Noah Lindsey Beery (August 10, 1913 – November 1, 1994) was an American character actor, best known for The Rockford Files (1974–80), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and Red River (1948).
He was married to Maxine Jones, with whom he had three children, and Lisa Thorman. His parents were Noah Beery Sr and Marguerite Lindsay and his uncle was Wallace Beery.
Beery died from cerebral thrombosis in 1994 at the age of 81.
Filmography
Film roles
- 1920: The Mutiny Of The Elsinore as Seven-Year-Old Boy (Uncredited Role)
- 1920: The Mark Of Zorro as Seven-Year-Old Boy (uncredited)
- 1922: Penrod as Kid in Armor Suit (uncredited)
- 1929: Gold Diggers Of Broadway as Stage Boy (uncredited)
- 1930: Show Girl In Hollywood as Noah Beery Jr. (uncredited)
- 1930: Renegades as Young Legionnaire (uncredited)
- 1932: Heroes Of The West as Noah Blaine
- 1932: Jungle Mystery as Fred Oakes
- 1933: The Rustlers Roundup as Danny Brand
- 1933: The Three Musketeers as Stubbs
- 1933: Fighting With Kit Carson as Nakomas
- 1934: The Trail Beyond as Wabi
- 1934: Tailspin Tommy as Skeeter Milligan
- 1935: Tailspin Tommy In The Great Air Mystery as Skeeter Milligan
- 1935: Five Bad Men as Gene Taggart
- 1935: The Call Of The Savage as Jan Trevor
- 1935: Stormy as Stormy
- 1936: Parole as Bobby Freeman
- 1936: Ace Drummond as Jerry
- 1937: The Mighty Treve as Bud McClelland
- 1937: The Road Back as Wessling
- 1937: Trouble At Midnight as Kirk Cameron
- 1937: Some Blondes Are Dangerous as Bud Mason
- 1938: Forbidden Valley as Ring Hazzard
- 1938: Girls School as George
- 1938: The Strange Case Of Dr Meade as Mart
- 1939: Only Angels Have Wings as Joe Souther
- 1939: Bad Lands as Chick Lyman
- 1939: Flight At Midnight as 'Torpy' McDonald
- 1939: Parents On Trial as Jerry Kearns
- 1939: Glove Slingers as Terry 'Spider Lewis' Kelly
- 1939: Of Mice and Men as Whit
- 1940: The Light Of Western Stars as Poco
- 1940: Twenty Mule Team as Mitch
- 1940: Passport To Alcatraz as Ray Nolan
- 1940: The Carson City Kid as Scott 'Arizona' Warren
- 1941: Riders Of Death Valley as Smokey
- 1941: Sergeant York as Buck Lipscomb
- 1941: Two In A Taxi as Sandy Connors
- 1941: Tanks A Million as Charlie Cobb
- 1942: Hay Foot as Sgt. Charlie Cobb
- 1941: All American Co Ed as Slinky
- 1942: Dudes Are Pretty People as Pidge Crosby
- 1943: Calaboose as Pidge Crosby
- 1943: Prairie Chickens as Pidge Crosby
- 1942: Overland Mail as Sierra Pete
- 1942: Neath Brooklyn Bridge as Rusty 'Butch'
- 1943: We've Never Been Licked as Cyanide Jenkins
- 1943: Frontier Badmen as Jim Cardwell
- 1943: Top Man as Ed Thompson
- 1943: Corvette K 225 as Stone
- 1943: Gung Ho The Story Of Carlsons Makin Island Raiders as Kurt Richter
- 1944: Week End Pass as Johnny Adams
- 1944: Follow The Boys as Noah Beery Jr. (uncredited)
- 1944: Allergic To Love as Kip Henderson
- 1944: Hi Beautiful as Jeff Peters
- 1945: Under Western Skies as Tod Howell
- 1945: Her Lucky Night as Larry
- 1945: See My Lawyer as Arthur Lane
- 1945: The Beautiful Cheat as Prof. Alexander Haven
- 1945: The Crimson Canary as Danny Brooks
- 1945: The Daltons Ride Again as Ben Dalton
- 1945: The Cat Creeps as Pidge 'Flash' Laurie
- 1948: Red River as Buster McGee
- 1948: Indian Agent as Chief Red Fox
- 1949: The Doolins Of Oklahoma as Little Bill
- 1950: Davy Crockett Indian Scout as Tex McGee
- 1950: The Savage Horde as Glenn Larrabee
- 1950: Rocketship X-M as Maj. William Corrigan
- 1950: Two Flags West as Cy Davis
- 1951: The Last Outpost as Sgt. Calhoun
- 1951: The Texas Rangers as Buff Smith
- 1952: The Cimarron Kid as Bob Dalton
- 1952: Wagons West as Arch Lawrence
- 1952: The Story Of Will Rogers as Wiley Post
- 1953: Tropic Zone as Tapachula Sam
- 1953: Wings Of The Hawk as Pascual Orozco
- 1953: War Arrow as Sgt. Augustus Wilks
- 1954: The Yellow Tomahawk as Tonio Perez
- 1954: The Black Dakotas as Gimpy Joe Woods
- 1955: White Feather as Lt. Ferguson
- 1956: Jubal as Sam
- 1956: The Fastest Gun Alive as Dink Wells
- 1957: Decision At Sundown as Sam
- 1959: Escort West as Lt. Jamison
- 1960: Guns Of The Timberland as Blackie
- 1960: Inherit the Wind as John Stebbins
- 1964: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao as Tim Mitchell
- 1966: Incident At Phantom Hill as O'Rourke
- 1968: Journey To Shiloh as Sgt. Mercer Barnes
- 1969: Heaven With A Gun as Garvey
- 1970: The Cockeyed Cowboys Of Calico County as Eddie
- 1970: Little Fauss And Big Halsy as Seally Fauss
- 1972: Forty Three The Richard Petty Story as Julie
- 1973: Walking Tall as Grandpa
- 1973: The Alpha Caper as Harry Balsam
- 1974: Sidekicks as Tom
- 1974: The Spikes Gang as Basset
- 1974: Savages as George Whiting
- 1975: Walking Tall Part II as Carl Pusser
- 1976: Francis Gary Powers The True Story Of The U 2 Spy Incident as Oliver Powers
- 1977: The Ghost Of Cypress Swamp as Doc Manners
- 1980: Gridlock as Barney
- 1980: The Asphalt Cowboy as Sgt. Brown
- 1981: The Big Stuffed Dog as Petey's Grandfather
- 1981: Revenge Of The Gray Gang as Milo Hoots
- 1982: The Capture Of Grizzly Adams as Sheriff Hawkins
- 1982: Mysterious Two as Sheriff Virgil Molloy
- 1982: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Edsel
- 1982: Waltz Across Texas as Joe Locker
Television roles
- 1955: Schlitz Playhouse as Trainer Bradley Taylor
- 1956–57: Circus Boy as Joey the Clown
- 1957: Climax as Rev. Hall/The Sheriff (2 episodes)
- 1958: Studio One as M/Sgt. Rich
- 1959: Rawhide as Arkansas
- 1959: General Electric Theater as Cotton Follard
- 1960: The Robert Herridge Theater as Carnival Worker
- 1960–61: Riverboat as Bill Blake (13 episodes)
- 1960–64: Wagon Train as Stump Beasley/Ruddy Blaine/Jonas Murdock (3 episodes)
- 1961: The Real Mc Coys as Claude McCoy
- 1961: Wanted: Dead or Alive as Barney Durant/El Gato (2 episodes)
- 1961: Adventures In Paradise as Jon Peterson
- 1962: Route 66 as Emlyn Job
- 1962: Wide Country as Barney Hamlin
- 1963: Death Valley Days as Abel
- 1963: The Great Adventure as Jervis
- 1963: Temple Houston as Bailey
- 1964–66: Gunsmoke as John-Two-Bears/Nate (2 episodes)
- 1965: The Littlest Hobo as Sheriff/Miles Winslow (2 episodes)
- 1965: Branded as Maj. Lynch
- 1965: Perry Mason as Lucas W. Tolliver/Tony Claus (2 episodes)
- 1965–68: Bonanza as Johnny Mule/Lothario Larkin (2 episodes)
- 1966: Laredo as Ezekiel Fry
- 1966: The Monroes as Alkali Tom
- 1966–70: The Virginian as Morgan/Will Baxter/Ed Simpson (3 episodes)
- 1966–70: Lassie as Ramsey Harris/Carl Bryan (2 episodes)
- 1967: Combat as Hank Davis
- 1967: Hondo as Buffalo Baker
- 1969: Lancer as Dan Hamlin
- 1970: The High Chaparral as Hannibal Clay
- 1971: Alias Smith and Jones as Sheriff
- 1971–82: The Wonderfull World Of Disney as Uncle Ben/Doc Manners/Narrator (3 episodes)
- 1972: Me And The Chimp as Beetley
- 1973: Police Story as Hecker
- 1973–74: Doc Elliot as Barney Weeks (10 episodes)
- 1974: The Waltons as Charlie Harmon
- 1974: The Streets of San Francisco as Marty Jensen
- 1974–76: The Six Million Dollar Man as Officer banner/Tom Molson (2 episodes)
- 1974–80: The Rockford Files as Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- 1976: Ellery Queen as Lionel Briggs
- 1978: The Bastard as Dan O'Brien
- 1979: Greatest Heroes Of The Bible as Mordechai
- 1979: Eight is Enough as Dutch
- 1979: ABC Weekend Specials as Billy
- 1980–86: The Love Boat as Daryl Wilcox/Gordon Layton (2 episodes)
- 1981: Fantasy Island as Otis T. Boggs
- 1981: Vegas as Josiah Sparks
- 1981: Magnum, P.I. as Floyd Lewellen
- 1982: The Quest as Arthur Henley
- 1983–84: The Yellow Rose as Luther Dillard
- 1984: Hot Pursuit as Henry Brooks
- 1984: Cover Up as Graham
- 1985: Trapper John, M.D. as Buckaroo Bob Morgan
- 1985: Murder, She Wrote as Doc Wallace
Short film roles
- 1943: To The People Of The United States as Bomber Ground Crew (uncredited)
- 1970: The Murdocks And The Mc Clays as Calvin Murdock
