Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

July 25, 1894

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 Awa…

Known For

40 titles
1
Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

1959 · 2h 21m · Movie

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

8.0
2
To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

1945 · 1h 40m · Movie

During World War II, an American expatriate helps transport a French Resistance leader and his wife to Martinique while romancing a lounge singer.

7.8
3
Red River

Red River

1948 · 2h 13m · Movie

A cattle baron and his foster son argue on the Chisholm Trail.

7.7
4
My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

1946 · 1h 37m · Movie

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

7.7
5
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · 1h 21m · Movie

Following World War II, a one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny California desert town, but finds the residents hostile and protecting a terrible secret they want to keep hidden, by violent means if necessary.

7.7
6
Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941 · 2h 14m · Movie

A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

7.7
7
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 · 2h 2m · Movie

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

7.6
8
Fury

Fury

1936 · 1h 32m · Movie

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

7.8
9
Support Your Local Sheriff!

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969 · 1h 32m · Movie

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.

7.4
10
The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 · 2h 8m · Movie

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

7.6
11
The Far Country

The Far Country

1954 · 1h 37m · Movie

A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.

7.1
12
The Westerner

The Westerner

1940 · 1h 40m · Movie

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

7.3
13
Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · 2h 14m · Movie

After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

7.4
14
A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life

1946 · 1h 49m · Movie

When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

7.2
15
Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage

1940 · 2h 6m · Movie

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

7.0
16
These Three

These Three

1936 · 1h 33m · Movie

Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

7.4
17
Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor

1957 · 1h 29m · Movie

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

6.9
18
The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate

1944 · 1h 34m · Movie

A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.

6.8
19
The Gnome-Mobile

The Gnome-Mobile

1967 · 1h 24m · Movie

In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.

6.4
20
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938 · 1h 31m · Movie

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

7.0
21
Swamp Water

Swamp Water

1941 · 1h 28m · Movie

Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.

7.0
22
Nobody Lives Forever

Nobody Lives Forever

1946 · 1h 40m · Movie

Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

7.0
23
Dakota

Dakota

1945 · 1h 22m · Movie

In 1871 Dakota, two crooked businessmen oppose the local wheat farmers and the railroad development to control the town of Fargo.

6.0
24
The Oscar

The Oscar

1966 · 1h 59m · Movie

Arrogant Hollywood actor Frankie Fane is nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award. His friend Hymie Kelly recalls their life together, Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top, and the people Frankie has used and abused to get there.

5.2
25
Who's Minding the Mint?

Who's Minding the Mint?

1967 · 1h 37m · Movie

A mint worker accidentally destroys some money and decides to break in and reprint it, but finds he has some unwanted partners.

7.0
26
Parachute Jumper

Parachute Jumper

1933 · 1h 12m · Movie

To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at ...

6.4
27
Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers

1936 · 1h 21m · Movie

Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.

7.3
28
Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River

1954 · 1h 18m · Movie

When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

6.2
29
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

1968 · 1h 50m · Movie

The eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.

6.3
30
Those Calloways

Those Calloways

1964 · 2h 11m · Movie

A strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.

6.5
31
A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk

1950 · 1h 30m · Movie

In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

6.1
32
The Green Promise

The Green Promise

1949 · 1h 33m · Movie

After the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the handsome local agricultural agent.

6.5
33
Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring

1956 · 1h 32m · Movie

In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown's respect too.

7.1
34
Four Guns to the Border

Four Guns to the Border

1954 · 1h 23m · Movie

An outlaw gang on the lam encounters former associate Simon Bhumer and his gorgeous daughter, who's drawn to their leader Cully.

6.0
35
Driftwood

Driftwood

1947 · 1h 28m · Movie

6-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog slated for animal experiments. Dr. Webster adopts them both, to his fiancee's chagrin. An outbreak of spotted fever sends the town into panic and Jenny is infected and about to die.

7.1
36
Nice Girl?

Nice Girl?

1941 · 1h 31m · Movie

A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.

6.6