Walter Brennan
Vendi: United States
Gjinia: M
Ditëlindje: 1894-07-25
Vdiq: 1974-09-21
Biografi
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.
Aktor:
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1. King of Jazz (1930), Film...Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy
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2. Grief Street (1931), Film...Walt
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3. Texas Cyclone (1932), Film...Sheriff Lew Collins
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4. Two-Fisted Law (1932), Film...Deputy Sheriff Bendix
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5. H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man (1933), Film...Bicycle Owner
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6. Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Film...Neighbor with Ax
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7. Barbary Coast (1935), Film...Old Atrocity
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8. Alice Adams (1935), Film...(scenes deleted)
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9. Fury (1936), Film...'Bugs' Meyers
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10. Come and Get It (1936), Film
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11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Film...Muff Potter
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12. The Buccaneer (1938), Film...Ezra Peavey
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13. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), Film
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...Walter
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15. Northwest Passage (1940), Film...'Hunk' Marriner
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16. The Westerner (1940), Film...Judge Roy Bean
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17. Meet John Doe (1941), Film...The 'Colonel'
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18. Sergeant York (1941), Film...Pastor Rosier Pile
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19. The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Film
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20. Hangmen Also Die! (1943), Film...Prof. Stephen Novotny
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21. The North Star (1943), Film...Karp
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22. To Have and Have Not (1944), Film...Eddie
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23. The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Film
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24. Dakota (1945), Film...Captain Bounce
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25. Tombstone (1946), Film...Old Man Clanton
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26. A Stolen Life (1946), Film...Eben Folger
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27. Red River (1948), Film...Nadine Groot
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28. Blood on the Moon (1948), Film...Kris Barden
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29. Brimstone (1949), Film...Brimstone 'Pop' Courteen
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30. Task Force (1949), Film...Pete Richard
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31. A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950), Film...Terence Sweeny
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32. Singing Guns (1950), Film...Dr. Jonathan Mark
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33. Best of the Badmen (1951), Film...'Doc' Butcher
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34. The Travelers (1951), Film...Timothy 'Pop' Keith
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35. Lure of the Wilderness (1952), Film...Jim Harper
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36. Return of the Texan (1952), Film...Grandpa Firth Crockett
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37. Drums Across the River (1954), Film...Sam Brannon
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38. The Far Country (1954), Film...Ben Tatum
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39. Four Guns to the Border (1954), Film...Simon Bhumer
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40. Bad Day At Black Rock (1955), Film...Doc Velie
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41. Gun Point (1955), Film...Doc Lacy
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42. The Proud Ones (1956), Film...Jake
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43. The Boy and the Laughing Dog (1956), Film...Uncle Jesse Jackson
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44. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Film...Grandpa Bower
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45. The Real McCoys (1957), seriale...Grandpa Amos McCoy
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46. Rio Bravo (1959), Film...Stumpy
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47. How the West Was Won (1962), Film...Col. Jeb Hawkins
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48. Those Calloways (1965), Film...Alf Simes
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49. The Gnome-Mobile (1967), Film...D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
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...Grandpa Bower
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51. Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Film...Pa Danby
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52. The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969), Film...Nash Crawford
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...Nash Crawford