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Walter Brennan (1894–1974)


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... See full bio »

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Filmography

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1975 Smoke in the Wind
H. P. Kingman
 
1972 Home for the Holidays (TV movie)
Benjamin Morgan
 
1972 Two for the Money (TV movie)
Cody Guilford
 
1971-1972 Alias Smith and Jones (TV series)
Silky O'Sullivan / Gantry
21 Days to Tenstrike (1972) … Gantry
 
1970-1971 To Rome with Love (TV series)
Andy Pruitt
Yankee Trader (1971) … Andy Pruitt
The Stray Cat (1971) … Andy Pruitt
Age of Life (1971) … Andy Pruitt
Bonsai (1971) … Andy Pruitt
Making the Scene (1971) … Andy Pruitt
 
1970 The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (TV series)
Episode #1.13 (1970)
 
1969-1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV series)
Deputy 'Doc' Hawkeye / Sheriff Walter / Walter Briarcliff, Sr.
Bad Guys and Good Girls (1970) … Deputy 'Doc' Hawkeye
Episode #19.2 (1969) … Sheriff Walter
 
1970 The Young Country (TV movie)
Sheriff Matt Fenley
 
1967-1969 The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV series)
Will Sonnett
The Sodbuster (1969) … Will Sonnett
One Angry Juror (1969) … Will Sonnett
The Trial (1969) … Will Sonnett
 
1967 Who's Minding the Mint?
Pop Gillis
 
1967 The Gnome-Mobile
D.J. Mulrooney/Knobby
 
1964-1965 The Tycoon (TV series)
Walter Andrews
Honest Man (1965) … Walter Andrews
Kitchen Caper (1965) … Walter Andrews
 
1965 The Shooting of Dan McGrew (short)
Narrator (voice) (as Another Poetry Fan)
 
1957-1963 The Real McCoys (TV series)
Grandpa Amos McCoy / Amos McCoy
Pals (1963) … Grandpa Amos McCoy
 
1962 Shoot Out at Big Sag
'Preacher' Hawker
 
1959 Rio Bravo
Stumpy
 
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV series)
Mr. Tutt
Mr. Tutt (1958) … Mr. Tutt
 
1956-1957 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
Joe / Sheriff John Larson
Ride a Lonely Trail (1957) … Sheriff John Larson
Vengeance Canyon (1956) … Joe
 
1957 God Is My Partner
Dr. Charles Grayson
 
1957 The Way to the Gold
Uncle George Williams
 
1957 Tammy and the Bachelor
John Dinwitty, Tammy's Grandpa
 
1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
Duffy
Duffy's Man (1956) … Duffy
 
1956 Cavalcade of America (TV series)
Link Morley
Woman's Work (1956) … Link Morley
 
1956 Ethel Barrymore Theater (TV series)
The Gentle Years (1956)
 
1953-1956 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
Ezra Jenkins / Simmons AKA Mr. Ears
The Happy Sun (1956)
Mr. Ears (1955) … Simmons AKA Mr. Ears
Lucky Thirteen (1953) … Ezra Jenkins
 
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 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
Intermission Guest
Holiday Affair (1955) … Intermission Guest
 
1955 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV series)
Grandpa
The Brush Roper (1955) … Grandpa
 
1955 Man on a Bus (short)
 
1954 Four Guns to the Border
Simon Bhumer
 
1954 The Far Country
Ben Tatum
 
1954 Drums Across the River
Sam Brannon
 
1953 Sea of Lost Ships
C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley
 
1952 Lure of the Wilderness
Jim Harper
 
1952 We're Not Married!
Handsome (scenes deleted)
 
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 Thomas
 
1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk
Terence Sweeny
 
1950 Singing Guns
Dr. Jonathan Mark
 
1949 Task Force
Pete Richard
 
1949 Brimstone
Brimstone 'Pop' Courteen
 
1949 The Green Promise
Mr. Matthews
 
1948 Blood on the Moon
Kris Barden
 
1948 Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Tony Maule
 
1947 Driftwood
Murph
 
1946 Nobody Lives Forever
Pop Gruber
 
1946 Centennial Summer
Jesse Rogers
 
1946 A Stolen Life
Eben Folger
 
1945 Dakota
Capt. Bounce
 
1944 Home in Indiana
J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt
 
1943 The North Star
Karp
 
1943 The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (short)
George, Mailman
 
1943 Slightly Dangerous
Cornelius Burden
 
1943 Hangmen Also Die!
Prof. Stephen Novotny
 
1942 Stand by for Action
Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
 
1941 Rise and Shine
Grandpa
 
1941 Swamp Water
Tom Keefer
 
1941 This Woman Is Mine
Captain Jonathan Thorne
 
1941 Meet John Doe
The 'Colonel'
 
1941 Nice Girl?
Hector Titus
 
1939 Stanley and Livingstone
Jeff Slocum
 
1939 They Shall Have Music
Professor Lawson
 
1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
Sugar
 
1938 Mother Carey's Chickens
Mr. Ossian Popham
 
1938 The Texans
Chuckawalla
 
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
Ote O'Leary
 
1936 Banjo on My Knee
Newt Holley
 
1936 Fury
'Bugs' Meyers
 
1936 The Moon's Our Home
Lem
 
1936 These Three
Taxi Driver
 
1936 Three Godfathers
Gus
 
1935 Seven Keys to Baldpate
Station Agent
 
1935 Metropolitan
Grandpa (uncredited)
 
1935 We're in the Money
Wedding Witness (uncredited)
 
1935 The Perfect Tribute (short)
Stone Cutter (uncredited)
 
1935 Alice Adams (scenes deleted)
 
1935 Welcome Home
Walter (uncredited)
 
1935 Man on the Flying Trapeze
'Legs' Garnett
 
1935 Lady Tubbs
Joseph (uncredited)
 
1935 Spring Tonic
Bum (uncredited)
 
1935 Party Wire
Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
 
1935 The Bride of Frankenstein
Neighbor (uncredited)
 
1935 West Point of the Air
Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage (uncredited)
 
1935 Gold Diggers of 1935
Bellboy/Porter (uncredited)
 
1935 The Wedding Night
Bill Jenkins
 
1935 Hunger Pains (short)
Secretary to Sylvester J. Sutton Sr.
 
1935 Restless Knights (short)
Father (uncredited)
 
1935 Law Beyond the Range
Abner (Pete in credits) (as Walter Brennon)
 
1935 Mystery of Edwin Drood
First Gossip (uncredited)
 
1935 Northern Frontier
Stuttering Cook
 
1935 Brick-a-Brac (short)
Lem
 
1935 Helldorado
Pete, the Waiter (uncredited)
 
1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
 
1934 The Painted Veil (scenes deleted)
 
1934 Prescott Kid
Zeke (Stage Driver)
 
1934 Cheating Cheaters (uncredited)
 
1934 There's Always Tomorrow
Mechanic (uncredited)
 
1934 Tailspin Tommy
Hospital Orderly Slugged by Skeeter [Ch. 8] (uncredited)
 
1934 Gridiron Flash
Diner Proprietor (uncredited)
 
1934 Great Expectations
Prisoner on Ship (uncredited)
 
1934 Death on the Diamond
Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
 
1934 Whom the Gods Destroy
Clifford (uncredited)
 
1934 Murder in the Private Car
Switchman (uncredited)
 
1934 The Life of Vergie Winters
Roscoe - a Gossiper (uncredited)
 
1934 Half a Sinner
Radio Announcer
 
1934 Woman Haters (short)
Train Conductor (uncredited)
 
1934 Fishing for Trouble (short)
 
1934 I'll Tell the World
Otto - Bicycle Repair Man (uncredited)
 
1934 Sing and Like It
Ticket Broker (uncredited)
 
1934 Uncertain Lady
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
 
1934 Riptide
Chauffeur (uncredited)
 
1934 Good Dame
Elmer Spicer (uncredited)
 
1934 George White's Scandals
Hick (uncredited)
 
1934 The Crosby Case
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
 
1934 The Poor Rich
Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
 
1934 Radio Dough (short)
 
1934 Paradise Valley
Farmer Hiram
 
1934 You Can't Buy Everything
Train Vendor (uncredited)
 
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 (uncredited)
 
1933 The Invisible Man
Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
 
1933 My Woman
Stuttering Animal Imitator (uncredited)
 
1933 Curtain at Eight
Silent Detective (uncredited)
 
1933 Saturday's Millions
Reporter (uncredited)
 
1933 Sailors Beware! (short)
Stuttering Thief
 
1933 Ladies Must Love
Flute Player (uncredited)
 
1933 Golden Harvest
Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
 
1933 Sensation Hunters
Stuttering Waiter
 
1933 One Year Later
Yokel (uncredited)
 
1933 Sing, Sinner, Sing
Henchman Riordan
 
1933 Strange People
The Radio Repairman
 
1933 Phantom of the Air
'Skid'
 
1933 Lilly Turner (scenes deleted)
 
1933 The Big Cage
Ticket-Taker (uncredited)
 
1933 The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1933 Rustlers' Roundup
Walt (uncredited)
 
1933 Girl Missing
Joe - Garage Attendant (uncredited)
 
1933 Goldie Gets Along
Stuttering Waiter (uncredited)
 
1933 Parachute Jumper
Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
 
1933 Man of Action
Cashier Summers
 
1932 Manhattan Tower
Mechanic (uncredited)
 
1932 Merry-Go-Round
Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
 
1932 Women Won't Tell
Dump Workman (uncredited)
 
1932 Strange Justice
Eddie - Mechanic (uncredited)
 
1932 Once in a Lifetime
Lighting Technician (uncredited)
 
1932 The All-American (uncredited)
 
1932 The Fourth Horseman
Toothless Town Drunk (uncredited)
 
1932 Fighting for Justice
Cowhand Fletcher (uncredited)
 
1932 The Iceman's Ball (short)
Officer Dugan
 
1932 Cornered
Court Bailiff (uncredited)
 
1932 Speed Madness
Joe
 
1932 Miss Pinkerton
Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
 
1932 Hello Trouble
A Texas Ranger (uncredited)
 
1932 Two-Fisted Law
Deputy Sheriff Bendix
 
1932 Scandal for Sale
Newspaperman (uncredited)
 
1932 The Airmail Mystery
Holly
 
1932 The Impatient Maiden
Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
 
1932 Law and Order
Lanky Smith (uncredited)
 
1932 Texas Cyclone
Sheriff Lew Collins (as Walter Brenan)
 
1931 A House Divided
Musician (uncredited)
 
1931 Scratch-As-Catch-Can (short)
 
1931 Neck and Neck
Hector
 
1931 Is There Justice?
Rollins
 
1931 Grief Street
Walt (as Arthur Brennan)
 
1931 Dancing Dynamite
Henchman
 
1931 Honeymoon Lane
Driver
 
1931 Heroes of the Flames
Bit Part in Chapter Twelve (uncredited)
 
1931 Many a Slip (uncredited)
 
1931 Hello Russia (short)
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1930 Ooh La-La (short)
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1930 See America Thirst
Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
 
1930 Parlez Vous (short)
 
1930 The 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 Captain of the Guard
Peasant (uncredited)
 
1930 Dames Ahoy
Side Show Barker (uncredited)
 
1929 The Long, Long Trail
'Skinny'' Rawlins
 
1929 Flight
Marine Pilot (uncredited)
 
1929 Flying High (short)
Kidnapper (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 (uncredited)
 
1929 Silks and Saddles
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 
1928 The Racket
Man on Street in Front of Barber Shop (uncredited)
 
1928 The Michigan Kid
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1928 Hot Heels
Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)
 
1927 The Last Performance
Clown (uncredited)
 
1927 Blake of Scotland Yard
Henchman (uncredited)
 
1927 Alias the Deacon
Cashier at Cunningham's Rink (uncredited)
 
1927 Tearin' Into Trouble
Billy Martin
 
1927 Sensation Seekers
Below Deck Yacht Crewman (uncredited)
 
1927 Flashing Oars (short)
Hula Hula Hut Customer (uncredited)
 
1926 The Collegians (short)
Various Roles in Individual Episodes (uncredited)
 
1926 Spangles
Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
 
1926 The Ice Flood
Lumberjack (uncredited)
 
1926 Watch Your Wife
 
1925 Webs of Steel (uncredited)
 
1925 Lorraine of the Lions (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (15 titles)
2008 The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (TV documentary) (performer: "The Gnome-Mobile Song" - uncredited)
 
1970 The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (TV movie) (performer: "Come All You Texas Rangers" - uncredited)
 
1969 The Over-the-Hill Gang (TV movie) (performer: "Texas Rangers" - uncredited)
 
1968 The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (performer: "Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'")
 
1959 Rio Bravo (performer: "Cindy" - uncredited)
 
1952 Lure of the Wilderness (performer: "Old Starry Hill")
 
1951 Along the Great Divide (performer: "Down in the Valley" - uncredited)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (performer: "Up with the Lark" - uncredited)
 
1941 Meet John Doe (performer: "March of the Swiss Soldiers" 1829 - uncredited)
 
1940 'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" 1780? - uncredited)
 
1939 Stanley and Livingstone ("Oh Susanna" 1846 - uncredited)
 
1938 Mother Carey's Chickens (performer: "Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking" - uncredited)
 
1936 Banjo on My Knee (performer: "With a Banjo on My Knee" 1936, "St. Louis Blues" 1914 - uncredited, "Oh! Susanna" 1848 - uncredited, "Bridal Chorus Here Comes the Bride" 1850 - uncredited, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" 1896 - uncredited, "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" 1927 - uncredited, "Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851 - uncredited, "O Tannenbaum" - uncredited, " I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" 1860 - uncredited, "A Hot Time in the Old Town" 1896 - uncredited)
 
1936 Come and Get It (performer: "The Bird on Nellie's Hat" 1906 - uncredited / "Aura Lea" 1861 - uncredited)
 
1935 Man on the Flying Trapeze (performer: "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" 1897 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2009 The New Bike (short) (acknowledgment)
 
Show ShowSelf (21 titles)
1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 13 March 1974 (1974) … Himself
 
1972 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
Richard Crenna (1972) … Himself
 
1969-1970 Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 21 February 1970 (1970) … Himself
Episode dated 24 October 1969 (1969) … Himself
 
1969 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #4.81 (1969) … Himself
 
1969 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 23 October 1969 (1969) … Himself
 
1967 Go!!! (TV movie)
Himself
 
1963-1967 Project XX (TV series documentary)
Narrator / Himself - Narrator
End of the Trail (1967) … Himself - Narrator
The Red, White, and Blue (1964) … Narrator
The Tall American, Gary Cooper (1963) … Narrator
 
1957-1966 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 21 August 1966 (1966) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 22 November 1959 (1959) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 12 May 1957 (1957) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1964 The Celebrity Game (TV series)
Himself - Celebrity Panelist
Episode dated 3 May 1964 (1964) … Himself - Celebrity Panelist
 
1962 The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter
 
1960 A Date with Debbie (TV movie)
Himself
 
1960 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)
Himself
Country Fair, U.S.A. (1960) … Himself
 
1959 The 11th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter
 
1958 Wide Wide World (TV series documentary)
Himself
The Western (1958) … Himself
 
1957-1958 The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #2.33 (1958) … Himself
Episode #1.33 (1957) … Himself
 
1955 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Plays Golf (short)
Himself
 
1955 The George Gobel Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.22 (1955) … Himself
 
1955 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
Walter Brennan (1955) … Himself
 
1954 Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1954 The 26th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Supporting Actress
 
1938 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (documentary short)
Himself - Oscar Winner
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (19 titles)
2008 How the West Was Lost (TV documentary)
Old Man Clanton (uncredited)
 
2001 Private Screenings (TV series)
 
2000 The Real McCoys Reunion (TV movie)
Himself/Grandpa Amos McCoy
 
2000 Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (TV documentary)
 
1998 The Making of 'How the West Was Won' (video documentary short)
Himself (as Walter Brennen)
 
1996 Bogart: The Untold Story (TV documentary)
Actor in 'To Have and Have Not' (uncredited)
 
1993 La classe américaine (TV movie)
Stumpy
 
1992 Fonda on Fonda (TV documentary)
Old Man Clanton (uncredited)
 
1992 Gunfighters of the Old West (video documentary)
Clanton (uncredited)
 
1969-1978 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series)
 
1977 M*A*S*H (TV series)
 
1976 America at the Movies (documentary)
'Groot' Nadine
 
1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1968 The Movie Orgy (documentary)
(uncredited)
 
1953 The Marshal's Daughter
Saloon Spectator (uncredited)
 
1941 Breakdowns of 1941 (short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1939 Land of Liberty
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1962) Album: "Old Rivers" (Liberty Records) See more »

Alternate Names:

Walter Brenan | Arthur Brennan | Walter Brennen | Walter Brennon | Another Poetry Fan

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[Advice to young actors] Go ahead and learn how to act, but don't get caught at it. See more »

Trivia:

Owned a ranch and several businesses in Joseph, Oregon, including the Indian Lodge Motel which still displays several of his portraits in the office. See more »

Star Sign:

Leo