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Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy

Brian Dennehy

ActingBorn July 9, 1938Died April 15, 2020 (age 81)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.

Filmography

2021
Son of the South

as Grandfather

Movie
2020
Driveways

as Del

Movie
2020TV
2019Movie
2019Movie
2018
Tag

as Mr. Cilliano

Movie
2018
The Seagull

as Pjotr Sorin

Movie
2017
A Very Merry Toy Store

as Joe Haggarty

Movie
2016
Hap and Leonard

as Sheriff Valentine Otis

TV
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015
Public Morals

as Joe Patton

TV
2015
Cocked

as Wade

TV
2013
The Blacklist

as Dominic Wilkinson

TV
2013Movie
2012
Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

Movie
2011
The Big Year

as Raymond Harris

Movie
2010
The Next Three Days

as George Brennan

Movie
2010
Alleged

as Clarence Darrow

Movie
2010
The Big C

as Dad

TV
2010
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer

as Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother

Movie
2010
Rizzoli & Isles

as Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy

TV
2010Movie
2010
Every Day

as Ernie

Movie
2009
Bunker Hill

as Martin 'Mutt' Kelsey

Movie
2009
The Good Wife

as Bucky Stabler

TV
2009
Love and Valor

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Cat City

as Harold

Movie
2007
War Eagle, Arkansas

as Pop, Enochs Father

Movie
2007
Welcome to Paradise

as Bobby Brown

Movie
2007
Trumbo

as Self

Movie
2007
Ratatouille

as Django (voice)

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Marco Polo

as Kublai Khan

Movie
2007
Marco Polo

as Kublai Khan

TV
2007Movie
2006
30 Rock

as Mickey J

TV
2006
Everyone's Hero

as Babe Ruth (voice)

Movie
2006
The Exonerated

as Gary Gauger

Movie
2006
10th & Wolf

as Agent Horvath

Movie
2005
Our Fathers

as Father Dominic Spagnolia

Movie
2005
Assault on Precinct 13

as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea

Movie
2004Movie
2004TV
2004
She Hate Me

as Billy Church

Movie
2004
The 4400

as Mitch Baldwin

TV
2003
American Valor

as Narrator

Movie
2003Movie
2002Movie
2002
Stolen Summer

as Father Kelly

Movie
2002
A Season on the Brink

as Bobby Knight

Movie
2001
Three Blind Mice

as Matthew Hope

Movie
2001
The Agency

as James Graydon

TV
2001
Summer Catch

as John Schiffner

Movie
2001
Night Visions

as Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please")

TV
2001
Warden of Red Rock

as Sheriff Selwyn Church

Movie
2001
The Fighting Fitzgeralds

as Mr. Fitzgerald

TV
2001
Animated Tales of the World

as Captain (voice)

TV
2000
Founding Fathers

as George Washington (voice)

TV
2000
Arrest & Trial

as Self - Host

TV
2000
Dish Dogs

as Frost

Movie
2000
Fail Safe

as Gen. Bogan

Movie
2000
Death of a Salesman

as Willy Loman

Movie
1999
Silicon Towers

as Tom Warner

Movie
1999
Sirens

as Lt. Denby

Movie
1999
The West Wing

as Rafe Framingham

TV
1999TV
1999
Out of the Cold

as David Bards

Movie
1999
NetForce

as Lowell Davidson

Movie
1999
Netforce

as Lowell Davidson

TV
1998
Thanks of a Grateful Nation

as Sen. Donald Riegle

Movie
1998
Voyage of Terror

as The President

Movie
1997
Just Shoot Me!

as Red Finch

TV
1997
Nostromo

as Joshua C. Holroyd

TV
1996
Shadow of a Doubt

as Charley Sloan

Movie
1996Movie
1996
Romeo + Juliet

as Ted Montague

Movie
1996
Undue Influence

as Paul Madriani

TV
1996
Dead Man's Walk

as Major Chevallier

TV
1996
A Season in Purgatory

as Gerald Bradley

Movie
1996
A Season in Purgatory

as Gerald Bradley

TV
1996Movie
1995
The Stars Fell on Henrietta

as Big Dave McDermot

Movie
1995Movie
1995
Tommy Boy

as Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan

Movie
1994
Midnight Movie

as James Boyce

Movie
1994Movie
1994Movie
1994
Birdland

as Dr. Brian McKenzie

TV
1993
Final Appeal

as Perry Sundquist

Movie
1993Movie
1993TV
1993
Murder in the Heartland

as John McArthur

TV
1993
Foreign Affairs

as Chuck Mumpson

Movie
1992
Deadly Matrimony

as Jack Reed

Movie
1992
The Diamond Fleece

as Inspector Outlaw

Movie
1992Movie
1992
To Catch a Killer

as John Wayne Gacy

Movie
1992
Gladiator

as Jimmy Horn

Movie
1992
The Burden of Proof

as Dixon Hartnell

TV
1992
To Catch a Killer

as John Wayne Gacy

TV
1991
F/X2

as Leo McCarthy

Movie
1991Movie
1991
In Broad Daylight

as Len Rowan

Movie
1990
Presumed Innocent

as Raymond Horgan

Movie
1990
Rising Son

as Gus Robinson

Movie
1990Movie
1990Movie
1990Movie
1989
Perfect Witness

as James Falcon

Movie
1989
Seven Minutes

as Wagner

Movie
1989
Indio

as Whitaker

Movie
1989
Day One

as Gen. Leslie Groves

Movie
1988
American Experience

as Aaron Burr (voice)

TV
1988
Miles from Home

as Frank Roberts Sr.

Movie
1988
Cocoon: The Return

as Walter (uncredited)

Movie
1988Movie
1988
A Father's Revenge

as Paul Hobart

Movie
1987
Best Seller

as Dennis Meechum

Movie
1987
The Belly of an Architect

as Stourley Kracklite

Movie
1987
The Lion of Africa

as Sam Marsh

Movie
1987
The Little Mermaid

as King Neptune (Narrator) (voice)

Movie
1986
Legal Eagles

as Cavanaugh

Movie
1986
The Check is in the Mail...

as Richard Jackson

Movie
1986
Acceptable Risks

as Don Sheppard

Movie
1986
F/X

as Lt. Leo McCarthy

Movie
1985
Annie Oakley

as Buffalo Bill

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Tall Tales & Legends

as Buffalo Bill

TV
1985
Silverado

as Cobb

Movie
1985
Cocoon

as Walter

Movie
1985
Evergreen

as Matthew Malone

TV
1985
The Last Place on Earth

as Frederick Cook

TV
1985
Screen Two

as James Boyce

TV
1984
The River Rat

as Doc Cole

Movie
1984
Hunter

as Dr. Bolin

TV
1984
Miami Vice

as Reverend Billy Bob Proverb

TV
1984
The Pigs vs. The Freaks

as Sergeant Cheever

Movie
1984
Finders Keepers

as Frizzoli

Movie
1983
Gorky Park

as William Kirwill

Movie
1983Movie
1983
Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
1983
Blood Feud

as Edward Grady Partin

Movie
1983
Blood Feud

as Edward Grady Partin

TV
1983
I Take These Men

as Phil Zakarian

Movie
1982
First Blood

as Hope Sheriff Will Teasle

Movie
1982
Split Image

as Kevin Stetson

Movie
1982
Star of the Family

as Leslie 'Buddy' Krebs

TV
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as King Neptune / Narrator (voice)

TV
1982
Cagney & Lacey

as Michael Magruder

TV
1981
Darkroom

as Roland

TV
1981
Skokie

as Police Chief Arthur Buchanan

Movie
1981
Fly Away Home

as Tim Arnold

Movie
1981
Dynasty

as Jake Dunham

TV
1980Movie
1980
A Rumor of War

as Sgt. Ned Coleman

TV
1980Movie
1980Movie
1979
Knots Landing

as James Cargill

TV
1979
10

as Donald

Movie
1979TV
1979
Dummy

as Ragoti

Movie
1978
A Real American Hero

as Buford Pusser

Movie
1978
Pearl

as Sgt. Otto Chain

TV
1978
Foul Play

as Fergie

Movie
1978
F.I.S.T.

as Frank Vasko

Movie
1978
Dallas

as Luther Frick

TV
1978
A Death in Canaan

as Barney Parsons

Movie
1978
Ruby and Oswald

as George Paulsen

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Semi-Tough

as T.J. Lambert

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Lou Grant

as Wilson

TV
1977
Lucan

as Fisher

TV
1977
The Fitzpatricks

as Coach Hatfield

TV
1977Movie
1977
Lanigan's Rabbi

as Burton Tree

TV
1976TV
1976
Serpico

as Jody

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

TV
1974
Police Woman

as Burrows

TV
1974
Playhouse

as Grimmet

TV
1973
Kojak

as Peter Connor

TV
1972
M*A*S*H

as M.P. Ernie Connors

TV
1971TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 9, 1938
Day of DeathApril 15, 2020
Place of BirthBridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Popularity1.9