
Unseen Hands
Movie • 1924
Jean Scholast
Bavu
Movie • 1923
Felix Bavu
Another Man's Wife
Movie • 1924
Captain Wolf
Coming Through
Movie • 1925
Joe Lawler
The Devil's Cargo
Movie • 1925
Ben
Let Women Alone
Movie • 1925
Cap Bullwinkle
In the Name of Love
Movie • 1925
Glavis
Rugged Water
Movie • 1925
Capt. Bartlett
Fireman, Save My Child
Movie • 1927
Elmer
Two Flaming Youths
Movie • 1927
Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
Wife Savers
Movie • 1928
Louis Hosenozzle
Dinner at Eight
Movie • 1933
Dan Packard
The Big House
Movie • 1930
Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
China Seas
Movie • 1935
Jamesy MacArdle
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1924
Capt. Jasper Leigh
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie • 1920
Magua
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Police Sergeant
Into Society and Out
Movie • 1914
First Tramp
Money Talks
Movie • 1914
The Cook
The Image Book
Movie • 2018
(archive footage)
Min and Bill
Movie • 1930
Bill
Tugboat Annie
Movie • 1933
Terry (Husband)
Beggars of Life
Movie • 1928
Oklahoma Red
A Date with Judy
Movie • 1948
Melvin R. Foster
Salute to the Marines
Movie • 1943
Sgt. Maj. William Bailey
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
John Thorson
The Bugle Sounds
Movie • 1942
Sgt. Patrick Aloysius 'Hap' Doan
Jackass Mail
Movie • 1942
Marmaduke 'Just' Baggot
This Man's Navy
Movie • 1945
Ned Trumpet
Ah, Wilderness!
Movie • 1935
Uncle Sid
The Mighty Barnum
Movie • 1934
Phineas T. Barnum
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
Movie • 1960
edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
The Spanish Dancer
Movie • 1923
King Philip IV
West Point of the Air
Movie • 1935
Sgt. 'Big Mike' Stone
The Mighty McGurk
Movie • 1947
Roy 'Slag' McGurk
The Mollycoddle
Movie • 1920
Henry von Holkar
Flesh
Movie • 1932
Polakai
A Message to Garcia
Movie • 1936
Sgt. Dory
Stand Up and Fight
Movie • 1939
Captain Boss Starkey
Port of Seven Seas
Movie • 1938
Cesar
A Tale of Two Worlds
Movie • 1921
Ling Jo
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1930
Pat Garrett
Victory
Movie • 1919
August Schomberg
The Man from Dakota
Movie • 1940
"Bar" Barstow
Slave Ship
Movie • 1937
Jack Thompson
Barnacle Bill
Movie • 1941
Bill Johansen
20 Mule Team
Movie • 1940
Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
Way for a Sailor
Movie • 1930
Tripod
White Tiger
Movie • 1923
Count Donelli / Hawkes
The Red Lily
Movie • 1924
Bo-Bo
Hell Divers
Movie • 1932
"Windy" Riker
Stablemates
Movie • 1938
Thomas Terry
Big Jack
Movie • 1949
Big Jack Horner
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Sgt. Shaun Madden
Bad Bascomb
Movie • 1946
Zeb Bascomb alias Ezekiel 'Zeke' Smith
Rationing
Movie • 1944
Ben Barton
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Movie • 1935
Michael O'Shaughnessy
Ashes of Vengeance
Movie • 1923
Duc de Tours
The Signal Tower
Movie • 1924
Joe Standish
The Bowery
Movie • 1933
Chuck Connors
Behind the Door
Movie • 1919
Lt. Brandt
A Lady's Morals
Movie • 1930
P.T. Barnum
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie • 2004
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Teddy at the Throttle
Movie • 1917
Henry Black
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie • 1937
'Trigger' Bill
Casey at the Bat
Movie • 1927
Casey
The Christmas Party
Movie • 1931
Himself (uncredited)
My Wife's Relations
Movie • 1922
Photographer (uncredited)
Barbary Coast Gent
Movie • 1944
Honest Plush Brannon
Partners in Crime
Movie • 1928
Detective Mike Doolan
Alias a Gentleman
Movie • 1948
Jim Breedin
A Blind Bargain
Movie • 1922
Beast Man (uncredited)
Land of Liberty
Movie • 1939
(archive footage)
Old Hutch
Movie • 1936
"Hutch" Hutchins
The Man from Hell's River
Movie • 1922
Gaspard, The Wolf
A Clever Dummy
Movie • 1917
Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager
Chinatown Nights
Movie • 1929
Chuck Riley
The Little American
Movie • 1917
German Soldier (uncredited)
Behind the Front
Movie • 1926
Riff Swanson
We're in the Navy Now
Movie • 1926
'Knockout' Hansen
The River of Romance
Movie • 1929
General Orlando Jackson
Stormswept
Movie • 1923
William McCabe
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie • 1921
Lieut. Col. von Richthosen
Adventure
Movie • 1925
Morgan
Old Ironsides
Movie • 1926
Bos'n
Wyoming
Movie • 1940
'Reb' Harkness
Going Hollywood
Movie • 1933
Himself - Premiere Clip (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Round-Up
Movie • 1920
Buck McKee
The Drums of Jeopardy
Movie • 1923
Gregor Karlov
Robin Hood
Movie • 1922
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Sweedie Learns to Swim
Movie • 1914
Sweedie
The Sagebrush Trail
Movie • 1922
José Fagaro
Patria
Movie • 1917
Pancho Villa
Johanna Enlists
Movie • 1918
Col. Fanner
The Pony Express
Movie • 1925
Rhode Island Red
The Bad Man
Movie • 1941
Pancho Lopez
The Good Old Soak
Movie • 1937
Clem Hawley
So Big
Movie • 1924
Klaus Poole
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Movie • 1931
Self (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Now We're in the Air
Movie • 1927
Wally
The Night Club
Movie • 1925
José
The Laundress
Movie • 1914
Sweedie - the Laundress
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
The Virgin of Stamboul
Movie • 1920
Sheik Achmet Hamid
Drifting
Movie • 1923
Jules Repin
Judy Garland: By Myself
Movie • 2004
Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
Mr. Dippy Dipped
Movie • 1913
Undetermined Role
His Athletic Wife
Movie • 1913
Mr. Strong
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie • 1940
Self
The Wanderer
Movie • 1925
Pharis
The Eternal Struggle
Movie • 1923
Barode Dukane
The Great Divide
Movie • 1925
Dutch
The Unpardonable Sin
Movie • 1919
Col. Klemm
The Life Line
Movie • 1919
Bos
Trouble
Movie • 1922
Ed Lee, the Plumber
The Big Killing
Movie • 1928
Powderhorn Pete
Hurricane's Gal
Movie • 1922
Chris Borg
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Terry (archive footage)
Madonna of the Streets
Movie • 1924
Bill Smythe
The White Mouse
Movie • 1921
Dr. Lawler
The Rosary
Movie • 1922
Kenwood Wright
The Golden Snare
Movie • 1921
Bram Johnson
The Northern Trail
Movie • 1921
Otto Franke
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Movie • 1923
King Richard
A Dash of Courage
Movie • 1916
The Police Chief
Hearts and Sparks
Movie • 1916
Minor Role
Volcano
Movie • 1926
Quembo
Dynamite Smith
Movie • 1924
'Slugger' Rourke
The Broken Pledge
Movie • 1915
Percy
Sweedie Goes to College
Movie • 1915
Sweedie
Stairs of Sand
Movie • 1929
Lacey
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Alias Julius Caesar
Movie • 1922
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Champ in 'The Champ' (archive footage)
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self