Walter Brennan
Gender: Male
Born: 25th July 1894
Died: 21st September 1974
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Real McCoys, The Tycoon, The Guns of Will Sonnett, To Rome With Love, The Over-the-Hill Gang, The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Movies: Bad Day at Black Rock, Fury, How the West Was Won, My Darling Clementine, Nobody Lives Forever, Rio Bravo, The Far Country, The Pride of the Yankees, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The Westerner, These Three, To Have and Have Not, Woman Haters, The Moon's Our Home, Law and Order, Texas Cyclone, Who's Minding the Mint?, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Swamp Water, The North Star, The Buccaneer, The Gnome-Mobile, Support Your Local Sheriff!, Restless Knights, Tammy and the Bachelor, Home in Indiana, The Princess and the Pirate, Sergeant York, Hangmen Also Die, Three Godfathers, The Over-the-Hill Gang, The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, Slightly Dangerous, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, Home for the Holidays, Red River, Come and Get It, Bride of Frankenstein, Kentucky, Sensation Hunters, Nice Girl?, Lure of the Wilderness, Good-bye, My Lady, Those Calloways, Northwest Passage, Meet John Doe, The Proud Ones, Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Green Promise, Dakota, The Wedding Night, Barbary Coast, The Cowboy and the Lady, Brimstone, Affairs of Cappy Ricks, One Hysterical Night, Come Next Spring, Driftwood, Four Guns to the Border, Maryland, Banjo on My Knee, Along the Great Divide, Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President, Seven Keys to Baldpate, A Stolen Life, Best of the Badmen, Two-Fisted Law
Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three separate occasions, which is currently the record for most Oscar wins by a male actor, tied with Jack Nicholson.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, less than two miles from his family's home in Swampscott, Walter Andrew Brennan was the second of three children born to Irish immigrants William John Brennan and Margaret Elizabeth Flanagan. The elder Brennan was an engineer and inventor, and young Walter studied engineering at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
While in school, Brennan became interested in acting, and began to perform in vaudeville. While working as a bank clerk, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a private with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during World War I. Following the war, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples, before settling in Los Angeles. During the 1920s, he became involved in the real estate market, where he made a fortune. Unfortunately, he lost most of his money when the market took a sudden downturn due to the Great Depression.
Finding himself broke, he began taking
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