Walter Brennan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 25, 1894, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- September 21, 1974
- Movies
- 217
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).
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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 |
| 1967 | Project XX: End of the Trail | Self - Narrator |
| 1966 | The Oscar | Quentin |
| 1965 | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Narrator |
| 1964 | Those Calloways | Alf Simes |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Jeb Hawkins |
| 1962 | Shootout at Big Sag | 'Preacher' Hawker |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo | Stumpy |
| 1958 | The Western: A Lost TV Special | Self |
| 1957 | God Is My Partner | Dr. Charles Grayson |
| 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Grandpa |
| 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 | 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 | Stanley and Livingstone | Jeff Slocum |
| 1939 | They Shall Have Music | Professor Lawson |
| 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 | Hunger Pains | |
| 1935 | Restless Knights | Father (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Law Beyond the Range | Abner |
| 1935 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Milkman (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Northern Frontier | Stuttering Cook |
| 1935 | Brick-a-Brac | Lem |
| 1935 | Helldorado | Pete |
| 1935 | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Reporter on Ship (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Prescott Kid | Zeke - Stage Driver |
| 1934 | Cheating Cheaters | Ship's Telegrapher (uncredited) |
| 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 (uncredited), Clifford |
| 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 | Uncertain Lady | Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) |
| 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 | Paradise Valley | Farmer Hiram |
| 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 Fourth Horseman | Toothless Town Drunk |
| 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 | Is There Justice? | Rollins |
| 1931 | Grief Street | Walt |
| 1931 | Honeymoon Lane | Driver |
| 1931 | Heroes of the Flames | Bit Part |
| 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 Shannons of Broadway | Hez |
| 1929 | The Long, Long Trail | Skinny Rawlins |
| 1929 | The Last Performance | Clown (uncredited) |
| 1929 | One Hysterical Night | Paul Revere |
| 1929 | Flight | Marine Pilot |
| 1929 | Flying High | Kidnapper |
| 1929 | His Lucky Day | Road House Thug (uncredited) |
| 1929 | The Lariat Kid | Pat O'Shea |
| 1929 | Smilin' Guns | Ranch Foreman |
| 1929 | The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City | Man at Police Station |
| 1928 | The Michigan Kid | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Ballyhoo Buster | |
| 1927 | Hot Heels | Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited) |
| 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) |
| 1926 | Watch Your Wife | Walter (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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