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Walter Brennan albums are like weeds. When you think you"ve got them all, another one pops up. Three-time Academy Award winner Walter Brennan is best remembered as good ole Grandpa Amos McCoy on TV"s "The Real McCoys' and for his hit about the good ole dead farmer and his mule "Old Rivers'. After his hit with "Old Rivers' Brennan was escorted back into the studio to record several more albums like "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral', "The Country Heart of Walter Brennan', "A World of Miracles', and several others.
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Character actor Walter Brennan's recordings are an acquired taste. Recognized for his many movie appearances and his role as Grandpa on the TV show The Real Mccoys, Brennan ... recorded and made the music charts in the early '60s. This ten-song budget-line disc from Universal features "Old Shep," "Tribute to a Dog," "Suppertime," "Life Gets Tee-jus, Don't It," and the Top Ten hit "Dutchman's Gold." ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide
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For his contribution to the television industry, Walter Brennan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6501 Hollywood Blvd. In 1970, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his photograph adorns a wall.
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The estimable Walter Brennan played the elder (he was 73 at the time) Will Sonnett, whose own son James had left Will's infant grandson, Jeff in his care. 19 years pass and still no James, so both Will and Jeff set out to find him. They run into many people who claim to know the elusive James, who has become a gunslinger. Some folks speak well of him and others ill. They never found him. However, in the last original episode they meet a man who claims to have killed James.
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A sequel to the very popular "Over-the-Hill Gang", which portrayed a group of retired Texas Rangers (Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills) who came out of retirement to save their small town from criminals. In the sequel, the "gang" team up to rehabilitate Fred Astaire, a onetime ranger who has fallen from his glory days to become the town drunk. With the "gang's" help, Astaire takes the job of marshal once again, with the other old-timers by his side as his deputies.
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Three-time Oscar winner and country musician Walter Brennan was born in Swampscott, MA, on July 25, 1894. A veteran of the First World War, Brennan began acting professionally in 1929. He received his first Oscar for his supporting role in Howard Hawks' Come and Get It, and two more followed for 1938's Kentucky and 1940s The Westerner. By the time he took a popular role as Grampa Amos McCoy on the TV show The McCoys in the late '50s, he had over 100 film credits to his name. His recording career was at its most prolific during the early '60s. A duet with Billy Vaughn, "Dutchman's Gold," was his first chart hit.
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