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The Champ is a 1931 American pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock. The picture tells the story of a washed-up alcoholic boxer (Beery) attempting to put his life back together for the sake of his young son (Cooper).
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. [1] He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930) opposite Marie Dressler, as General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as the pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!
The Champ is a 1979 American neo noir drama sports film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and a remake of the 1931 Academy Award-winning film of the same name directed by King Vidor. It stars Jon Voight as Billy Flynn, a former boxer who attempts to support his son (Ricky Schroder) and reconcile with his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway) by fighting in the ...
By winning Best Actor for The Champ, as well as starring in Grand Hotel, Wallace Beery is the only performer to date to appear in a Best Picture-winning film and win an acting Oscar for a different Best Picture nominee in the same year. This was the last ceremony to date in which no film won more than two Oscars.
Cooper acted with Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931—Beery's Oscar-winning role); a wittily comedic romp titled The Bowery (1933) with George Raft, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1934) with Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone and Nigel Bruce; and a father-son circus story about a one-armed animal trainer titled O ...
1930–1931: Cimarron 7 3 5th: 1931–1932: Arrowsmith 4 0 The Champ 4 2 6th: 1932–1933: Cavalcade 4 3 A Farewell to Arms 4 2 Lady for a Day 4 0 7th: 1934: One Night of Love 6 2 [B] 8th: 1935: Mutiny on the Bounty 8 1 9th: 1936: Anthony Adverse 7 4 Dodsworth 7 1 The Great Ziegfeld 7 3 10th: 1937: The Life of Emile Zola 10 3 11th: 1938
Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards. [11] Most nominations: Arrowsmith (Samuel Goldwyn Productions) and The Champ (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) – 4 Major Awards Best Actor: Wallace Beery – The Champ and Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Edward Brophy (center) with Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931) Calling Philo Vance (1940) Edward Brophy (pictured right) with James Stephenson By 1940 Brophy was so identified as a Runyonesque character with a Brooklynese speech pattern that he was cast as the voice of Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo , even though he was uncredited ...