Wallace Beery was an American actor. He was born in 1880 at Kansas City and died in 1949. A graduate of Kansas City High School, he began his theatrical career as an assistant elephant trainer for the Ringling Brothers Circus at the start of the 20th century. A few years later he was on the stage where, despite his large features his forte was as a female impersonator, and in vaudeville he sang in variety shows, stock companies and Broadway musicals. His film career began at the Essanay Studios in 1914 and he starred in a series of some 30 comedies about a character named 'Sweedie' a preposterous female servant. During the 1920s he switched roles to play rugged, commanding figures. Research Wallace Beery
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