Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his many cinema appearances.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was the younger half-brother of Noah Beery, who also would have a lengthy career in motion pictures, as well as the uncle of Noah Beery, Jr., who played James Garner's character's father in the television series The Rockford Files in the 1970s. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery joined the Ringling Brothers circus at the age of sixteen as an assistant elephant trainer. He left two years later after being clawed by a leopard. He found work in New York City in musical variety and began to appear on Broadway. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios, cast as "Sweedie, The Swedish Maid," a manly character in drag. Later we would move to California, to the Essanay Studios location in Niles, CA.

In 1915, Beery starred with his wife Gloria Swanson in Sweedie Goes to College. The marriage did not survive his drinking and abuse. In the following years, he began to play villains in several movies.

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