Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 09, 1938
Died
Apr 15, 2020
Place of Birth
Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Credits
207 titles
Brian Dennehy
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
Filmography
Son of the South
Grandfather
Driveways
Del
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Jerome Townsend
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
3 Days with Dad
Bob
The Song of Sway Lake
Hal Sway
Tag
Mr. Cilliano
The Seagull
Pjotr Sorin
A Very Merry Toy Store
Joe Haggarty
Hap and Leonard
Sheriff Valentine Otis
The Ultimate Legacy
Gus
Knight of Cups
Joseph
Public Morals
Joe Patton
Cocked
Wade
The Blacklist
Dominic Wilkinson
The Challenger Disaster
Rogers
Twelfth Night
Sir Toby Belch
The Big Year
Raymond Harris
The Next Three Days
George Brennan
Alleged
Clarence Darrow
The Big C
Dad
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer
Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother
Rizzoli & Isles
Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy
Meet Monica Velour
Pop Pop
Every Day
Ernie
Bunker Hill
Martin 'Mutt' Kelsey
The Good Wife
Bucky Stabler
Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale
Narrator
Love and Valor
Narrator (voice)
Righteous Kill
Hingis
Cat City
Harold
War Eagle, Arkansas
Pop, Enochs Father
Welcome to Paradise
Bobby Brown
Trumbo
Self
Masters of Science Fiction
Bedzyk
Ratatouille
Django (voice)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Andrew Jackson (voice)
Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
The Ultimate Gift
Gus
Rules of Engagement
Roy
30 Rock
Mickey J
Everyone's Hero
Babe Ruth (voice)
The Exonerated
Gary Gauger
10th & Wolf
Agent Horvath
Our Fathers
Father Dominic Spagnolia
Assault on Precinct 13
Sargeant Jasper O'Shea
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Andy Goodman
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Andy Goodman
She Hate Me
Billy Church