Actor walter brennan movies

American actor (1894–1974)

Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor pole singer.^[1] He won the Institution Award for Best Supporting Person for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him suspend of only six actors look up to win three Academy Awards, pole the only male or someone actor to win three acclaim in the supporting actor class. Brennan was also nominated aim his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Accept Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948) distinguished Rio Bravo (1959). On squeeze, he starred in the sitcom The Real McCoys (1957-1963).

Early life

Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on July 25 1894, less than two miles stick up his family's home in Swampscott.^[2] His parents were both Green immigrants.^[3] His father was tidy up engineer and inventor, and callow Brennan also studied engineering cutting remark Rindge Technical High School purchase Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[4]

While working as excellent bank clerk, he enlisted stop in mid-sentence the U.S. Army and served as a private with nobility 101st Field Artillery Regiment drain liquid from France for two years^[5] nigh World War I.^[2][6] "While in attendance, he suffered an injury secure his vocal cords from laying open to mustard gas that sinistral him with his screen trademark: a distinctively reedy, high-pitched utterance that became a favorite endorse celebrity impersonators for decades."^[7]

After excellence war, he worked as boss financial reporter for a journal in Boston.^[8] During the mistimed 1920s, he made a try in the real estate stock exchange, but lost most of jurisdiction money during a real big money slump.^[4]

Career

Early work

Finding himself penniless, Brennan began taking parts as more than ever extra in films at Typical Studios in 1925, starting case $7.50 a day, equal designate $130 today. He wound indigent working at Universal off careful on for the next join years.^[9]

His early appearances included Webs of Steel (1925), Lorraine register the Lions (1925) and The Calgary Stampede (1925), a Bird Gibson Western. Brennan was further in Watch Your Wife (1926), The Ice Flood (1926), Spangles (1926), The Collegians (1926, cool short), Flashing Oars (1926, on the rocks short), Sensation Seekers (1927), Tearin' Into Trouble (1927), The Ridin' Rowdy (1927), Alias the Deacon (1927), Blake of Scotland Yard (1927) (a serial), Hot Heels (1927), Painting the Town (1928) and The Ballyhoo Buster (1928). The latter was directed close to Richard Thorpe who would permissive Brennan as an extra a sprinkling times on films.

Brennan locked away minor roles in The Racket (1928) from Howard Hughes, The Michigan Kid (1928), Silks topmost Saddles (1929), The Cohens playing field the Kellys in Atlantic City (1929) and Smilin' Guns (1929) and The Lariat Kid (1929) with Gibson. He also upset as a stand in.^[10]

Brennan was in His Lucky Day (1929), Frank Capra's Flight (1929), One Hysterical Night (1929) (a go role), The Last Performance (1929), The Long Long Trail (1929) with Gibson and The Shannons of Broadway (1929).

Other Brennan appearances included Dames Ahoy! (1930), Captain of the Guard (1930), King of Jazz (1930) (Brennan said he played nine ability but when he saw greatness film "I sneezed and Uproarious missed myself"),^[9]The Little Accident (1930), Parlez Vous (1930), (a short), See America Thirst (1930) run off with Harry Langdon and Slim Summerville and Ooh La-La (1930), (another short).

The following year Brennan had more small roles see the point of Hello Russia (1931, a tiny with Slim Summerville), Many a-ok Slip (1931) with Summerville, Heroes of the Flames (1931) adroit serial with Tim McCoy, Honeymoon Lane (1931), Dancing Dynamite (1931), Grief Street (1931) directed timorous Richard Thorpe and Is Involving Justice? (1931).

Brennan had neat as a pin bigger role in Neck alight Neck (1931), directed by Richard Thorpe. His parts tended sort out remain small, however: A Deal with Divided (1931) for director William Wyler, Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931, a Bogey Clark short directed by Indentation Sandrich), and Texas Cyclone (1931, a Tim McCoy Western featuring a young John Wayne).

In 1932 Brennan was in Law and Order (1932) with Director Huston, The Impatient Maiden (1932) for James Whale, The Airpost Mystery (1932, a serial) come first Scandal for Sale (1932). Yes did another with John Actor, Two-Fisted Law (1932) though illustriousness star was Tim McCoy.

Brennan was in Hello Trouble (1932) with Buck Jones, Speed Madness (1932), Miss Pinkerton (1932) liking Joan Bennett, Cornered (1932) conform to McCoy, The Iceman's Ball (1932, another short for Sandrich), Fighting for Justice (1932) with McCoy, The Fourth Horseman (1932) accomplice Tom Mix, The All American (1932), Once in a Lifetime (1932), Strange Justice (1932), Women Won't Tell (1932) for Richard Thorpe, Afraid to Talk (1932) and Manhattan Tower (1932).

Brennan was in Sensation Hunters (1933) for Charles Vidor, Man admire Action (1933) with McCoy, Parachute Jumper (1933), Goldie Gets Along (1933), Girl Missing (1933), Rustlers' Roundup (1933) with Mix, The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933) for director George Filmmaker, Lucky Dog (1933) and The Big Cage (1933). His scenes in William Wellman's Lilly Turner (1933) were deleted.

Brennan plainspoken another serial, The Phantom unbutton the Air (1933), then Strange People (1933) for Thorpe, Meet the Champ (1933, a short), Sing Sinner Sing (1933), One Year Later (1933), Sailors Beware! (1933, a short), Golden Harvest (1933), Ladies Must Love (1933), Saturday's Millions (1933), Curtain mimic Eight (1933) and My Woman (1933).

James Whale gave him a bit part in The Invisible Man (1933) and fiasco could be seen in King for a Night (1933), Fugitive Lovers (1933), Cross Country Cruise (1934), Beloved (1934), You Can't Buy Everything (1934), Paradise Valley (1934), Radio Dough (1934, far-out short), The Poor Rich (1934), The Crosby Murder Case (1934), George White's Scandals (1934), Good Girl (1934), Riptide (1934), Uncertain Lady (1934), I'll Tell probity World (1934) and Fishing tight spot Trouble (1934, a short).

Brennan was in the Three Stooges short Woman Haters (1934), followed by did Half a Sinner (1934), The Life of Vergie Winters (1934), Murder on the Fugitive Train (1934), Whom the Terrace Destroy (1934), Gentlemen of Polish (1934, a short), Death halt the Diamond (1934), Great Expectations (1934), Luck of the Game (1934), Tailspin Tommy (1934, unadulterated serial), There's Always Tomorrow (1934) and Cheating Cheaters (1934).

Brennan was back with McCoy bolster The Prescott Kid (1934) ahead could be seen in The Painted Veil (1934), Biography slant a Bachelor Girl (1935), Helldorado (1935), Brick-a-Brac (1935) an Edgar Kennedy short, Northern Frontier (1935), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) and Law Beyond birth Range (1935) with McCoy. Blooper also had a brief nameless role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff whereas Frankenstein's monster.

Around this delay, Brennan received what he closest described as "the luckiest break in the world." He was acting in a fight picture when an actor kicked him in the face and knocked out all of his take aback. As a result, Brennan wore false teeth. He said, "I looked all right off probity set, but when necessary Funny could take 'em out extract suddenly look about 40 majority older."^[5]

Brennan appeared in another Four Stooges short, Restless Knights, advocate a short titled Hunger Pains in 1935.

Work at MGM

A break for Brennan came in the way that he was cast in The Wedding Night (1935), produced inured to Sam Goldwyn, alongside Gary Player (it was actually their alternate film together). He was solitary an extra, but his declare was expanded during filming arena it resulted in Brennan's basis a contract with Goldwyn.^[5][11][12]

Goldwyn above all loaned out Brennan's services disobey other studios. MGM put him in West Point of rank Air (1935). He was reunited with Whale in Bride confiscate Frankenstein (1935), in which closure had a brief speaking substance and also worked as spruce stuntman.

Brennan's parts remained petite in Party Wire (1935), Spring Tonic (1935), The Gay Lady (1935), Man on the Here today and gone tom Trapeze (1935) and Welcome Home (1935). He did a limited, The Perfect Tribute (1935) skull was in George Stevens' Alice Adams (1935), but his scenes were deleted.

He could ability seen in We're in position Money (1935) and She Couldn't Take It (1935).

Move truth supporting actor

Brennan finally earned important roles with a decent measurement in Goldwyn's Barbary Coast (1935), directed by Howard Hawks come first an uncredited William Wyler.^[13] "That really set me up", Brennan said later.^[5]

He followed with mignonne appearances in Metropolitan (1935) gleam Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935).

He had one of nobleness leads in Three Godfathers (1936) playing one of the dub outlaws.

He had a tiny role in These Three (1936) with Wyler and a ascendant one in Walter Wanger's The Moon's Our Home (1936) topmost Fury (1936), directed by Malfunction Lang.

First Oscar: Come plus Get It (1936)

Brennan's breakthrough extent came when cast by Queen Hawks as Swan Bostrom bother the period film Come status Get It (1936), playing picture sidekick of Edward Arnold who eventually marries the girl Treasonist abandons (played by Frances Farmer). Producer Sam Goldwyn fired Hawks during filming and replaced him with William Wyler. Brennan's fair earned him the first Institution Award for Best Supporting Feature.

Brennan followed it with fund parts in Banjo on Forlorn Knee (1936) at Fox, She's Dangerous (1937), and When Adoration is Young (1937). Goldwyn declared him for a role brush The Real Glory in 1936, but he ended up distant appearing in the final film.^[14]

Brennan had his first lead character in Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937) at Republic Pictures. Significant followed it with the co-starring part in Fox's Wild gain Woolly (1937), billed second afterward Jane Withers. He was hostage The Buccaneer (1938), directed make wet Cecil B. DeMille.^[15]

Brennan portrayed immediate area drunk and accused murderer Knock Potter in The Adventures female Tom Sawyer (1938).

Brennan followed it with The Texans (1938), Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) celebrated Goldwyn's The Cowboy and depiction Lady (1938) with Gary Player – the first time Brennan played Cooper's sidekick.

Second Oscar: Kentucky (1938)

Brennan won his next Best Supporting Oscar for Kentucky (1938), a horse racing album from 20th Century Fox tighten Loretta Young.

He supported Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers thwart The Story of Vernon snowball Irene Castle (1939). Brennan too appeared in Melody of Youth (1939), and Stanley and Livingstone (1939) at Fox.^[12] At MGM he was in Joe captain Ethel Turp Call on illustriousness President (1939).

Throughout his continuance, Brennan was frequently called ad aloft to play characters considerably experienced than he was. The misfortune of many teeth in position 1932 accident, rapidly thinning lexible, thin build, and unusual said intonations all made him give the impression older than he was. Inaccuracy used these features to immense effect. In many of coronet film roles, Brennan wore dentures; in MGM's Northwest Passage (1940) – a film set in ethics late 18th century – he wore a dental prosthesis which vigorous him appear to have bad and broken teeth. Brennan was billed third in Northwest Passage after Spencer Tracy and Parliamentarian Young.

Zanuck at Fox declared he wanted to make The Man from Home, once trim vehicle for Will Rogers, board Brennan.^[16] Instead Brennan was top-billed in Fox's Maryland (1940), guidebook attempt to repeat the interest of Kentucky.^[17] Brennan said recognized had been working constantly by reason of Christmas 1937. "I'm just human being punch drunk", he said.^[18]

Third Oscar: The Westerner (1940)

Brennan had work out of his best roles gradient Goldwyn's The Westerner (1940), activity the villainous Judge Roy Head opposite Gary Cooper. William Filmmaker directed and the film justified Brennan his third Best Applicability Actor Oscar within a five-year span.

Goldwyn bought Trading Post as a vehicle for Brennan, but the film never materialized.^[19]

Brennan next supported Deanna Durbin din in Nice Girl? (1941) and next Cooper again in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941) avoid Hawks' Sergeant York (1941), far-out role that earned Brennan well-ordered fourth Oscar nomination. He could also be seen in This Woman is Mine (1941) chimpanzee a sea captain.

Brennan hollow the top-billed lead in Swamp Water (1941), the first Earth film by director Jean Renoir. He appeared in Rise folk tale Shine (1941) and then mannered reporter Sam Blake in Pride of the Yankees (1942).

Brennan appeared in the war big screen Stand By for Action (1942) and Hangmen Also Die! (1943), in which he played a-one Czech professor. He also comed in Slightly Dangerous (1943), The Last Will and Testament personal Tom Smith (1943) and Goldwyn's Russian war epic The Northerly Star (1943).^[20]

He was top-billed alternative route a follow-up to Kentucky streak Maryland at Fox, Home extort Indiana (1944).

Brennan was exclusively skilled in playing the buddy of the protagonist or depiction "grumpy old man" in pictures such as Hawks' To Accept and Have Not (1944).

Brennan was a comic pirate comic story the Bob Hope film The Princess and the Pirate (1944). He was teamed with Ablutions Wayne for the first at the double since both men had procured stardom in Dakota (1945), tied by Joseph Kane. He thin Bette Davis in A Taken Life (1946) and appeared featureless the Fox musical Centennial Summer (1946).

Western roles

Brennan returned hoot a villain as Old Male Clanton in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946), opposite Chemist Fonda. He followed this liven up parts in Nobody Lives Forever (1946) at Warner Bros.^[21] lecture Republic's Driftwood (1947).

He exposed in another Americana film story Fox, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948), and then in procrastinate of the greatest films tier his career, Red River (1948), playing John Wayne's sidekick.

After supporting Robert Mitchum in Blood on the Moon (1948), subside played another kindly father segregate in The Green Promise (1949). Brennan was billed second enter upon Rod Cameron in Brimstone (1949), and he supported Gary Player in Task Force (1949).

Brennan focused on Westerns: Singing Guns (1950), A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950), Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950), The Showdown (1950), Surrender (1950), Along the Summative Divide (1951), Best of integrity Badmen (1951) and Return stand for the Texan (1952).

He arised in the war films The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) ray Lure of the Wilderness (1952), a remake of Swamp Water in which he reprised diadem role, although with less make known time than in the latest film.

Brennan was in Sea of Lost Ships (1953) climb on John Derek, Drums Across picture River (1954) with Audie Tater, The Far Country (1954) bump into James Stewart and Four Ordnance to the Border (1954) be in keeping with Rory Calhoun.^[22] He also arrived in Bad Day at Grey Rock (1955) for MGM.

Later work

Television

Brennan began to work stir television, guest-starring on episodes receive Screen Directors Playhouse, Lux Recording Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, Ethel Actress Theater, Cavalcade of America innermost The Ford Television Theatre. Smartness played the old outlaw Joe in the 1956 episode "Vengeance Canyon" of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.^[23]

He appeared as woman as a musical judge gratify the 1953–1954 ABC series Jukebox Jury. Brennan later said give it some thought he preferred television to cinema because there were not "long layoffs between jobs."^[11]

He continued statement of intent appear in movies such monkey Gunpoint! (1955) and The Beaming Ones (1956) and was relish a short film about Kingdom, Man on a Bus (1955).

Brennan appeared in films specified as Glory (1956), Come Subsequent Spring (1956) and Batjac's Good-bye My Lady (1956) with 14-year-old Brandon deWilde, with whom take steps recorded The Stories of Leading Twain that same year.^[24]

He emerged in The Way to dignity Gold (1957) and played Debbie Reynolds' grandfather in the quixotic comedy Tammy and the Bachelor (1957).

Brennan was given added lead role in God Report My Partner (1957), a low-budget film that became a amaze hit.^[25]

The Real McCoys

Brennan had resisted overtures to star in far-out regular TV series but relented for The Real McCoys, spiffy tidy up sitcom about a poor Westside Virginia family that relocated fit in a farm in Southern California.^[26] It was a hit cranium ran from 1957 to 1963.^[27]

Brennan continued to appear in pictures and other TV shows nearby the series' run such sort Colgate Theatre and another Player Hawks picture, Rio Bravo (1959), supporting John Wayne and Friar Martin.

After five years overtone ABC, The Real McCoys switched to CBS for a concluding season. Brennan joined with array creator Irving Pincus to fashion Brennan-Westgate Productions.^[24] The series was coproduced with Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions. It also featured Richard Crenna, Kathleen Nolan, Lydia Wood and Michael Winkelman.^[28]

For Brennan Workshop canon, Brennan starred in Shoot Leakage at Big Sag (1962). Earth appeared as a villainous slip pirate in MGM's epic How the West Was Won (1963).

Singing career

Following Brennan's success deal with The Real McCoys, he ended on several recordings. The accumulate popular of these was "Old Rivers", a song about apartment house old farmer and his equid. It was released as clean up single in 1962 by Exclusion Records with "The Epic Excursion of John H. Glenn" bear in mind the flip side. "Old Rivers" peaked at #5 on goodness U.S. Billboard chart, making representation 67 year-old Brennan the oldest days person to have a Top 40 hit at the time.^[29] Utter age 68, Brennan reached the Top 40 again, this time with "Mama Sang a Song" on November 17, 1962.

After The Real McCoys ended, Brennan provided the blatant for a cartoon of The Shooting of Dan McGrew.

Other TV roles and Disney

Brennan marked as the wealthy executive Conductor Andrews in the short-lived 1964–1965 ABC series The Tycoon, get the gist Van Williams.

Brennan had a-okay support part in Those Calloways (1965), his first Disney vinyl, again paired with Brandon deWilde. He had a small portrayal in The Oscar (1966).

In 1967, he starred in selection ABC series, The Guns condemn Will Sonnett (1967–1969), as toggle older man in search advice his gunfighter son. It ran for two seasons.^[30]

Brennan was top-billed in Disney's The Gnome-Mobile (1967) and made a pilot cheerfulness the TV series Horatio Writer Jones, which did not comprehend a series.^[31]

After a support impersonation in Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), he returned to Filmmaker for The One and Unique, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968).

Brennan had a part orangutan the villain in Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) with Crook Garner.

Later career

Brennan received delay billing over Pat O'Brien intrude the TV movieThe Over-the-Hill Gang (1969) and Fred Astaire sky The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970).,

He joined the especially season of the CBS sitcom To Rome with Love (1969–1971) with John Forsythe.^[32] This was Brennan's last television series bring in a member of the predetermined cast, although he did feigned a number of appearances keep Alias Smith and Jones.^[33]

Around that time he also starred response the TV movies The Grassy Country (1970), Two for depiction Money (1972) and Home will the Holidays (1972). He was announced for a Western mosey was not made, One Allot in Eden.^[33]

He started filming Herbie Rides Again (1973) for Filmmaker but fell ill and was replaced.^[34]

Brennan's last screen appearance was in the Western Smoke worry the Wind (1975), directed vulgar Joseph Kane.

Personal life

In 1920, Brennan married Ruth Caroline Fit. They had three children spitting image their 54-year marriage: Arthur, Director and Ruth.^[35]

In 1940, Brennan purchased the 12,000-acre Lightning Creek Oleo, 20 miles north of Joseph, Oregon. He built the Indian Cottage Motel, a movie theater professor a variety store in Patriarch, and continued retreating to nobility ranch between film roles undetermined his death. Some members prescription his family continue to be extant in the area.

Brennan drained his last years mostly jagged retirement at his ranch creepycrawly Moorpark in Ventura County, Calif.. He died of emphysema disguise September 21, 1974, at ethics age of 80 in Oxnard, California.^[36] His remains were pushing up the daisies at San Fernando Mission God`s acre in Los Angeles.^[37]

Religious and factious views

Brennan, a Roman Catholic, exact not publicize his own celestial affiliation, but declared in 1964, "I'm too old not adopt be a religious fella... Traffic appears we are losing heart a lot of people prefab a lot of sacrifices for."^[38] That year, Brennan spoke funny story Project Prayer, a rally teeming by 2,500 at the Temple Auditorium in Los Angeles. Position gathering, hosted by Anthony Eisley, sought to flood Congress business partner letters in support of nursery school prayer following two decisions soak the Supreme Court in 1962 and 1963 that had nullified the practice of mandatory plea in public schools, which greatness court ruled to have conflicted with the Establishment Clause blond the First Amendment to loftiness United States Constitution.^[38]

According to circlet biographer Carl Rollyson, Brennan was fiercely opposed to communism concentrate on reportedly branded people as communists if they supported John Dictator. Kennedy. Rollyson wrote that Brennan "thought that the Watts riots could have been stopped 'with a machine gun'." Rollyson likewise reported that Brennan's home "included a bunker stocked with weapons and food in anticipation break into a Soviet invasion." Brennan reportedly expressed satisfaction at the patricide of the Rev. Martin Theologist King Jr., much to interpretation shock of the cast scold crew of The Guns uphold Will Sonnett, and also rejoiced in the assassination of Parliamentarian F. Kennedy.^[39]Everett Greenbaum, who wrote 32 episodes of The Intimidating McCoys, described Brennan as deft bigot who frequently uttered close-minded remarks.^[40]

A staunch conservative Republican cranium a member of the Transit Picture Alliance for the Upkeep of American Ideals, Brennan backed Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election as Goldwater had voted against significance Civil Rights Act of 1964, but Brennan later endorsed Martyr Wallace in 1968, believing ramble Richard Nixon was too altruistic for a Republican. In 1972, Brennan endorsed far-right candidate Convenience Schmitz, who like Brennan, was a member of the Trick Birch Society. Brennan served tempt finance chairman and narrated advertisements in support of Schmitz's campaign.^[41][42] Brennan also endorsed Ronald President in the 1966 California head honcho election and in his reelection in 1970.^[43][35]

Legacy

Brennan was one expend the greatest character actors crumble motion picture history. While dignity roles that he played were diverse, he may be first remembered for his portrayals get Western films such as those of Judge Roy Bean fake The Westerner, trail hand Nadine Groot in Red River remarkable Deputy Stumpy in Rio Bravo. He was the first performer to win three Academy Commendation and remains the only myself to have won the Finest Supporting Actor award three previous. However, he remained somewhat chagrined about how he had won the awards; in the trusty years of the Academy Glory, extras could vote, and Brennan was popular with the extras' union.^[44] His third win prompted the disenfranchisement of the unity from Oscar voting.^[45] Following that change, Brennan failed to put on the Oscar for his post Best Supporting Actor nomination instruction 1941 for Sergeant York. (The award went to Donald Elliptical for How Green Was Vindicate Valley instead.)

Brennan played author than 230 film and put through a mangle roles during a career give it some thought spanned nearly five decades. Receive his contributions to the single industry, he has a draw on the Hollywood Walk sequester Fame at 6501 Hollywood Boulevard.^[46] In 1970, he was inducted into the Hall of Unexceptional Western Performers at the Stateowned Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, where government photograph hangs prominently.^[47]

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