Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan ( born July 25, 1894 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, † September 21, 1974 in Oxnard, California ) was an American actor. He won in 1937, 1939 and 1941 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Life
Brennan, who already in the school became interested in acting and starred there in school plays, acted before his military service, which he began in 1917, with minor in musical comedies.
After the First World War, he went to Hollywood and worked there - first in silent films - as a supporting actor and stuntman with.
In the 1930s he began his career as a supporting actor. In 1936 he received his first Academy Award for best supporting role in the film Take what you can get. For the 1938 film shot The golden whip Brennan received his second and produced for the 1940 film The Westerner his third Oscar. He is currently the only actor who received three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.
Since he had broken his jaw in an accident and since then one of his legs had become stiff, Brennan took over the role of the often grumpy old man, who presented the comic component in the movies. Often his characters were much older than himself, so he put in The Golden Whip with 44 years represents a about 80 - year-old man
Although he originally had an aversion to television, Brennan began in the late 1950s, a career as a television actor; he had his most famous role as Grandpa in the sitcom series The Real McCoys, which began in October 1957 and up from the September 1963 a total of 224 episodes have been filmed. This role in the highly successful production at the time gave him in the United States a high popularity and secured his livelihood.
In the early 1960s Brennan also tried his hand as a singer. After 1960 his title Dutchman's Gold at No. 30 came in the U.S. charts, he succeeded in 1962 with Old Rivers a top ten hit. The single reached number 5 After two more singles, which also appeared in 1962, but had no success, Brennan ended his singing career.
Brennan, who had played in his life about 200 roles, died at the age of 80 from emphysema.