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Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He earned three Academy Prizes and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He came out in over 200 motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actor's unique role as the tone of voice of the North american Western. His life quest from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a 12,000-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the fantastic American stories. Inside the first biography of the epic amount, Carl Rollyson unveils Brennan's consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while participating in against and frequently stealing views from such actors as Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennan's use Hollywood's most significant directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As being a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an view on the North american Fantasy that remains a sustaining feature of these lives today. His traditional politics, which grew out of his New Britain upbringing and his devout Catholicism, acquire meticulous attention and balanced evaluation in A Real North american Character. Written with the entire assistance of the Brennan family and pulling on materials in archives from every region of america, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the real McCoy.
