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Also Known As	Wallace Fitzgerald Beery
Born	April 1, 1885 • Kansas City • Missouri
Died	April 15, 1949 (aged 64) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1932) • Academy Award (1933): Actor in a Leading Role
Married To	Gloria Swanson (1916–1919) • Rita Gilman (1924–1939)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"The Bad Man" (1941) • "Dinner at Eight" (1933) • "Hell Divers" (1931) • "Bavu" (1923) • "Viva Villa!" (1934) • "Old Hutch" (1936) • "Way for a Sailor" (1930) • "Thunder Afloat" (1939) • "Richard the Lion-Hearted" (1923) • "The Night Club" (1925) • "In the Name of Love" (1925) • "Jackass Mail" (1942) • "The Slim Princess" (1915) • "Drifting" (1923) • "Barnacle Bill" (1941) • "The Spanish Dancer" (1923) • "The Rosary" (1922) • "Chinatown Nights" (1929) • "Salute to the Marines" (1943) • "Rugged Water" (1925) • "A Tale of Two Worlds" (1921) • "China Seas" (1935) • "Bad Bascomb" (1946) • "Billy the Kid" (1930) • "The Man from Hell's River" (1922) • "Wife Savers" (1928) • "The Mighty McGurk" (1947) • "So Big" (1924) • "The Unpardonable Sin" (1919) • "The Mighty Barnum" (1934) • "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921) • "Rationing" (1944) • "The Round-Up" (1920) • "Treasure Island" (1934) • "The Janitor's Vacation" (1916) • "The Last of the Mohicans" (1920) • "I Am the Law" (1922) • "The Sea Hawk" (1924) • "Ashes of Vengeance" (1923) • "The Sagebrush Trail" (1922) • "The Life Line" (1919) • "Beggars of Life" (1928) • "The Bad Man of Brimstone" (1937) • "O'Shaughnessy's Boy" (1935) • "A Date with Judy" (1948) • "Barbary Coast Gent" (1944) • "The River of Romance" (1929) • "The Big House" (1930) • "Sergeant Madden" (1939) • "The Bowery" (1933) • "The Champ" (1931) • "Stormswept" (1923) • "Now We're in the Air" (1927) • "The Flame of Life" (1923) • "The Great Divide" (1925) • "Robin Hood" (1922) • "Trouble" (1922) • "Wild Honey" (1922) • "Casey at the Bat" (1927) • "Ah Wilderness!" (1935) • "20 Mule Team" (1940) • "Let Women Alone" (1925) • "The Lost World" (1925) • "The Drums of Jeopardy" (1923) • "Big Jack" (1949) • "This Man's Navy" (1945) • "The Rookie's Return" (1920) • "A Lady's Morals" (1930) • "The Red Lily" (1924) • "The Mollycoddle" (1920) • "Tugboat Annie" (1933) • "Patsy" (1921) • "813" (1920) • "Flesh" (1932) • "Only a Shop Girl" (1922) • "Patria" (1917) • "Stand Up and Fight" (1939) • "Another Man's Wife" (1924) • "Alias Julius Caesar" (1922) • "Wyoming" (1940) • "Stablemates" (1938) • "Alias a Gentleman" (1948) • "Min and Bill" (1930) • "The Big Killing" (1928) • "The Virgin of Stamboul" (1920) • "Behind the Door" (1919) • "Volcano" (1926) • "The Bugle Sounds" (1942) • "Madonna of the Streets" (1924) • "West Point of the Air" (1935) • "Behind the Front" (1926) • "Good Old Soak" (1937) • "White Tiger" (1923) • "We're in the Navy Now" (1926) • "The Man from Dakota" (1940) • "Unseen Hands" (1924) • "Fireman, Save My Child" (1927) • "The Golden Snare" (1921) • "Stairs of Sand" (1929) • "The Signal Tower" (1924) • "The Wanderer" (1925) • "Adventure" (1925) • "The Devil's Cargo" (1925) • "The Pony Express" (1925) • "The Eternal Struggle" (1923) • "Slave Ship" (1937) • "Port of Seven Seas" (1938) • "Coming Through" (1925) • "Three Ages" (1923) • "Soldiers of Fortune" (1919) • "Partners in Crime" (1928) • "Old Ironsides" (1926) • "Hurricane's Gal" (1922) • "A Message to Garcia" (1936) • "Johanna Enlists" (1918) • "Victory" (1919) • "The Love Burglar" (1919) • "The Last Trail" (1921) • "Dynamite Smith" (1924) • "Grand Hotel" (1932) • "The Secret 6" (1931)
Movies/Tv Shows (Directed)	"The Janitor's Vacation" (1916)