Cast: Walter Brennan
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Walter Brennan. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 160
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