- Was teamed with Robert Woolsey for the Broadway production "Rio Rita", the teaming was so successful, that they were signed by RKO to repeat their stage roles in a movie version. Wheeler & Woolsey were the first comedy team to emerge as stars from sound pictures with their partnership lasting until Woolsey's death in 1938.
- In later years he teamed with a new partner, Tommy Dillon, a young chap he worked with in Las Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter.
- Bert Wheeler had one child with actress Bernice Wheeler. Their daughter, Patricia Anne Wheeler, was born in 1936 and died of cancer in 1968.
- Nine of the 21 movies he and Woolsey made together were released in a DVD collection entitled "Wheeler & Woolsey: RKO Comedy Classics Collection" in March 2013 by Warner Archive.
- Like the Three Stooges, Wheeler and Woolsey were rather short men. Bert was only 5'4" while his partner, Robert Woolsey, towered over him at 5' 5 1/2".
- Soon after the death of his friend and partner Robert Woolsey in October of 1938 Bert Wheeler announced plans for a nonfiction book to be entitled "We Girdle the Globe". The book was to be dedicated to Woolsey and made up of direct quotes from a 12,000 word diary that Wheeler and Woolsey wrote together during a trip around the world in 1933. Apparently no such book was ever published.
- In a September 1937 article Bert Wheeler named opera singer Lily Pons as one of his idols.
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