Wallace Beery
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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Away with Words
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2026
The Image Book
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2018
Judy Garland: By Myself
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2004
100 Years at the Movies
actor
1994
The Our Gang Story
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1994
Going Hollywood: The '30s
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1984
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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1975
The Big Parade of Comedy
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1964
When Comedy Was King
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1960
Big Jack
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1949
A Date with Judy
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1948
Twenty Years After
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1944
The Bad Man
actor
1941
Wyoming
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1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
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1940
20 Mule Team
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1940
From the Ends of the Earth
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1939
Stand Up and Fight
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1939
Slave Ship
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1937
Old Hutch
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1936
A Message to Garcia
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1936
Ah, Wilderness!
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1935
China Seas
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1935
West Point of the Air
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1935
Treasure Island
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1934
Dinner at Eight
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1933
The Bowery
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1933
Grand Hotel
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1932
Hell Divers
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1932
The Champ
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1931
The Secret Six
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1931
The Stolen Jools
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1931
Billy the Kid
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1930
The Big House
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1930
Chinatown Nights
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1929
Beggars of Life
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1928
The Big Killing
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1928
Partners in Crime
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1928
Wife Savers
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1928
Now We're in the Air
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1927
The Wanderer
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1925
Adventure
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1925
The Lost World
actor
1925
Another Man's Wife
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1924
The Signal Tower
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1924
The Sea Hawk
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1924
White Tiger
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1923
Richard the Lion-Hearted
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1923