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Great Character Actors: Walter Brennan
It’s been a while since I’ve published a post about one of my favorite character actors, and it’s high time I wrote a little about another of the greats, that being Walter Brennan. I don’t know too much more about his life than that presented in his Wikipedia page, but I won’t let that slow me down much.
The details of Brennan’s life are a bit sketchy until he started getting Hollywood screen credits, circa 1927. He was born on July 25, 1894 to parents of Irish origin, and was raised in Lynn, Massachusetts, in an upper middle class neighborhood. His father was a successful engineer and his mother a homemaker. His father wished his son to follow in his footsteps and sent him to Rindge Technical High School in nearby Cambridge, which was viewed at the time as a sort of prep school for M.I.T. The plan didn’t work as intended, as young Walter got the acting bug and spent his time participating in as many school plays as he could.