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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 25, 1894
Died
September 21, 1974
Place of Birth
Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Walter Andrew Brennan
- والتر برنان
Walter Brennan
1.8 Popularity
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 Bravo (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brennan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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(archive footage)
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000
4.9
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
7.6
'Stumpy' (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
1993
6.0
H. P. Kingman
Smoke In The Wind
1975
5.3
Benjamin Morgan
Home for the Holidays
1974
6.8
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973
6.0
Cody Guilford
Two for the Money
1972
0.0
Silky O'Sullivan
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
1971
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Credits
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)
2000
0.0
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
1997
0.0
La Classe américaine
as 'Stumpy' (archive footage)
1993
7.6
Smoke In The Wind
as H. P. Kingman
1975
6.0
Home for the Holidays
as Benjamin Morgan
1974
5.3
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.8
Two for the Money
as Cody Guilford
1972
6.0
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
as Silky O'Sullivan
1971
0.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Nash Crawford
1970
5.0
The Young Country
as Sheriff Matt Fenley
1970
8.0
To Rome with Love
as Andy Pruitt
1969
5.0
The Over the Hill Gang
as Nash Crawford
1969
5.6
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Pa Danby
1969
7.0
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
as Grandpa Bower
1968
6.0
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.3
Who's Minding the Mint?
as Pop Gillis
1967
7.0
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
The Gnome-Mobile
as D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
1967
6.2
Project XX: End of the Trail
as Self - Narrator
1967
0.0
The Oscar
as Quentin
1966
4.8
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
as Narrator
1965
0.0
Those Calloways
as Alf Simes
1964
6.3
How the West Was Won
as Col. Jeb Hawkins
1962
7.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Shootout at Big Sag
as 'Preacher' Hawker
1962
0.0
Rio Bravo
as Stumpy
1959
7.8
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
1958
0.0
The Real McCoys
as Amos McCoy
1957
5.6
God Is My Partner
as Dr. Charles Grayson
1957
5.0
Tammy and the Bachelor
as John Dinwitty
1957
7.0
The Way to the Gold
as Uncle George Williams
1957
0.0
Armored Attack!
as Karp
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Joe
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff John Larson
1956
6.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
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The Ford Show
as Self
1956
7.3
The Proud Ones
as Jake
1956
6.4
Good-bye, My Lady
as Uncle Jesse Jackson
1956
7.7
Come Next Spring
as Jeffrey Storys
1956
5.6
Glory
as Ned Otis
1956
5.0
At Gunpoint
as Doc Lacy
1955
6.3
The Brush Roper
as Grandpa Atkins
1955
0.0
Man on a Bus
as Saul
1955
4.0
Bad Day at Black Rock
as Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
1955
7.3
Four Guns to the Border
as Simon Bhumer
1954
4.9
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The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
Drums Across the River
as Sam Brannon
1954
5.6
The Far Country
as Ben Tatum
1954
6.9
Sea of Lost Ships
as C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley
1953
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as Duffy
1952
7.3
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.4
Cavalcade of America
as Link Morley
1952
3.5
Lure of the Wilderness
as Jim Harper
1952
6.0
Return of the Texan
as Grandpa Firth Crockett
1952
6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
as Maj. Gen. Wolfe
1951
6.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Ezra Jenkins
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Simmons AKA Mr. Ears
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Best of the Badmen
as 'Doc' Butcher
1951
6.5
Along the Great Divide
as Timothy 'Pop' Keith
1951
7.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Self - Intermission Guest
1950
6.3
Surrender
as Sheriff Bill Howard
1950
4.4
The Showdown
as Cap MacKellar
1950
5.2
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
as Rimrock
1950
6.3
A Ticket to Tomahawk
as Terence Sweeny
1950
5.8
Singing Guns
as Dr. Jonathan Mark
1950
6.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Task Force
as Pete Richard
1949
7.0
Brimstone
as Pop Courteen
1949
6.3
The Green Promise
as Mr. Matthews
1949
6.0
Blood on the Moon
as Kris Barden
1948
6.2
Red River
as 'Groot' Nadine
1948
7.3
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
as Tony Maule
1948
4.7
Driftwood
as Murph
1947
6.1
Nobody Lives Forever
as Pop Gruber
1946
6.2
My Darling Clementine
as Old Man Clanton
1946
7.4
Centennial Summer
as Jesse Rogers
1946
5.5
A Stolen Life
as Eben Folger
1946
6.3
Dakota
as Bounce of the Riverbird
1945
5.1
To Have and Have Not
as Eddie
1945
7.4
The Princess and the Pirate
as Featherhead
1944
6.9
Home in Indiana
as J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt
1944
5.5
The North Star
as Karp
1943
6.1
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
as George, Mailman
1943
10.0
Hangmen Also Die!
as Prof. Stephen Novotny
1943
6.9
Slightly Dangerous
as Cornelius Burden
1943
6.1
Stand by for Action
as Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
1942
6.8
The Pride of the Yankees
as Sam Blake
1942
7.4
Rise and Shine
as Grandpa
1941
6.0
Swamp Water
as Tom Keefer
1941
6.3
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
Sergeant York
as Pastor Rosier Pile
1941
7.2
This Woman Is Mine
as Captain Jonathan Thorne
1941
4.0
Meet John Doe
as The Colonel
1941
7.3
Nice Girl?
as Hector Titus
1941
5.3
The Westerner
as Judge Roy Bean
1940
7.1
Maryland
as William P. Stewart
1940
6.2
Northwest Passage
as 'Hunk' Marriner
1940
6.5
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as Jim
1939
2.0
Stanley and Livingstone
as Jeff Slocum
1939
6.3
They Shall Have Music
as Professor Lawson
1939
6.2
Land of Liberty
as Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
1939
0.0
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Walter
1939
6.9
Kentucky
as Peter Goodwin
1938
5.8
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Sugar
1938
6.3
The Texans
as Chuckawalla
1938
5.6
Mother Carey's Chickens
as Ossian Popham
1938
5.2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
as Muff Potter
1938
6.6
The Buccaneer
as Ezra Peavey
1938
6.4
Wild and Woolly
as Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
1937
0.0
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
as Cappy Ricks
1937
4.3
When Love Is Young
as Uncle Hugo
1937
0.0
She's Dangerous
as 'Oats'
1937
5.0
Banjo on My Knee
as Newt Holley
1936
5.5
Come and Get It
as Swan Bostrom
1936
6.8
Fury
as Bugs Meyers
1936
7.4
The Moon's Our Home
as Lem
1936
6.6
These Three
as Taxi Driver
1936
7.1
Three Godfathers
as Samuel 'Gus' Barton
1936
6.9
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Station Agent
1935
6.6
Metropolitan
as Grandpa
1935
0.0
Barbary Coast
as Old Atrocity
1935
6.5
She Couldn't Take It
as Peddler
1935
4.5
We're in the Money
as Wedding Witness (uncredited)
1935
5.5
The Perfect Tribute
as Stone Cutter (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Man on the Flying Trapeze
as 'Legs' Garnett
1935
6.0
Lady Tubbs
as Joseph
1935
5.0
Party Wire
as Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
1935
8.0
Bride of Frankenstein
as Peasant (uncredited)
1935
7.5
West Point of the Air
as Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
1935
6.0
The Wedding Night
as Bill Jenkins
1935
5.8
Restless Knights
as Father (uncredited)
1935
5.9
Law Beyond the Range
as Abner
1935
0.0
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Milkman (uncredited)
1935
5.6
Northern Frontier
as Stuttering Cook
1935
0.0
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Brick-a-Brac
as Lem
1935
0.0
Helldorado
as Pete
1935
0.0
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
1935
6.3
Prescott Kid
as Zeke - Stage Driver
1934
0.0
Cheating Cheaters
as Ship's Telegrapher (uncredited)
1934
0.0
There's Always Tomorrow
as Auto mechanic
1934
8.0
Great Expectations
as Prisoner on Ship
1934
6.2
Gridiron Flash
as Proprietor of Java Joe's
1934
3.3
Death on the Diamond
as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Whom the Gods Destroy
as Clifford (uncredited)
1934
5.5
Whom the Gods Destroy
as Clifford
1934
5.5
Murder in the Private Car
as Switchman (uncredited)
1934
5.3
The Life of Vergie Winters
as Roscoe (uncredited)
1934
5.2
Half a Sinner
as Radio Announcer
1934
0.0
Woman Haters
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1934
6.0
I'll Tell the World
as Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
1934
0.0
Uncertain Lady
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Riptide
as Chauffeur (uncredited)
1934
6.2
Good Dame
as Elmer Spicer
1934
5.5
George White's Scandals
as Hick (uncredited)
1934
5.0
The Poor Rich
as Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
1934
0.0
🎬
Radio Dough
as Drunk Customer (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Beloved
as Stuttering Boarder
1934
0.0
Cross Country Cruise
as Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
1934
6.0
Fugitive Lovers
as 2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
1934
6.0
King for a Night
as Soda Jerk
1933
6.2
The Invisible Man
as Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
1933
7.5
My Woman
as Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
1933
3.6
Curtain at Eight
as Backstage Detective [extra]
1933
5.9
Saturday's Millions
as Reporter
1933
5.0
Golden Harvest
as Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
1933
5.0
Sailor Beware!
as Stuttering Thief
1933
0.0
Sensation Hunters
as Stuttering Waiter
1933
2.0
One Year Later
as Man Chuckling at Train Station
1933
6.3
Strange People
as The Radio Repairman
1933
5.0
The Phantom of the Air
as 'Skid' (uncredited)
1933
6.0
The Big Cage
as Ticket Taker
1933
6.0
🎬
Lucky Dog
as Drunk #2
1933
0.0
The Rustler's Roundup
as Walt (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Girl Missing
as Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
1933
4.6
Parachute Jumper
as Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
1933
5.9
Goldie Gets Along
as Stuttering Waiter
1933
4.0
Man Of Action
as Cashier Summers
1933
0.0
Manhattan Tower
as Mechanic (uncredited)
1932
5.9
Afraid to Talk
as Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
1932
6.0
Women Won't Tell
as Man in Junkyard
1932
4.0
Once in a Lifetime
as Lighting Technician (uncredited)
1932
7.0
The All-American
as News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
1932
5.0
The Fourth Horseman
as Toothless Town Drunk
1932
0.0
🎬
The Iceman's Ball
as Officer Dugan
1932
1.0
Cornered
as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
1932
6.0
Speed Madness
as Joe
1932
0.0
Two-Fisted Law
as Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
1932
4.6
Miss Pinkerton
as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
1932
5.7
Scandal for Sale
as Newspaperman
1932
7.0
The Airmail Mystery
as Holly
1932
0.0
The Impatient Maiden
as Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
1932
0.0
Texas Cyclone
as Sheriff Lew Collins
1932
4.2
Law and Order
as Lanky Smith (uncredited)
1932
4.9
The Unexpected Father
as Sailor (uncredited)
1932
0.0
A House Divided
as Musician (uncredited)
1931
4.8
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931
5.4
Neck and Neck
as Hector
1931
0.0
Grief Street
as Walt
1931
3.9
Honeymoon Lane
as Driver
1931
0.0
Many a Slip
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1931
0.0
See America Thirst
as Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
1930
0.0
Little Accident
as Milkman (uncredited)
1930
0.0
King of Jazz
as Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')
1930
6.2
Dames Ahoy
as Side Show Barker
1930
0.0
The Shannons of Broadway
as Hez
1929
0.0
The Long, Long Trail
as Skinny Rawlins
1929
4.0
The Last Performance
as Clown (uncredited)
1929
6.2
One Hysterical Night
as Paul Revere
1929
5.0
Flight
as Marine Pilot
1929
6.3
His Lucky Day
as Road House Thug (uncredited)
1929
0.0
The Lariat Kid
as Pat O'Shea
1929
0.0
Smilin' Guns
as Ranch Foreman
1929
0.0
The Michigan Kid
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1928
0.0
The Ballyhoo Buster
1928
0.0
Hot Heels
as Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)
1927
0.0
🎬
A Fighting Finish
as Student
1927
0.0
Blake of Scotland Yard
as Henchman (uncredited)
1927
0.0
Alias The Deacon
as Cashier at Cunningham's Rink
1927
0.0
The Ridin' Rowdy
1927
0.0
Sensation Seekers
as Below Deck Yacht Crewman
1927
6.4
Tearin' Into Trouble
as Billy Martin
1927
0.0
Flashing Oars
as Hula Hula Hut Customer
1927
2.3
Spangles
as Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
1926
0.0
Watch Your Wife
1926
0.0
The Calgary Stampede
as Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
1925
5.2
Lorraine of the Lions
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1925
5.5
Webs of Steel
1925
0.0