

Brian Dennehy
Acting
July 9, 1938
Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
April 15, 2020
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.
The Filmography


Everyone's Hero

The Exonerated

10th & Wolf

Our Fathers

Assault on Precinct 13

Category 6: Day of Destruction

She Hate Me

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

Stolen Summer

A Season on the Brink

Three Blind Mice

Summer Catch

Warden of Red Rock

Dish Dogs

Fail Safe

Death of a Salesman

Silicon Towers
