walter brennan

This is a charming old video from the Red Skelton TV show.  Red and Walter Brennan have a grand old time playing two senior citizen cowboys. Yes it is cheesy and very dated, but what a sentimental video to see what television was really like back in the 1960s...

Walter Brennan was a New Englander who made his name in Hollywood playing grizzled old coots, usually from the south.  In 1932 he was in a serious car accident which resulted in the loss of all of his teeth.  From then on, he would pop out his false teeth and was signed to play roles sometimes ten, or even twenty years older than he actually was...