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  1. Wallace Beery. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. [1] 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 Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (1934 ...

  2. Beery was born in Clay County, Missouri, near Smithville. The youngest of three sons born to Noah Webster Beery (January 11, 1856 Platte County, Missouri – May 19, 1937 Los Angeles County, California) and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald (1859 Ridgely, Missouri – April 9, 1931 Los Angeles County, California), he and his brothers William C. Beery and Noah Beery became Hollywood actors.

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  4. American actor Wallace Beery with his daughter Carol Ann Beery, as they arrive at Southampton from New York aboard the Cunard White Star liner...

  5. Film: North side of the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Actor Born April 1, 1885 in Kansas City, MO. Died April 15, 1949 of heart failure in Beverly Hills, Calif. W allace Beery was best known as a rough-hewn character actor with a sentimental streak, a lumbering hulk of a man who would run his hand over his massive face and mutter, "Aw ...

  6. Beery appeared in some 250 movies over a 36-year span. Beery was born on April 1, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri to Noah W. and Marguerite (Fitzgerald) Beery. He was a younger brother of actor/film executive William Beery and actor Noah Beery, who also had long careers in the motion picture industry. He was an uncle of actor Noah Beery, Jr..

  7. Facts. Also Known As. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery. Born. April 1, 1885 • Kansas City • Missouri. Died. April 15, 1949 (aged 64) • Los Angeles • California. Awards And Honors.

  8. The family relocated in the mid-1890s when his father became a Kansas City policeman. An indifferent student both at the Chase School and at his mother’s piano, Beery ran away from home, soon returning to take a job as an engine wiper in the Santa Fe Railroad yards. Beery left home a second time around 1900 to join a circus.

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