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Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

Birthday: 1894-07-25 | Place of Birth: Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as    Self (archive footage)

1974
Home for the Holidays

as    Benjamin Morgan

1972
Two for the Money

as    Cody Guilford

1970
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

as    Nash Crawford

1970
The Young Country

as    Sheriff Matt Fenley

1969
The Over-the-Hill Gang

as    Nash Crawford

1969
Support Your Local Sheriff!

as    Pa Danby

1967
The Gnome-Mobile

as    D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby

1967
Who's Minding the Mint?

as    Pop Gillis

1959
Rio Bravo

as    Stumpy

1957
The Real McCoys

as    Grandpa Amos McCoy

1957
Tammy and the Bachelor

as    John Dinwitty

1956
The Proud Ones

as    Jake

1955
At Gunpoint

as    Doc Lacy

1955
Bad Day at Black Rock

as    Doc T.R. Velie Jr.

1954
The Far Country

as    Ben Tatum

1954
Drums Across the River

as    Sam Brannon

1954
Four Guns to the Border

as    Simon Bhumer

1952
Return of the Texan

as    Grandpa Firth Crockett

1952
Lure of the Wilderness

as    Jim Harper

1951
Best of the Badmen

as    'Doc' Butcher

1951
The Wild Blue Yonder

as    Maj. Gen. Wolfe

1951
Along the Great Divide

as    Timothy 'Pop' Keith

1950
The Showdown

as    Cap MacKellar

1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk

as    Terence Sweeny

1949
Task Force

as    Pete Richard

1949
Brimstone

as    Pop Courteen

1948
Red River

as    'Groot' Nadine