Burly, barrel-chested heavy of the silent era who emerged as a stolid but endearing starring presence at MGM with the advent of sound after his popular and critical successes as a brutish convict in "The Big House" and as a good-natured waterfront slob in "Min and Bill" (both 1930). Beery subsequently enlivened such films as "The Champ" (1931), for which he won an Oscar as a broken-down boxer,…
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