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Walter Brennan

1894 - 1974

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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 Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only seven actors to win more than two Academy Awards, and the only male or female actor to win three awards in the supporting actor category. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948) and Rio Bravo (1959). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Brennan is the 671st most popular actor (up from 807th in 2019), the 1,397th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,461st in 2019) and the 346th most popular American Actor.

Walter Brennan was a character actor who was most famous for his role as the crotchety old man, Mr. Brennan, on the TV show "The Real McCoys."

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Among actors, Walter Brennan ranks 671 out of 13,578. Before him are Horst Buchholz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edna Purviance, Linda Christian, Burgess Meredith, and Edwige Fenech. After him are Erland Josephson, Robert Walker, John Heard, Jean Rochefort, Michelle Phillips, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

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Among people born in 1894, Walter Brennan ranks 44. Before him are Alexander Dovzhenko, Wäinö Aaltonen, Martha Graham, Josef von Sternberg, Elisabeth of Romania, and Nazli Sabri. After him are Sergey Ilyushin, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Norman Rockwell, Paul Blobel, and Dimitri Tiomkin. Among people deceased in 1974, Walter Brennan ranks 36. Before him are Lewis Strauss, Zalman Shazar, Louis Kahn, Fritz Zwicky, Carl Spaatz, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. After him are Virginia Apgar, Cass Elliot, Walter Lippmann, Marcel Pagnol, Hilda Gadea, and Farid al-Atrash.

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Among people born in United States, Walter Brennan ranks 1,397 out of 20,380. Before him are George Davis Snell (1903), Ash Carter (1954), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Edna Purviance (1895), Leo Fender (1909), and Burgess Meredith (1907). After him are Eric Adams (1960), Robert Walker (1918), John Heard (1946), Tom Holland (1943), John Grisham (1955), and Michelle Phillips (1944).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Walter Brennan ranks 346. Before him are Edward Norton (1969), Cybill Shepherd (1950), Robert Knepper (1959), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Edna Purviance (1895), and Burgess Meredith (1907). After him are Robert Walker (1918), John Heard (1946), Michelle Phillips (1944), Sam Elliott (1944), Robert Englund (1947), and Mae West (1893).

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