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Wallace Beery ( April 1, 1885 - April 15, 1949) was a United States actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, 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 Hollywood, where he began to appear in a series of comedyComedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. It also means a performance that relies heavily on humor. The term originally comes from theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. The humor, once an incid silent filmA silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but before the late 1920s, most films were silent. The years before sound came to the mos for Essanay StudiosEssanay Studios was a motion picture company founded in Chicago, Illinois by George K. Spoor and Bronco Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A"). It produced silent films with such stars as Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Sw, cast against gender as a Swedish maid.

In 1915Events January 12 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress. January 12 United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. January 13 An earthquake (6. 8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Ital, Beery starred with Gloria SwansonGloria Swanson ( March 27, 1897 April 4, 1983) was an American actress. Born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in a military base in San Juan, Puerto Rico to a Swedish-American father, she grew up in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Key West, Florida. Her film debut in Sweedie Goes to College . They were married a year later, but the marriage did not survive his drinkingAlcoholism is an addictive dependency on alcohol characterised by craving (a strong need to drink); loss of control (being unable to stop); physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms; and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk). 1820 Alcoholi and abuse. In the following years, he began to play villainstereotypical villain, common in early 20th century silent films, wears formal black clothes, exquisitely neat facial hair, and a maniacal demeanour. A villain is a bad person, especially in fiction. Villains are the fictional characters, or perhaps fictis in several movies.

With the transition to sound film he was for a time put out of work, but Irving Thalberg had no objection to Beery's gruff slow speech as a character actor, and hired him under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Beery appeared in the highly-successful 1930 prison film The Big House (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor). He followed that up with The Champ in 1931 and the role of Long John Silver in Treasure Island ( 1934).

He made several comedies with Marie Dressler and Marjorie Main, but his career began to slow down in his last decade. He died in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.

Academy Awards and Nominations

1932 Won The Champ (tied with Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1930 Nominated The Big House

Beery has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.

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