Walter Brennan
American actor (1894-1974) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 80
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.
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Alias Smith and JonesSeries1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime HourSeries
Support Your Local Sheriff!Film, 1969Pa Danby1967
The Guns of Will SonnettSeries, Will Sonnett
The Gnome-MobileFilm, 1967D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby1964
Those CallowaysFilm, Alf Simes1962
The Merv Griffin ShowSeries1960Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward1959
Rio BravoFilm, Stumpy1957
The Real McCoysSeries, Amos McCoy1956
The Proud OnesFilm, Jake1954The George Gobel ShowSeries
The Far CountryFilm, 1954Ben Tatum1953
The OscarsSeries1952
Cavalcade of AmericaSeries, Link Morley1951
Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeries, Ezra Jenkins1950
Lux Video TheatreSeries1946
A Stolen LifeFilm, Eben Folger1944
The Princess and the PirateFilm, Featherhead1942
The Pride of the YankeesFilm, Sam Blake1941Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1940
Northwest PassageFilm, 'Hunk' Marriner1939Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1938
The Adventures of Tom SawyerFilm, Muff Potter1937Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1935
Barbary CoastFilm, Old Atrocity1930
King of JazzFilm, Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')1894Born25 July 1894Known for
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Rio Bravo 1959
La Classe américaine 1993
My Darling Clementine 1946
Fury 1936
Bride of Frankenstein 1935
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William Wyler Directed The Westerner and Come and Get It
Howard Hawks Directed Red River and Sergeant York
Samuel Goldwyn Produced The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Kentucky and Stanley and Livingstone
Richard Thorpe Directed Grief Street and The Ridin' Rowdy
Allan Dwan Directed Driftwood and The Wild Blue Yonder
Richard Boleslawski Directed The Painted Veil and Metropolitan
Carl Laemmle Jr. Produced The Invisible Man (1933)
Kurt Neumann Directed The Big Cage and King for a Night
Lucien Hubbard Produced Fugitive Lovers (1934)
Joseph Kane Directed Brimstone and Sea of Lost Ships
Pandro S. Berman Produced Alice Adams and Slightly Dangerous
Otto Brower Directed Kentucky and Stanley and Livingstone
John Wayne Also in How the West Was Won and Red River
James Whale Directed The Invisible Man (1933)
Gary Cooper Also in Sergeant York (1941)
John Ford Directed How the West Was Won (1962)
Spencer Tracy Also in How the West Was Won and Fury
Frank Capra Produced Meet John Doe (1941)
Fritz Lang Directed Fury and Hangmen Also Die!
Hal B. Wallis Produced The Keyhole and Miss Pinkerton
Carl Laemmle Produced Heroes of the Flames (1931)
Charles Lamont Directed Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)- H. C. Potter Directed The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
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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).
