Walter Brennan

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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 Awa...

Born: July 24, 1894 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

Died: September 21, 1974 (age 80)

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Known For

7.7

To Have and Have Not

Movies & TV Credits

226 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
And the Oscar Goes to... Movie	6.9	Actor	Self (archive footage)	2014
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs Movie	7.0	Actor	(archive footage)	2000
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender Movie	6.2	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1997
Bogart: The Untold Story Movie	6.9	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1997
La classe américaine Movie	7.8	Actor	'Stumpy' (archive footage)	1993
Smoke In The Wind Movie	6.1	Actor	H. P. Kingman	1975
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks Movie	7.0	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1973
Two for the Money Movie	6.5	Actor	Cody Guilford	1972
Home for the Holidays Movie	6.0	Actor	Benjamin Morgan	1972
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry Movie	6.6	Actor	Silky O'Sullivan	1971
Alias Smith and Jones TV Show	7.4	Actor	—(3 Episodes)	1971
The Young Country Movie	6.8	Actor	Sheriff Matt Fenley	1970
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again Movie	5.4	Actor	Nash Crawford	1970
Support Your Local Sheriff! Movie	7.5	Actor	Pa Danby	1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour TV Show	6.7	Actor	Self(2 Episodes)	1969
To Rome with Love TV Show	—	Actor	Andy Pruitt(22 Episodes)	1969
The Over-the-Hill Gang Movie	5.9	Actor	Nash Crawford	1969
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Movie	6.1	Actor	Grandpa Bower	1968
The Movie Orgy Movie	7.6	Actor	Self (archive footage)	1968
The Gnome-Mobile Movie	6.6	Actor	D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby	1967
Who's Minding the Mint? Movie	6.8	Actor	Pop Gillis	1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett TV Show	7.3	Actor	—(51 Episodes)	1967
The Oscar Movie	5.0	Actor	Quentin	1966
The Shooting of Dan McGrew Short Film	6.1	Actor	Narrator	1965
Those Calloways Movie	6.3	Actor	Alf Simes	1964
Shootout at Big Sag Movie	5.5	Actor	'Preacher' Hawker	1962
How the West Was Won Movie	7.2	Actor	Col. Jeb Hawkins	1962
The Merv Griffin Show TV Show	6.4	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1962
Rio Bravo Movie	8.1	Actor	Stumpy	1959
Tammy and the Bachelor Movie	7.1	Actor	John Dinwitty	1957
God Is My Partner Movie	5.9	Actor	Dr. Charles Grayson	1957
The Way to the Gold Movie	6.2	Actor	Uncle George Williams	1957
Armored Attack! Movie	—	Actor	Karp	1957
The Real McCoys TV Show	7.4	Actor	Grandpa Amos McCoy(224 Episodes)	1957
The Real McCoys TV Show	7.4	Actor	Amos McCoy(224 Episodes)	1957
Good-bye, My Lady Movie	7.0	Actor	Uncle Jesse Jackson	1956
Glory Movie	5.5	Actor	Ned Otis	1956
Come Next Spring Movie	6.9	Actor	Jeffrey Storys	1956
The Proud Ones Movie	6.7	Actor	Jake	1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show TV Show	7.8	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1956
Zane Grey Theatre TV Show	7.3	Actor	Sheriff John Larson(1 Episode)	1956
Zane Grey Theatre TV Show	7.3	Actor	Joe(1 Episode)	1956
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show TV Show	7.9	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1956
At Gunpoint Movie	6.1	Actor	Doc Lacy	1955
Bad Day at Black Rock Movie	7.8	Actor	Doc T.R. Velie Jr.	1955
The Brush Roper Movie	—	Actor	Grandpa Atkins	1955
Man on a Bus Short Film	5.1	Actor	Saul	1955
Drums Across the River Movie	6.3	Actor	Sam Brannon	1954
The Far Country Movie	7.2	Actor	Ben Tatum	1954
Four Guns to the Border Movie	5.8	Actor	Simon Bhumer	1954
The George Gobel Show TV Show	—	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1954
Sea of Lost Ships Movie	6.7	Actor	C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley	1953
The Oscars TV Show	7.0	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1953
Lure of the Wilderness Movie	6.2	Actor	Jim Harper	1952
Return of the Texan Movie	6.5	Actor	Grandpa Firth Crockett	1952
Cavalcade of America TV Show	7.0	Actor	Link Morley(1 Episode)	1952
The Ford Television Theatre TV Show	6.8	Actor	Duffy(1 Episode)	1952
Along the Great Divide Movie	7.0	Actor	Timothy 'Pop' Keith	1951
The Wild Blue Yonder Movie	5.7	Actor	Maj. Gen. Wolfe	1951
Best of the Badmen Movie	5.8	Actor	'Doc' Butcher	1951
Schlitz Playhouse TV Show	7.2	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1951
Schlitz Playhouse TV Show	7.2	Actor	Simmons AKA Mr. Ears(1 Episode)	1951
Schlitz Playhouse TV Show	7.2	Actor	Ezra Jenkins(1 Episode)	1951
A Ticket to Tomahawk Movie	5.9	Actor	Terence Sweeny	1950
The Showdown Movie	6.4	Actor	Cap MacKellar	1950
Singing Guns Movie	6.1	Actor	Dr. Jonathan Mark	1950
Surrender Movie	5.8	Actor	Sheriff Bill Howard	1950
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek Movie	5.9	Actor	Rimrock	1950
This Is Your Life TV Show	6.7	Actor	Self(1 Episode)	1950
What's My Line? TV Show	8.3	Actor	Self - Mystery Guest(3 Episodes)	1950
Lux Video Theatre TV Show	7.1	Actor	Self - Intermission Guest(1 Episode)	1950
The Green Promise Movie	6.3	Actor	Mr. Matthews	1949
Brimstone Movie	6.3	Actor	Pop Courteen	1949
Task Force Movie	6.8	Actor	Pete Richard	1949
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! Movie	5.7	Actor	Tony Maule	1948
Red River Movie	7.8	Actor	'Groot' Nadine	1948
Blood on the Moon Movie	6.7	Actor	Kris Barden	1948
Driftwood Movie	6.8	Actor	Murph	1947
Centennial Summer Movie	5.8	Actor	Jesse Rogers	1946
A Stolen Life Movie	7.0	Actor	Eben Folger	1946
My Darling Clementine Movie	7.8	Actor	Old Man Clanton	1946
Nobody Lives Forever Movie	6.9	Actor	Pop Gruber	1946
Dakota Movie	5.9	Actor	Capt. Bounce of the Riverbird	1945
To Have and Have Not Movie	7.9	Actor	Eddie	1945
The Princess and the Pirate Movie	6.6	Actor	Featherhead	1944
Home in Indiana Movie	6.3	Actor	J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt	1944
The North Star Movie	6.1	Actor	Karp	1943
Slightly Dangerous Movie	6.5	Actor	Cornelius Burden	1943
Hangmen Also Die! Movie	7.2	Actor	Prof. Stephen Novotny	1943
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith Short Film	7.2	Actor	George, Mailman	1943
Stand by for Action Movie	6.3	Actor	Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson	1942
The Pride of the Yankees Movie	7.7	Actor	Sam Blake	1942
Nice Girl? Movie	6.3	Actor	Hector Titus	1941
This Woman Is Mine Movie	5.3	Actor	Captain Jonathan Thorne	1941
Sergeant York Movie	7.8	Actor	Pastor Rosier Pile	1941
Meet John Doe Movie	7.7	Actor	The Colonel	1941
Swamp Water Movie	6.8	Actor	Tom Keefer	1941
Rise and Shine Movie	5.7	Actor	Grandpa	1941
Breakdowns of 1941 Short Film	7.0	Actor	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	1941
Maryland Movie	5.9	Actor	William P. Stewart	1940
The Westerner Movie	7.2	Actor	Judge Roy Bean	1940
Northwest Passage Movie	6.8	Actor	'Hunk' Marriner	1940
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle Movie	7.0	Actor	Walter	1939
They Shall Have Music Movie	6.7	Actor	Professor Lawson	1939
Stanley and Livingstone Movie	6.8	Actor	Jeff Slocum	1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President Movie	6.2	Actor	Jim	1939
Land of Liberty Movie	7.1	Actor	Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')	1939
The Texans Movie	6.1	Actor	Chuckawalla	1938
The Cowboy and the Lady Movie	6.3	Actor	Sugar	1938
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Movie	6.8	Actor	Muff Potter	1938
Kentucky Movie	6.0	Actor	Peter Goodwin	1938
The Buccaneer Movie	6.4	Actor	Ezra Peavey	1938
Mother Carey's Chickens Movie	6.1	Actor	Ossian Popham	1938
Affairs of Cappy Ricks Movie	5.3	Actor	Cappy Ricks	1937
Wild and Woolly Movie	6.3	Actor	Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn	1937
When Love Is Young Movie	6.6	Actor	Uncle Hugo	1937
She's Dangerous Movie	6.0	Actor	'Oats'	1937
Fury Movie	7.9	Actor	Bugs Meyers	1936
These Three Movie	7.2	Actor	Taxi Driver	1936
Three Godfathers Movie	7.1	Actor	Samuel 'Gus' Barton	1936
Banjo on My Knee Movie	5.9	Actor	Newt Holley	1936
Come and Get It Movie	6.8	Actor	Swan Bostrom	1936
The Moon's Our Home Movie	6.4	Actor	Lem	1936
Lady Tubbs Movie	6.6	Actor	Joseph	1935
She Couldn't Take It Movie	6.1	Actor	Peddler	1935
West Point of the Air Movie	5.7	Actor	Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage	1935
We're in the Money Movie	6.1	Actor	Wedding Witness (uncredited)	1935
Barbary Coast Movie	6.5	Actor	Old Atrocity	1935
Law Beyond the Range Movie	7.1	Actor	Abner	1935
Seven Keys to Baldpate Movie	5.7	Actor	Station Agent	1935
Northern Frontier Movie	5.9	Actor	Stuttering Cook	1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze Movie	7.2	Actor	'Legs' Garnett	1935
The Wedding Night Movie	6.4	Actor	Bill Jenkins	1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl Movie	5.9	Actor	Reporter on Ship (uncredited)	1935
Metropolitan Movie	6.1	Actor	Grandpa	1935
Party Wire Movie	6.4	Actor	Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)	1935
Bride of Frankenstein Movie	7.7	Actor	Peasant (uncredited)	1935
Helldorado Movie	7.2	Actor	Pete	1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Movie	6.2	Actor	First Gossip	1935
The Perfect Tribute Short Film	7.0	Actor	Stone Cutter (uncredited)	1935
Brick-a-Brac Short Film	6.1	Actor	Lem	1935
Restless Knights Short Film	6.7	Actor	Father (uncredited)	1935
There's Always Tomorrow Movie	6.4	Actor	Auto mechanic	1934
Great Expectations Movie	6.0	Actor	Prisoner on Ship	1934
Riptide Movie	6.1	Actor	Chauffeur (uncredited)	1934
The Poor Rich Movie	7.1	Actor	Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)	1934
Gridiron Flash Movie	4.7	Actor	Proprietor of Java Joe's	1934
Cross Country Cruise Movie	6.2	Actor	Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)	1934
Good Dame Movie	5.7	Actor	Elmer Spicer	1934
Fugitive Lovers Movie	6.3	Actor	2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)	1934
Murder in the Private Car Movie	6.0	Actor	Switchman (uncredited)	1934
Half a Sinner Movie	7.4	Actor	Radio Announcer	1934
Whom the Gods Destroy Movie	6.8	Actor	Clifford	1934
Death on the Diamond Movie	5.8	Actor	Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)	1934
I'll Tell the World Movie	6.2	Actor	Otto - Bicycle Repair Man	1934
The Life of Vergie Winters Movie	6.4	Actor	Roscoe (uncredited)	1934
George White's Scandals Movie	6.0	Actor	Hick (uncredited)	1934
Beloved Movie	6.3	Actor	Stuttering Boarder	1934
Prescott Kid Movie	6.6	Actor	Zeke - Stage Driver	1934
Woman Haters Short Film	6.4	Actor	Train Conductor (uncredited)	1934
Radio Dough Short Film	5.0	Actor	Drunk Customer (uncredited)	1934
The Invisible Man Movie	7.7	Actor	Bicycle Owner (uncredited)	1933
Parachute Jumper Movie	6.2	Actor	Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)	1933
Goldie Gets Along Movie	4.7	Actor	Stuttering Waiter	1933
King for a Night Movie	6.6	Actor	Soda Jerk	1933
Golden Harvest Movie	7.2	Actor	Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)	1933
Man Of Action Movie	6.5	Actor	Cashier Summers	1933
Lucky Dog Movie	6.8	Actor	Drunk #2	1933
The Phantom of the Air Movie	6.4	Actor	'Skid' (uncredited)	1933
One Year Later Movie	6.2	Actor	Man Chuckling at Train Station	1933
Curtain at Eight Movie	5.4	Actor	Backstage Detective [extra]	1933
Sensation Hunters Movie	5.6	Actor	Stuttering Waiter	1933
Strange People Movie	5.8	Actor	The Radio Repairman	1933
Girl Missing Movie	6.4	Actor	Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)	1933
Saturday's Millions Movie	6.1	Actor	Reporter	1933
My Woman Movie	6.0	Actor	Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)	1933
The Big Cage Movie	6.0	Actor	Ticket Taker	1933
The Rustler's Roundup Movie	6.9	Actor	Walt (uncredited)	1933
Sailors Beware! Short Film	7.0	Actor	Stuttering Thief	1933
Miss Pinkerton Movie	5.8	Actor	Police Dispatcher (uncredited)	1932
Texas Cyclone Movie	5.6	Actor	Sheriff Lew Collins	1932
Two-Fisted Law Movie	5.3	Actor	Bendix the Deputy Sheriff	1932
The Airmail Mystery Movie	6.4	Actor	Holly	1932
Cornered Movie	6.6	Actor	Court Bailiff (uncredited)	1932
Law and Order Movie	6.7	Actor	Lanky Smith (uncredited)	1932
Manhattan Tower Movie	6.1	Actor	Mechanic (uncredited)	1932
Speed Madness Movie	6.9	Actor	Joe	1932
Once in a Lifetime Movie	6.6	Actor	Lighting Technician (uncredited)	1932
Afraid to Talk Movie	6.8	Actor	Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)	1932
The All-American Movie	6.2	Actor	News Commentator at Game (uncredited)	1932
Women Won't Tell Movie	5.7	Actor	Man in Junkyard	1932
Scandal for Sale Movie	6.5	Actor	Newspaperman	1932
The Impatient Maiden Movie	6.0	Actor	Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)	1932
The Unexpected Father Movie	7.5	Actor	Sailor (uncredited)	1932
The Fourth Horseman Movie	5.6	Actor	Toothless Town Drunk	1932
The Iceman's Ball Short Film	6.7	Actor	Officer Dugan	1932
Grief Street Movie	5.1	Actor	Walt	1931
Neck and Neck Movie	3.5	Actor	Hector	1931
A House Divided Movie	6.6	Actor	Musician (uncredited)	1931
Honeymoon Lane Movie	8.3	Actor	Driver	1931
Many a Slip Movie	6.6	Actor	Minor Role (uncredited)	1931
Scratch-As-Catch-Can Short Film	5.5	Actor	—	1931
Dames Ahoy Movie	6.4	Actor	Side Show Barker	1930
Little Accident Movie	5.7	Actor	Milkman (uncredited)	1930
King of Jazz Movie	6.5	Actor	Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')	1930
See America Thirst Movie	6.8	Actor	Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)	1930
Flight Movie	5.8	Actor	Marine Pilot	1929
The Long, Long Trail Movie	7.0	Actor	Skinny Rawlins	1929
One Hysterical Night Movie	5.3	Actor	Paul Revere	1929
The Last Performance Movie	6.4	Actor	Clown (uncredited)	1929
Smilin' Guns Movie	6.3	Actor	Ranch Foreman	1929
The Lariat Kid Movie	7.1	Actor	Pat O'Shea	1929
His Lucky Day Movie	5.7	Actor	Road House Thug (uncredited)	1929
The Ballyhoo Buster Movie	4.9	Actor	—	1928
The Michigan Kid Movie	6.2	Actor	Minor Role (uncredited)	1928
Tearin' Into Trouble Movie	—	Actor	Billy Martin	1927
The Ridin' Rowdy Movie	—	Actor	—	1927
Blake of Scotland Yard Movie	7.5	Actor	Henchman (uncredited)	1927
Sensation Seekers Movie	5.6	Actor	Below Deck Yacht Crewman	1927
Alias The Deacon Movie	5.9	Actor	Cashier at Cunningham's Rink	1927
Flashing Oars Short Film	5.2	Actor	Hula Hula Hut Customer	1927
A Fighting Finish Short Film	—	Actor	Student	1927
Spangles Movie	6.0	Actor	Lunch Counterman (uncredited)	1926
Lorraine of the Lions Movie	6.4	Actor	Minor Role (uncredited)	1925
The Calgary Stampede Movie	6.4	Actor	Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)	1925
Webs of Steel Movie	6.9	Actor	—	1925

Walter Brennan

Known For

Bride of Frankenstein

Rio Bravo

The Invisible Man

To Have and Have Not

Movies & TV Credits