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Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American
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 Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver
Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" ....
 in Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
 (1934), who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span.

y was born in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
 to Noah W. and Marguerite (Fitzgerald) Beery. He was a younger brother of actor/film executive William Beery and actor Noah Beery
Noah Beery, Sr.

Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
, who also had long careers in the motion picture industry.






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Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver
Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" ....
 in Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
 (1934), who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span.

Biography


Early life and career

Beery was born in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
 to Noah W. and Marguerite (Fitzgerald) Beery. He was a younger brother of actor/film executive William Beery and actor Noah Beery
Noah Beery, Sr.

Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
, who also had long careers in the motion picture industry. He was an uncle of actor Noah Beery, Jr.
Noah Beery, Jr.

Noah Lindsey Beery , known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an United States actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his legendary uncle Wallace Beery, although Noah Beery, Jr., unlike his uncle, seldom broke away from playing supporting roles....
. According to U.S. Census records, all three Beery brothers were born to the same parents, making them full brothers and not half-brothers as many biographies say.

Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers circus at age sixteen as an assistant elephant
Elephant

Elephants are large land mammals of the order Proboscidea and the family Elephantidae. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant ....
 trainer. He left two years later, after being clawed by a leopard. Beery found work in New York City in musical variety and began to appear on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. In 1913, Essanay Studios
Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American film studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, Illinois by George K....
, cast as "Sweedie, The Swedish Maid," a masculine character in drag. Later, he worked for the Essanay Studios
Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American film studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, Illinois by George K....
 location in Niles, California.

In 1915, Beery starred with his wife Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
 in Sweedie Goes to College. This marriage did not survive his drinking
Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
 and abuse
Domestic violence

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners....
. Beery began playing villains, and in 1917 portrayed Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa

This article is about the Mexican revolutionary general. For the boxer, see Francisco Guilledo.Doroteo Arango Ar?mbula , better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general....
 in Patria
Patria (1917 film)

Patria is a 15-chapter serial film starring Irene Castle, Milton Sills, and Warner Oland based on the novel The Last of the Fighting Channings by Louis Joseph Vance....
 at a time when Villa was still active in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
. Beery reprised the role seventeen years later in one of MGM's biggest hits.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
's dinosaur epic The Lost World
The Lost World (1925 film)

The Lost World is a 1925 in film silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World . The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger....
 (1925; as Professor Challenger
Professor Challenger

File:Professor Challenger.jpgGeorge Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Arthur Conan Doyle....
), Robin Hood
Robin Hood (1922 film)

Robin Hood was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. The movie's full title, under which it was copyrighted, is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, as shown in the illustration at right....
 with Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
 (Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted), Last of the Mohicans (1920), The Round-Up
The Round-Up

The Round-Up is a 1920 in film Western film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Edmund Day and Tom Forman, and directed by George Melford....
 (1920; with Roscoe Arbuckle), Old Ironsides (1926), Now We're in the Air
Now We're in the Air

Now We're in the Air is a silent film starring the unofficial late-1920s comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, and Louise Brooks....
 (1927), The Usual Way (1913), and Beggars of Life
Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run....
 (1928; with Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks

Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an Cinema of the United States dancer, model, showgirl, and silent film actress, famous for her fashionable bob cut haircut....
).

Transition to sound
With the transition to sound film
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
 Beery was for a time out of work. However, Irving Thalberg
Irving Thalberg

Irving Grant Thalberg was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the right scripts, choose the right actors, gather the best production staff, and make very profitable films....
 had no objection to Beery's slow gruff speech as a character actor, and hired him under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Beery appeared in the highly-successful 1930 prison film The Big House
The Big House

Big House may refer to:*Prison, in American slang*Big House , a country music band from the late 1990s**Big House , the band's self-titled debut album...
, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
. The same year, he made Min and Bill
Min and Bill

Min and Bill is a film based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.The movie tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter Nancy, all while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn....
 (opposite Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
), the movie that vaulted him into the box office
Box office

A box office is a place where Ticket s are sold to the public for admission to a venue. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall, or at a wicket ....
 first rank. He followed with The Champ
The Champ

The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
 in 1931, this time winning the Best Actor
Best Actor

Best Actor is the name of an award. It is presented by various film organizations, film festivals, and people's awards. It may also refer to the Best Actor award in theatre or on television....
 Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
, and the role of Long John Silver
Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" ....
 in Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
 (1934). He received a gold medal from the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido di Venezia, Venice, Italy....
 for his second performance
Patria (1917 film)

Patria is a 15-chapter serial film starring Irene Castle, Milton Sills, and Warner Oland based on the novel The Last of the Fighting Channings by Louis Joseph Vance....
 as Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa

This article is about the Mexican revolutionary general. For the boxer, see Francisco Guilledo.Doroteo Arango Ar?mbula , better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general....
 in Viva Villa!
Viva Villa!

Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....
 (1934) with Fay Wray
Fay Wray

Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actor and the first ever scream queen, originating from her appearances in the 1932 film Doctor X and the 1933 film King Kong ....
. (Lee Tracy
Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then he served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I....
 was originally to appear in the film until he drunkenly urinated off the balcony into a crowd of Mexicans standing below; Tracy's career never recovered from the incident.) Other Beery films include Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Henry McCarty , better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War....
 (1930) with John Mack Brown
Johnny Mack Brown

This article is for the college football player, for the head coach see Mack Brown.Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor....
, The Secret Six
The Secret Six

For the DC comic book see Secret Six .The Secret Six is a fast-paced 1931 Crime film starring Wallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone, and featuring Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown , Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Ralph Bellamy....
 (1931) with Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
 and Clark Gable
Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
, Hell Divers
Hell Divers

Hell Divers is a 1931 in film Film starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers on board the USS Saratoga ....
 (1931) with Gable, Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 in film MGM Pre-Code Art Deco film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.The plot device of the film?bringing together several unrelated characters into one setting?was popular and effective enough that it was re-used in other films and became known as "the Grand Hotel" formula....
 (1932) with Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
, Tugboat Annie
Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie is a 1933 in film movie starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat....
 (1933) with Dressler, Dinner at Eight (1933) opposite Harlow, The Bowery
The Bowery (1933 film)

The Bowery is a 1933 in film historical film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh and featured Wallace Beery as saloon owner Chuck Connors, George Raft as Steve Brodie , the first man to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live, Jackie Cooper as a pugnacious child, Fay Wray...
 with George Raft
George Raft

George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
 and Pert Kelton
Pert Kelton

Pert Kelton was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress who portrayed the original Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason....
 that same year, China Seas (1935) with Gable and Harlow, and Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
's Ah, Wilderness!
Ah, Wilderness! (film)

Ah, Wilderness! is an adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill Ah, Wilderness!. The movie was filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts, directed by Clarence Brown, stars Wallace Beery as the drunken uncle later portrayed on Broadway theatre by Jackie Gleason, and features Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, and a young Micke...
 (1935) in the role of a drunken uncle later played on Broadway by Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners....
 in a musical comedy version. During the 1930s Beery was one of Hollywood's Top 10 box office stars, and at one point his contract with MGM stipulated that he be paid $1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

He starred in several comedies with Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
 and Marjorie Main
Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
, but his career began to decline in his last decade. In 1943 his brother Noah Beery appeared with him in the war-time propaganda
Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
 film Salute to the Marines
Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines is a 1943 World War II movie starring Wallace Beery. The movie, set in the Philippines and shot in color , was directed by S....
, followed by Bad Bascomb
Bad Bascomb (1946 film)

Bad Bascomb is a 1946 Western film starring Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien. The movie was directed by S. Sylvan Simon....
 (1946) and The Mighty McGurk
The Mighty McGurk

The Mighty McGurk is a 1947 film starring Wallace Beery as a boozing ex-boxer working as a bouncer in a Bowery saloon. The movie was directed by John Waters, although not the same John Waters who directed Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ....
 (1947).

Personal life

Beery's second wife was Rita Gilman. They adopted Carol Ann, daughter of Rita Beery's cousin. Like his first, this marriage also ended in divorce.

According to E.J. Fleming's book "The Fixers" (about MGM's legendary "fixers" Eddie Mannix
Eddie Mannix

Edgar Joseph "Eddie" Mannix was an United States film studio executive.Mannix became the Vice-President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He allegedly had connections to gangs and the underworld; gossip purported that he murdered his first wife Bernice Fitzmaurice in 1937....
 and Howard Strickling), Beery, gangster Pat DiCicco, and Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli
Albert R. Broccoli

Albert Romolo Broccoli, Order of the British Empire , nicknamed "Cubby", was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer, who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career, most of them in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios....
 (who was also DiCicco's cousin and eventual producer of the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 films) allegedly beat comedian Ted Healy
Ted Healy

Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own....
 to death in a brawl. The book claimed that Beery was sent to Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 by the studio for a few months, while a story was concocted that three college students had killed Healy. Immigration records confirm a four-month-long trip to Europe on Beery's part immediately after Healy's death, ending April 17, 1938. A superb pencil drawing of Beery survives that was done on a film set by Healy, an amateur artist as well as the organizer and original leader of the Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
.

Beery seems to have been somewhat misanthropic and difficult to work with, and Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
, who worked with Beery in several films, called him in his autobiography "the most sadistic person I have ever known". Child actress Margaret O'Brien
Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien is an Academy Award-winning United Statesn film actor, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history....
 also worked with Beery, and ultimately had to be protected by crew members from Beery's insistence on constantly pinching her.

One of his proudest achievements was catching the largest black sea bass
Black sea bass

The black sea bass is an exclusively marine fish, also known as sea basses and blackfish. It is a type of Grouper found more commonly in northern than in southern ranges....
 in the world off Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island, California

Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California....
 in 1916. It was a record that stood for 35 years.

Wallace Beery died at his Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood, California are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, California....
 home of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 at the age of 64. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
.

For his contributions to the film industry, Wallace Beery has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.

Selected Filmography

  • His Athletic Wife (1913)
  • A series of Sweedie
    Sweedie

    Sweedie or Sweedie, The Swedish Maid is a fictional manly character in drag portrayed by Wallace Beery in a series of comedy films 1914-1916....
    -films starting with Sweedie the Swatter released 13 July 1914.
  • In and Out (1914)
  • The Ups and Downs (1914)
  • Cheering a Husband (1914)
  • Madame Double X (1914)
  • Ain't It the Truth (1915)
  • Two Hearts That Beat as Ten (1915) with Ben Turpin
    Ben Turpin

    Ben Turpin was a cross-eyed comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films....
  • The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915)
  • The Broken Pledge (1915) with Gloria Swanson
    Gloria Swanson

    Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  • A Dash of Courage (1916) with Gloria Swanson
    Gloria Swanson

    Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  • Are Waitresses Safe? (1917) with Ben Turpin
    Ben Turpin

    Ben Turpin was a cross-eyed comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films....
  • The Little American
    The Little American

    The Little American is a 1917 in film drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film the attack of the Germans on the French during World War I....
     (1917) with Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford

    Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
  • Maggie's First False Step (1917)
  • Patria
    Patria (1917 film)

    Patria is a 15-chapter serial film starring Irene Castle, Milton Sills, and Warner Oland based on the novel The Last of the Fighting Channings by Louis Joseph Vance....
     (1917; as Pancho Villa
    Pancho Villa

    This article is about the Mexican revolutionary general. For the boxer, see Francisco Guilledo.Doroteo Arango Ar?mbula , better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general....
     in a supporting role) with Irene Castle, Milton Sills
    Milton Sills

    Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.Milton Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy and highly regarded family....
    , and Warner Oland
    Warner Oland

    Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
  • Victory
    Victory (1919 film)

    Victory is a 1919 in film movie featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Wallace Beery in supporting roles. The film was written by Jules Furthman from a novel by Joseph Conrad, and directed by Maurice Tourneur....
     (1919) with Jack Holt
    Jack Holt

    Jack Holt may refer to:*Jack Holt *Jack Holt , Australian horse racing trainer*Jack Holt *Johnny Holt, also known as Jack Holt, , Everton, Reading and England footballer...
     and Lon Chaney, Sr.
    Lon Chaney, Sr.

    Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
  • 813 (1920)
  • The Virgin of Stamboul
    The Virgin of Stamboul

    The Virgin of Stamboul is a 1920 in film drama film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Wallace Beery in a supporting role. ...
     (1920; directed by Tod Browning
    Tod Browning

    Tod Browning was an United States film actor, film director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula , the cult classic Freaks , and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres....
    )
  • The Mollycoddle
    The Mollycoddle

    The Mollycoddle is a 1920 in film film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, and directed by Victor Fleming....
     (1920) with Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
  • The Round-Up
    The Round-Up

    The Round-Up is a 1920 in film Western film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Edmund Day and Tom Forman, and directed by George Melford....
     (1920) with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    The Last of the Mohicans (1920 film)

    The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 in film film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. It tells the story of two English girls, trying to reach the fort where their father is commander, suffering danger in the frontier of the American colonies....
     (1920)
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 in film silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry....
     (1921) with Rudolph Valentino
    Rudolph Valentino

    Rudolph Valentino was an Italy actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film....
  • I Am the Law (1922) with Noah Beery
  • Robin Hood
    Robin Hood (1922 film)

    Robin Hood was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. The movie's full title, under which it was copyrighted, is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, as shown in the illustration at right....
     (1922) with Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
  • The Flame of Life
    The Flame of Life

    The Flame of Life is a 1923 in film film starring Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis , Kathryn McGuire, and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Elliott J....
     (1923)
  • The Spanish Dancer
    The Spanish Dancer (1923 film)

    The Spanish Dancer is a 1923 in film costume epic starring Pola Negri as a gypsy fortune teller, Antonio Moreno as a romantic count, and Wallace Beery as the king of Spain....
     (1923) with Pola Negri
    Pola Negri

    Pola Negri was a Poland film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910s and 1930s.Personal life...
  • Stormswept
    Stormswept

    Stormswept is a 1923 in film silent film starring brothers Wallace Beery and Noah Beery. The advertising phrase used for the movie was "Wallace and Noah Beery, The Two Greatest Character Actors on the American Screen." The movie was written by Winifred Dunn from the H....
     (1923) with Noah Beery
  • Drifting
    Drifting (film)

    Drifting is a 1923 in film drama film directed by Tod Browning. ...
     (1923)
  • Three Ages
    Three Ages (1923 film)

    Three Ages is a 1923 in film black and white United States feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery....
     (1923) with Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  • White Tiger
    White Tiger (film)

    White Tiger is a 1923 in film crime film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Wallace Beery in a supporting role. ...
     (1923; directed by Tod Browning
    Tod Browning

    Tod Browning was an United States film actor, film director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula , the cult classic Freaks , and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres....
    )
  • Richard the Lion-Hearted
    Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923 film)

    Richard the Lion-Hearted is a 1923 in film sequel to Robin Hood , with Wallace Beery returning as Richard the Lion-Hearted. The movie was written by Frank E....
     (1923; sequel to 1922's Robin Hood
    Robin Hood (1922 film)

    Robin Hood was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. The movie's full title, under which it was copyrighted, is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, as shown in the illustration at right....
    )
  • The Drums of Jeopardy
    The Drums of Jeopardy

    The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1920 in literature United States novel by Harold MacGrath. The story was serialized by the The Saturday Evening Post beginning in January 1920....
     (1923)
  • The Lost World
    The Lost World (1925 film)

    The Lost World is a 1925 in film silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World . The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger....
     (1925; Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
     dinosaur epic in which Beery portrayed Professor Challenger
    Professor Challenger

    File:Professor Challenger.jpgGeorge Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Arthur Conan Doyle....
    ) with Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
     (and Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
     himself in a frontispiece)
  • Old Ironsides
    Old Ironsides (1926 film)

    Old Ironsides is a silent film starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft . The movie was directed by James Cruze....
     (1926) with George Bancroft
    George Bancroft (actor)

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-08550, Filmstar George B. Bancrofft in Berlin.jpgGeorge Bancroft was an United States actor.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become one of the top Hollywood stars of the 1920s....
     and Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell

    Charles Farrell was a notable United States film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven , Street Angel , and Lucky Star ....
  • Casey at the Bat
    Casey at the Bat (1927 film)

    Casey at the Bat is a 1927 in film silent film starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, Zasu Pitts, and Sterling Holloway. The film was directed by Monte Brice and loosely based on the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" written by Ernest Thayer....
     (1927) with Ford Sterling
    Ford Sterling

    Ford Sterling was an United states comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops....
     and Zasu Pitts
    ZaSu Pitts

    ZaSu Pitts was an United States film actress who starred in many silent film drama film, although later, her career digressed to comedy film sound films....
  • Fireman, Save My Child
    Fireman, Save My Child

    Fireman, Save My Child is a 1927 movie featuring the part-time screen comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The film was written by Monte Brice and Thomas Geraghty, and directed by A....
     (1927) with Raymond Hatton
    Raymond Hatton

    Raymond William Hatton was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery....
  • Now We're in the Air
    Now We're in the Air

    Now We're in the Air is a silent film starring the unofficial late-1920s comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, and Louise Brooks....
     (1927) with Louise Brooks
    Louise Brooks

    Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an Cinema of the United States dancer, model, showgirl, and silent film actress, famous for her fashionable bob cut haircut....
     (lost film)
  • Beggars of Life
    Beggars of Life

    Beggars of Life is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run....
     (1928) with Louise Brooks
    Louise Brooks

    Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an Cinema of the United States dancer, model, showgirl, and silent film actress, famous for her fashionable bob cut haircut....
     and Richard Arlen
    Richard Arlen

    Richard Arlen was an United States actor....
  • Chinatown Nights
    Chinatown Nights

    Chinatown Nights is a film begun as a silent film then finished as a sound one via dubbing. Directed by William A. Wellman, and released by Paramount Pictures, Chinatown Nights stars Wallace Beery and Florence Vidor....
     (1929) with Warner Oland
    Warner Oland

    Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
     and Jack Oakie
    Jack Oakie

    Jack Oakie was an United States actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on Theatre, radio and television....
  • The Big House
    The Big House (film)

    The Big House is a 1930 in film that was written by Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson, and directed by George W....
     (1930) with Chester Morris
    Chester Morris

    John Chester Brooks Morris was an United States actor.Chester Morris is most famous for his role in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s....
    , Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
    , and Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery (actor)

    Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
  • Billy the Kid
    Billy the Kid (1930 film)

    Billy the Kid is a film directed by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett , the man who later killed him....
     (1930; widescreen) with Johnny Mack Brown
    Johnny Mack Brown

    This article is for the college football player, for the head coach see Mack Brown.Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor....
     (billed as "John Mack Brown")
  • Way for a Sailor
    Way for a Sailor

    Way for a Sailor is a 1930 in film film starring John Gilbert . The supporting cast includes Wallace Beery, Jim Tully, Leila Hyams, and Polly Moran....
     (1930) with John Gilbert
    John Gilbert (actor)

    John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover", he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw....
  • A Lady's Morals
    A Lady's Morals

    A Lady's Morals is a 1930 in film film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P....
     (1930; as P.T. Barnum)
  • Min and Bill
    Min and Bill

    Min and Bill is a film based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.The movie tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter Nancy, all while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn....
     (1930) with Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler

    Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
  • The Stolen Jools
    The Stolen Jools

    The Stolen Jools is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day....
     (1931; 20-minute ensemble short) with Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
     and Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  • The Secret Six
    The Secret Six

    For the DC comic book see Secret Six .The Secret Six is a fast-paced 1931 Crime film starring Wallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone, and featuring Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown , Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Ralph Bellamy....
     (1931) with Jean Harlow
    Jean Harlow

    Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
     and Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  • The Champ
    The Champ

    The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
     (1931; Oscar
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    -winning performance) with Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper

    Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
  • Hell Divers
    Hell Divers

    Hell Divers is a 1931 in film Film starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers on board the USS Saratoga ....
     (1931; early military planes) with Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  • Grand Hotel
    Grand Hotel (film)

    Grand Hotel is a 1932 in film MGM Pre-Code Art Deco film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.The plot device of the film?bringing together several unrelated characters into one setting?was popular and effective enough that it was re-used in other films and became known as "the Grand Hotel" formula....
     (1932) with Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo

    Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
    , John Barrymore
    John Barrymore

    John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
    , and Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
  • Flesh
    Flesh (1932 film)

    Flesh is a 1932 in film black-and-white drama film directed by John Ford and starring Wallace Beery as a German wrestler. Some of the script was written by Moss Hart and an uncredited William Faulkner....
     (1932; as a wrestler, directed by an uncredited John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
    )
  • The Choices of Andy Purcell (1933) with Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper

    Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
  • The Bowery
    The Bowery (1933 film)

    The Bowery is a 1933 in film historical film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh and featured Wallace Beery as saloon owner Chuck Connors, George Raft as Steve Brodie , the first man to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live, Jackie Cooper as a pugnacious child, Fay Wray...
     (1933) with George Raft
    George Raft

    George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
    , Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper

    Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
    , Fay Wray
    Fay Wray

    Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actor and the first ever scream queen, originating from her appearances in the 1932 film Doctor X and the 1933 film King Kong ....
    , and Pert Kelton
    Pert Kelton

    Pert Kelton was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress who portrayed the original Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason....
  • Viva Villa!
    Viva Villa!

    Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....
     (1934; as Pancho Villa
    Pancho Villa

    This article is about the Mexican revolutionary general. For the boxer, see Francisco Guilledo.Doroteo Arango Ar?mbula , better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general....
     again) with Fay Wray
    Fay Wray

    Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actor and the first ever scream queen, originating from her appearances in the 1932 film Doctor X and the 1933 film King Kong ....
     (shot on location in Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    )
  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island (1934 film)

    Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
     (1934; as Long John Silver
    Long John Silver

    Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" ....
    ) with Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
     and Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  • The Mighty Barnum
    The Mighty Barnum

    The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, and directed by Walter Lang....
     (1934; as P.T. Barnum again)
  • West Point of the Air
    West Point of the Air

    West Point of the Air is a 1935 in film film starring Wallace Beery, about pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 1930's. The supporting cast includes Robert Young , Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Taylor ....
     (1935) with Robert Young
    Robert Young (actor)

    Robert George Young was an Emmy Award winning United States actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. ....
    , Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan

    Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
    , Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
    , and Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor (actor)

    Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
  • China Seas (1935) with Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
     and Jean Harlow
    Jean Harlow

    Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
  • O'Shaughnessy's Boy
    O'Shaughnessy's Boy

    O'Shaughnessy's Boy is a 1935 in film film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. The movie was directed by Richard Boleslawski....
     (1935) with Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper

    Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
  • Ah, Wilderness!
    Ah, Wilderness!

    Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre on 2 October 1933....
     (1935) with Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
     and Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • A Message to Garcia
    A Message to Garcia

    A Message to Garcia is an inspirational essay written by Elbert Hubbard that has been made into two motion pictures. It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book....
     (1936) with Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
     and Alan Hale, Sr.
    Alan Hale, Sr.

    Alan Hale, Sr. was an United States movie actor and Film director, best known for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn....
  • Old Hutch
    Old Hutch

    Old Hutch is a 1936 in film film starring Wallace Beery as a man who finds $100,000 in the depths of the Depression. The movie was directed by J....
     (1936)
  • The Good Old Soak
    The Good Old Soak

    The Good Old Soak is a 1937 in film movie starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast includes Una Merkel, Eric Linden, Betty Furness, and Ted Healy....
     (1937) with Betty Furness
    Betty Furness

    Elizabeth Mary Furness was an United States actor, consumer rights and current affairs Pundit ....
     and Ted Healy
    Ted Healy

    Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own....
  • Slave Ship
    Slave Ship (1937 film)

    Slave Ship is a 1937 in film film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. The supporting cast includes Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut....
     (1937) with Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter

    Warner Leroy Baxter was an United States Academy Award-winning actor who is best known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to San Francisco, California with his widowed mother in 1898, when he was nine....
     (first-billed) and Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • The Bad Man of Brimstone
    The Bad Man of Brimstone

    The Bad Man of Brimstone is a 1937 in film Western film starring Wallace Beery and Virginia Bruce, and directed by J. Walter Ruben....
     (1937) with Noah Beery
  • Port of Seven Seas
    Port of Seven Seas

    Port of Seven Seas is a 1938 in film drama film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Frank Morgan and Maureen O'Sullivan. The movie was written by Preston Sturges based on the plays of Marcel Pagnol and the films based on them, and was directed by James Whale ....
     (1938; written by Preston Sturges
    Preston Sturges

    Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
     and directed by James Whale
    James Whale

    James Whale was a United Kingdom film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein , all recognized as classics of the genre....
    ) with Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan

    Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
  • Stablemates
    Stablemates

    Stablemates is a 1938 in film film starring Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney. The movie was directed by Sam Wood....
     (1938) with Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • Stand Up and Fight
    Stand Up and Fight

    Stand Up and Fight is a 1939 in film film starring Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor . The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Charley Grapewin, and John Qualen, and the movie was directed by W.S....
     (1939) with Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor (actor)

    Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
     and Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford

    Charles Bickford was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette , The Farmer's Daughter , and Johnny Belinda ....
  • Sergeant Madden
    Sergeant Madden

    Sergeant Madden is a 1939 in film film noir forerunner directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast in this dark police movie, noted for its imaginative and evocative cinematography, includes Laraine Day, Alan Curtis , and Marc Lawrence....
     (1939; directed by Josef von Sternberg
    Josef von Sternberg

    Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
    ) with Laraine Day
    Laraine Day

    Laraine Day was an United States actor and an a former MGM contract star....
  • Thunder Afloat
    Thunder Afloat

    Thunder Afloat is a 1939 in film World War II naval film starring Wallace Beery and Chester Morris. The movie was directed by George B. Seitz....
     (1939) with Chester Morris
    Chester Morris

    John Chester Brooks Morris was an United States actor.Chester Morris is most famous for his role in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s....
  • The Man from Dakota
    The Man from Dakota

    The Man from Dakota is a 1940 film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Wallace Beery. The movie was adapted by Laurence Stallings from the novel by MacKinlay Kantor....
     (1940) with Dolores del Rio
    Dolores del Río

    Dolores del R?o was a Mexico film actor. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. She became an important actress in Cinema of Mexico later in her life....
  • 20 Mule Team
    20 Mule Team (1940 film)

    Twenty Mule Team is a 1940 in film Western film about Arizona borax miners starring Wallace Beery and Anne Baxter, and remains an extremely rare opportunity to watch Beery work with his similar-looking nephew Noah Beery, Jr., who played "Rocky" on television's The Rockford Files 35 years later ....
     (1940) with Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter

    Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
     and Noah Beery, Jr.
    Noah Beery, Jr.

    Noah Lindsey Beery , known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an United States actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his legendary uncle Wallace Beery, although Noah Beery, Jr., unlike his uncle, seldom broke away from playing supporting roles....
  • Wyoming
    Wyoming (1940 film)

    Wyoming is a 1940 in film Western film starring Wallace Beery. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe....
     (1940) with Ann Rutherford
    Ann Rutherford

    Therese Ann Rutherford is a Canada-United States actress in film, radio, and television. She has had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict on the big screen of the 1930s and 1940s, and on The Bob Newhart Show as Newhart's character's mother-in-law....
  • The Bad Man
    The Bad Man

    The Bad Man is a 1941 Western film starring Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. The movie was written by Wells Root from the Porter Emerson Browne play, and directed by Richard Thorpe....
     (1941) with Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
    , Laraine Day
    Laraine Day

    Laraine Day was an United States actor and an a former MGM contract star....
    , and Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
  • Barnacle Bill
    Barnacle Bill (1941 film)

    Barnacle Bill is a 1941 feature film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The screen comedy was directed by Richard Thorpe.Cast...
     (1941) with Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
  • The Bugle Sounds
    The Bugle Sounds

    The Bugle Sounds is a 1942 World War II movie starring Wallace Beery as a cavalry sergeant resistant to replacing horses with tanks. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Lewis Stone, George Bancroft , Donna Reed, and Chill Wills....
     (1942) with Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
    , Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
    , and George Bancroft
    George Bancroft (actor)

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-08550, Filmstar George B. Bancrofft in Berlin.jpgGeorge Bancroft was an United States actor.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become one of the top Hollywood stars of the 1920s....
  • Jackass Mail
    Jackass Mail

    Jackass Mail is a 1942 Western film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod....
     (1942) with Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
  • Salute to the Marines
    Salute to the Marines

    Salute to the Marines is a 1943 World War II movie starring Wallace Beery. The movie, set in the Philippines and shot in color , was directed by S....
     (1943, in color) with Noah Beery, Sr.
    Noah Beery, Sr.

    Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
  • Rationing
    Rationing (1944 film)

    Rationing is a 1944 film starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The screen comedy was directed by Willis Goldbeck....
     (1944) with Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
  • Barbary Coast Gent
    Barbary Coast Gent

    Barbary Coast Gent is a 1944 in film film set in 1880s San Francisco's Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California and Nevada starring Wallace Beery....
     (1944) with Chill Wills
    Chill Wills

    Chill Theodore Wills was an United States film actor and singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet....
     and Noah Beery, Sr.
    Noah Beery, Sr.

    Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
  • This Man's Navy
    This Man's Navy

    This Man's Navy is a World War II film about U.S. Navy airships starring Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, and James Gleason, and directed by William A....
     (1945) with Noah Beery, Sr.
    Noah Beery, Sr.

    Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
  • Bad Bascomb
    Bad Bascomb (1946 film)

    Bad Bascomb is a 1946 Western film starring Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien. The movie was directed by S. Sylvan Simon....
     (1946) with Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
  • The Mighty McGurk
    The Mighty McGurk

    The Mighty McGurk is a 1947 film starring Wallace Beery as a boozing ex-boxer working as a bouncer in a Bowery saloon. The movie was directed by John Waters, although not the same John Waters who directed Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ....
     (1947) with Dean Stockwell
    Dean Stockwell

    Dean Stockwell is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, Best Actor Award and Golden Globe-winning United States actor of film and television, active for over 60 years....
     and Edward Arnold
    Edward Arnold

    Edward Arnold can refer to:*Edward Arnold *Edward Arnold *Eddy Arnold *Edward Arnold , a publishing house*Ed Arnold, American news anchor*Eddie Arnold ...
  • Alias a Gentleman
    Alias a Gentleman

    Alias a Gentleman is a 1948 film starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast includes Gladys George and Sheldon Leonard and the movie was directed by Harry Beaumont....
     (1948) with Gladys George
    Gladys George

    Gladys George was an United States Actor.Born Gladys Anna Clare in Patten, Maine, George starred on the Theatre in the 1920s, although she had made several films in the early part of that decade....
     and Sheldon Leonard
    Sheldon Leonard

    Sheldon Leonard was a pioneering American film and television Television producer, director, writer, and actor....
  • A Date With Judy
    A Date with Judy

    A Date with Judy was a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which had a long run from 1941 to 1950.The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role....
     (1948) with Jane Powell
    Jane Powell

    Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
     and Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
  • Big Jack
    Big Jack

    Big Jack is a 1949 film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe.This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th; he died in April 1978....
     (1949) with Richard Conte
    Richard Conte

    Richard Conte was an United States actor who appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather....
    , Marjorie Main
    Marjorie Main

    Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
    , and Edward Arnold
    Edward Arnold

    Edward Arnold can refer to:*Edward Arnold *Edward Arnold *Eddy Arnold *Edward Arnold , a publishing house*Ed Arnold, American news anchor*Eddie Arnold ...


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