Noah
Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by
1905 was performing on Broadway. After a dozen years on the stage,
in 1915 he joined his brother in Hollywood to make motion pictures
where he would become a respected character actor adept at playing
the role of the villain. One of his most remarkable
characterizations was as Sergeant Gonzales in The Mark of Zorro
(1920) opposite Douglas Fairbanks; the Beery brothers always offered
extremely energetic portrayals and gave the audience something
extraordinary to behold.
Noah Beery worked during the silent film era (giving a fine
performance as Sgt. Lejaune in the 1926 Beau Geste) and successfully
made the transition to "talkies". He had a pleasant singing voice
and he appeared in a number of lavish early Technicolor musicals
such as The Show of Shows (1929), Song of the Flame (1930), Bright
Lights (1930), Under A Texas Moon (1930) and Golden Dawn (1930), (in
which he wore blackface makeup as an African native). During a
career that spanned three decades, Noah appeared in nearly two
hundred films.
In 1945 he returned to
star in the Mike Todd Broadway production of "Up in Central Park."
Noah
Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by
1905 was performing on Broadway. After a dozen years on the stage,
in 1915 he joined his brother in Hollywood to make motion pictures
where he would become a respected character actor adept at playing
the role of the villain. One of his most remarkable
characterizations was as Sergeant Gonzales in The Mark of Zorro
(1920) opposite Douglas Fairbanks; the Beery brothers always offered
extremely energetic portrayals and gave the audience something
extraordinary to behold.