Brian Dennehy
- Acting
- July 9, 1938 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- April 15, 2020
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, In Memory Of
- 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
- The 4400 · Mitch Baldwin
- American Valor · Narrator
- Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company' · Fred Silverman
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone · Tom Stone
- The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron · Mr. Blue
- Making 'The Misfits' · Narrator
- Founding Brothers
- Stolen Summer · Father Kelly
- A Season on the Brink · Bobby Knight
- Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero · Narrator
- Three Blind Mice · Matthew Hope, Executive producer
- The Agency · James Graydon
- Summer Catch · John Schiffner
- Night Visions · Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please"), Director
- Warden of Red Rock · Sheriff Selwyn Church, Executive producer
- The Fighting Fitzgeralds · Mr. Fitzgerald
- Animated Tales of the World · Captain (Voice)
- Founding Fathers · George Washington (Voice)
- Arrest & Trial · Self
- Dish Dogs · Frost
- Fail Safe · Gen. Bogan
- Death of a Salesman · Willy Loman, Executive producer
- Silicon Towers · Tom Warner
- Sirens · Lt. Denby
- The West Wing · Rafe Framingham
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Judson Tierney
- Out of the Cold · David Bards
- Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke · Louis Bromfield
- NetForce · Lowell Davidson
- Netforce · Lowell Davidson