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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) |
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Brother of actor William Beery and Noah Beery. Uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr.. Reports that Wallace and Noah were half-brothers are false; all three brothers were born to Noah W. Beery and Marguerite Fitzgerald Beery, according to U.S. census records.
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.
Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Vale of Memory section, lot #2157-9808.
Brother of actor William Beery.
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! (1934).
Reportedly extremely difficult to get along with and completely lacking in any sort of manners or refinement. Beery's ex-wife, Gloria Swanson, once remarked that he had been invited to every fashionable home in Beverly Hills - once!.
Died on the Queen Mary ship. Was transported to New York & placed in a hotel to avoid bad publicity.
When the Academy Awards were first presented, the winners were announced ahead of the ceremony, partly with the hope the recipients would show up to collect their award. When it was announced that the winner of the 1931 prize for best actor went to Fredric March, Beery reportedly stormed the office of Louis Meyer, demanding he be given the award instead. The result was a "tie" for Best Actor that year. From then on, the Oscar votes were tabulated by Price Waterhouse, and the winners announced at the ceremony.
Died at age of 64 from a heart attack, at the same age and from the same condition that caused the death of his older brother, Noah Beery, three years earlier. Elder brother, William Beery, died just eight months later on Christmas day. All three passed away in Beverly Hills.
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