Actor
Walter Brennan
Biography

Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards. 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 ...

Known For
Acting
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2000 -- Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs | (archive footage)
1997 -- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage)
1993 -- La Classe américaine | 'Stumpy' (archive footage)
1975 -- Smoke In The Wind | H. P. Kingman
1974 -- Home for the Holidays | Benjamin Morgan
1973 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Self (archive footage)
1972 -- Two for the Money | Cody Guilford
1971 -- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry | Silky O'Sullivan
1970 -- The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again | Nash Crawford
1970 -- The Young Country | Sheriff Matt Fenley
1969 -- The Over the Hill Gang | Nash Crawford
1969 -- Support Your Local Sheriff! | Pa Danby
1968 -- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | Grandpa Bower
1968 -- The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage)
1967 -- Who's Minding the Mint? | Pop Gillis
1967 -- The Gnome-Mobile | D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
1966 -- The Oscar | Quentin
1965 -- Those Calloways | Alf Simes
1965 -- The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Narrator
1962 -- How the West Was Won | Col. Jeb Hawkins
1962 -- Shootout at Big Sag | 'Preacher' Hawker
1959 -- Rio Bravo | Stumpy
1957 -- God Is My Partner | Dr. Charles Grayson
1957 -- Tammy and the Bachelor | John Dinwitty
1957 -- The Way to the Gold | Uncle George Williams
1957 -- Armored Attack! | Karp
1956 -- The Proud Ones | Jake
1956 -- Good-bye, My Lady | Uncle Jesse Jackson
1956 -- Come Next Spring | Jeffrey Storys
1956 -- Glory | Ned Otis
1955 -- At Gunpoint | Doc Lacy
1955 -- The Brush Roper | Grandpa Atkins
1955 -- Man on a Bus | Saul
1955 -- Bad Day at Black Rock | Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
1954 -- Four Guns to the Border | Simon Bhumer
1954 -- Drums Across the River | Sam Brannon
1954 -- The Far Country | Ben Tatum
1953 -- Sea of Lost Ships | C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley
1952 -- Lure of the Wilderness | Jim Harper
1952 -- Return of the Texan | Grandpa Firth Crockett
1951 -- The Wild Blue Yonder | Maj. Gen. Wolfe
1951 -- Best of the Badmen | 'Doc' Butcher
1951 -- Along the Great Divide | Timothy 'Pop' Keith
1950 -- Surrender | Sheriff Bill Howard
1950 -- The Showdown | Cap MacKellar
1950 -- Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Rimrock
1950 -- A Ticket to Tomahawk | Terence Sweeny
1950 -- Singing Guns | Dr. Jonathan Mark
1949 -- Task Force | Pete Richard
1949 -- Brimstone | Pop Courteen
1949 -- The Green Promise | Mr. Matthews
1948 -- Blood on the Moon | Kris Barden
1948 -- Red River | 'Groot' Nadine
1948 -- Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! | Tony Maule
1947 -- Driftwood | Murph
1946 -- Nobody Lives Forever | Pop Gruber
1946 -- My Darling Clementine | Old Man Clanton
1946 -- Centennial Summer | Jesse Rogers
1946 -- A Stolen Life | Eben Folger
1945 -- Dakota | Capt. Bounce of the Riverbird
1945 -- To Have and Have Not | Eddie
1944 -- The Princess and the Pirate | Featherhead
1944 -- Home in Indiana | J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt
1943 -- The North Star | Karp
1943 -- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith | George, Mailman
1943 -- Hangmen Also Die! | Prof. Stephen Novotny
1943 -- Slightly Dangerous | Cornelius Burden
1942 -- Stand by for Action | Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
1942 -- The Pride of the Yankees | Sam Blake
1941 -- Rise and Shine | Grandpa
1941 -- Swamp Water | Tom Keefer
1941 -- Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941 -- Sergeant York | Pastor Rosier Pile
1941 -- This Woman Is Mine | Captain Jonathan Thorne
1941 -- Meet John Doe | The Colonel
1941 -- Nice Girl? | Hector Titus
1940 -- The Westerner | Judge Roy Bean
1940 -- Maryland | William P. Stewart
1940 -- Northwest Passage | 'Hunk' Marriner
1939 -- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | Jim
1939 -- They Shall Have Music | Professor Lawson
1939 -- Stanley and Livingstone | Jeff Slocum
1939 -- Land of Liberty | Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
1939 -- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | Walter
1938 -- Kentucky | Peter Goodwin
1938 -- The Cowboy and the Lady | Sugar
1938 -- The Texans | Chuckawalla
1938 -- Mother Carey's Chickens | Ossian Popham
1938 -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Muff Potter
1938 -- The Buccaneer | Ezra Peavey
1937 -- Wild and Woolly | Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
1937 -- Affairs of Cappy Ricks | Cappy Ricks
1937 -- When Love Is Young | Uncle Hugo
1937 -- She's Dangerous | 'Oats'
1936 -- Banjo on My Knee | Newt Holley
1936 -- Come and Get It | Swan Bostrom
1936 -- Fury | Bugs Meyers
1936 -- The Moon's Our Home | Lem
1936 -- These Three | Taxi Driver
1936 -- Three Godfathers | Samuel 'Gus' Barton
1935 -- Seven Keys to Baldpate | Station Agent
1935 -- Metropolitan | Grandpa
1935 -- Barbary Coast | Old Atrocity
1935 -- She Couldn't Take It | Peddler
1935 -- We're in the Money | Wedding Witness (uncredited)
1935 -- The Perfect Tribute | Stone Cutter (uncredited)
1935 -- Man on the Flying Trapeze | 'Legs' Garnett
1935 -- Lady Tubbs | Joseph
1935 -- Party Wire | Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
1935 -- Bride of Frankenstein | Peasant (uncredited)
1935 -- West Point of the Air | Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
1935 -- The Wedding Night | Bill Jenkins
1935 -- Restless Knights | Father (uncredited)
1935 -- Law Beyond the Range | Abner
1935 -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood | First Gossip
1935 -- Northern Frontier | Stuttering Cook
1935 -- Brick-a-Brac | Lem
1935 -- Helldorado | Pete
1935 -- Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
1934 -- Prescott Kid | Zeke - Stage Driver
1934 -- There's Always Tomorrow | Auto mechanic
1934 -- Great Expectations | Prisoner on Ship
1934 -- Gridiron Flash | Proprietor of Java Joe's
1934 -- Death on the Diamond | Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
1934 -- Whom the Gods Destroy | Clifford
1934 -- Whom the Gods Destroy | Clifford (uncredited)
1934 -- Murder in the Private Car | Switchman (uncredited)
1934 -- The Life of Vergie Winters | Roscoe (uncredited)
1934 -- Half a Sinner | Radio Announcer
1934 -- Woman Haters | Train Conductor (uncredited)
1934 -- I'll Tell the World | Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
1934 -- Riptide | Chauffeur (uncredited)
1934 -- Good Dame | Elmer Spicer
1934 -- George White's Scandals | Hick (uncredited)
1934 -- The Poor Rich | Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
1934 -- Radio Dough | Drunk Customer (uncredited)
1934 -- Beloved | Stuttering Boarder
1934 -- Cross Country Cruise | Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
1934 -- Fugitive Lovers | 2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
1933 -- King for a Night | Soda Jerk
1933 -- The Invisible Man | Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
1933 -- My Woman | Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
1933 -- Curtain at Eight | Backstage Detective [extra]
1933 -- Saturday's Millions | Reporter
1933 -- Golden Harvest | Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
1933 -- Sailor Beware! | Stuttering Thief
1933 -- Sensation Hunters | Stuttering Waiter
1933 -- One Year Later | Man Chuckling at Train Station
1933 -- Strange People | The Radio Repairman
1933 -- The Phantom of the Air | 'Skid' (uncredited)
1933 -- The Big Cage | Ticket Taker
1933 -- Lucky Dog | Drunk #2
1933 -- The Rustler's Roundup | Walt (uncredited)
1933 -- Girl Missing | Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
1933 -- Parachute Jumper | Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
1933 -- Goldie Gets Along | Stuttering Waiter
1933 -- Man Of Action | Cashier Summers
1932 -- Manhattan Tower | Mechanic (uncredited)
1932 -- Afraid to Talk | Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
1932 -- Women Won't Tell | Man in Junkyard
1932 -- Once in a Lifetime | Lighting Technician (uncredited)
1932 -- The All-American | News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
1932 -- The Iceman's Ball | Officer Dugan
1932 -- Cornered | Court Bailiff (uncredited)
1932 -- Speed Madness | Joe
1932 -- Two-Fisted Law | Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
1932 -- Miss Pinkerton | Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
1932 -- Scandal for Sale | Newspaperman
1932 -- The Airmail Mystery | Holly
1932 -- The Impatient Maiden | Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
1932 -- Texas Cyclone | Sheriff Lew Collins
1932 -- Law and Order | Lanky Smith (uncredited)
1932 -- The Unexpected Father | Sailor (uncredited)
1931 -- A House Divided | Musician (uncredited)
1931 -- Scratch-As-Catch-Can |
1931 -- Neck and Neck | Hector
1931 -- Grief Street | Walt
1931 -- Honeymoon Lane | Driver
1931 -- Many a Slip | Minor Role (uncredited)
1930 -- See America Thirst | Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
1930 -- Little Accident | Milkman (uncredited)
1930 -- King of Jazz | Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')
1930 -- Dames Ahoy | Side Show Barker
1929 -- The Long, Long Trail | Skinny Rawlins
1929 -- The Last Performance | Clown (uncredited)
1929 -- One Hysterical Night | Paul Revere
1929 -- Flight | Marine Pilot
1929 -- His Lucky Day | Road House Thug (uncredited)
1929 -- The Lariat Kid | Pat O'Shea
1929 -- Smilin' Guns | Ranch Foreman
1928 -- The Michigan Kid | Minor Role (uncredited)
1928 -- The Ballyhoo Buster |
1927 -- A Fighting Finish | Student
1927 -- Blake of Scotland Yard | Henchman (uncredited)
1927 -- Alias The Deacon | Cashier at Cunningham's Rink
1927 -- The Ridin' Rowdy |
1927 -- Sensation Seekers | Below Deck Yacht Crewman
1927 -- Tearin' Into Trouble | Billy Martin
1927 -- Flashing Oars | Hula Hula Hut Customer
1926 -- Spangles | Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
1925 -- The Calgary Stampede | Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
1925 -- Lorraine of the Lions | Minor Role (uncredited)
1925 -- Webs of Steel |
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