Walter Brennan was always meant for show business. At 15, he started in vaudeville until life intervened. He served in the U.S. Army as a private in the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France for two years, worked as a financial reporter in Boston and planned to move to Guatemala to grow pineapples but only got as far as Los Angeles. Once on the West Coast, Brennan took extra work at Universal in the '20s and by 1935, he worked up to supporting actor thanks to Howard Hawks in "Barbary Coast." He made his best known for "To Have and Have Not" (1944), "The Westerner" (1940), and "Red River" (1948). Brennan would be one of the three male supporting actors to win three Oscars, winning for "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938), and "The Westerner" (1940). He would appear in more than 230 films and TV, living a long life until 1974 when Brennan died of emphysema.
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