Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Noah Lindsey Beery (August 10, 1913 – November 1, 1994), known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an American actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his uncle Wallace Beery, although Noah Beery, Jr., unlike his uncle, seldom broke away from playing supporting roles. His father, Noah Nicholas Beery (known professionally as Noah Beery or Noah Beery, Sr.), enjoyed a similarly lengthy film car...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti...
Power's Play
1986
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Waltz Across Texas
1982
as Joe Locker
A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982
as Edsel
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a...

Mysterious Two
1982
as Sheriff Virgil Molloy
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

The Capture of Grizzly Adams
1982
as Sheriff Hawkins
A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage.

Beyond Witch Mountain
1982
as Uncle Ben
After news of the boy's amazing abilities surfaces, Tony and Tia are sent to go find him knowing that the boy must be from their world. They are joine...

The Big Stuffed Dog
1981
as Petey's Grandfather
A large stuffed Snoopy toy goes astray at an airport baggage area, and gets involved with various travelers.

Gridlock
1980
as Barney
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system ...

The Bastard
1978
as Dan O'Brien
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...

The Ghost of Cypress Swamp
1977
as Doc Manners
A lost teenager and solitary murderer form an unusual friendship.

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
as Oliver Powers
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.

Walking Tall Part II
1975
as Carl Pusser
The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wif...

Savages
1974
as George Whiting
Ben Campbell, a 22 year old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. He is surprised when Madec, a wealthy l...

The Spikes Gang
1974
as Basset
Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with ...

Sidekicks
1974
as Tom
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the...

The Alpha Caper
1973
as Harry Balsam
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.

Walking Tall
1973
as Carl Pusser
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.

43: The Richard Petty Story
1972
as Julie
The story of how Petty Enterprises started and how Richard Petty became "The King" as told from his father Lee's point of view.

Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1970
as Seally Fauss
The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing c...

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
as Eddie
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

Heaven with a Gun
1969
as Garvey
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a fe...

Journey to Shiloh
1968
as Sgt. Mercer Barnes
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...

Hondo and the Apaches
1967
as Buffalo Baker
Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.

Incident at Phantom Hill
1966
as O'Rourke (as Noah Beery)
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of Union gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and t...

7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964
as Tim Mitchell
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mys...

Inherit the Wind
1960
as John Stebbins
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the ne...

Guns of the Timberland
1960
as Blackie
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The resident...

Escort West
1959
as Lt. Jamison
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is...

Decision at Sundown
1957
as Sam
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

The Fastest Gun Alive
1956
as Dink Wells
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want...

Jubal
1956
as Sam
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly make...

Savage Fury
1956
as Jan of the Jungle (born Jan Trevor)
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

White Feather
1955
as Lt. Ferguson
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surv...

The Black Dakotas
1954
as 'Gimpy' Joe Woods
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. ...

The Yellow Tomahawk
1954
as Tonio (as Noah Beery)
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.

War Arrow
1953
as Sgt. Augustus Wilks (as Noah Beery)
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to ...

Wings of the Hawk
1953
as Orozco (as Noah Beery)
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life...

Tropic Zone
1953
as Tapachula Sam
A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.

The Story of Will Rogers
1952
as Wiley Post
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

Wagons West
1952
as Arch Lawrence
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.

The Cimarron Kid
1952
as Bob Dalton (as Noah Beery)
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old frie...

The Texas Rangers
1951
as Buff Smith
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to c...

The Last Outpost
1951
as Sgt. Calhoun
The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

Two Flags West
1950
as Cy Davis (as Noah Beery)
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

Rocketship X-M
1950
as Major William Corrigan
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations ca...

The Savage Horde
1950
as Glenn Larrabee
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle ba...

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
1950
as Tex McGee
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous names...
Squadron of Doom
1949
as Jerry

The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
as Little Bill / Joe Smith
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the lea...

Indian Agent
1948
as Red Fox
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.

Red River
1948
as Buster McGee
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journe...

Desert Command
1946
as Stubbs
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he trie...

The Cat Creeps
1946
as Pidge 'Flash' Laurie
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

The Daltons Ride Again
1945
as Ben Dalton
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be ...

The Crimson Canary
1945
as Danny Brooks
When a conniving female singer turns up dead, with the evidence pointing to the band’s drummer, jazz trumpeter Danny Brooks attempts to clear him—only...

The Beautiful Cheat
1945
as Prof. Alexander Haven
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juv...

See My Lawyer
1945
as Arthur Lane
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub own...

Her Lucky Night
1945
as Larry
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

Under Western Skies
1945
as Tod Howell
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

Hi, Beautiful
1944
as Jeff Peters
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bunga...
Allergic to Love
1944
as Kip Henderson
Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay ...

To the People of the United States
1944
as Bomber Ground Crew (uncredited)
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.

Week-End Pass
1944
as Johnny Adams
A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (N...

Gung Ho!
1943
as Cpl. Kurt Richter
A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to...

Corvette K-225
1943
as Stone
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

Top Man
1943
as Ed Thompson
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of lo...

Frontier Badmen
1943
as Jim Caldwell
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get fo...

We've Never Been Licked
1943
as Cyanide Jenkins
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with...

Prairie Chickens
1943
as Pidge
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.

Calaboose
1943
as Pidge Crosby
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942
as Butch
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubho...

Overland Mail
1942
as Sierra Pete
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are ...

Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
as Pidge Crosby
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.

Hay Foot
1942
as Sgt. Charlie Cobb
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms ...

All-American Co-Ed
1941
as Slinky
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for th...

Sergeant York
1941
as Buck Lipscomb
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel...

Tanks a Million
1941
as Charlie Cobb
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to serge...

Two in a Taxi
1941
as Sandy Connors
An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

Riders of Death Valley
1941
as Smokey
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora...

The Carson City Kid
1940
as Scott Warren
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. H...

Passport to Alcatraz
1940
as Ray Nolan
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail t...

20 Mule Team
1940
as Mitch
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will s...

Light of Western Stars
1940
as Poco
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back...

Of Mice and Men
1939
as Whit
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Glove Slingers
1939
as Terry 'Spider Lewis' Kelly
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.

Parents on Trial
1939
as Jerry Kearns
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein...

Bad Lands
1939
as Chick Lyman
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the d...

Flight at Midnight
1939
as Torpy' McDonald
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Huss...

Only Angels Have Wings
1939
as Joe Souther
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a majo...

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938
as Mart
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up...

Girls' School
1938
as George Booth
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fl...

Forbidden Valley
1938
as Ring Hazzard
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugge...

Some Blondes Are Dangerous
1937
as Bud Mason
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-lovi...

Trouble at Midnight
1937
as Kirk Cameron
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming b...

The Road Back
1937
as Wessling
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

The Mighty Treve
1937
as Bud McClelland
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

Ace Drummond
1936
as Jerry
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Wa...

Parole!
1936
as Bobby Freeman
Soon after the prison release of a lawyer (Henry Hunter), his dedication to improving his life puts him at odds with other parolees who have returned ...

Stormy
1935
as Stormy
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
1935
as Skeeter Milligan
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal a...

The Call of the Savage
1935
as Jan Trevor
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

Tailspin Tommy
1934
as Peter 'Skeeter' Milligan
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contract...

The Trail Beyond
1934
as Wabi
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.

Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
as Nakomas, son of Dark Eagle
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Rider...

The Three Musketeers
1933
as Noah Stubbs
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he trie...

The Rustler's Roundup
1933
as Danny Brand
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their ...

Jungle Mystery
1932
as Fred Oakes
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after i...

Heroes of the West
1932
as Noah Blaine
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.

Renegades
1930
as Young Legionnaire (uncredited)
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their reg...

The Big House
1930
as Convict in Yard (uncredited)
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning...

Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
as Noah Beery Jr.
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929
as Stage Boy (uncredited)
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

The Mark of Zorro
1920
as Boy (uncredited)
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 20...