Noah Beery, Jr.

Gender: Male
Born: 10th August 1913
Died: 1st November 1994
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Rockford Files, Riverboat, Circus Boy, Hondo, The Yellow Rose, The Quest (1982)
Movies: Overland Mail, Corvette K-225, The Big Stuffed Dog, Of Mice and Men, The Trail Beyond, Twenty Mule Team, Two Flags West, We've Never Been Licked, Fighting with Kit Carson, The Story of Will Rogers, Riders of Death Valley, Tailspin Tommy, The Spikes Gang, Jubal, Rocketship X-M, Zorro Rides Again, White Feather, Escort West, The Dove, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Decision at Sundown, Sergeant York, She Done Him Wrong, Red River, The Coming of Amos, The Devil Horse, The Big Stampede, Gung Ho!, The Vanishing American, Mexicali Rose, The Mark of Zorro, Mystery Liner, Old Wives for New, Walking Tall Part 2, Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery, Hay Foot, The Flaming Signal, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, War Arrow, The Carson City Kid, Walking Tall, John Wayne: Lone Cowboy, Desert Command, Davy Crockett, Indian Scout, The Last Outpost, The Savage Horde, Wagons West, The Kid from Spain, Pioneers of the West, Carson City Cyclone, Savages, The Fastest Gun Alive, All-American Co-Ed, Tropic Zone, Bad Lands

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 career as a supporting actor.

Beery was best known as James Garner's father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, in the 1970s television series The Rockford Files.

Beery was born in New York City, New York where his father was working as a stage actor. The family moved to California in 1915 when his father began acting in motion pictures. After attending school in Los Angeles, they moved to a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, a style of living he would maintain for the rest of his life.

At the age of seven, he appeared with his father in The Mark of Zorro and like his father, who immediately began billing himself as "Noah Beery, Sr.," he went on to become a respected character actor. His uncle, Oscar-winning screen phenomenon Wallace Beery,

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