The Bad Man 1941  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Chris-Pin Martin, Tom Conway, Chill Wills, Nydia Westman, Charles Stevens
A Mexican outlaw (Wallace Beery) risks his life when he comes to the aid of an old friend (Lionel Barrymore).
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Barnacle Bill 1941  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler, Donald Meek, Barton MacLane, Irving Bacon, Connie Gilchrist, Sara Haden, William Edmunds, Don Terry, Alec Craig, Milton Kibbee, James Millican, William Forrest
Wallace Beery plays old salt Bill Johansen who is being pursued by Marge Cavendish (Marjorie Main) who would like to marry him. When not trying to escape the clutches of Marge, Bill must deal with 12-year-old Virginia (Virginia Weidler)–the young girl he has just learned is his daughter. Marge loans Bill money to purchase his dream schooner that is on the auction block, and the adventures begin. But, after more than a few complications, Bill returns home to a smiling Virginia and marries Marge.
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The Big House 1930  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, George F. Marion, J.C. Nugent, Karl Dane, DeWitt Jennings, Claire McDowell
Based on a violent prison break in 1929, this film set the standard for prison movies that followed. Kent (a young Robert Montgomery) is sent to prison for killing pedestrians while driving drunk. There he is amidst hardened criminals in a tough, overcrowded environment. Mean criminal Butch (Wallace Beery) plans the breakout in this violent (for that time) movie. The film won Academy Awards for Best Sound and Writing; Beery was nominated for Best Actor and the film was nominated for Best Picture.
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Billy the Kid 1930  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Highwayman Rides
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Roscoe Ates, Wyndham Standing, Russell Simpson, Blanche Friderici, Warner Richmond, James A. Marcus, Nelson McDowell, Jack Carlyle, Chris-Pin Martin, John Beck, Marguerita Padula
A Marshal (Wallace Beery) is determined to capture and bring to justice the infamous Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown) in this early talkie Western.
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 The Champ 1931  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy, Hale Hamilton, Jesse Scott, Marcia Mae Jones
Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for his role of Champ, the down-and-out boxer who loves his son, Dink (Jackie Cooper). Nominations for Best Picture and Director were also received. The story was later remade as "The Clown" in 1953 and again as "The Champ" in 1979.
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China Seas 1935 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Akim Tamiroff, Hattie McDaniel, Dudley Digges
Chinese riverboat Captain Al Gaskell (Clark Gable) has his hands full with pirates as well as China Doll (Jean Harlow) and Sybil (Rosalind Russell).
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A Date with Judy 1948 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, Xavier Cugat, Robert Stack, Leon Ames, Selena Royle, Scotty Beckett, George Cleveland
Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) compete for the attention of an older man, Stephen I. Andrews (Robert Stack). Featured songs include "Cuanto La Gusta" and "It's a Most Unusual Day."
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 Dinner at Eight 1933 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Karen Morley, Louise Closser Hale, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Grant Mitchell
Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) arranges a dinner party that she believes will help her husband Oliver's (Lionel Barrymore) career. Among the guests are business executive Dan Packard (Wallace Beery) and his wife Kitty (Jean Harlow) who just happens to be having an affair with another guest, Dr. Wayne Talbot (Edmund Lowe). Also at the dinner party are matinee idol Larry Renault (John Barrymore), who is involved with the Jordans' daughter Paula (Madge Evans), and aging stage actress Carlotta (Marie Dressler). The personal lives of the guests at this dinner party are scrutinized, and the result is a highly entertaining, sophisticated comedy.
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Flesh 1932 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Vince Barnett, Herman Bing, Edward Brophy, Ward Bond, Nat Pendleton
A German wrestler (Wallace Beery) comes to America to seek fame in the ring but falls for a mobster's girlfriend, Lora (Karen Morley), which results in major problems.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rex Ingram
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Alan Hale, Alice Terry, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery, Nigel De Brulier, Josef Swickard, Mabel Van Buren, Stuart Holmes, John St. Polis
This anti-war epic is about an Argentinean (Rudolph Valentino) who fights for France during World War I and learns that his cousin is fighting on Germany's side.
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Grand Hotel 1932 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Rafaela Ottiano, Tully Marshall, Lewis Stone, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Morgan Wallace, Frank Conroy, Murray Kinnell
This anthology won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1931-1932. The story takes place in Berlin following World War I and involves guests of the Grand Hotel. Among those visiting are a ballerina (Greta Garbo), a jewel thief (John Barrymore), and a young stenographer (Joan Crawford).
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 The Last of the Mohicans 1920 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown
Cast: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward, Theodore Lorch, Boris Karloff, James Gordon, George Hackathorne, Nelson McDowell, Harry Lorraine, Jack McDonald, Sydney Deane, Joseph Singleton, Chief Tahachee
This early version of "The Last of the Mohicans" was the last major work of director Maurice Tourneur. It is the story of the French and Indian War of the 1700s and the role, as allies, that Indian tribes played for both sides. This film is close to the original James Fenimore Cooper book as it relates the efforts of Hawkeye (Harry Lorraine) and the last of the Mohicans–Uncas (Alan Roscoe) and Chingachgook (Theodore Lorch)–to rescue Alice and Cora Munro (Lillian Hall and Barbara Bedford) from the evil Magua (Wallace Berry). Can you find Boris Karloff as an Indian?
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The Little American 1917 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. MeMille
Cast: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Wallace Beery, Hobart Bosworth, DeWitt Jennings, Ben Alexander, Carl Gerard, Walter Long, James Neill, Colleen Moore, Ramon Novarro
The year is 1914, and American Angela Moore (Mary Pickford) has two suitors–Karl is from Germany, and Jules is French. Then war breaks out, and Karl and Jules return to their countries to fight. Angela sails for France to visit her aunt, but her ship is sunk by a U-boat. Angela survives and goes to her aunt's chateau where she learns that her aunt has died. Angela has inherited her aunt's chateau. The Germans attack, and Angela begins to send messages to the Allies but is caught and sentenced to be executed. Karl comes to her aid, denounces the Kaiser, and is also sentenced. Now, the French, along with Jules, arrive in time to free Mary and Karl who then sail back to the United States.
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The Lost World 1925  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Cast: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt, Bull Montana, Charles Wellesley, Margaret McWade, Frank Finch Smiles, Jules Cowles, George Bunny
Based on a novel by A. Conan Doyle, this is the first of several versions of the book. Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) insists that dinosaurs still live in the headwaters of the Amazon. An expedition is funded, and, indeed, the good professor is correct. Good special effects for the time, and this silent film holds up well today.
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A Message to Garcia 1936 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Wallace Beery, John Boles, Barbara Stanwyck, Alan Hale, Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin, Martin Garralaga, Warren Hymer, Frederick Vogeding, John Carradine
During the Spanish-American War, Lieutenant Rowan (John Boles) defeats all odds to faithfully carry a message from President McKinley to Cuban leader Garcia that announces the declaration of war by the United States.
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Min and Bill 1930 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Frank McGlynn Sr., Don Dillaway, Russell Hopton, DeWitt Jennings, Jack Pennick, Gretta Gould
Marie Dressler won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her role as Min, the salty owner of a seaside inn who goes to extremes protecting those she loves.
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Old Ironsides 1926 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Cruze
Cast: Charles Farrell, Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Charles Hill Mailes, Eddie Fetherston, Johnnie Walker, George Godrey, Boris Karloff
Barbary pirates, in the early 1800s, often raided America's merchant marine ships before the U.S. Navy became a force to be reckoned with. This is the action-filled, silent-screen version of those days. Look for sailor Boris Karloff in a small part.
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 Robin Hood 1922 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, Alan Hale, Sam De Grasse, Paul Dickey, William Lowery, Billie Bennett, Roy Coulson, Wilson Benge, Willard Louis, Bud Geary, Lloyd Talman, Ann Doran, Frank Austin
Douglas Fairbanks is at his swashbuckling best in this high-budget, silent epic. The Earl of Nottingham (Fairbanks) follows King Richard the Lion Hearted (Wallace Beery) to the Crusades. But, the King's brother, Prince John (Sam De Grasse), who was left behind in charge, ursurps the throne and becomes an oppressive ruler. The Earl takes on the pseudonym of "Robin Hood" and returns to save the day.
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The Secret Six 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Frank McGlynn Sr., Paul Hurst, Louis Natheaux
When bootleggers threaten to undermine Chicago's civil order, the police chief creates a vigilante group of six to go up against the gangsters.
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Slave Ship 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Joseph Schildkraut, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell
It's adventure on the high seas as Captain Lovett (Warner Baxter) wants to get out of the slave trade, get rid of the crew, and start over in respectable shipping. But–the crew won't have anything to do with that idea, and the rebellion is underway.
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This Man's Navy 1945 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jan Clayton, Selena Royle, Noah Beery, Henry O'Neill, Steve Brodie, Paul Cavanagh, Blake Edwards
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is an old salt who takes a young recruit, Jess Weaver (Tom Drake), under his wing. They form a close relationship, which ends tragically when Weaver's heroic action results in his death.
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Three Ages 1923 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe(2) Roberts, Lillian Lawrence, Blanche Payson, Kewpie Morgan, Lionel Belmore, Oliver Hardy, Louise Emmons
The great comic Buster Keaton provides three comedic love stories–one each in the Stone Age, Roman Empire, and the 1920s. In all three, the roles of the boy (Keaton) , the girl (Margaret Leahy), and the villain (Wallace Beery) (who also is after the girl) are played by the same actors. A good silent film.
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Treasure Island 1934 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Lewis Stone, William V. Mong, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, Olin Howland, Charles Irwin, Edward Pawley
In this good rendition of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale, South Seas adventures abound. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) has obtained a treasure map from former pirate Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) following his death. Jim tells Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) about the map, and the three of them book passage on a ship to recover the treasure. But problems lie ahead because among the ship's crew are pirates, including Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who are plotting to get their hands on Jim's treasure map.
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Tugboat Annie 1933 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Willard Robertson, Frankie Darro, Tammany Young, Jack Pennick, Paul Hurst, Oscar Apfel
Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery provide enjoyable fare as Tugboat Annie and her boozing husband in this lighthearted comedy.
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Victory 1919 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley, Laura Winston, Bull Montana, George Nichols
A drifter, Axel Heyst (Jack Holt), settles in the South Seas where he takes a job mining coal on a remote island. He rescues Alma (Seena Owen) who is being held hostage by hotel owner Schomberg (Wallace Beery). Together, they hitch a ride to his island. An evil trio is sent by Schomberg to recover Alma, and Axel must stand up to the thugs.
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| 1. The Bad Man (1941)
2. Barnacle Bill (1941)
3. Beggars of Life (1928)
4. The Big House (1930)
5. Billy the Kid (1930)
aka: The Highwayman Rides
6. The Champ (1931)
7. China Seas (1935)
8. A Date with Judy (1948)
9. Dinner at Eight (1933)
10. Flesh (1932)
11. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
12. Grand Hotel (1932)
13. Hell Divers (1932)
14. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
15. The Little American (1917)
16. The Lost World (1925)
17. A Message to Garcia (1936)
18. Min and Bill (1930)
19. Old Ironsides (1926)
20. Robin Hood (1922)
21. The Secret Six (1931)
22. Slave Ship (1937)
23. This Man's Navy (1945)
24. Three Ages (1923)
25. Treasure Island (1934)
26. Tugboat Annie (1933)
27. Victory (1919)
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