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
- Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender 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
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Silky O'Sullivan
1970
- The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again as Nash Crawford
- The Young Country as Sheriff Matt Fenley
1969
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
- To Rome with Love as Andy Pruitt
- Support Your Local Sheriff! as Pa Danby
- The Over the Hill Gang as Nash Crawford
1968
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band as Grandpa Bower
1967
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Will Sonnett
- The Gnome-Mobile as D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
- Who's Minding the Mint? as Pop Gillis
- Project XX: End of the Trail as Self - Narrator
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 John Dinwitty
- Armored Attack! as Karp
- The Way to the Gold as Uncle George Williams
- God Is My Partner as Dr. Charles Grayson
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
- Glory as Ned Otis
- Come Next Spring as Jeffrey Storys
- Good-bye, My Lady as Uncle Jesse Jackson
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
- The Ford Television Theatre as Duffy
- This Is Your Life as Self
- 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 - Mystery Guest
- Lux Video Theatre as Self - Intermission Guest
- Singing Guns as Dr. Jonathan Mark
- The Showdown as Cap MacKellar
- A Ticket to Tomahawk as Terence Sweeny
- Surrender as Sheriff Bill Howard
- Curtain Call at Cactus Creek as Rimrock
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
- Centennial Summer as Jesse Rogers
- Nobody Lives Forever as Pop Gruber
1945
- Dakota as Bounce of the Riverbird
- To Have and Have Not as Eddie
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
- 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
- Nice Girl? as Hector Titus
1940
- The Westerner as Judge Roy Bean
- Northwest Passage as 'Hunk' Marriner
- Maryland as William P. Stewart
1939
- They Shall Have Music as Professor Lawson
- Stanley and Livingstone as Jeff Slocum
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Walter
- Land of Liberty as Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
- 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
- The Texans as Chuckawalla
- Mother Carey's Chickens as Ossian Popham
- Kentucky as Peter Goodwin
1937
- Wild and Woolly as Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
- She's Dangerous as 'Oats'
- Affairs of Cappy Ricks as Cappy Ricks
- When Love Is Young as Uncle Hugo
1936
- Fury as Bugs Meyers
- These Three as Taxi Driver
- The Moon's Our Home as Lem
- Three Godfathers as Samuel 'Gus' Barton
- Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom
- Banjo on My Knee as Newt Holley
1935
- Bride of Frankenstein as Peasant (uncredited)
- Barbary Coast as Old Atrocity
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Milkman (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Peddler
- The Wedding Night as Bill Jenkins
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as 'Legs' Garnett
- Seven Keys to Baldpate as Station Agent
- Helldorado as Pete
- Party Wire as Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
- The Perfect Tribute as Stone Cutter (uncredited)
- Metropolitan as Grandpa
- Law Beyond the Range as Abner
- We're in the Money as Wedding Witness (uncredited)
- West Point of the Air as Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
- Biography of a Bachelor Girl as Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
- Restless Knights as Father (uncredited)
- Northern Frontier as Stuttering Cook
- Lady Tubbs as Joseph
- Brick-a-Brac as Lem
1934
- Riptide as Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Great Expectations as Prisoner on Ship
- Cross Country Cruise as Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Clifford (uncredited)
- Beloved as Stuttering Boarder
- Gridiron Flash as Proprietor of Java Joe's
- The Life of Vergie Winters as Roscoe (uncredited)
- Woman Haters as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Prescott Kid as Zeke - Stage Driver
- Murder in the Private Car as Switchman (uncredited)
- Half a Sinner as Radio Announcer
- George White's Scandals as Hick (uncredited)
- Fugitive Lovers as 2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
- Cheating Cheaters as Ship's Telegrapher (uncredited)
- Paradise Valley as Farmer Hiram
- Death on the Diamond as Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
- Uncertain Lady as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
- The Poor Rich as Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
- There's Always Tomorrow as Auto mechanic
- Good Dame as Elmer Spicer
- I'll Tell the World as Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
- Radio Dough as Drunk Customer (uncredited)
1933
- The Invisible Man as Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
- Parachute Jumper as Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
- My Woman as Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
- Golden Harvest as Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
- Goldie Gets Along as Stuttering Waiter
- Sensation Hunters as Stuttering Waiter
- King for a Night as Soda Jerk
- The Phantom of the Air as 'Skid' (uncredited)
- Saturday's Millions as Reporter
- The Big Cage as Ticket Taker
- Girl Missing as Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
- Curtain at Eight as Backstage Detective [extra]
- Strange People as The Radio Repairman
- Man Of Action as Cashier Summers
- Lucky Dog as Drunk #2
- The Rustler's Roundup as Walt (uncredited)
- One Year Later as Man Chuckling at Train Station
- Sailor Beware! as Stuttering Thief
1932
- Law and Order as Lanky Smith (uncredited)
- Miss Pinkerton as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
- The Impatient Maiden as Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
- The All-American as News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
- Scandal for Sale as Newspaperman
- Speed Madness as Joe
- Women Won't Tell as Man in Junkyard
- Afraid to Talk as Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
- Two-Fisted Law as Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
- The Iceman's Ball as Officer Dugan
- Texas Cyclone as Sheriff Lew Collins
- The Airmail Mystery as Holly
- The Unexpected Father as Sailor (uncredited)
- Cornered as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
- Once in a Lifetime as Lighting Technician (uncredited)
- Manhattan Tower as Mechanic (uncredited)
- The Fourth Horseman as Toothless Town Drunk
1931
- A House Divided as Musician (uncredited)
- Scratch-As-Catch-Can
- Grief Street as Walt
- Honeymoon Lane as Driver
- Is There Justice? as Rollins
- Many a Slip as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Heroes of the Flames as Bit Part
- 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)
- Dames Ahoy as Side Show Barker
- See America Thirst as Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
1929
- Flight as Marine Pilot
- The Last Performance as Clown (uncredited)
- The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as Man at Police Station
- Smilin' Guns as Ranch Foreman
- The Shannons of Broadway as Hez
- The Lariat Kid as Pat O'Shea
- The Long, Long Trail as Skinny Rawlins
- One Hysterical Night as Paul Revere
- His Lucky Day as Road House Thug (uncredited)
- Flying High as Kidnapper
1928
- The Michigan Kid as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Ballyhoo Buster
1927
- Blake of Scotland Yard as Henchman (uncredited)
- Flashing Oars as Hula Hula Hut Customer
- A Fighting Finish as Student
- Sensation Seekers as Below Deck Yacht Crewman
- Alias The Deacon as Cashier at Cunningham's Rink
- The Ridin' Rowdy
- Tearin' Into Trouble as Billy Martin
- Hot Heels as Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)
1926
- Spangles as Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
- Watch Your Wife
1925
- Lorraine of the Lions as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Calgary Stampede as Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
- Webs of Steel