Walter Brennan
Nazione: United States
Genere: M
Compleanno: 1894-07-25
Morto: 1974-09-21
Biografia
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.
Attore:
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1. Il re del jazz (1930), film...Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy
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2. Sombras de Broadway (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. L'uomo invisibile (1933), film...Bicycle Owner
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6. La moglie di Frankenstein (1935), film...Neighbor with Ax
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7. La costa dei barbari (1935), film...Old Atrocity
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8. Primo amore (1935), film...(scenes deleted)
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9. Fury (1936), film...'Bugs' Meyers
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10. Ambizione (1936), film
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11. Le avventure di Tom Sawyer (1938), film...Muff Potter
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12. I filibustieri (1938), film...Ezra Peavey
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13. La dama e il cowboy (1938), film
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14. La vita di Vernon e Irene Castle (1939), film...Walter
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15. Passaggio a Nord-Ovest (1940), film...'Hunk' Marriner
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16. L'uomo del West (1940), film...Judge Roy Bean
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17. Arriva John Doe! (1941), film...The 'Colonel'
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18. Il sergente York (1941), film...Pastor Rosier Pile
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19. L'idolo delle folle (1942), film
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20. Anche i boia muoiono (1943), film...Prof. Stephen Novotny
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21. Fuoco a oriente (1943), film...Karp
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22. Acque del Sud (1944), film...Eddie
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23. Il pirata e la principessa (1944), film
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24. Il cavaliere audace (1945), film...Captain Bounce
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25. Sfida infernale (1946), film...Old Man Clanton
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26. L'anima e il volto (1946), film...Eben Folger
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27. Il fiume rosso (1948), film...Nadine Groot
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28. Sangue sulla luna (1948), film...Kris Barden
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29. Il grande agguato (1949), film...Brimstone 'Pop' Courteen
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30. Aquile del mare (1949), film...Pete Richard
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31. La figlia dello sceriffo (1950), film...Terence Sweeny
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32. L'amante del bandito (1950), film...Dr. Jonathan Mark
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33. Il magnifico fuorilegge (1951), film...'Doc' Butcher
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34. Sabbie rosse (1951), film...Timothy 'Pop' Keith
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35. Prigionieri della palude (1952), film...Jim Harper
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36. Il figlio di Texas (1952), film...Grandpa Firth Crockett
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37. Al di là del fiume (1954), film...Sam Brannon
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38. Terra lontana (1954), film...Ben Tatum
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39. I desperados della frontiera (1954), film...Simon Bhumer
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40. Giorno maledetto (1955), film...Doc Velie
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41. Gunpoint (1955), film...Doc Lacy
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42. La grande sfida (1956), film...Jake
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43. Addio lady! (1956), film...Uncle Jesse Jackson
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44. Tammy fiore selvaggio (1957), film...Grandpa Bower
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45. The Real McCoys (1957), serie...Grandpa Amos McCoy
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46. Un dollaro d'onore (1959), film...Stumpy
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47. La conquista del West (1962), film...Col. Jeb Hawkins
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48. I cacciatori del lago d'argento (1965), film...Alf Simes
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49. La Gnomo Mobile (1967), film...D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
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50. Una pazza banda di famiglia (1968), film...Grandpa Bower
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51. Il dito più veloce del West (1969), film...Pa Danby
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52. The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969), film...Nash Crawford
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53. La Vecchia Banda Colpisce Ancora (1970), film...Nash Crawford