Noah Beery Jr.(1913-1994)
- Actor
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Familiar and well-liked character actor of very different persona than
either his father, Noah Beery, or his uncle, Wallace Beery. He attended Harvard
Military Academy but managed to make a number of appearances on film
and on stage with his father before adulthood. At age 19, he began
playing amiable second leads and occasional leading roles, primarily in
westerns, before settling into what would be the pattern for much of
his career: good-natured supporting roles, usually as a pal of the
hero. He kept going in such parts into his late 70s, transforming
slowly into warm (or, rarely, curmudgeonly) rustic sages. In later
years, he achieved great renown as the father of the James Garner character
on TV's The Rockford Files (1974). He married the daughter of cowboy star Buck Jones. Their
son Bucklind Beery is an actor. They also had two daughters, Muffett and
Melissa. Beery died in 1994 at the age of 81.
