FrameThrower · Actors · Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan
4 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1959
Born 25 July 1894 · Lynn, Massachusetts, USA · died 21 September 1974
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1959
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1941
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1939
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1937
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 246 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Walter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Walter takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 246 frames from Walter Brennan's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.