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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 h…
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entertainment · American actor (1885–1949) · stage actor · film actor · actor · film director · director · also Wallace Beery, Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, Beery
Born 1 April 1885 · Died 15 April 1949 · Q322179
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1949· 2 entries
Died 1949-04-15.
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At age 64, collapsing while reading a newspaper at his Beverly Hills home
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1948· 2 entries
Gloria Schumm (or Gloria Smith Beery, née Florence W
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To Johan Richard Wallace Schumm, while married to Stuttgart-born Hollywood actor Hans Schumm (né Johann Josef Eugen Schumm; 1896–1990)
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1944· 1 entry
But remarried on August 21, 1947, after realizing that she was pregnant
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1934· 1 entry
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Viva Villa! (1934).
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1933· 1 entry
Was commissioned a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve at NRAB Long Beach
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1932· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Champ (1932).
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That he would be paid $1 more than any other contract player at the studio
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His contract with MGM stipulated that he be paid a dollar more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the world's highest-paid actor
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1931· 1 entry
During which he received top billing in all but six films (Min and Bill, Grand Hotel, Tugboat Annie, Dinner at Eight, China Seas with Gable and Harlow, and Slave Ship)
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1924· 1 entry
Beery married actress Rita Gilman (née Mary Areta Gilman; 1898–1986) in Los Angeles
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1917· 1 entry
Beery portrayed Pancho Villa in Patria at a time when Villa was still active in Mexico
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1916· 1 entry
At the age of 30, Beery married 17-year-old actress Gloria Swanson in Los Angeles
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1913· 1 entry
Moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios
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1907· 1 entry
When he starred in The Yankee Tourist to good reviews
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1904· 1 entry
Finding work in comic opera as a baritone, and appeared on Broadway and in summer stock theatre
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1885· 2 entries
In Clay County, Missouri, near Smithville
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Born 1885-04-01.
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