name	Mary Brian
birthname	Louise Byrdie Dantzler
birth date	February 17, 1906
birth place	Corsicana, Texas, U.S.
death date	December 30, 2002
death place	Del Mar, California, U.S.
yearsactive	1924–1954
occupation	Actress
spouse	(divorced)(his death) }}

Mary Brian (February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress and movie star who made the transition from 'silents' to 'talkies'.

Early life

She was born Louise Byrdie Dantzler in Corsicana, Texas, the daughter of Taurrence J. Dantzler (December 1869 – March 18, 1906) and Louise B. (August 12, 1876 – April 3, 1973). Her brother was Taurrence J. Dantzler, Jr. (August 9, 1903 – April 6, 1973).

Her father died when she was one month old and the family later moved to Dallas. In the early 1920s, they moved to Long Beach, California. She had intended becoming an illustrator but that was laid aside when at age 16 she was discovered in a local bathing beauty contest. One of the judges was famous motion picture star Esther Ralston (who was to play her mother in the upcoming Peter Pan and who became a lifelong friend).

She didn't win the $25 prize in the contest but Ralston said, "you've got to give the little girl something." So, her prize was to be interviewed by director Herbert Brenon for a role in Peter Pan. Brenon was recovering from eye surgery, and she spoke with him in a dimly lit room. "He asked me a few questions, Is that your hair? Out of the blue, he said, I would like to make a test. Even to this day, I will never know why I was that lucky. They had made tests of every ingénue in the business for Wendy. He had decided he would go with an unknown. It would seem more like a fairy tale. It wouldn't seem right if the roles were to be taken by someone they (the audience) knew or was divorced. I got the part. They put me under contract." The studio renamed her Mary Brian.

Discovery

After her showing in the beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'' (1924). There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed close for the rest of their lives. Ralston described both Bronson and Brian as 'very charming people'.

The studio, who created her stage name for the movie and said she was age 16 instead of 18, because the latter sounded too old for the role, then signed her to a long-term motion picture contract. Brian played Fancy Vanhern, daughter of Percy Marmont, in Brenon's ''The Street of Forgotten Men'' (1925), which had newcomer Louise Brooks in an uncredited debut role as a moll.

Career rise

Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." On loan-out to MGM, she played a college belle, Mary Abbott, opposite William Haines and Jack Pickford in ''Brown of Harvard'' (1926). She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Astor, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.

During her years at Paramount, Brian appeared in more than 40 movies as the juvenile lead, the ingenue or co-star. She worked with Brenon again in 1926 when she played Isabel in P. C. Wren's ''Beau Geste'' starring Ronald Colman. That same year she made ''Behind the Front'' and ''Harold Teen''. In 1928, she played ingenue Alice Deane in ''Forgotten Faces'' opposite Clive Brook, her sacrificing father, with Olga Baclanova as her vixen mother and William Powell as Froggy. Like many of Brian's Paramount movies, ''Forgotten Faces'', which was a big box-office hit, did not survive and is presumed lost for all time.

Successful transition to 'Talkies'

Her first talkie was ''Varsity'' (1928), which was filmed with part-sound and talking sequences, opposite Buddy Rogers. After successfully making the transition to sound, she co-starred with Gary Cooper, Walter Huston and Richard Arlen in one of the earliest Western talkies, ''The Virginian'' (1929), her first all-talkie feature. In it, she played a spirited frontier heroine, schoolmarm Molly Stark Wood, who was the love interest of the Virginian (Cooper).

Brian co-starred in several hits during the 1930s, including her role as Gwen Cavendish in George Cukor’s comedy ''The Royal Family of Broadway'' (1930) with Ina Claire and Fredric March, as herself in Paramount's all-star revue ''Paramount on Parade'' (1930), as Peggy Grant in Lewis Milestone’s comedy ''The Front Page'' (1931) with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.

After her contract with Paramount ended in 1932, Brian freelanced. That same year, she appeared on the vaudeville stage at New York's Palace Theatre. Also in the same year,she starred in ''Manhattan Tower''.

Other movie roles include Murial Ross, aka Murial Rossi, in ''Shadows of Sing Sing'' (1933), in which she received top billing, Gloria Van Dayham in ''College Rhythm'' (1934), Yvette Lamartine in ''Charlie Chan in Paris'' (1935), Hope Wolfinger, W. C. Fields’s daughter, in ''Man on the Flying Trapeze'' (1935), Sally Barnaby in ''Spendthrift'' (1936) opposite Henry Fonda, and Doris in ''Navy Blues'' (1937), in which she received top billing.

In 1936, she went to England and made three movies, including ''The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' in which she starred opposite Cary Grant, to whom she became engaged at one stage.

Her final film of the 1930s was ''Affairs of Cappy Ricks''.

Later career

Brian was absent from the screen from 1937 to 1943, and appeared in only a handful of films thereafter. Her last performance on the silver screen was in ''Dragnet'' (1947), a B-movie in which she played Anne Hogan opposite Henry Wilcoxon. Over the course of 22 years, Brian had appeared in more than 79 movies.

She toured in the stage comedy ''Mary Had a Little...'' in the 1940s. During World War II, she entertained servicemen in the South Pacific and in Europe. She spent Christmas of 1944 with the soldiers fighting the Battle of the Bulge.

During the 1950s, Brian had something of a career in television, most notably playing the title character's mother in ''Meet Corliss Archer'' (1954).

She also dedicated a lot of time to portrait painting in her retirement years.

Personal life

Though she was engaged numerous times and was linked romantically to numerous Hollywood men, including Cary Grant and notorious womaniser Jack Pickford, Brian had only two husbands: magazine illustrator Jon Whitcomb (for six weeks, beginning May 4, 1941) and film editor George Tomasini (from 1947 until his death in 1964). After retiring from the screen for good, she devoted herself to her husband's career; Tomasini worked as film editor for Hitchcock on the classics ''Rear Window'' (1954) and ''Psycho'' (1960).

She died of heart failure at age 96 in Del Mar, California. She is interred in the Eternal Love Section, Lot 4134, Space 2, Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, overlooking Burbank.

Mary Brian has a star for her contribution to motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street in Hollywood.

References

External links

AFI Catalog Silent Films entry for Mary Brian

Mary Brian, Silent and Sound Movie Star

Silent Era: People: Actresses: Mary Brian

Mary Brian Photo Gallery

Photographs of Mary Brian

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name	Fredric March
birth name	Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
birth date	August 31, 1897
birth place	Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.
death date	April 14, 1975
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1921–73
spouse	(divorced) (his death) 2 children }}

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' and in 1946 for ''The Best Years of Our Lives''.

Early life

March was born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown (née Marcher), a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, a devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business. March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He began a career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to reevaluate his life, and in 1920 he began working as an extra in movies made in New York City, using a shortened form of his mother's maiden name, Marcher. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures.

Career

March received an Oscar nomination in 1930 for ''The Royal Family of Broadway'', in which he played a role based upon John Barrymore (which he had first played on stage in Los Angeles). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (tied with Wallace Beery for ''The Champ''), leading to a series of classic films based on stage hits and classic novels like ''Design for Living'' (1933), ''Death Takes a Holiday'' (1934), ''Les Misérables'' (1935), ''Anthony Adverse'' (1936), and as the original Norman Maine in ''A Star is Born'' (1937), for which he received his third Oscar nomination.

March was one of the few leading actors of his era to resist signing long-term contracts with the studios, and was able to freelance and pick and choose his roles, in the process also avoiding typecasting. He returned to Broadway after a ten year absence in 1937 with a notable flop ''Yr. Obedient Husband'', but after the huge success of Thornton Wilder's ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' he focused his work as much on Broadway theatre as often as on Hollywood film, and his screen career was not as prolific as it had been. He won two Best Actor Tony Awards: in 1947 for the play ''Years Ago'', written by Ruth Gordon; and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''. He also had major successes in ''A Bell for Adano'' in 1944 and ''Gideon'' in 1961, and played Ibsen's ''An Enemy of the People'' on Broadway in 1951. He also starred in such films as ''I Married a Witch'' (1942) and ''Another Part of the Forest'' (1948) during this period, and won his second Oscar in 1946 for ''The Best Years of Our Lives''. March also branched out into television, winning Emmy nominations for his third attempt at ''The Royal Family'' for the series ''The Best of Broadway'' as well as for a television performances as Samuel Dodsworth and Ebenezer Scrooge. On March 25, 1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, with co-host Donald O'Connor in Los Angeles.

March's neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Death of a Salesman'' (1949). However, March read the play and turned down the role, whereupon director Elia Kazan cast Lee J. Cobb as Willy, and Arthur Kennedy as one of Willy's sons, Biff Loman, two men that the director had worked with in the film ''Boomerang'' (1947). March later regretted turning down the role and finally played Willy Loman in Columbia Pictures's 1951 film version of the play, directed by Laslo Benedek, receiving his fifth-and-final Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe Award. Perhaps March's greatest later career role was in ''Inherit the Wind'' (1960), opposite Spencer Tracy. In the 1960s, March's film career proceeded apace with a notable performance as President Jordan Lyman in the political thriller ''Seven Days in May'' (1964) in which he co-starred with Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Edmund O'Brien; the part earned March a nomination as Best Actor by Golden Globes.

When March underwent major surgery for prostate cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last great performance in ''The Iceman Cometh'' (1973), as the complicated Irish bartender, Harry Hope.

March has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1616 Vine Street. In addition, the 500-seat theater at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is named after March.

Personal life

Although March died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 77 from cancer, he considered the rural Litchfield County town of New Milford, Connecticut his primary residence since the 1930s. This property was subsequently home to American playwright Lillian Hellman as well as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death, and they had two adopted children. He was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut.

Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party. His support for the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War was particularly controversial.

Filmography and awards

{|class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes |- |rowspan=4|1921 |''The Great Adventure'' |uncredited |extra |- | ''Paying the Piper'' |uncredited |extra |- |''The Education of Elizabeth'' |uncredited |extra |- |''The Devil'' |uncredited |extra |- |rowspan=7|1929 |''The Dummy'' |Trumbull Meredith | |- |''The Wild Party'' |James 'Gil' Gilmore | |- |''The Studio Murder Mystery'' |Richard Hardell | |- |''Paris Bound'' |Jim Hutton | |- |''Jealousy'' |Pierre | |- |''Footlights and Fools'' |Gregory Pyne | |- |''The Marriage Playground'' |Martin Boyne | |- |rowspan=7|1930 |''Sarah and Son'' |Howard Vanning | |- |''Paramount on Parade'' |Doughboy (cameo) | |- |''Ladies Love Brutes'' |Dwight Howell | |- |''True to the Navy'' |Bull's Eye McCoy | |- |''Manslaughter'' |Dan O'Bannon | |- |''Laughter'' |Paul Lockridge | |- |''The Royal Family of Broadway'' |Tony Cavendish |Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor |- |rowspan=4|1931 |''Honor Among Lovers'' |Jerry Stafford | |- |''Night Angel'' |Rudek Berken | |- |''My Sin'' |Dick Grady | |- |''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' |Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde |Academy Award for Best Actor (tied with Wallace Beery for ''The Champ'') |- |rowspan=6|1932 |''Strangers in Love'' |Buddy Drake/Arthur Drake | |- |''Merrily We Go to Hell'' |Jerry Corbett | |- |''Make Me a Star'' |himself |behind-the-scenes drama |- |''Smilin' Through'' |Kenneth Wayne | |- |''The Sign of the Cross'' |Marcus Superbus | |- |''Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 |himself |short film |- |rowspan=3|1933 |''Tonight Is Ours'' |Sabien Pastal | |- |''The Eagle and the Hawk'' |Jerry H. Young | |- |''Design for Living'' |Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers | |- |rowspan=7|1934 |''All of Me'' |Don Ellis | |- |''Death Takes a Holiday'' |Prince Sirki/Death | |- |''Good Dame'' |Mace Townsley | |- |''The Affairs of Cellini'' |Benvenuto Cellini | |- |''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' |Robert Browning | |- |''We Live Again'' |Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov | |- |''Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 |himself |short film |- |rowspan=4|1935 |''Les Misérables'' |Jean Valjean/Champmathieu | |- |''Anna Karenina'' |Vronsky | |- |''The Dark Angel'' |Alan Trent | |- |''Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 11'' |himself |short film |- |rowspan=4|1936 |''The Road to Glory'' |Lieutenant Michel Denet | |- |''Mary of Scotland'' |Bothwell | |- |''Anthony Adverse'' |Anthony Adverse | |- |''Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3'' |himself |short film |- |rowspan=3|1937 |''A Star Is Born'' |Norman Maine |Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor |- |''Nothing Sacred'' |Wallace 'Wally' Cook | |- |''Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 5'' |himself |short film |- |rowspan=3|1938 |''The Buccaneer'' |Jean Lafitte | |- |''There Goes My Heart'' |Bill Spencer | |- |''Trade Winds'' |Sam Wye | |- |1939 |''The 400 Million'' |Narrator |Documentary of Chinese history |- |rowspan=3|1940 |''Susan and God'' |Barrie Trexel | |- |''Victory'' |Hendrik Heyst | |- |''Lights Out in Europe'' |Narrator |War documentary about the outbreak of World War II in Europe |- |rowspan=3|1941 |''So Ends Our Night'' |Josef Steiner | |- |''One Foot in Heaven'' |William Spence | |- |''Bedtime Story'' |Lucius 'Luke' Drake | |- |rowspan=2|1942 |''I Married a Witch'' |Jonathan Wooley/Nathaniel Wooley/Samuel Wooley | |- |''Lake Carrier'' |Narrator |Documentary short |- |rowspan=3|1944 |''Valley of the Tennessee'' |Narrator |voice only |- |''The Adventures of Mark Twain'' |Samuel Langhorne Clemens | |- |''Tomorrow, the World!'' |Mike Frame | |- |1946 |''The Best Years of Our Lives'' |Al Stephenson |Academy Award for Best Actor |- |rowspan=2|1948 |''Another Part of the Forest'' |Marcus Hubbard | |- |''An Act of Murder'' |Judge Calvin Cooke | |- |rowspan=2|1949 |''Christopher Columbus'' |Christopher Columbus | |- |''The Ford Theatre Hour'' | |Television Episode: "The Twentieth Century" |- |rowspan=2|1950 |''The Titan: Story of Michelangelo'' |Narrator |documentary about the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti |- |''Nash Airflyte Theatre'' | |TelevisionEpisode: "The Boor" |- |rowspan=3|1951 |''It's a Big Country'' |Joe Esposito | |- |''Death of a Salesman'' |Willy Loman |Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaVolpi CupNominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |- |''Lux Video Theatre'' | |TelevisionEpisode: "The Speech" |- |rowspan=2|1952 |''Lux Video Theatre'' | |TelevisionEpisode: "Ferry Crisis at Friday Point" |- |''Toast of the Town'' |himself |later known as ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' |- |rowspan=4|1953 |''25th Academy Awards |himself |presenter Academy Award for Best Actress to Shirley Booth for ''Come Back, Little Sheba'' |- |''Omnibus'' | |TelevisionEpisode: "The Last Night of Don Juan" |- |''Man on a Tightrope'' |Karel Cernik | |- |''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' |Rear Admiral George Tarrant | |- |rowspan=5|1954 |''26th Academy Awards'' |himself |Co-hosted from New York, with Donald O'Connor in Hollywood |- |''Executive Suite'' |Loren Phineas Shaw |Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting (shared with the principal cast)Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |- |''The Best of Broadway'' |Tony Cavendish |TelevisionEpisode: "The Royal Family" (based on March's Broadway play and film of the same name)Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |- |''Shower of Stars'' |Ebenezer Scrooge |TelevisionEpisode: "A Christmas Carol"Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |- |''What's My Line?'' |himself | |- |1955 |''The Desperate Hours'' |Dan C. Hilliard | |- |rowspan=5|1956 |''Alexander the Great'' |Philip of Macedonia | |- |''The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit'' |Ralph Hopkins | |- |''Producers' Showcase'' |Sam Dodsworth |TelevisionEpisode: "Dodsworth"Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |- |''Shower of Stars'' |Eugene Tesh |TelevisionEpisode: "The Flattering World" |- |''Island of Allah'' |Narrator | |- |rowspan=2|1957 |''Toast of the Town'' |himself |later known as ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' |- |''Albert Schweitzer'' |Narrator |documentary |- |rowspan=2|1958 |''The DuPont Show of the Month'' |Arthur Winslow |TelevisionEpisode: "The Winslow Boy" |- |''Tales from Dickens'' |Host |also known as ''Fredric March Presents Tales From Dickens'', March hosted seven episodes during 1958 and 1959. Episodes: "Bardell Versus Pickwick", "Uriah Heep", "A Christmas Carol", "David and Betsy Trotwood", "David and His Mother", "Christmas at Dingley Dell" and "The Runaways" |- |1959 |''Middle of the Night'' |Jerry Kingsley |Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- |1960 |''Inherit the Wind'' |Matthew Harrison Brady |Won — Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival)Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |- |1961 |''The Young Doctors'' |Dr. Joseph Pearson | |- |1962 |''I Sequestrati di Altona'' (''The Condemned of Altona'') |Albrecht von Gerlach | |- |1963 |''A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts'' |Host |broadcast on November 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy |- |rowspan=3|1964 |''Seven Days in May'' |President Jordan Lyman |Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- |''The Presidency: A Splendid Mystery'' |Narrator |Television |- |''Pieta'' |Narrator |documentary |- |1967 |''Hombre'' |Dr. Alex Favor | |- |1970 |''…tick…tick…tick…'' |Mayor Jeff Parks | |- |1973 |''The Iceman Cometh'' |Harry Hope | |}

References

External links

Photographs of Fredric March

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name	Walter Brennan
birth date	July 25, 1894
birth place	Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
death date	September 21, 1974
death place	Oxnard, California, U.S.
birth name	Walter Andrew Brennan
spouse	Ruth Wells (1920–1974)
occupation	Actor
years active	1925–1974 }}

Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times and is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins for a male actor.

Early life

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts less than two miles from his family's home in Swampscott, Walter Andrew Brennan was the second of three children born to Irish immigrants William John Brennan and Margaret Elizabeth Flanagan. The elder Brennan was an engineer and inventor, and young Walter studied engineering at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

While in school, Brennan became interested in acting, and began to perform in vaudeville. While working as a bank clerk, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a private with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during World War I. Following the war, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples, before settling in Los Angeles. During the 1920s, he became involved in the real estate market, where he made a fortune. Unfortunately, he lost most of his money when the market took a sudden downturn due to the Great Depression.

Career

Finding himself broke, he began taking extra parts in 1929 and then bit parts in as many films as he could, including ''The Invisible Man'' (1933), the Three Stooges short ''Woman Haters'' (1934), and ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935), and also worked as a stunt man. In the 1930s, he began appearing in higher-quality films and received more substantial roles as his talent was recognized. This culminated with his receiving the very first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Swan Bostrom in the period film ''Come and Get It'' (1936). Two years later he portrayed town drunk and accused murderer Muff Potter in ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''.

Throughout his career, Brennan was frequently called upon to play characters considerably older than he was in real life. The loss of many teeth in a 1932 accident, rapidly thinning hair, thin build, and gravelly voice all made him seem older than he really was. He used these physical features to great effect. In many of his film roles, Brennan wore dentures; in ''Northwest Passage''—a film set in the late 18th century, when most people had bad teeth—he wore a special dental prosthesis which made him appear to have rotting and broken teeth.

Director Jean Renoir gave the character actor a leading role in 1941: Brennan played the top-billed lead in ''Swamp Water'', a drama directed by Renoir and featuring Walter Huston.

In the 1941 ''Sergeant York'', he played a sympathetic preacher and dry goods store owner who advised the title character played by Gary Cooper. He was particularly skilled in playing the hero's sidekick or as the "grumpy old man" in a picture. Though he was hardly ever cast as the villain, notable exceptions were his roles as Old Man Clanton in the 1946 film ''My Darling Clementine'' opposite Henry Fonda, the 1962 Cinerama production ''How the West Was Won'' as the murderous Colonel Jeb Hawkins, and as Judge Roy Bean in ''The Westerner'', for which he won his third best supporting actor Academy Award, in 1940.

From 1957-1963, he starred in the ABC television series ''The Real McCoys'', which costarred Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan, with lesser roles for Michael Winkelman and Lydia Reed. The comedy about a poor West Virginia family that relocated to a farm in southern California ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962 before switching to CBS for a final season as ''The McCoys''. In the last season, Janet De Gore and Butch Patrick joined the cast as a widow and son; she being the new romantic interest of the recently widowed Luke McCoy, played by Richard Crenna. The revised format of ''The McCoys'' was no match in the ratings for NBC's powerhouse western series, ''Bonanza''.

Brennan appeared in several other movies and television programs, usually, as an eccentric "old timer" or "prospector". Prior to the launching of ''The Real McCoys,'' Brennan appeared as himself as a musical judge in the 1953-1954 ABC series ''Jukebox Jury''. On May 30, 1957, he guest starred on NBC's ''The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford''. He also made a few recordings, the most popular being "Old Rivers" about an eccentric but much-beloved farmer; it was released as a single in 1962 by Liberty Records with "The Epic Ride Of John H. Glenn" on the flip side, and peaked at number 5 in the U.S. Billboard charts. In his music, Brennan sometimes worked with Allen "Puddler" Harris, a Louisiana native who was a member of the original Ricky Nelson Band. He also co-starred with James Garner in the 1969 ''Support Your Local Sheriff!'', playing the head of the Danby Family.

Brennan starred as wealthy executive Walter Andrews in the short-lived 1964-1965 series ''The Tycoon'', with Van Williams. In 1967, he starred in another series, ''The Guns of Will Sonnett'', in which he played a man in search of his gunfighter son, James, with his grandson, Jeff, played by Dack Rambo. After the series went off the air in 1969, Brennan continued working in both television and feature films. He received top billing over Pat O'Brien in the TV-movie ''The Over-the-Hill Gang'' in 1969 and Fred Astaire in ''The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again'' the following year. From 1970 to 1971, he was a regular on the show ''To Rome With Love'', which was his last TV show as a member of the permanent cast.

Legacy

Film historians and critics have long regarded Brennan as one of the finest character actors in motion picture history. While the roles he was adept at playing were extremely diverse, he is probably best remembered for his portrayals in movie Westerns, such as trail hand Nadine Groot in ''Red River'' and Deputy Stumpy in ''Rio Bravo'' both directed by Howard Hawks. He was the first actor to win three Academy Awards. He remains the only person to have won three Best Supporting Actor awards. However, even he remained somewhat embarrassed as to how he won the awards. In the early years of the Academy Awards, extras were given the right to vote. Brennan was extremely popular with the Union of Film Extras and since their numbers were overwhelming, each time he was nominated, he won. Though never described as undeserving of the awards he won, his third win was one of the catalysts leading to the disenfranchisement of the Extras Union from Oscar voting.

Unlike many actors, Brennan's career never really went into decline. As the years went on, he was able to find work in dozens of high quality films, and later television appearances throughout the 1950s and 60s. As he grew older, he simply became a more familiar, almost comforting film figure whose performances continued to endear him to new generations of fans. In all, he would appear in more than 230 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly five decades.

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.

Brennan was also mentioned briefly on an episode of the hit sitcom, "Full House". The episode, entitled "The Graduates" has a moment where Joey Gladstone does an impression of Walter Brennan but it is mistaken for Ronald Reagan.

Private life

Brennan was politically conservative. In 1963 and 1964, Brennan joined fellow actors William Lundigan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Brennan thereafter supported American Independent Party candidate (and former governor of Alabama) George C. Wallace, Jr., over GOP nominee and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1968 presidential campaign because he felt Nixon was too liberal. He also supported Ronald W. Reagan for governor of California in 1966.

In one of his films, ''The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band'' (1968), Brennan portrayed a Democratic supporter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Buddy Ebsen, who played Brennan's son in the film, was depicted as a supporter of Cleveland's 1888 rival, Benjamin Harrison. In the comedy film, Brennan disparaged Ebsen's character as "never too bright for he was a gol-dern Republican". Ironically, both Brennan and Ebsen were outspoken Hollywood Republicans.

Upon his death from emphysema at the age of eighty in Oxnard in Ventura County, Brennan's remains were interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles. Brennan was married to the former Ruth Wells (December 8, 1897–January 12, 1997), whom he married in 1920. The Brennans had a daughter and two sons.

Discography

Albums

! Year	! Album	! width="45"	! Label
1960	''Dutchman's Gold''		Dot
1962	''Old Rivers''		Liberty

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions			Album
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1960	"Dutchman's Gold"				''Dutchman's Gold''
1962	"Old Rivers"				''Old Rivers''

Academy Awards

! Year	! Award	! Film	! Result
		''Sergeant York''

Partial filmography

''Lorraine of the Lions'' (1925) (uncredited)

''Blake of Scotland Yard'' (1927) (uncredited)

''One Hysterical Night'' (1929)

''King of Jazz'' (1930)

''Scratch-As-Catch-Can'' (1931)

''Texas Cyclone'' (1932)

''Law and Order'' (1932)

''Two-Fisted Law'' (1932)

''The Invisible Man'' (1933) (uncredited)

''Woman Haters'' (1934) (uncredited)

''Restless Knights'' (1935) (uncredited)

''Party Wire'' (1935) (uncredited)

''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935) (uncredited)

''Man on the Flying Trapeze'' (1935)

''Barbary Coast'' (1935)

''Metropolitan'' (1935)

''Banjo on My Knee'' (1936)

''Three Godfathers'' (1936)

''These Three'' (1936)

''The Moon's Our Home'' (1936)

''Fury'' (1936)

''Come and Get It'' (1936)

''The Buccaneer'' (1938)

''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1938)

''The Cowboy and the Lady'' (1938)

''Kentucky'' (1938)

''The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle'' (1939)

''They Shall Have Music'' (1939)

''Stanley and Livingstone'' (1939)

''Northwest Passage'' (1940)

''The Westerner'' (1940)

''Meet John Doe'' (1941)

''Sergeant York'' (1941)

''Swamp Water'' (1941)

''The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942)

''Stand by for Action'' (1942)

''Slightly Dangerous'' (1943)

''The North Star'' (1943)

''To Have and Have Not'' (1944)

''The Princess and the Pirate'' (1944)

''Dakota'' (1945)

''A Stolen Life'' (1946)

''Centennial Summer'' (1946)

''Nobody Lives Forever'' (1946)

''My Darling Clementine'' (1946)

''Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!'' (1948)

''Red River'' (1948)

''Blood on the Moon'' (1948)

''Task Force'' (1949)

''A Ticket to Tomahawk'' (1950)

''Along the Great Divide'' (1951)

''Lure of the Wilderness'' (1952)

''The Far Country'' (1954)

''Drums Across the River'' (1954)

''Bad Day at Black Rock'' (1955)

''Come Next Spring'' (1956)

''Good-bye, My Lady'' (1956)

''The Proud Ones'' (1956)

''Tammy and the Bachelor'' (1957)

''Rio Bravo'' (1959)

''How the West Was Won'' (1962)

''The Gnome-Mobile'' (1967)

''Who's Minding the Mint?'' (1967)

''Support Your Local Sheriff!'' (1969)

''The Over-the-Hill Gang'' (1969)

''The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again'' (1970)

References

External links

The Golden Years

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name	Lyle Talbot
birth name	Lisle Henderson
birth date	February 08, 1902
birth place	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
death date	March 02, 1996
death place	San Francisco, California, U.S.
yearsactive	1931–1987
spouse	Margaret Epple (1948-1989) (her death) 4 children Abigail Adams (1942-1942) (annulled)Marjorie Kramer (1937-?) (divorced)}}

Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902–March 2, 1996), born Lisle Henderson, was an American actor on stage and screen, best known for his long career in movies from 1931 to 1960 and for his frequent appearances on TV in the 1950s and '60s, including his decade-long role as Joe Randolph on television's ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''.

He began his movie career under contract to Warner Brothers in the early days of "talking pictures" and went on to appear in more than 150 films, first as a young matinée idol and later as a character actor and star of many B movies. He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and later served on the board.

Biography

Early career

Born in Pittsburgh, Lyle Talbot was raised in Nebraska. He first began his career as a magician's assistant and became a leading actor in traveling tent shows in the Midwest and established his own theater company in Memphis. He then went to Hollywood when the film industry began producing movies with sound and needed "actors who could talk".

Career

Most notable among his film work: his appearance in the classic pre-noir ''Three on a Match'' (1932) with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis, co-starring with Spencer Tracy in the prison movie ''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'', romancing opera singer Grace Moore in ''One Night of Love,'' and pursuing Mae West in ''Go West, Young Man.'' He appeared opposite many famous actresses including Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple.

Talbot's activism in union affairs affected his career path. Warner Bros. dropped him from its roster, and Talbot seldom received starring roles again. He became a capable character actor, playing affable neighbors or crafty villains with equal finesse. In countless low-budget B-movie work, Talbot's roles spanned the gamut. He played cowboys, pirates, detectives, cops, surgeons, psychiatrists, soldiers, judges, newspaper editors, storekeepers, and boxers. In later life he proudly claimed to have never rejected any role offered to him, which explains his participation in three infamous Edward D. Wood, Jr. films: ''Glen or Glenda'', ''Jail Bait'' and ''Plan 9 from Outer Space''. Talbot also worked with the Three Stooges in ''Gold Raiders'', portrayed Lex Luthor in 1950's ''Atom Man vs. Superman'', played villains in four comedies with The Bowery Boys, and took the role of Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 serial ''Batman and Robin''. His last movie role was in the Franklin D. Roosevelt biography, ''Sunrise at Campobello'', in 1960.

As his film career tapered off, Talbot became a familiar character actor on American television in the 1950s and 1960s as a regular on ''Ozzie and Harriet''.

Talbot had a recurring role as Robert Cummings' United States Air Force buddy Paul Fonda on ''The Bob Cummings Show''. Talbot also guest starred frequently on such classic TV series as ''It's a Great Life'', ''The Public Defender'', ''The Pride of the Family'', ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', ''The Restless Gun'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', ''The Lone Ranger'', ''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'', ''Topper'', ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Rawhide'', ''Wagon Train'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Green Acres'', ''Charlie's Angels'', ''Newhart'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''St. Elsewhere'', and ''Who's the Boss?''.

He appeared three times as Colonel Billings on the syndicated western series, ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' (1951–1955), starring Bill Williams. He appeared four times a judge on the syndicated western ''The Cisco Kid'', starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo. He appeared on Gene Autry's ''The Range Rider'', starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones.

Having started his career in the theater and later co-starred on Broadway in 1940-41 in ''Separate Rooms'', Talbot returned to the stage in the 1960s and 1970s, starring in national road company versions of Thornton Wilder's ''The Matchmaker'', Gore Vidal's political drama ''The Best Man'', Neil Simon's ''The Odd Couple'' and ''Barefoot in the Park'', Arthur Sumner Long's "Never Too Late," and appearing as Capt. Braddock in a 1967 revival of ''South Pacific'', at New York's Lincoln Center.

He continued to appear occasionally on TV shows well into his 80s, and narrated two PBS biographies, ''The Case of Dashiell Hammett'' and ''World Without Walls'' about pioneering pilot Beryl Markham, both produced and written by his son, Stephen Talbot.

Talbot was the first live action actor to play two prominent DC Comics characters on-screen: the aforementioned Commissioner Gordon in ''Batman and Robin'', and supervillain Lex Luthor in ''Atom Man vs. Superman'' (who at the time was simply known as Luthor). Talbot began a longstanding tradition of actors in these roles that were most recently filled by Gary Oldman and Kevin Spacey, respectively.

Personal life

Three of his four children became journalists: Stephen Talbot (who also played Gilbert Bates on ''Leave It to Beaver'') was for many years a documentary producer for the PBS series ''Frontline'' and "Frontline World" and is now the executive producer of "Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders." David is the founder and editor of Salon.com, and Margaret is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker''. His other daughter, Cynthia Talbot, is a family physician and residency director in Portland, Oregon. After several brief marriages, Talbot in 1948 married a young singer and actress, Margaret Epple, who often used the stage name, Paula. They had four children together and remained married for over 40 years until her death in 1989.

Into his nineties he remained sharp and alert, and was a delightful raconteur, regaling fans at conventions with anecdotes about friends and colleagues in the movie industry. He died in 1996 at his home in San Francisco, California, aged 94.

Talbot's granddaughter, Caitlin Talbot, is an actress based in Los Angeles.

Partial filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	! Other notes
	''Love Is a Racket''	Edw. Griswold 'Eddie' Shaw	Alternative title: ''Such Things Happen''
''No More Orchids''	Tony Holt
''20,000 Years in Sing Sing''	Bud Saunders
	''The Life of Jimmy Dolan''	Doc Woods
''A Shriek in the Night''	Ted Kord
		Jeff
''Fog Over Frisco''	Spencer Carlton
	Dale Leland
		Jim
	Slattery of the Express
''The Case of the Lucky Legs''	Dr. Bob Doray
1937		Robert "Bob" Benton
1939		Willie Hogger
1940	''He Married His Wife''	Paul Hunter
	''Gambler's Choice''	Yellow Gloves Weldon
''Sensations of 1945''	Randall
1946	''Chick Carter, Detective''	Chick Carter
		Commissioner Jim Gordon
''She Shoulda Said No!''	Police Captain Hayes
		B.R. Ayne aka The Brain	TV, 7 episodes
''Atom Man vs. Superman''	Luthor/The Atom Man
''Lucky Losers''	Bruce McDermott
1950–1954		Various roles	TV, 4 episodes
1950–1956		Various roles	TV, 5 episodes
1951	''Gold Raiders''	Taggert	Alternative title: ''The Stooges Go West''
1951–1956	''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok''	Various roles	TV, 4 episodes
	''Untamed Women''	Col. Loring
''Death Valley Days''		TV, 1 episode
	''Glen or Glenda''	Insp. Warren
''The Roy Rogers Show''	John Zachary	TV, 1 episode
	''Gunfighters of the Northwest''	Inspector Wheeler
''Tobor the Great''	An Admiral
1954–1958	''December Bride''	Bill Monahan	TV, 6 episodes
	''Hallmark Hall of Fame''		TV, 1 episode
''Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe''	Baylor	TV, 6 episodes
1955–1959	''The Bob Cummings Show''	Paul Fonda	TV, 4 episodes
	''Navy Log''	Captain Morgan	TV, 1 episode
	Joe Price	TV, 1 episode
1956–1966	''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''	Joe Randolph	TV, 45 episodes
	''Science Fiction Theatre''	General Dothan	TV, 1 episode
''Tales of Wells Fargo''	Reporter	TV, 1 episode
	''M Squad''	Paul Crowley	TV, 1 episode
''Leave It to Beaver''	Charles "Chuck" Dennison	TV, 2 episodes
1958–1959	''The Restless Gun''	Various roles	TV, 2 episodes
	''Plan 9 from Outer Space''	General Roberts
''The Ann Sothern Show''	Finletter	TV, 1 episode
	''Surfside 6''	Alan Crandell	TV, 1 episode
''Hawaiian Eye''	George Wallace	TV, 1 episode
1960	''The DuPont Show with June Allyson''	Mr. Anders	TV, 1 episode, "The Trench Coat"
	''Mister Ed''	George Hausner	TV, 1 episode
	Orville Luster	TV, 1 episode
			TV, 1 episode
	Mayor	TV, 1 episode
1962–1967	''The Beverly Hillbillies''	Colonel Blake	TV, 4 episodes
	''Arrest and Trial''	Phil Paige	TV, 1 episode
''The Lucy Show''		TV, 1 episode
	''77 Sunset Strip''	Tatum	TV, 1 episode
''Petticoat Junction''	Mr. Cheever	TV, 1 episode
		Steven Blakely	TV, 1 episode
''The Smothers Brothers Show''	Marty Miller	TV, 1 episode
1965–1966		Various roles	TV, 2 episodes
1968		William Joseph Cornelius	TV, 1 episode
1970	''Here's Lucy''	Various roles	TV, 2 episodes
1972	''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury''	Art Prescott	TV, 1 episode
1973	''Adam-12''	Avery Dawson	TV, 1 episode
1979	''Charlie's Angels''	Mills	TV, 1 episode
	''The Dukes of Hazzard''	Carter Stewart	TV, 1 episode
''St. Elsewhere''	Johnny Barnes	TV, 1 episode
1985		Harold	TV, 1 episode
		Mr. Fletcher	TV, 1 episode
''Who's the Boss?''	Ralph	TV, 1 episode
1987	''Newhart''	Cousin Ned	TV, 1 episode

External links

"Great Character Actors"

Lyle Talbot at Talbot Players

Caitlin Talbot http://www.caitlintalbot.com/Site/__Home.html

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name	Brian Fallon
background	solo_singer
birth name	Brian Fallon
born	January 28, 1980Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
origin	New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
instrument	Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
genre	Alternative rock, folk punk, punk rock, Soul
occupation	Musician, Songwriter
years active	1997–present
label	SideOneDummyXOXOSabot ProductionsResist records
associated acts	The Gaslight AnthemThe Horrible CrowsThis Charming ManSurrogate McKenzieAmping CopperCincinnati Rail TieNo ReleaseChuck RaganShady View Terrace
website	Cassettes In The Mailbox
notable instruments	Fender TelecasterGibson Les Paul }}

Brian Fallon (born January 28, 1980) is an American musician. Fallon is one of the founding members of the band The Gaslight Anthem. He plays guitar and provides lead vocals for the band. He is currently working on a side project called The Horrible Crowes

Biography

Brian Fallon was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1980. His mother Debbie was in a folk band in the late 1960s called 'The Group Folk Singers'. Fallon spent his teen years in Hackettstown, New Jersey, where he became close friends with Tom "Tommy Gunn" DuHamel of the band Communication Redlight. When Fallon was 17 he released a cassette under the stage name 'No Release'. He also once wanted to start a small record label to be called 'Old 45 Records'.

Early Music career

No Release (1997)

At the age of 17 Fallon released a cassette titled 'The Coffeehouse Sessions' under the name 'No Release'. It was released under 'Mean Little Man Productions'. There are only about 200 copies of the limited release demo. There are 16 tracks on the demo which featured Chris Eissing as lead guitar on a few tracks.

Surrogate McKenzie (1997-1999)

While Fallon was in the band Surrogate McKenzie they recorded 3 unreleased demo albums, Surrogate McKenzie (1998), Songs To Grow Up To (1998) and The Six Degrees of Separation (2000)

Amping Copper (2001)

With the band Amping Copper, which has been called "basically...Surrogate McKenzie version 2", Fallon was involved with the recording of the 6-track self-titled CD, 'Amping Copper' in 2001.

Brian Fallon - Cincinnati Rail Tie (2004)

After Amping Copper, Fallon wanted to record a solo EP, while maintaining the band feel. He asked a friend, Casey Lee Morgan, from the band Lanemeyer to play drums. Another friend, Mike Hemberger, played bass and produced the EP. One of Fallon's old guitar teachers, Tim Fogerty, played guitar on two tracks. Together they recorded, 'The American Music EP' in 2004, the EP also featured Fallon's mother on backing vocals.

This Charming Man (2005)

In 2005, Fallon along with Michael Volpe, Chris Clementi and Mike Leboeuf founded This Charming Man. Fallon remained the only original member when Benny Horowitz and Alex Levine and eventually Alex Rosamilia joined; thus bringing together the present lineup of The Gaslight Anthem. After some time with the new lineup, they changed their name, forming The Gaslight Anthem.

This Charming Man's only full release was 'Every Little Secret' in 2005, with the original lineup. Another song by the original band called "She Coulda Raised the Titanic" later became The Gaslight Anthem's "1930" song on the Sink or Swim album.

The Gaslight Anthem (2005-Present)

Fallon has been the prominent song writer and vocalist for The Gaslight Anthem since their formation from This Charming Man. With the band he has recorded 3 studio albums, Sink or Swim, The '59 Sound and American Slang. In 2009, he joined Bruce Springsteen on stage for the headlining set at the Hard Rock Calling Festival, performing the song "No Surrender."

Following the release of their third full-length album, American Slang, Fallon himself said, "There's so much else that we look at for our sound and influences that you don't want to be notched in with one guy," Fallon explains. "There's a lot of things [Springsteen] does that I admire. We come from a lot of the same places but a lot of different places, too. But at the same time, that's a good thing to be compared to. I think it's one of those things we're gonna have to wear until it wears out."

The Horrible Crowes (2011-Present)

On January 20, 2011, Fallon announced on his blog that he had formed the group The Horrible Crowes with his guitar Tech, Ian Perkins. In the same entry, Brian also says, "The name comes from a poem called the Twa Corbies, which means, "two crows." Check it out,it's a dark commentary on life. ... It's the darker side of soul music, it's slow, it slithers, and it's raw. At the same time, the melodies and pianos are a juxtaposition to the topic material because it's eerily soothing. I'm really proud of what's been coming out and we'll see how it goes, but it's in the works and it's heading for an actual record."

Fallon suggests the possibility that the group may do some touring, but nothing major like Gaslight does. He also assures his fans that this is his "for me" project, as he puts it and that Gaslight is still 'his baby'. It has been announced on the Horrible Crowes page that a full length album is to be released in the future.

Only a preview of the duo's first song has been released, entitled "Black Betty and the Moon." The song can be found on YouTube.

The first single "Behold the Hurricane" was made available for streaming through RollingStone.com on July 13, 2011.

Australian website bombshellzine.com posted a review of the album on August 24th revealing a September 9, 2011 release date in Australia. link.

Their debut album, "Elsie" will be released in the United States on September 6, 2011. The album is reported to be a bit of a departure from the sound and attitude of The Gaslight Anthem . Fallon, in describing the upcoming album said: "As much as I have this fantasy in the Gaslight Anthem of being Bruce Springsteen , I also have this fantasy of being Tom Waitsor Greg Dulli . These songs are very dark; they’re like hymns for lonely people, it’s really a trip through a breakdown and that dissent into madness and hopefully redemption." Fallon and Perkins will begin playing a limited number of shows in support of the album starting September 8th.

Non-musical endeavors

Fallon along with the other Gaslight Anthem members, Alex Rosamilia, Alex Levine and Ben Horowitz have advertised for Levi Jeans. Fallon has also appeared on a Jones Soda bottle, standing next to the Phil Lynott statue in Dublin.

Discography

;With The Gaslight Anthem

''Sink or Swim Demos'' (7" vinyl) (2006)

''Sink or Swim'' (2007)

''Señor and the Queen'' EP (CD & double 7" vinyl) (2008)

''The '59 Sound'' (2008)

''Live at Park Ave.'' EP (10" vinyl) (2009)

''American Slang'' (2010)

''Tumbling Dice / She Loves You'' EP (7" vinyl) (2010)

;With This Charming Man

''Every Little Secret'' (2005)

;With Brian Fallon - Cincinnati Rail Tie

''The American Music EP'' (2004)

;With Amping Cooper

''Amping Cooper'' (2001)

;With Surrogate McKenzie

''Surrogate McKenzie'' (1998)

''Songs To Grow Up To'' (1998)

''The Six Degrees of Separation'' (2000)

;As No Release

''The Coffeehouse Sessions'' (1997)

;With Chuck Ragan

''Gospel Hymns'' (7" split) (2009)

;Unreleased Studio Recordings ~ Singles

''The Blues Mary''

''Italian Lightning''

''Cold Cold Ground (Tom Waits cover)''

''Backstreets (Bruce Springsteen cover)'' All (2008–2009)

Vocal appearances

!Year	!Song	!Album	!Band	!Record label	!Credits
2000	"Alarm"	—	Lanemeyer	Springman Records	Vocal
2000	"Somebody to Shove" (Soul Asylum cover)	—	Lanemeyer	Springman Records	Vocal
2009	"No Surrender"	''London Calling: Live in Hyde Park''	Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band	Columbia Records	Vocal
2010	"The South Has Spoiled Me"	''Raise It High''		—	Vocal

References

External links

Official Band website

Official Facebook

Official MySpace

SideOneDummy (record label)

Fan Forum: Dimestore Saints

Fan Site: The Gaslight Anthem Record

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