Walter Brennan

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Actor:

M*A*S*H (1 episode, 1977)

Smoke in the Wind (1975)

Home for the Holidays (1972) (TV)

Two for the Money (1972) (TV)

"Alias Smith and Jones" (3 episodes, 1971-1972)

"To Rome with Love" (17 episodes, 1970-1971)

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970) (TV)

"The Red Skelton Show" (3 episodes, 1969-1970)

The Young Country (1970) (TV)

The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969) (TV)

"The Guns of Will Sonnett" (50 episodes, 1967-1969)

Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)

Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)

The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

The Oscar (1966)

"The Tycoon" (32 episodes, 1964-1965)

Those Calloways (1965)

The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1965) (voice)

"The Real McCoys" (159 episodes, 1957-1963)

How the West Was Won (1962)

Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)

Rio Bravo (1959)

"Colgate Theatre" (1 episode, 1958)

"Zane Grey Theater" (2 episodes, 1956-1957)

God Is My Partner (1957)

The Way to the Gold (1957)

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

"The Ford Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1956)

"Cavalcade of America" (1 episode, 1956)

"Ethel Barrymore Theater" (1 episode, 1956)

"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (3 episodes, 1953-1956)

The Proud Ones (1956)

Good-bye, My Lady (1956)

Come Next Spring (1956)

Glory (1956)

At Gunpoint (1955)

"Screen Directors Playhouse" (1 episode, 1955)

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Man on a Bus (1955)

Four Guns to the Border (1954)

The Far Country (1954)

Drums Across the River (1954)

Sea of Lost Ships (1953)

Lure of the Wilderness (1952)

Return of the Texan (1952)

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Best of the Badmen (1951)

Along the Great Divide (1951)

Surrender (1950)

The Showdown (1950)

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Singing Guns (1950)

Task Force (1949)

Brimstone (1949)

The Green Promise (1949)

Blood on the Moon (1948)

Red River (1948)

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)

Driftwood (1947)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

Centennial Summer (1946)

A Stolen Life (1946)

Dakota (1945)

The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

Home in Indiana (1944)

The North Star (1943)

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Stand by for Action (1942)

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Rise and Shine (1941)

Swamp Water (1941)

This Woman Is Mine (1941)

Sergeant York (1941)

Meet John Doe (1941)

Nice Girl? (1941)

The Westerner (1940)

Maryland (1940)

'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

They Shall Have Music (1939)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Kentucky (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)

The Texans (1938)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

The Buccaneer (1938)

Wild and Woolly (1937)

Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)

When Love Is Young (1937)

She's Dangerous (1937)

Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Come and Get It (1936)

Fury (1936)

The Moon's Our Home (1936)

These Three (1936)

Three Godfathers (1936)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

Metropolitan (1935) (uncredited)

Barbary Coast (1935)

We're in the Money (1935) (uncredited)

The Perfect Tribute (1935) (uncredited)

Alice Adams (1935) (scenes deleted)

Welcome Home (1935) (uncredited)

Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Lady Tubbs (1935) (uncredited)

Spring Tonic (1935) (uncredited)

Party Wire (1935) (uncredited)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (uncredited)

West Point of the Air (1935) (uncredited)

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (uncredited)

The Wedding Night (1935)

Hunger Pains (1935)

Restless Knights (1935) (uncredited)

Law Beyond the Range (1935)

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Northern Frontier (1935)

Brick-a-Brac (1935)

Helldorado (1935) (uncredited)

Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935) (uncredited)

The Painted Veil (1934) (scenes deleted)

Prescott Kid (1934)

Cheating Cheaters (1934) (uncredited)

There's Always Tomorrow (1934) (uncredited)

Tailspin Tommy (1934) (uncredited)

Gridiron Flash (1934) (uncredited)

Great Expectations (1934) (uncredited)

Death on the Diamond (1934) (uncredited)

Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) (uncredited)

Murder in the Private Car (1934) (uncredited)

The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) (uncredited)

Half a Sinner (1934)

Woman Haters (1934) (uncredited)

Fishing for Trouble (1934)

I'll Tell the World (1934) (uncredited)

Uncertain Lady (1934) (uncredited)

Riptide (1934) (uncredited)

Good Dame (1934) (uncredited)

George White's Scandals (1934) (uncredited)

The Crosby Case (1934) (uncredited)

The Poor Rich (1934) (uncredited)

Radio Dough (1934)

Paradise Valley (1934)

You Can't Buy Everything (1934) (uncredited)

Beloved (1934)

Cross Country Cruise (1934) (uncredited)

Fugitive Lovers (1934) (uncredited)

King for a Night (1933) (uncredited)

The Invisible Man (1933) (uncredited)

My Woman (1933) (uncredited)

Curtain at Eight (1933) (uncredited)

Saturday's Millions (1933) (uncredited)

Golden Harvest (1933) (uncredited)

Sensation Hunters (1933)

One Year Later (1933) (uncredited)

Sing, Sinner, Sing (1933)

Baby Face (1933) (scenes deleted)

Strange People (1933)

Phantom of the Air (1933)

Lilly Turner (1933) (scenes deleted)

The Big Cage (1933) (uncredited)

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933) (uncredited)

Rustlers' Roundup (1933) (uncredited)

Girl Missing (1933) (uncredited)

Goldie Gets Along (1933) (uncredited)

Parachute Jumper (1933) (uncredited)

Man of Action (1933)

Manhattan Tower (1932) (uncredited)

Afraid to Talk (1932) (uncredited)

Strange Justice (1932) (uncredited)

Once in a Lifetime (1932) (uncredited)

The All-American (1932) (uncredited)

The Fourth Horseman (1932) (uncredited)

Fighting for Justice (1932) (uncredited)

The Iceman's Ball (1932)

Cornered (1932) (uncredited)

Miss Pinkerton (1932) (uncredited)

Speed Madness (1932) (uncredited)

Hello Trouble (1932) (uncredited)

Two-Fisted Law (1932)

Scandal for Sale (1932) (uncredited)

The Airmail Mystery (1932)

The Impatient Maiden (1932) (uncredited)

Law and Order (1932) (uncredited)

Texas Cyclone (1932)

A House Divided (1931) (uncredited)

Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)

Neck and Neck (1931)

Is There Justice? (1931)

Grief Street (1931)

Dancing Dynamite (1931)

Honeymoon Lane (1931)

Heroes of the Flames (1931) (uncredited)

Many a Slip (1931) (uncredited)

Hello Russia (1931) (uncredited)

Ooh La-La (1930) (uncredited)

See America Thirst (1930) (uncredited)

Parlez Vous (1930)

Little Accident (1930) (uncredited)

King of Jazz (1930)

Captain of the Guard (1930) (uncredited)

Dames Ahoy (1930) (uncredited)

The Shannons of Broadway (1929)

The Long, Long Trail (1929)

One Hysterical Night (1929)

Flight (1929) (uncredited)

Flying High (1929) (uncredited)

The Lariat Kid (1929)

Smilin' Guns (1929)

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City (1929) (uncredited)

Silks and Saddles (1929) (uncredited)

The Michigan Kid (1928) (uncredited)

The Racket (1928) (uncredited)

Hot Heels (1928) (uncredited)

The Ballyhoo Buster (1928)

The Last Performance (1927) (uncredited)

Blake of Scotland Yard (1927) (uncredited)

Alias the Deacon (1927) (uncredited)

The Ridin' Rowdy (1927)

Tearin' Into Trouble (1927)

Sensation Seekers (1927) (uncredited)

Flashing Oars (1927) (uncredited)

The Collegians (1926) (uncredited)

Spangles (1926) (uncredited)

The Ice Flood (1926) (uncredited)

Watch Your Wife (1926)

Webs of Steel (1925) (uncredited)

Lorraine of the Lions (1925) (uncredited)

As Himself:

"The Merv Griffin Show" (1 episode, 1974)

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1972)

"Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters" (2 episodes, 1969-1970)

"The Dean Martin Show" (1 episode, 1969)

Go!!! (1967) (TV)

"Project XX" Narrator (3 episodes, 1963-1967)

"What's My Line?" (3 episodes, 1957-1966)

"The Celebrity Game" (1 episode, 1964)

A Date with Debbie (1960) (TV)

"The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1 episode, 1960)

"The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show" (2 episodes, 1957-1958)

"Wide Wide World" (1 episode, 1958)

"Lux Video Theatre" (1 episode, 1955)

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Plays Golf (1955)

"The George Gobel Show" (1 episode, 1955)

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1955)

Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (TV)

The 26th Annual Academy Awards 1954 (TV)

Breakdowns of 1941 (1941) (uncredited)

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938)

Brennan had a hit record in 1962 with Old Rivers.

Academy Awards

1942 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Sergeant York (1941)

1941 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Westerner (1940)

1939 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Kentucky (1938)

1937 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Come and Get It (1936)


Emmy Awards

1959 Nominated Emmy Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series for: "The Real McCoys" (1957)


Walk of Fame

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 6501 Hollywood Blvd.

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If Walter Brennan's real estate business had been successful, the big screen may have been deprived of his talent. He made a fortune in Los Angeles real estate after World War I, then lost it when the stock market took a sudden plunge; he moved into doing stints as a movie extra, stuntman, and in bit-part roles to raise money. He claimed to have two styles of acting: "Teeth in and teeth out." After the age of thirty-eight, when he lost most of his teeth in an accident, he specialized in coots whose character names tended to include "Old," "Old Man," "Pa," or "Grandpa," memorably as Old atrocity in Barbary coast (1935).

Dental misfortune elevated Brennan from unbilled bit roles such as a neighbor in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) to character superstardom as a three-time winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, the first as Swedish logger Swan Bostrom in Come and Get It 91936). He remains the only person to have won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times. For Howard Hawks, he was an ideal eccentric sidekick: to Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944), in which his signature line was "Wuz you ever stung by a dead bee?" and to John Wayne in Red River (1948) and Rio Bravo (1959). Most happily cast in Westerns, he varied his run of comical tagalongs with the occasional villain, roguish as Judge Roy Bean - "And that's m'rulin'!" - in The Westerner (1940), or cold-eyed as Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine (1946). In later life, he had four top 100 singles, including "Old Rivers" (1962). He also made appearances in TV series such as Alias Smith and Jones, and was a genial presence in old-timer reunion efforts such as the Over-the-Holl Gang TV movies. Walter Brennan died in 1974, leaving a wife of 54 years, three children, and the legacy of five decades of screen performances.

"Don't spill none of that liquor, son. It eats right into the bar." - Judge Roy W. Bean, The Westerner

Interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, San Fernando, Los Angeles County, California, USA

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

He was offered the lead role in Herbie Rides Again (1974), but was too ill with emphysema to act. The script was then rewritten as a vehicle for Helen Hayes.

Salary

Glory (1956) $18,000