Walter Brennan

 

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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. He worked some in vaudeville and also in various jobs such as clerking in a bank and as a lumberjack. He toured in small musical comedy companies before entering the military in 1917. After his war service he went to Guatemala and raised pineapples, then migrated to Los Angeles, where he speculated in real estate. A few jobs as a film extra came his way beginning in 1923, then some work as a stuntman. He eventually achieved speaking roles, going from bit parts to substantial supporting parts in scores of features and short subjects between 1927 and 1938. In 1936 his role in Come and Get It (1936) won him the very first Best Supporting Actor Academy Award

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Walter Brennan

Born 1894-07-25 (129 years ago) in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. Dead 1974-09-21 (80 years).
Height 180 centimeters.

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Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (The Westerner) 13th Academy Awards 1940 The Westerner
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Kentucky) 11th Academy Awards 1938 Kentucky
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Come and Get It) 9th Academy Awards 1936 Come And Get It
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (The Real McCoys) 11th Primetime Emmy Awards 1959 The Real McCoys
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Sergeant York) 14th Academy Awards 1941 Sergeant York
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (The Westerner) 13th Academy Awards 1940 The Westerner
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Kentucky) 11th Academy Awards 1938 Kentucky
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Come and Get It) 9th Academy Awards 1936 Come And Get It
Relationships
Name From To Relationship type
Ruth Wells(Gifta: 1920-10-17–1974-09-21) 1920-10-17 1974-09-21 Gifta
Children

Andy Brennan, Ruth Brennan, Arthur Brennan

Parents

Margaret Elizabeth Flanagan, William John Brennan

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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. He worked some in vaudeville and also in various jobs such as clerking in a bank and as a lumberjack. He toured in small musical comedy companies before entering the military in 1917. After his war service he went to Guatemala and raised pineapples, then migrated to Los Angeles, where he speculated in real estate. A few jobs as a film extra came his way beginning in 1923, then some work as a stuntman. He eventually achieved speaking roles, going from bit parts to substantial supporting parts in scores of features and short subjects between 1927 and 1938. In 1936 his role in Come and Get It (1936) won him the very first Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He would win it twice more in the decade, and be nominated for a fourth. His range was enormous. He could play sophisticated businessmen, con artists, local yokels, cowhands and military officers with apparent equal ease. An accident in 1932 cost him most of his teeth, and he most often was seen in eccentric rural parts, often playing characters much older than his actual age. His career never really declined, and in the 1950s he became an even more endearing and familiar figure in several television series, most famously The Real McCoys (1957). He died in 1974 of emphysema, a beloved figure in movies and TV, the target of countless comic impressionists, and one of the best and most prolific actors of his time.

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