Wallace Beery
Biography: Wallace Beery |
Beery was a character actor in silents and talkies and the half-brother of actor Noah Beery, Sr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery, Jr. At age 16 (1902) he joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer; two years later he... more
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Cast: Wallace Beery Leon Ames Sheldon Leonard Harry Beaumont John Qualen
Tags: Comedy
Length: 74min
Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an ex-convict who finds himself wealthy overnight when oil is discovered on his property. His first order of business as a man of...
Cast: Wallace Beery Marjorie Main Richard Conte Richard Thorpe Edward Arnold
Tags: Adventure Comedy Western
Length: 85min
Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime and crime not yet a science," the film casts Beery and Marjorie Main as outlaws Big Jack Horner and Flapjack Kate. The two...
Cast: Wallace Beery Marjorie Main Marshall Thompson Margaret O'Brien J. Carrol Naish
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western
Length: 111min
Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the title, whose heart is softened by a sweet little child (Margaret O'Brien at her most cloying). Just about to make a clean...
Cast: Wallace Beery Aline MacMahon Dean Stockwell Edward Arnold Cedric Gibbons
Tags: Melodrama Drama Sports Drama
Length: 85min
It's The Champ all over again, with Wallace Beery as a down-and-out prizefighter and Dean Stockwell as the small boy whom he adopts. Mighty McGurk also borrows from Beery's earlier The Bowery (33) by placing its story in that New York neighborhood in...
Cast: Wallace Beery James Gleason William Wellman Blake Edwards Borden Chase
Tags: War Adventure Adventure War
Length: 100min
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver (Selena Royle) and her son Jess (Tom Drake) in effect sets him up with a...
Cast: Wallace Beery Elizabeth Taylor Stanley Donen Carmen Miranda Robert Stack
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 114min
In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack)....
Cast: Wallace Beery Marjorie Main Donald Meek Kay Medford Anne O'Neal
Tags: Comedy
Length: 93min
MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing products during World War II. Wallace Beery plays a small town butcher who comes under fire from the local citizens for attempting...
Cast: Wallace Beery Leo Carrillo Marjorie Main Richard Thorpe Donald Meek
Tags: Drama
Length: 90min
MGM tried to recapture the magic of the Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler films of the 1930s with Barnacle Bill. Beery is teamed with Marjorie Main, a Dressler "type" who had a roughneck style all her own. In the film, grumbly old fisherman Beery spends...
Cast: Wallace Beery Hugh Beaumont Keye Luke William Lundigan Reginald Owen
Tags: Military Comedy War Drama War
Length: 101min
In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing the line while they are stationed in the Philippines at the beginning of WW II. The tough-as-nails jarhead does have a...
Cast: Wallace Beery Marjorie Main J. Carrol Naish Darryl Hickman Norman Z. McLeod
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Western Comedy Western
Length: 80min
This might be a film about junk mail...but it isn't. Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main are teamed again for this rambunctious western comedy. Beery plays a horse thief who romances saloon owner Main. His goal is to marry the lady and take over her...
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