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Walter Andrew Brennan was a well-known American actor. He is the only actor to win 3 ‘Academy Awards’ for ‘Best Supporting Actor.’ He was best known for his portrayals of Western sidekicks and affable or grumpy old guy. In the career stretching nearly 5 decades, he essayed more than 230 roles in films and TV.
Actor: The Westerner. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering.
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer.
Nov 20, 2015 · ( University Press of Mississippi. ) 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...
Biography. 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.
Walter Brennan was an American character actor who, although destined never to be a leading man, became one of the most successful supporting actors of Hollywood's Golden Age. He often played the comic relief role of the old-timer sidekick, particularly in Westerns.
Walter Brennan was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times and is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins for a male actor. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts less than two miles from his family’s home in Swampscott, to Irish immigrants, he was christened Walter Andrew Brennan.
