
Brian Dennehy
Born: 1938-07-09
Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Biography
Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of film, stage, and television. His breakthrough film role was as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982). Typically a character actor, Dennehy displayed versatility in varying and often complex roles ranging from villainous (such as a corrupt sheriff in the 1985 western Silverado) to virtuous (such as a benevolent alien leader in Cocoon, also released in 1985). Other notable films featuring Dennehy include Gorky Park (1983), Never Cry Wolf (1983), Legal Eagles (1986), F/X (1986), Tommy Boy (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Ratatouille (2007). A prominent figure in the theater world (especially in Chicago), Dennehy won two Tony Awards for Best Lead Actor, for Death of a Salesman (1999) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2003). He starred in numerous television films and miniseries, garnering six Emmy Award nominations, and had memorable supporting and guest roles in many series including Just Shoot Me, The Good Wife, and The Blacklist.
Known For

Ratatouille

First Blood

Romeo + Juliet

Tag

Gorky Park

Foul Play

Fail Safe

Finders Keepers

Cocoon

Alleged

Gladiator

The Next Three Days

The Ultimate Gift

Semi-Tough

Stolen Summer

The Seagull

Marco Polo

Our Fathers

A Father's Revenge

NetForce

10th & Wolf

Driveways

Presumed Innocent

Summer Catch

Silverado

Dish Dogs

Annie Oakley

Deadly Matrimony

Day One

Acceptable Risks

10

Skokie

Every Day

Tommy Boy

Cocoon: The Return

Silicon Towers

Blood Feud

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The Big Year

Dummy

Ruby and Oswald

Everyone's Hero

Cat City

Split Image

Sirens

Indio

Making 'The Misfits'

Righteous Kill

Meet Monica Velour

Assault on Precinct 13

American Valor

F/X

Fly Away Home

Knight of Cups

The Song of Sway Lake

Twelfth Night

The Challenger Disaster

Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer

It Happened at Lakewood Manor

Miles from Home

Never Cry Wolf

F.I.S.T.

F/X2

She Hate Me

Category 6: Day of Destruction

Legal Eagles

The Pigs vs. The Freaks

The Diamond Fleece

Out of the Cold

Zebras: Patterns in the Grass

The Man From Snowy River II

Little Miss Marker

Son of the South

Three Blind Mice

The Little Mermaid

Twice in a Lifetime

Best Seller

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

Death of a Salesman

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

The River Rat

I Take These Men

The Belly of an Architect

The Jericho Mile

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

The Ultimate Legacy

To Catch a Killer

The Lion of Africa

Trumbo

Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale

A Real American Hero

A Season in Purgatory

A Very Merry Toy Store

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

A Killing in a Small Town

Foreign Affairs

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

The Last of the Finest

War Eagle, Arkansas

Leave of Absence

3 Days with Dad

Rising Son

Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero

Voyage of Terror

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Welcome to Paradise

Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

The Exonerated

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Warden of Red Rock

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

Undue Influence

Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

Midnight Movie

Seven Minutes

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

In Broad Daylight

Perfect Witness

A Season on the Brink

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

The Seduction of Miss Leona

A Death in Canaan

The Check is in the Mail...

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

Final Appeal

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

Shadow of a Doubt
