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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1941
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1939
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1937
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1942 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1941 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1939 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1937 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Northern Frontier
Metropolitan
There's Always Tomorrow
Rio Bravo
Good-bye, My Lady
My Darling Clementine
To Have and Have Not
Fury
Bride of Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
Along the Great Divide
The Pride of the Yankees
Bad Day at Black Rock
Red River
Meet John Doe
Sergeant York
These Three
Who's Minding the Mint?
Stand by for Action
The Westerner
Support Your Local Sheriff!
How the West Was Won
What's My Line?
Task Force
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Phantom of the Air
The Far Country
The Princess and the Pirate
Hangmen Also Die!
Three Godfathers
Driftwood
Come and Get It
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Riptide
Lux Video Theatre
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Northwest Passage
The Texans
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Proud Ones
Best of the Badmen
They Shall Have Music
Those Calloways
Singing Guns
The Green Promise
Nobody Lives Forever
A Stolen Life
The Buccaneer
Barbary Coast
The Gnome-Mobile