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Acting

Walter Brennan

Career: Active from 1926 to 1975, busiest in 1938 and 1941 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 59
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: My Darling Clementine
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 89 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Walter Brennan Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.6, average 5.4
Psychological
4.0, average 5.5
Uncanny
1.0, average 2.5
Scare
1.2, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 15
Classic Hollywood 12
Historical Setting 7
Historical Drama 6
Nostalgic Charm 5
Social Commentary 5
Wholesome Entertainment 4
Revenge 4
Western 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Frontier Justice 4
Adventure 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

213

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

as (archive footage)

1990s

1 title · average score 76

La Classe américaine

76

as 'Stumpy' (archive footage)

1970s

7 titles · average score 51

Smoke In The Wind

as H. P. Kingman

Home for the Holidays

58

as Benjamin Morgan

Two for the Money

as Cody Guilford

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

as Silky O'Sullivan

Alias Smith and Jones

48

TV show

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

48

as Nash Crawford

The Young Country

as Sheriff Matt Fenley

1960s

12 titles · average score 61

Support Your Local Sheriff!

71

as Pa Danby

The Over the Hill Gang

59

as Nash Crawford

To Rome with Love

TV show · as Andy Pruitt

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

61

as Grandpa Bower

The Guns of Will Sonnett

70

TV show · as Will Sonnett

The Gnome-Mobile

62

as D.J. Mulrooney / Knobby

Who's Minding the Mint?

70

as Pop Gillis

The Oscar

29

as Quentin

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

as Narrator

Those Calloways

60

as Alf Simes

Shootout at Big Sag

as 'Preacher' Hawker

How the West Was Won

70

as Jeb Hawkins

1950s

32 titles · average score 65

Rio Bravo

88

as Stumpy

The Real McCoys

45

TV show · as Amos McCoy

Tammy and the Bachelor

72

as Grandpa

Good-bye, My Lady

77

as Uncle Jesse Jackson

Come Next Spring

64

as Jeffrey Storys

Bad Day at Black Rock

87

as Doc T.R. Velie Jr.

At Gunpoint

53

as Doc Lacy

Drums Across the River

59

as Sam Brannon

The Far Country

85

as Ben Tatum

Sea of Lost Ships

as C.P.O 'Chief' O'Malley

Return of the Texan

66

as Grandpa Firth Crockett

Singing Guns

63

as Dr. Jonathan Mark

1940s

30 titles · average score 70

Red River

88

as 'Groot' Nadine

Driftwood

68

as Murph

My Darling Clementine

89

as Old Man Clanton

Nobody Lives Forever

67

as Pop Gruber

To Have and Have Not

86

as Eddie

Dakota

56

as Bounce of the Riverbird

The Princess and the Pirate

73

as Featherhead

Hangmen Also Die!

79

as Prof. Stephen Novotny

Sergeant York

79

as Pastor Rosier Pile

Nice Girl?

72

as Hector Titus

The Westerner

71

as Judge Roy Bean

Northwest Passage

72

as 'Hunk' Marriner

1930s

108 titles · average score 63

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

63

as Walter

Stanley and Livingstone

62

as Jeff Slocum

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

72

as Muff Potter

Kentucky

52

as Peter Goodwin

The Cowboy and the Lady

63

as Sugar

Wild and Woolly

as Gramp 'Hercules' Flynn

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

51

as Cappy Ricks

Three Godfathers

51

as Samuel 'Gus' Barton

Banjo on My Knee

39

as Newt Holley

Fury

87

as Bugs Meyers

Restless Knights

66

as Father (uncredited)

Two-Fisted Law

51

as Bendix the Deputy Sheriff

1920s

22 titles · average score 64

as Kidnapper

Flight

63

as Marine Pilot

The Long, Long Trail

as Skinny Rawlins

The Last Performance

65

as Clown (uncredited)

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City

as Man at Police Station

The Shannons of Broadway

as Hez

Hot Heels

as Pool Hall Habitant (uncredited)

Tearin' Into Trouble

as Billy Martin

Flashing Oars

as Hula Hula Hut Customer

Sensation Seekers

as Below Deck Yacht Crewman

Watch Your Wife

as Walter (uncredited)

Lorraine of the Lions

as Minor Role (uncredited)