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Wallace Beery
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| Known for: | The Champ, Viva Villa!, Robin Hood |
| Birth name: | Wallace Fitzgerald Beery |
| Birthday: | 1 April 1885, Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Height: | 6' 1" (1.85 m) |
Trivia
Uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr.
Born at 2:47pm-CST
Half-brother of Noah Beery
Ex-wife Rita Gilman, their daughter Carol Ann, his nephew Noah Beery Jr., and brother William Beery were all with him at the time of his death.
At the time of his death, he was involved in a paternity suit. Actress Gloria Schumm claimed that he had fathered her then 13-month old son.
Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Vale of Memory section, lot #2157-9808.
For thirty-five years Beery held the world's record for the largest black sea bass, which he caught off the Catalina Island in 1916.
Brother of actor William Beery.
Almost played the title role in MGM's The Wizard of Oz! But because of other film roles that he was slated to appear in at Metro, he was forced to turn down the role. The part of "The Wizard"/"Prof. Marvel" was given to MGM's resident character actor, Frank Morgan. Beery made a cameo appearance in the star-studded film comedy, "The Stolen Jewels", as a Police Sgt.
In the summer of 1941, he was billed by MGM as the "champion movie location commuter," the studio estimating that he had journeyed more than 100,000 miles to make pictures. According to studio records, Beery covered 15,000 miles in Mexico alone while filming Viva Villa!.
Between 1925, when he took up flying, and 1941, he had accumulated 14,000 hours of flight time as a pilot. While making Treasure Island on Santa Catalina Island, he commuted daily by plane from his Beverly Hills home.
Reportedly extremely difficult to get along with and completely lacking in any sort of couth or refinement; Beery's ex-wife, Gloria Swanson, once remarked that he had been invited to every fashionable home in Beverly Hills - once!
At MGM, Wallace Beery's public image was carefully crafted by Howard Strickling as that of a big lovable slob with a heart of gold. In reality, Beery was anything but. Co-star Jackie Cooper said he treated him like an unwanted dog the second the cameras stopped.
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