Walter Brennan

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Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor.

He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936, 1938, and 1940, making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards.

Early life

Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, less than two miles from his family's home in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Both his parents were Irish immigrants. His father was an engineer and entrepreneur, and a young Brennan studied engineering at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He joined the US Army and served as a private with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during World War II while serving as a bank clerk. He was in France for two years. "While there, he sustained an injury to his vocal cords from exposure to mustard gas, which left him with his screen name: a reedy, high-pitched voice that has become a favorite with celebrity impersonators for decades."

He worked as a financial reporter for a Boston newspaper during the war. He made a fortune in the real estate market in the 1920s, but he lost the majority of his money after the 1925 real estate market slump.

Personal life

Brennan married Ruth Caroline Wells in 1920. Arthur, Walter, and Ruth had three children in their 54-year marriage: Arthur, Walter, and Ruth. Dixon McCully Lademan, Ruth's husband, served in the US Navy in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Arthur Wells "Big Mike" Brennan and his partner, Florence Irene (Whitman) Brennan, lived in Joseph, Oregon.

Brennan purchased the 12,000-acre Lightning Creek Ranch, 20 miles north of Joseph, Oregon, in 1940. He created the Indian Lodge Motel, a movie theater, and a general store in Joseph, and went back to Joseph between film appearances until his death. Any members of his family live in the area.

Brennan spent his remaining years at his Moorpark ranch in Ventura County, California, in retirement. In Oxnard, California, he died of emphysema at the age of 80. His remains were laid to rest at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Brennan, a Roman Catholic, did not reveal his religious affiliation, but said in 1964, "I'm too old not to be a religious fella." [...] We seem to be missing something that a great number of people made a sacrifice for." Brennan spoke at "Project Prayer" in Los Angeles, a rally attended by 2,500 people at the Shrine Auditorium. Following two Supreme Court rulings in 1962 and 1963, Anthony Eisley's gathering in support of mandatory school prayer in public schools as being in violation with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution's Establishment Clause.

Brennan was reportedly hostile to Communism, and he branded people as Communists if they opposed John F. Kennedy, according to his biographer Carl Rollyson. "He thought the Watts riots could have been stopped "with a machine gun," says the Rev.'s priest, who expressed joy at the murder of the Rev. "In the midst of a Soviet invasion," Martin Luther King Jr. Rollyson said, Brennan's home "included a bunker stocked with arms and food in anticipation of a Soviet invasion." Brennan danced a jig when he heard the King was killed, much to the shock of the cast and crew of The Guns of Will Sonnett, who also did the same for Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.

Brennan, a hardline conservative Democrat, voted against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential election, but later endorsed George Wallace in 1968, believing Richard Nixon was too liberal for a Republican. In 1972, he endorsed far-right candidate John Schmitz, who was much like Brennan, as a member of the John Birch Society. Brennan also supported Ronald Reagan in the 1966 California gubernatorial election and reelection in 1970.

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Career

Brennan, a penniless guy, began acting in films at Universal Studios in 1925, costing him $7.50 [equivalent to $125.00 in 2022] a day. He began working at Universal for ten years, but it was not long.

His early appearances included Webs of Steel (1925), Lorraine of the Lions (1925), and The Calgary Stampede (1925), a Hoot Gibson Western. Brennan was also in Watch Your Wife (1926), Spangles (1926, a short), Irin's (1926), The Gole (1927), Alias the Deacon (1927), a serial), The Ballyhoo Buster (1928), and Watch Your Wife (1926). Richard Thorpe, a film director who would use Brennan as an extra several times, directed the latter.

Brennan appeared in The Racket (1928), Silks and Saddles (1929), and Smilin' Guns (1929) with Gibson. (1928) and The Lariat Kid (1929) with Gibson. He also served as a stand-in.

Brennan was on His Lucky Day (1929), Frank Capra's Flight (1929) (a larger role) (the last performance (1929) With Gibson and The Shannons of Broadway (1929).

Dames Ahoy! was one of Brennan's most popular performances. (1930) Captain of the Guard (1930), King of Jazz (1930) (Brennan said he appeared in nine scenes but "I sneezed and I missed myself") (A short film) See America Thirst (1930) (another short).

Brennan appeared in Hello Russia (1931), a short with Slim Summerville (1931), Many a Slip (1931), Dancing Dynamite (1931), and Is There Justice (1931) is a film directed by Richard Thorpe. (1931): Ancestralism (1931)

Brennan appeared in Neck and Neck (1931), directed by Richard Thorpe, and he had a larger part in it. However, his appearances tended to be minor (1931, a Henry Wyler short film directed by Mark Sandrich), and Texas Cyclone (1931, a Tim McCoy Western starring a young John Wayne) remained small.

Brennan, The Impatient Maiden (1932, a serial), and Scandal for Sale (1932). Tim McCoy was the actor in a new film with John Wayne, which was two-fired (1932), but he did another with John Wayne, but it wasn't until his return to John Wayne that it was called Two-Fisted Law (1932).

Brennan was in Hello Trouble (1932), with Buck Jones, Speed Madness (1932), Miss Pinkerton (1932), The Fourth Horseman (1932), With Ben Bennett (1932), The People's Ball (1932), Roger Wilson (1932), Elizabeth Burke (1932), The Fourth Horseman (1932) and The Wally World (1932) The Fourth Horseman (1932) and Margaret Bennett (1932), Afraid to Talk (1932).

Brennan, Richard Russell (1933), Man of Action (1933), Sonnet Jumper (1933), Boy of the Tramp (1933), The Big Cage (1933), and Man of Action (1933). Scenes from William Wellman's Lilly Turner (1933) were deleted.

Brennan produced The Phantom of the Air (1933), later Strange People (1933) for Thorpe (1933, a short), one year later (1933), Sailors Beware (1933). Golden Harvest (1933), Ladies Must Love (1933), and My Woman (1933).

In 1933, James Whale took him to be in King for a Night (1934), The Invisible Man (1934), The Poor Poor (1934), A Short History (1934), We'll Tell the World (1934), The Unknown Woman (1934), It's Beloved (1934), A Short History (1934), and Fishing for Fun (1934).

Brennan was in the Three Stooges short Women Haters (1934-1934), Half a Sinner (1934), Gemini Myth (1934), A Short Film (1934), Whom the Gods Destroy (1934), The Livespin (1934), The Genius of the Game (1934), The Good Doctor (1934), and Cheating Cheaters (1934).

Brennan was back with McCoy for The Prescott Kid (1934) and could be seen in The Painted Veil (1935), A Bachelor Girl (1935), Stephen McHugh (1935), and Law Beyond the Range (1935) with McCoy. Boris Karloff was also cast in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), starring Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's tyrant.

Brennan's "best break in the world" came about around this time. He was fighting a scene when an actor kicked him in the chest and all his teeth were knocked out. He had to place false teeth in order to do so. "I looked all right off the set," he said. "But I could take 'em out' and suddenly look 40 years older" if necessary.

In (1935), Brennan created a short story titled Hunger Pains and another called Restless Knights.

Brennan's first break came when he was cast in The Wedding Night (1935), produced by Sam Goldwyn and Gary Cooper (it was actually their second film together). He was only an extra, but his role during filming was expanded, resulting in Brennan's employment with Goldwyn.

Brennan's services were mainly loaned out to other studios by Goldwyn. In 1935, MGM sent him to West Point of the Air. (1935) In Bride of Frankenstein (1935), he was reunited with Whale, in which he appeared briefly and also performed as a stuntman.

Brennan's role in Party Wire (1935), Spring Tonic (1935), The Gay Lady (1935), Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), and Welcome Home (1935). He appeared in George Stevens' Alice Adams (1935), but his scenes were cut out.

He could be seen in We're in the Money (1935) and She Couldn't Take It (1935).

Brennan's Barbary Coast (1935), directed by Howard Hawks and an uncredited William Wyler, took them on to a major role. Later, he said, "That really made me up."

He continued it with small appearances in Metropolitan (1935) and Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935).

He was one of the leads in Three Godfathers (1936), in which one of the title outlaws was played.

He played a small part in These Three (1936) and Fury (1936), directed by Fritz Lang. He appeared in These Three (1936) and Fury (1936) with Wyler and a smaller one in Walter Wanger's "The Moon's Our Home (1936) and Fury (1936).

Brennan's breakthrough came as a result of Howard Hawks' portrayal of Swan Bostrom in the period film Come and Get It (1936), playing Edward Arnold's sidekick, who later marries the child Arnold abandons (played by Frances Farmer). During recording, producer Sam Goldwyn fired Hawks and replaced him with William Wyler. Brennan was awarded the first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role.

Brennan continued it with support roles in Banjo on My Knee (1936), She's Dangerous (1937), and When Love Is Young (1937). In 1936, Goldwyn announced him for a role in The Real Glory, but he didn't appear in the final film.

Brennan appeared in Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937) at Republic Pictures for his first lead role. He paid tribute to Jane Withers' co-starring role in Fox's Wild and Woolly (1937), earning him second place. He appeared in The Buccaneer (1938), a film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Brennan depicted town inebriated and suspect murderer Muff Potter.

Brennan continued with The Texans (1938), Mother Carey's Chickens (1938), and Goldwyn's The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) – the first time Brennan appeared as Cooper's sidekick.

Brennan's second Best Supporting Oscar for Kentucky (1938), a twentieth-century Fox horse racing film starring Loretta Young, received his second Best Supporting Oscar for Kentucky (1938).

In The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), he supported Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Brennan appeared in Melody of Youth (1939), as well as Stanley and Livingstone (1939) at Fox. He was in Joe and Ethel Turp Call on President Robert Reagan (1939).

Brennan was often asked to portray characters older than he was throughout his career. He appeared older than he was because of several teeth lost in the 1932 disaster, quickly thinning hair, thin build, and bizarre vocal traces. These attributes were used to great effect by the artist. Brennan wore dentures in several of his film roles; in MGM's Northwest Passage (1940), a film set in the late 18th century, he wore a dental prosthesis that made him look sick and broken teeth. After Spencer Tracy and Robert Young's appointment, Brennan was rated third in Northwest Passage.

Zanuck at Fox announced that he wanted to make The Man From Home, which was once a Will Rogers vehicle, with Brennan. Rather, Brennan was top-billed in Fox's Maryland (1940), an effort to repeat Kentucky's triumph. Brennan said he had been working all day since 1937. He continued, "I'm just plain punch drunk."

Brennan appeared in one of his finest scenes in Goldwyn's The Westerner (1940), playing the villainous Judge Roy Bean opposite Gary Cooper. Brennan received another Best Supporting Actor Award from William Wyler, director and film.

Trading Post was supposed to be a Brennan vehicle, but it was never built.

Rather, he praised Deanna Durbin in Nice Girl. (1941) adrift. In Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941) and Hawks' Sergeant York (1941), Cooper was first introduced (1941). Sergeant York, which earned Brennan his fourth Oscar nomination, was a huge hit. He could also be seen as a sea captain in This Woman is Mine (1941).

In Swamp Water (1941), the first American film by Jean Renoir, starring Walter Huston and starring Dana Andrews, Brennan was the top-billed lead. In Pride of the Yankees (1942), he appeared in Rise and Shine (1941). Sam Blake, who befriended and encouraged Lou Gehrig (1942), was a reporter who was interviewed by Cooper.

Brennan appeared in some war films, Stand By for Action (1942) and Hangmen Also Die! (1943), in which he appeared as a Czechoslovak professor. He appeared in Slightly Dangerous (1943), The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943, a short), and Goldwyn's Russia-set war epic The North Star (1943).

He was top billed in a sequel to Kentucky and Maryland at Fox, Home in Indiana (1944).

Brennan was particularly effective at playing the protagonist or the "grumpy old man" in films including To Have and Have Not (1944), the Hawks-directed Humphrey Bogart film that introduced Lauren Bacall.

Brennan was a comedic pirate in Bob Hope's film The Princess and the Pirate (1944). For the first time since both men achieved fame in Dakota (1945), directed by Joseph Kane, he was teamed with John Wayne. In A Stolen Life (1946), he supported Bette Davis (1946) and was in a musical at Fox, Centennial Summer (1946), where he appeared in a family patrias.

In My Darling Clementine (1946), Brennan reprised villainy as Old Man Clanton, opposite Henry Fonda for director John Ford.

Brennan continued his series with roles in Nobody Lives Forever (1946) at Warners, as well as a girl-and-dog tale at Republic, Driftwood (1947).

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He appeared in Another kindly father role in The Green Promise (1949), after assisting Robert Mitchum in Blood on the Moon (1948). In Brimstone (1949), directed by Kane, Brennan, he was rated second, and he helped Gary Cooper (1949).

Brennan concentrated on Westerns: Singing Guns (1950) with Vaughn Monroe (1950), A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950) with Wild Bill Elliot (1951), The Great Divide (1951) and Return of the Texan (1952).

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) was a non-Western, a war film. Lure of the Wilderness (1952), a sequel to Swamp Water starring Brennan, but there was no screen time on this occasion.

Brennan was in Sea of Lost Ships (1953) with John Derek, Drums Across the River (1954) with Audie Murphy (1954) with James Stewart, and Four Guns to the Border (1954) with Rory Calhoun. He appeared in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) at MGM.

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