Walter Brennan
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- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
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Walter Brennan
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Walter Brennan
"TREMENDOUS LOSS'
Hollywood Mourns Brennan's Death
OXNARD, Calif - (UPI) - Movie industry colleagues Sunday mourned the death of Walter Brennan, ranked as possibly the finest character actor in American films and a veteran whose career spanned more than 50 years. He died of emphysema late Saturday.
James Stewart, who made pictures with Brennan beginning more than 30 years ago, called him "the ideal motion picture character actor.
BRENNAN, 80, was the only actor to win three Academy awards. He also was widely known for his role of Grampa in "The real McCoys," one of the most popular TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"Actors like Walter are hard to come by anymore," Stewart said. "He really sort of put his stamp on a character when he was in a film, and it always turned out to be a good stamp."
Richard Crenna, who worked with Brennan for six years in making "The Real MeCoys," called Brennan's death "a tremendous loss to the industry and a great sadness to me."
"I don't remember a show and a character that had the impact Walter had in Grampa McCoy."
Production of the show ended in 1963, but it is popular in syndicated reruns. "New audiences are still discovering the talents of Walter Brennan," Crenna said
Brennan was watching "The Westerner" on TV in his hospital room when he died. He won his third Oscar for the role of Judge Roy Bean in the picture, in which he overshadowed his good friend Gary Cooper.
BRENNAN ENTERED the hospital on his 80th birthday, July 25, when his lung ailment was aggravated by smog at his Simi Valley ranch north of Los Angeles. He was working on a movie, "The Love Bug Rides Again," a Walt Disney production, at the time.
"I'd rather do anything than sit around and wait for the undertaker," Brennan said in an interview several years ago. "I have no hobbies except acting, so I like to keep busy."
The only other actor or actress to win three Oscars was Katharine Hepburn, Brennan's awards were for best supporting actor in "Come and Get It" in 1936, "Kentucky" in 1938, and "The Westerner" in 1940.
He also appeared in "The Texan," "Meet John Doe," "Sergeant York," "Pride of the Yankees, "Stanley and Livingston," and "Northwest Passage."
He and his wife, the former Ruth Wells, were married in 1920. Brennan is survived by his widow and two sons, Michael and Andrew, and a daughter, Ruth Lademan.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
