Wallace Beery
Posted By thecircusblog on September 5, 2009
Wallace Beery was born April 1, 1885 In Kansas City Missouri. At the age of sixteen he joined the Ringling Bros Circus. His first responsibility was a groom with the elephants.Then later he became a herdsmen. His job was bringing in the elephants to the ring and working the bull tubs. Yes he worked with the elephants for two years, but he never was a trainer as some say. Beery loved the circus and he might have stayed with it if it wasn’t for a mishap with a leopard that clawed him quite severely. He left the circus in 1913 and moved to Chicago and went to work for Essanay Studios. Beery was now on his way to a fantastic acting career. In 1917 Wallace Berry portrayed Pancho Villa, at the time Villa was still active in Mexico. MGM Studios seventeen years later reprised the movie it became a big hit .
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