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Sep 22, 1974 · OXNARD, Calif., Sept. (AP) — Veteran actor Walter Brennan, who won three Academy Awards, died tonight after a long battle with emphysema. He was 80 years old.
Sep 22, 1974 · Walter Brennan, for more than 50 years one of Hollywood’s most renown character actors, died Saturday at St. John’s Hospital in Oxnard. He was 80. A three-time Academy Award winner, Mr ...
Born July 25, 1894 in Lynn, MA, Walter Andrew Brennan was the second of three children by engineer William John Brennan and his wife, Margaret. As a boy, he studied engineering at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, MA, but fell in love with acting after appearing in several school plays.
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy ...
Nov 20, 2015 · Walter Brennan was one of Hollywood’s most memorable Hollywood character actors. But more so than his scene-stealing turns, it was his distinctive voice that audiences young and old will ...
Walter Brennan was a much-loved and much-Oscared character actor in American movies of the 1930s through 1960s. His specialty was cranky-but-good-hearted sidekicks, uncles, bosses and doctors, all played with his distinctively scratchy (and often exasperated) voice. Walter Brennan was born near Boston and joined the US Army in 1917, fighting in ...
Lowest Rated: 12% The Oscar (1966) Birthday: Jul 25, 1894. Birthplace: Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA. One of the most immediately recognizable character actors of the 20th century, Walter Brennan ...
