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AKA: Wallace Fitzgerald Beery
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 04/01/1885
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Death Date: 04/15/1949
biography
Burly, barrel-chested heavy of the silent era who emerged as a stolid but endearing starring presence at MGM with the advent of sound after his popular and critical successes as a brutish convict in "The Big House" and as a good-natured waterfront slob in "Min and Bill" (both 1930). Beery subsequently enlivened such films as "The Champ" (1931), for which he won an Oscar as a broken-down boxer, and the all-star films "Grand Hotel" (1932) and "Dinner at Eight" (1933), playing brusque, loutish businessmen in both.Despite his bearish frame and none-too-handsome looks, Beery was married to silent
Joined Ringling Bros. as assistant elephant trainer
1905
Debut as stage performer
1913
Signed with Essanay; moved to Hollywood; film acting debut
1925
Worked primarily for Paramount Studios
1930
Signed with MGM (where he would stay for the rest of his career); became a star with his roles in the hit films, "The Big House" and "Min and Bill", the latter the first of several films in which he was teamed with Marie Dressler
