Walter Brennan

Born: 1894-07-25 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

Died: 1974-09-21

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2000

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs as (archive footage)

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)

1993

La Classe américaine as 'Stumpy' (archive footage)

1975

Smoke In The Wind as H. P. Kingman

1974

Home for the Holidays as Benjamin Morgan

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)

1972

Two for the Money as Cody Guilford

1966

The Oscar as Quentin

1965

The Shooting of Dan McGrew as Narrator

1964

Those Calloways as Alf Simes

1962

The Merv Griffin Show as Self
How the West Was Won as Jeb Hawkins
Shootout at Big Sag as 'Preacher' Hawker

1959

Rio Bravo as Stumpy

1958

The Western: A Lost TV Special as Self

1957

The Real McCoys as Amos McCoy
Tammy and the Bachelor as Grandpa
God Is My Partner as Dr. Charles Grayson
Armored Attack! as Karp
The Way to the Gold as Uncle George Williams

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Joe
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
The Proud Ones as Jake
The Ford Show as Self
Good-bye, My Lady as Uncle Jesse Jackson
Come Next Spring as Jeffrey Storys
Glory as Ned Otis

1955

Bad Day at Black Rock as Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
At Gunpoint as Doc Lacy
Man on a Bus as Saul
The Brush Roper as Grandpa Atkins

1954

The George Gobel Show as Self
The Far Country as Ben Tatum
Four Guns to the Border as Simon Bhumer
Drums Across the River as Sam Brannon

1953

The Oscars as Self
Sea of Lost Ships as C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley

1952

This Is Your Life as Self
The Ford Television Theatre as Duffy
Cavalcade of America as Link Morley
Lure of the Wilderness as Jim Harper
Return of the Texan as Grandpa Firth Crockett

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ezra Jenkins
Along the Great Divide as Timothy 'Pop' Keith
Best of the Badmen as 'Doc' Butcher
The Wild Blue Yonder as Maj. Gen. Wolfe

1950

What's My Line? as Self
Lux Video Theatre as Self - Intermission Guest
A Ticket to Tomahawk as Terence Sweeny
Singing Guns as Dr. Jonathan Mark
The Showdown as Cap MacKellar
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek as Rimrock
Surrender as Sheriff Bill Howard

1949

Task Force as Pete Richard
Brimstone as Pop Courteen
The Green Promise as Mr. Matthews

1948

Red River as 'Groot' Nadine
Blood on the Moon as Kris Barden
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! as Tony Maule

1947

Driftwood as Murph

1946

My Darling Clementine as Old Man Clanton
A Stolen Life as Eben Folger
Nobody Lives Forever as Pop Gruber
Centennial Summer as Jesse Rogers

1945

To Have and Have Not as Eddie
Dakota as Bounce of the Riverbird

1944

The Princess and the Pirate as Featherhead
Home in Indiana as J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt

1943

Hangmen Also Die! as Prof. Stephen Novotny
The North Star as Karp
Slightly Dangerous as Cornelius Burden
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as George, Mailman

1942

The Pride of the Yankees as Sam Blake
Stand by for Action as Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson

1941

Sergeant York as Pastor Rosier Pile
Meet John Doe as The Colonel
Nice Girl? as Hector Titus
Swamp Water as Tom Keefer
Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Woman Is Mine as Captain Jonathan Thorne
Rise and Shine as Grandpa

1940

The Westerner as Judge Roy Bean
Northwest Passage as 'Hunk' Marriner
Maryland as William P. Stewart

1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Walter
Stanley and Livingstone as Jeff Slocum
Land of Liberty as Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
They Shall Have Music as Professor Lawson
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Jim

1938

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
The Cowboy and the Lady as Sugar
The Buccaneer as Ezra Peavey
Kentucky as Peter Goodwin
Mother Carey's Chickens as Ossian Popham
The Texans as Chuckawalla

1937

Wild and Woolly as Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
She's Dangerous as 'Oats'
When Love Is Young as Uncle Hugo
Affairs of Cappy Ricks as Cappy Ricks

1936

Fury as Bugs Meyers
Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom
These Three as Taxi Driver
The Moon's Our Home as Lem
Three Godfathers as Samuel 'Gus' Barton
Banjo on My Knee as Newt Holley

1935

Bride of Frankenstein as Peasant (uncredited)
Barbary Coast as Old Atrocity
The Wedding Night as Bill Jenkins
The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Milkman (uncredited)
Restless Knights as Father (uncredited)
West Point of the Air as Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
We're in the Money as Wedding Witness (uncredited)
Hunger Pains
Biography of a Bachelor Girl as Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
She Couldn't Take It as Peddler
Seven Keys to Baldpate as Station Agent
Northern Frontier as Stuttering Cook
Lady Tubbs as Joseph
Man on the Flying Trapeze as 'Legs' Garnett
Helldorado as Pete
Party Wire as Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
The Perfect Tribute as Stone Cutter (uncredited)
Brick-a-Brac as Lem
Metropolitan as Grandpa
Law Beyond the Range as Abner

1934

Uncertain Lady as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
I'll Tell the World as Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
Riptide as Chauffeur (uncredited)
Paradise Valley as Farmer Hiram
Cheating Cheaters as Ship's Telegrapher (uncredited)
Half a Sinner as Radio Announcer
Beloved as Stuttering Boarder
The Poor Rich as Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
Murder in the Private Car as Switchman (uncredited)
Fugitive Lovers as 2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
Whom the Gods Destroy as Clifford (uncredited)
Gridiron Flash as Proprietor of Java Joe's
George White's Scandals as Hick (uncredited)
Death on the Diamond as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Great Expectations as Prisoner on Ship
Woman Haters as Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Life of Vergie Winters as Roscoe (uncredited)
The Prescott Kid as Zeke - Stage Driver
Good Dame as Elmer Spicer
Cross Country Cruise as Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
There's Always Tomorrow as Auto mechanic
Radio Dough as Drunk Customer (uncredited)

1933

The Invisible Man as Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
Golden Harvest as Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
Sensation Hunters as Stuttering Waiter
My Woman as Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
Curtain at Eight as Backstage Detective [extra]
King for a Night as Soda Jerk
Parachute Jumper as Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
The Big Cage as Ticket Taker
Saturday's Millions as Reporter
One Year Later as Man Chuckling at Train Station
The Rustler's Roundup as Walt (uncredited)
Girl Missing as Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
Strange People as The Radio Repairman
Sailor Beware! as Stuttering Thief
Man Of Action as Cashier Summers
Goldie Gets Along as Stuttering Waiter
The Phantom of the Air as 'Skid' (uncredited)
Lucky Dog as Drunk #2

1932

Miss Pinkerton as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Cornered as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Law and Order as Lanky Smith (uncredited)
Afraid to Talk as Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
The All-American as News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
Texas Cyclone as Sheriff Lew Collins
Two-Fisted Law as Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
The Impatient Maiden as Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
Manhattan Tower as Mechanic (uncredited)
The Iceman's Ball as Officer Dugan
The Unexpected Father as Sailor (uncredited)
Women Won't Tell as Man in Junkyard
Once in a Lifetime as Lighting Technician (uncredited)
Scandal for Sale as Newspaperman
The Fourth Horseman as Toothless Town Drunk
The Airmail Mystery as Holly
Speed Madness as Joe

1931

A House Divided as Musician (uncredited)
Heroes of the Flames as Bit Part
Grief Street as Walt
Is There Justice? as Rollins
Honeymoon Lane as Driver
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Many a Slip as Minor Role (uncredited)
Neck and Neck as Hector

1930

King of Jazz as Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')
Little Accident as Milkman (uncredited)
See America Thirst as Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
Dames Ahoy as Side Show Barker

1929

The Last Performance as Clown (uncredited)
The Shannons of Broadway as Hez
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as Man at Police Station
Flight as Marine Pilot
Flying High as Kidnapper
His Lucky Day as Road House Thug (uncredited)
The Lariat Kid as Pat O'Shea
The Long, Long Trail as Skinny Rawlins
Smilin' Guns as Ranch Foreman
One Hysterical Night as Paul Revere

1928

The Ballyhoo Buster
The Michigan Kid as Minor Role (uncredited)

1927

Hot Heels as Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)
Blake of Scotland Yard as Henchman (uncredited)
Tearin' Into Trouble as Billy Martin
The Ridin' Rowdy
Flashing Oars as Hula Hula Hut Customer
Sensation Seekers as Below Deck Yacht Crewman
A Fighting Finish as Student
Alias The Deacon as Cashier at Cunningham's Rink

1926

Watch Your Wife as Walter (uncredited)
Spangles as Lunch Counterman (uncredited)

1925

The Calgary Stampede as Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
Lorraine of the Lions as Minor Role (uncredited)
Webs of Steel