Walter Brennan: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Walter Andrew Brennan
Born July 25, 1894 • Lynn • Massachusetts
Died September 21, 1974 (aged 80) • Oxnard • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1941) • Academy Award (1939) • Academy Award (1937) • Academy Award (1941): Actor in a Supporting Role • Academy Award (1939): Actor in a Supporting Role • Academy Award (1937): Actor in a Supporting Role
Married To Ruth Wells Brennan (married 1920)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In) "The Showdown" (1950) • "To Have and Have Not" (1944) • "The Shannons of Broadway" (1929) • "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1938) • "God Is My Partner" (1957) • "The Green Promise" (1949) • "Sensation Hunters" (1933) • "Who's Minding the Mint?" (1967) • "Dancing Dynamite" (1931) • "Four Guns to the Border" (1954) • "Strange People" (1933) • "Speed Madness" (1932) • "The Oscar" (1966) • "Rio Bravo" (1959) • "Best of the Badmen" (1951) • "The Airmail Mystery" (1932) • "King of Jazz" (1930) • "The Wild Blue Yonder" (1951) • "The Ballyhoo Buster" (1928) • "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967) • "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1953–1956) • "The Westerner" (1940) • "Brimstone" (1949) • "The Wedding Night" (1935) • "Smilin' Guns" (1929) • "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (1939) • "Home in Indiana" (1944) • "Beloved" (1934) • "Swamp Water" (1941) • "Smoke in the Wind" (1975) • "Half a Sinner" (1934) • "The Real McCoys" (1957–1963) • "Watch Your Wife" (1926) • "At Gunpoint" (1955) • "Tammy and the Bachelor" (1957) • "Tearin' Into Trouble" (1927) • "A Ticket to Tomahawk" (1950) • "Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1935) • "One Hysterical Night" (1929) • "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band" (1968) • "The Texans" (1938) • "Red River" (1948) • "Colgate Theatre" (1958) • "Meet John Doe" (1941) • "Good-bye, My Lady" (1956) • "Drums Across the River" (1954) • "Kentucky" (1938) • "Curtain Call at Cactus Creek" (1950) • "Rise and Shine" (1941) • "Maryland" (1940) • "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939) • "Shootout at Big Sag" (1962) • "Those Calloways" (1965) • "When Love Is Young" (1937) • "Return of the Texan" (1952) • "Nobody Lives Forever" (1946) • "The Ford Television Theatre" (1956) • "Fury" (1936) • "Honeymoon Lane" (1931) • "Surrender" (1950) • "This Woman Is Mine" (1941) • "'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers)" (1940) • "The Buccaneer" (1938) • "The Guns of Will Sonnett" (1967–1969) • "Banjo on My Knee" (1936) • "Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President" (1939) • "Mother Carey's Chickens" (1938) • "Two-Fisted Law" (1932) • "The Way to the Gold" (1957) • "Barbary Coast" (1935) • "Law Beyond the Range" (1935) • "The Tycoon" (1964–1965) • "Centennial Summer" (1946) • "She's Dangerous" (1937) • "They Shall Have Music" (1939) • "Seven Keys to Baldpate" (1935) • "Ethel Barrymore Theater" (1956) • "The Prescott Kid" (1934) • "Lure of the Wilderness" (1952) • "The Princess and the Pirate" (1944) • "Man of Action" (1933) • "Singing Guns" (1950) • "Task Force" (1949) • "Come and Get It" (1936) • "Blood on the Moon" (1948) • "A Stolen Life" (1946) • "The Moon's Our Home" (1936) • "How the West Was Won" (1962) • "Sergeant York" (1941) • "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942) • "Sing Sinner Sing" (1933) • "Texas Cyclone" (1932) • "Along the Great Divide" (1951) • "Come Next Spring" (1956) • "The Cowboy and the Lady" (1938) • "The Proud Ones" (1956) • "Paradise Valley" (1934) • "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969) • "Lucky Dog" (1933) • "Driftwood" (1947) • "Slightly Dangerous" (1943) • "My Darling Clementine" (1946) • "Hangmen Also Die!" (1943) • "To Rome with Love" (1970–1971) • "Glory" (1956) • "Grief Street" (1931) • "Is There Justice?" (1931) • "The Long, Long Trail" (1929) • "Dakota" (1945) • "Cavalcade of America" (1956) • "Wild and Woolly" (1937) • "Stand by for Action" (1942) • "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" (1948) • "Zane Grey Theater" (1956–1957) • "Affairs of Cappy Ricks" (1937) • "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955) • "Neck and Neck" (1931) • "The North Star" (1943) • "Sea of Lost Ships" (1953) • "The Far Country" (1954) • "The Red Skelton Show" (1969–1970) • "These Three" (1936) • "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971–1972) • "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1955) • "Three Godfathers" (1936) • "Northern Frontier" (1935) • "Nice Girl?" (1941) • "The Lariat Kid" (1929) • "The Ridin' Rowdy" (1927)

Top Questions

Is Walter Brennan married?
Ruth Wells Brennan (married 1920)
When was Walter Brennan born?
Walter Brennan was born on July 25, 1894.
Where was Walter Brennan born?
Walter Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.

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