# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-brennan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:53.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-brennan"
name: "Walter Brennan"
slug: "walter-brennan"
description: "Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only person to win three awards in the supporting actor category. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948) and Rio Bravo (1959). On television, he starred in the sitcom The Real McCoys (1957–1963)."
tagline: "American actor (1894–1974)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1894-07-25"
deathDate: "1974-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump