Walter Brennan

. Eddie Cantor died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, and was buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery. On his death in 1974, Walter Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. He was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 1964. He was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1970. Cantor wrote eight books, including Caught Short (about the Crash of 1929) and his autobiography, My Life is in Your Hands. He also made a few recordings, the most popular being "Old Rivers" in 1962. In the 1950s he hosted a television show.

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". In the 1940s his NBC national radio show was Time To Smile. 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. However Cantor's career bounced back with the United States entry into World War II. 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. Wishing to distance themselves from any political controversy, many sponsors dropped Cantor's shows. After serving in World War I, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples, before settling in Los Angeles, California. Cantor's career declined somewhat in the late 1930s due to his public denunciations of Adolf Hitler and Fascism.

While in school, he became interested in acting, and began to perform in vaudeville. Cantor also served as first president of the Screen Actors Guild. Brennan was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and studied engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a founder of the March of Dimes, and did much to publicize the battle against polio. He holds the distinction of having won more Academy Awards for acting than any other male actor. In addition to film and radio, Cantor recorded for Hit of the Week Records, then again for Columbia, for Banner and Decca and various small labels. Walter Brennan, (25 July 1894 - 21 September 1974) was a veteran character actor, notably in westerns. Cantor's theme song was the 1903 pop tune "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider", dedicated to Eddie's wife Ida.

1937 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Come and Get It. His radio shows began with a crowd chanting "We want Cantor - We want Cantor", said to have originated when a vaudeville audience used that chant to chase off an opening act who was on a bill before Cantor. 1939 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kentucky. In the 1930s he also began hosting his own radio show, and by 1936 Cantor was the world's highest paid radio star. 1941 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Westerner. He continued making feature films through 1948, the most notable including Roman Scandals, Ali Baba Goes to Town, and If You Knew Susie. 1942 - Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Sergeant York. Cantor had appeared in a number of short films in the 1920s, but became a feature star in 1930 with the film Whoopee!.

Cantor soon bounced back thanks to Hollywood movies and the radio. Cantor was one of the era's most successful entertainers, but the 1929 Stock market crash suddenly took him from multi-millionaire status to being broke and deeply in debt. He starred in the Broadway musical Whoopie! in 1928. From 1921 through 1925 he had an exclusive contract with Columbia Records, then returned to Victor for the remainder of the decade.

Cantor started making phonograph records in 1917, recording both comedy songs and routines and popular songs of the day, first for Victor, then for Aeoleon-Vocalion, Pathé, and Emerson. For some time Cantor co-starred in an act with pioneer African-American comedian Bert Williams, both appearing in blackface; Cantor played William's son. In 1912 he appeared in Gus Edwards Review, and in 1916 debuted in the Ziegfeld Follies, where he would appear for years. By his early teens he began winning talent contests at local theaters, and started appearing on stage and in 1907 became a billed name in Vaudeville.

He was orphaned in childhood and made a living entertaining for coins on the city streets of Manhattan's Lower-East-Side. Cantor was born as Edward Israel Iskovitz in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His nickname was "Banjo Eyes.". Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964) was a comedian, singer, actor, songwriter, and one of the most popular entertainers in the United States of America in the early and middle 20th century.