“I looked all right off the set, but when necessary I could take”
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Walter Brennan
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only person to win three awards in the supporting actor category. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My…
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entertainment · American actor (1894–1974) · actor · character actor · film actor · television actor · songwriter · singer · also Walter Brennan, Walter Andrew Brennan, Brennan
Born 25 July 1894 · Died 21 September 1974 · Q219521
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2026· 1 entry
2013· 1 entry
Released album “Reminiscing With Walter Brennan”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Old Shep”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Old Rivers / 'Twas The Night Before Christmas...Back Home”.
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1974· 1 entry
Died 1974-09-21.
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1972· 1 entry
Brennan endorsed far-right candidate John Schmitz, who like Brennan, was a member of the John Birch Society
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1970· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, where his photograph hangs prominently
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1968· 1 entry
Believing that Richard Nixon was too liberal for a Republican
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1967· 1 entry
Starred in another ABC series, The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967–1969), as an older man in search of his gunfighter son
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1964· 1 entry
"I'm too old not to be a religious fella
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1962· 5 entries
By Liberty Records with "The Epic Ride of John H
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Released album “'Twas The Night Before Christmas...Back Home”.
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Released album “Old Rivers”.
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Released album “Mama Sang a Song”.
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And 1963 that had invalidated the practice of mandatory prayer in public schools, which the court ruled to have conflicted with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Westerner (1941).
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1940· 1 entry
Brennan purchased the 12,000-acre Lightning Creek Ranch, 20 miles north of Joseph, Oregon
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Kentucky (1939).
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1937).
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1936· 1 entry
But he ended up not appearing in the final film
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1932· 1 entry
Brennan was in Law and Order (1932) with Walter Huston, The Impatient Maiden (1932) for James Whale, The Airmail Mystery (1932, a serial) and Scandal for Sale (1932)
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1930· 1 entry
“I sneezed and I missed myself”
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1920· 1 entry
Brennan married Ruth Caroline Wells
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1894· 2 entries
Born 1894-07-25.
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Less than two miles from his family's home in Swampscott
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