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Noah Beery, Jr.

Noah Beery (August 10, 1913November 1, 1994) was an American actor.


He was born in New York City, New York where his father, Noah Beery, Sr., 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 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, he went on to become a respected character actor. Noah Beery, Jr. appeared in a number of films but is best known for his role as "Rocky," the father of the James Garner on the popular television series, The Rockford Files .

Noah Beery, Jr. died in 1994 in Tehachapi, California of a heart attack and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California with his father and actor uncle, Wallace Beery.

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