Walter Brennan

. At the peak of his career, he was known as "the King of Photoplay" before that title went to Clark Gable, with whom it remains today. On his death in 1974, Walter Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Mayer (of the then-fledgling Metro Goldwyn Mayer film studio). He was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1970. His role as Messala in Ben-Hur in 1925 might have launched his career even further but for being blacklisted by Louis B. He also made a few recordings, the most popular being "Old Rivers" in 1962. He was actually married four times.

In the 1950s, he starred in the television series The Real McCoys, and appeared in several other movies and television programs, usually as an eccentric "old-timer". His popularity waned when it was revealed that he was married. Other films included Red River, Rio Bravo, My Darling Clementine, Meet John Doe, The Pride of the Yankees, To Have and Have Not, Bad Day at Black Rock and How the West Was Won. Three days after his divorce with Josephine was final, Bushman and Bayne were married. After working as an extra and a stunt man, he began receiving more substantial roles in the 1930s, culminating with the receiving of the very first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1937 for Come and Get It. In 1918, he was the subject of a huge scandal as his affair with longtime costar Beverly Bayne became a national scandal. After serving in World War I, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples, before settling in Los Angeles, California. By the launch of his film career, the couple had five children.

While in school, he became interested in acting, and began to perform in vaudeville. In 1902, he married seamstress Josephine Fladume. Brennan was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and studied engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He appeared in nearly 200 feature film roles - more than 175 films before 1920, 17 in his film debut year of 1911 alone. He holds the distinction of having won more Academy Awards for acting than any other male actor. He was performing at Bronco Billy Anderson’s Essanay Studio in Chicago, Illinois, where he was first noticed for his muscular, sculpted frame. Walter Brennan, (25 July 1894 - 21 September 1974) was a veteran character actor, notably in westerns. He died in Pacific Palisades, California from a fall. Bushman, like many of his contemporaries, broke into film from stage.

1937 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Come and Get It. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. 1939 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kentucky. Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was the first major male movie star, first starting in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. 1941 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Westerner. 1942 - Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Sergeant York.