Cast: Walter Brennan

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Walter Brennan. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Fury

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

My Darling Clementine

1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don Garner), planning to sell their cattle and settle down as gentlemen farmers. Yet...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

Rio Bravo

1959 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson

Synopsis John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him before the state marshall arrives. Surrounding the town, the villains...

8.0

22K votes

8.0

22K votes

To Have and Have Not

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran

Synopsis Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is the owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in...

7.9

12K votes

7.9

12K votes

Red River

1948 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks · Arthur Rosson

Cast John Wayne · Montgomery Clift · Walter Brennan · Joanne Dru

Synopsis Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. But on the way, new information and Dunson's tyrannical ways...

7.8

12K votes

7.8

12K votes

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he evades the widening Nazi dragnet, protected by his fellow Czechs...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis

Synopsis One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great Escape) stars Spencer Tracy as a one-armed stranger named MacReedy,...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

Meet John Doe

1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

The Far Country

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan

Synopsis One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence.

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

The Westerner

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone

Synopsis "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Sergeant York

1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Synopsis True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, is the home of the Yorks,...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Good-bye, My Lady

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Walter Brennan · Brandon De Wilde · William Hopper · Phil Harris

Synopsis An old man and a young boy who live in the Georgia swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

7.3

122 votes

7.3

122 votes

Along the Great Divide

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Kirk Douglas · Virginia Mayo · John Agar · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Kirk Douglas stars as a taciturn marshall who must bring a highly lynchable cattle rustler (and accused murderer) to trial, fending off the mob that dogs their trail through the desert, as tensions mount on all sides.

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Bride of Frankenstein

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken in by the eccentric philosopher-scientist Dr Pretorius. Pretorious tries to...

7.2

12K votes

7.2

12K votes

The Invisible Man

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Stuart · William Harrigan · Henry Travers

Synopsis With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles,...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Swamp Water

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Dana Andrews · Walter Brennan · Anne Baxter · Walter Huston

Synopsis "Butt-headed" Dana Andrews sets off into the Okefenokee swamp to look for his lost dog, despite his father's threat to disown him if he's not back in two days. He crosses paths with escaped convict Tom Keeler (Walter Brennan), a...

7.1

858 votes

7.1

858 votes

These Three

1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Merle Oberon · Joel McCrea · Catherine Doucet

Synopsis Karen and Martha, college roommates, graduate and face the future with no place and no money. Karen, however, has inherited a farmhouse from her grandmother, and gets the idea that she and Martha can turn it into a school for...

7.1

578 votes

7.1

578 votes

How the West Was Won

1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Synopsis The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis during the California...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Teresa Wright · Babe Ruth · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the Yanks who suffered from a crippling and incurable disease. Even when Gehrig was a student at Columbia University, the press had already pegged him as a top ballplayer. Soon the...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Driftwood

1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ruth Warrick · Walter Brennan · Dean Jagger · Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. Dr....

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes