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Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

1885 Clay County, Missouri – 1949 Beverly Hills, California

BiographyWallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American film and stage actor. He began his show business career in 1902 as a sixteen-year-old assistant elephant trainer with the Ringling Brothers Circus. When he was eighteen, he began singing in Broadway musicals and Kansas City playhouses. After a short stint as a bit player for Universal Films, Beery formed his own production company and made several successful titles. In 1916 he married another young actress, Gloria Swanson, his co-star in several Mack Sennett comedies. He won an Academy Award (Best Actor) for his performance in The Champ (1931) with Jackie Cooper.

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