Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

acting Jul 25, 1894 Sep 21, 1974 Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

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3 wins

  • 1936 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Swan Bostrom) Come and Get It
  • 1938 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Peter Goodwin) Kentucky
  • 1940 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Judge Roy Bean) The Westerner

1 nomination

  • 1941 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (Pastor Posier Pile) Sergeant York

216 of 216 films rated

IMDb avg 6.5
IMDb median 6.4
RT avg 85%
RT median 91%

highest rated

acting

  1. Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs → (archive footage)
  2. Bogart: The Untold Story → Self (archive footage)
  3. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender → Self (archive footage)
  4. La Classe américaine → 'Stumpy' (archive footage)
  5. Smoke In The Wind → H. P. Kingman
  6. Home for the Holidays → Benjamin Morgan
  7. The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks → Self (archive footage)
  8. Two for the Money → Cody Guilford
  9. Alias Smith and Jones (TV)
  10. The Day They Hanged Kid Curry → Silky O'Sullivan
  11. The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again → Nash Crawford
  12. The Young Country → Sheriff Matt Fenley
  13. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (TV) → Self
  14. To Rome with Love (TV) → Andy Pruitt
  15. Support Your Local Sheriff! → Pa Danby
  16. The Over the Hill Gang → Nash Crawford
  17. The Movie Orgy → Self (archive footage)
  18. The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band → Grandpa Bower
  19. The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV) → Will Sonnett
  20. The Gnome-Mobile → D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby
  21. Who's Minding the Mint? → Pop Gillis
  22. Project XX: End of the Trail → Self - Narrator
  23. The Oscar → Quentin
  24. The Shooting of Dan McGrew → Narrator
  25. Those Calloways → Alf Simes
  26. The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
  27. How the West Was Won → Jeb Hawkins
  28. Shootout at Big Sag → 'Preacher' Hawker
  29. Rio Bravo → Stumpy
  30. The Western: A Lost TV Special → Self
  31. The Real McCoys (TV) → Amos McCoy
  32. Tammy and the Bachelor → John Dinwitty
  33. Armored Attack! → Karp
  34. The Way to the Gold → Uncle George Williams
  35. God Is My Partner → Dr. Charles Grayson
  36. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (TV) → Joe
  37. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (TV) → Sheriff John Larson
  38. The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV) → Self
  39. The Ford Show (TV) → Self
  40. The Proud Ones → Jake
  41. Good-bye, My Lady → Uncle Jesse Jackson
  42. Glory → Ned Otis
  43. Come Next Spring → Jeffrey Storys
  44. Bad Day at Black Rock → Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
  45. Man on a Bus → Saul
  46. At Gunpoint → Doc Lacy
  47. The Brush Roper → Grandpa Atkins
  48. The George Gobel Show (TV) → Self
  49. The Far Country → Ben Tatum
  50. Four Guns to the Border → Simon Bhumer
  51. Drums Across the River → Sam Brannon
  52. The Oscars (TV) → Self
  53. Sea of Lost Ships → C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley
  54. The Ford Television Theatre (TV) → Duffy
  55. Cavalcade of America (TV) → Link Morley
  56. This Is Your Life (TV) → Self
  57. Lure of the Wilderness → Jim Harper
  58. Return of the Texan → Grandpa Firth Crockett
  59. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV) → Ezra Jenkins
  60. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV) → Simmons AKA Mr. Ears
  61. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV)
  62. Along the Great Divide → Timothy 'Pop' Keith
  63. Best of the Badmen → 'Doc' Butcher
  64. The Wild Blue Yonder → Maj. Gen. Wolfe
  65. What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
  66. Lux Video Theatre (TV) → Self - Intermission Guest
  67. A Ticket to Tomahawk → Terence Sweeny
  68. The Showdown → Cap MacKellar
  69. Singing Guns → Dr. Jonathan Mark
  70. Surrender → Sheriff Bill Howard
  71. Curtain Call at Cactus Creek → Rimrock
  72. Task Force → Pete Richard
  73. Brimstone → Pop Courteen
  74. The Green Promise → Mr. Matthews
  75. Red River → 'Groot' Nadine
  76. Blood on the Moon → Kris Barden
  77. Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! → Tony Maule
  78. Driftwood → Murph
  79. My Darling Clementine → Old Man Clanton
  80. Nobody Lives Forever → Pop Gruber
  81. A Stolen Life → Eben Folger
  82. Centennial Summer → Jesse Rogers
  83. To Have and Have Not → Eddie
  84. Dakota → Bounce of the Riverbird
  85. The Princess and the Pirate → Featherhead
  86. Home in Indiana → J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt
  87. Hangmen Also Die! → Prof. Stephen Novotny
  88. The North Star → Karp
  89. Slightly Dangerous → Cornelius Burden
  90. The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith → George, Mailman
  91. The Pride of the Yankees → Sam Blake
  92. Stand by for Action → Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
  93. Sergeant York → Pastor Rosier Pile
  94. Meet John Doe → The Colonel
  95. Swamp Water → Tom Keefer
  96. Breakdowns of 1941 → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  97. This Woman Is Mine → Captain Jonathan Thorne
  98. Nice Girl? → Hector Titus
  99. Rise and Shine → Grandpa
  100. The Westerner → Judge Roy Bean
  101. Northwest Passage → 'Hunk' Marriner
  102. Maryland → William P. Stewart
  103. They Shall Have Music → Professor Lawson
  104. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle → Walter
  105. Stanley and Livingstone → Jeff Slocum
  106. Land of Liberty → Ezra Peavey (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
  107. Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President → Jim
  108. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer → Muff Potter
  109. The Buccaneer → Ezra Peavey
  110. The Cowboy and the Lady → Sugar
  111. Kentucky → Peter Goodwin
  112. Mother Carey's Chickens → Ossian Popham
  113. The Texans → Chuckawalla
  114. When Love Is Young → Uncle Hugo
  115. Wild and Woolly → Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn
  116. She's Dangerous → 'Oats'
  117. Affairs of Cappy Ricks → Cappy Ricks
  118. Fury → Bugs Meyers
  119. These Three → Taxi Driver
  120. Come and Get It → Swan Bostrom
  121. Three Godfathers → Samuel 'Gus' Barton
  122. Banjo on My Knee → Newt Holley
  123. The Moon's Our Home → Lem
  124. Bride of Frankenstein → Peasant (uncredited)
  125. Barbary Coast → Old Atrocity
  126. Northern Frontier → Stuttering Cook
  127. She Couldn't Take It → Peddler
  128. The Wedding Night → Bill Jenkins
  129. Helldorado → Pete
  130. Metropolitan → Grandpa
  131. Biography of a Bachelor Girl → Reporter on Ship (uncredited)
  132. The Mystery of Edwin Drood → Milkman (uncredited)
  133. Man on the Flying Trapeze → 'Legs' Garnett
  134. West Point of the Air → Soldier at Kelly's Wreckage
  135. Lady Tubbs → Joseph
  136. Seven Keys to Baldpate → Station Agent
  137. The Perfect Tribute → Stone Cutter (uncredited)
  138. We're in the Money → Wedding Witness (uncredited)
  139. Party Wire → Paul - Railroad Telegrapher (uncredited)
  140. Restless Knights → Father (uncredited)
  141. Law Beyond the Range → Abner
  142. Brick-a-Brac → Lem
  143. Riptide → Chauffeur (uncredited)
  144. Cross Country Cruise → Niagara Falls Boatman (Uncredited)
  145. Beloved → Stuttering Boarder
  146. Cheating Cheaters → Ship's Telegrapher (uncredited)
  147. I'll Tell the World → Otto - Bicycle Repair Man
  148. Fugitive Lovers → 2nd Bus Driver (uncredited)
  149. The Life of Vergie Winters → Roscoe (uncredited)
  150. Good Dame → Elmer Spicer
  151. Great Expectations → Prisoner on Ship
  152. Death on the Diamond → Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
  153. Murder in the Private Car → Switchman (uncredited)
  154. Half a Sinner → Radio Announcer
  155. Woman Haters → Train Conductor (uncredited)
  156. George White's Scandals → Hick (uncredited)
  157. Radio Dough → Drunk Customer (uncredited)
  158. Whom the Gods Destroy → Clifford (uncredited)
  159. Whom the Gods Destroy → Clifford
  160. The Prescott Kid → Zeke - Stage Driver
  161. There's Always Tomorrow → Auto mechanic
  162. The Poor Rich → Dr. Johnson the Coroner (uncredited)
  163. Gridiron Flash → Proprietor of Java Joe's
  164. Paradise Valley → Farmer Hiram
  165. Uncertain Lady → Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
  166. The Invisible Man → Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
  167. My Woman → Auditioning Man Who Does Animal Sounds (Uncredited)
  168. Goldie Gets Along → Stuttering Waiter
  169. Golden Harvest → Farmhand at Wedding (uncredited)
  170. Parachute Jumper → Counterman at Jewel Diner (uncredited)
  171. One Year Later → Man Chuckling at Train Station
  172. Girl Missing → Joe, Garage Attendant (Uncredited)
  173. Saturday's Millions → Reporter
  174. Sensation Hunters → Stuttering Waiter
  175. Lucky Dog → Drunk #2
  176. Strange People → The Radio Repairman
  177. The Phantom of the Air → 'Skid' (uncredited)
  178. King for a Night → Soda Jerk
  179. Curtain at Eight → Backstage Detective [extra]
  180. The Big Cage → Ticket Taker
  181. Sailor Beware! → Stuttering Thief
  182. The Rustler's Roundup → Walt (uncredited)
  183. Man Of Action → Cashier Summers
  184. Law and Order → Lanky Smith (uncredited)
  185. Miss Pinkerton → Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
  186. The Impatient Maiden → Cigar Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
  187. The All-American → News Commentator at Game (uncredited)
  188. Texas Cyclone → Sheriff Lew Collins
  189. The Airmail Mystery → Holly
  190. Afraid to Talk → Protester Sign Carrier (uncredited)
  191. Manhattan Tower → Mechanic (uncredited)
  192. Speed Madness → Joe
  193. Scandal for Sale → Newspaperman
  194. Two-Fisted Law → Bendix the Deputy Sheriff
  195. Once in a Lifetime → Lighting Technician (uncredited)
  196. The Fourth Horseman → Toothless Town Drunk
  197. Cornered → Court Bailiff (uncredited)
  198. The Unexpected Father → Sailor (uncredited)
  199. Women Won't Tell → Man in Junkyard
  200. The Iceman's Ball → Officer Dugan
  201. Honeymoon Lane → Driver
  202. Many a Slip → Minor Role (uncredited)
  203. A House Divided → Musician (uncredited)
  204. Grief Street → Walt
  205. Scratch-As-Catch-Can
  206. Heroes of the Flames → Bit Part
  207. Neck and Neck → Hector
  208. Is There Justice? → Rollins
  209. King of Jazz → Desk Sergeant ('Springtime') / Soldier ('All Noisy on the Eastern Front') / Waiter ('Oh! Forevermore!') / Front End of Horse / Quartet Member ('Nellie')
  210. Little Accident → Milkman (uncredited)
  211. See America Thirst → Spumoni Bodyguard (uncredited)
  212. Dames Ahoy → Side Show Barker
  213. Flight → Marine Pilot
  214. One Hysterical Night → Paul Revere
  215. The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City → Man at Police Station
  216. The Lariat Kid → Pat O'Shea
  217. His Lucky Day → Road House Thug (uncredited)
  218. Smilin' Guns → Ranch Foreman
  219. The Long, Long Trail → Skinny Rawlins
  220. The Last Performance → Clown (uncredited)
  221. The Shannons of Broadway → Hez
  222. Flying High → Kidnapper
  223. The Michigan Kid → Minor Role (uncredited)
  224. The Ballyhoo Buster
  225. Sensation Seekers → Below Deck Yacht Crewman
  226. Flashing Oars → Hula Hula Hut Customer
  227. A Fighting Finish → Student
  228. Alias The Deacon → Cashier at Cunningham's Rink
  229. Blake of Scotland Yard → Henchman (uncredited)
  230. Tearin' Into Trouble → Billy Martin
  231. The Ridin' Rowdy
  232. Hot Heels → Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)
  233. Spangles → Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
  234. Watch Your Wife
  235. Lorraine of the Lions → Minor Role (uncredited)
  236. The Calgary Stampede → Racing Spectator in Grandstand at Rodeo (uncredited)
  237. Webs of Steel

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