Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

actor, soundtrack

Walter Brennan was born on Jul 25, 1894 in USA. Walter Brennan's big-screen debut came with The Calgary Stampede directed by Herbert Blaché in 1925, strarring Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited). Walter Brennan is known for The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics directed by Peter Fitzgerald, Angela Lansbury stars as Narrator and Kurt Russell as Self - Interviewee. Walter Brennan has got 5 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Walter Brennan achieved is Western Heritage Awards. The upcoming new movie Walter Brennan plays is The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics which will be released on Dec 14, 2008.

In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and performed in school plays. He worked some in vaudeville and also in various jobs such as clerking in a bank and as a lumberjack. He toured in small musical comedy companies before entering the military in 1917. After his war service he went to Guatemala and raised pineapples, then migrated to Los Angeles, where he speculated in real estate. A few jobs as a film extra came his way beginning in 1923, then some work as a stuntman. He eventually achieved speaking roles, going from bit parts to substantial supporting parts in scores of features and short subjects between 1927 and 1938. In 1936 his role in Le vandale (1936) won him the very first Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He would win it twice more in the decade, and be nominated for a fourth. His range was enormous. He could play sophisticated businessmen, con artists, local yokels, cowhands and military officers with apparent equal ease. An accident in 1932 cost him most of his teeth, and he most often was seen in eccentric rural parts, often playing characters much older than his actual age. His career never really declined, and in the 1950s he became an even more endearing and familiar figure in several television series, most famously The Real McCoys (1957). He died in 1974 of emphysema, a beloved figure in movies and TV, the target of countless comic impressionists, and one of the best and most prolific actors of his time.

  • Birthday

    Jul 25, 1894

  • Place of Birth

    Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

Known For

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
Movie
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

20087.8

Alias Smith and Jones
TV
Alias Smith and Jones

19717.6

Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie
Support Your Local Sheriff!

19697.5

To Rome with Love
TV
To Rome with Love

19697.5

The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV
The Guns of Will Sonnett

19677.6

Rio Bravo
Movie
Rio Bravo

19598.0

The Real McCoys
TV
The Real McCoys

19577.6

Good-bye, My Lady
Movie
Good-bye, My Lady

19567.2

Meet John Doe
Movie
Meet John Doe

19417.6

Man on the Flying Trapeze
Movie
Man on the Flying Trapeze

19357.5

Awards

5 wins & 2 nominations

Western Heritage Awards
1970
Winner - Hall of Great Western Performers
Walk of Fame
1960
Motion Picture
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame
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Movies
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