Wallace Beery
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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 General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as the pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!
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Wallace Beery c. 1914
Beery as Sweedie the Swedish maid (1914)
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
As Challenger in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1925)
Chester Morris and Wallace Beery in The Big House (1930)
With Marie Dressler in Min and Bill (1930)
Jackie Cooper, Edward Brophy, and Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931)Filmography 40
Grand Hotel
The Lost World
Dinner at Eight
Three Ages
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Treasure Island
My Wife's Relations
The Image Book
That's Entertainment!
The Champ
Robin Hood
The Big House
The Last of the Mohicans
Beggars of Life
China Seas
The Stolen Jools
Viva Villa!
Min and Bill
A Date with Judy
The Little American
The Secret Six
Old Ironsides
Behind the Door
Teddy at the Throttle
Going Hollywood
Billy the Kid
Flesh
White Tiger
The Sea Hawk
Victory
The Red Lily
Complicated Women
A Message to Garcia
The Bowery
Hell Divers
When Comedy Was King
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Slave Ship
Tugboat Annie
The Signal Tower280 credits on file
Television 1
MGM ParadeAwards 3
In their orbit 4
Nearby in actors 6
About this person
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 General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as the pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (1934) for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and his title 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.
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