Wallace Beery
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor.[1] He is best known for his roles of Bill in Min and Bill (1930), as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (1934), and as Andy Purcell in The Champ (1931), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Wallace Beery | |
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Wallace Beery circa 1930 | |
| Born | Wallace Fitzgerald Beery April 1, 1885 Clay County, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | April 15, 1949 (aged 64) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Burial place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1913–1949 |
| Spouse(s) | Rita Gilman
(m. 1924; div. 1939) |
| Children | 1 (adopted) |
Wallace Beery Media
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)
Dressler again co-starred opposite Beery in the highly popular Tugboat Annie (1933)
20 Mule Team (1940) The Bad Man (1941)