A celebrated veteran of over 100 films, dating from the late 1920s, Walter Brennan flourished as the preeminent character actor of his day (and perhaps of all time) portraying an assortment of wizened old codgers, particularly in Westerns. He was the first performer to accumulate three Academy Awards--for "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938) and "The…
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