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Birth Jul 9, 1938 - Bridgeport, CT Occupation Actor After majoring in history at Columbia University, brawny Brian
Dennehy served a tour of duty in Vietnam. He returned to the States with the urge to act, taking a string of odd jobs to pay his way through Yale Drama School, and to afford private acting lessons. His first
professional break came with the Broadway production Streamers. In films and TV from 1977, Dennehy is a most versatile actor, at home playing western baddies (Silverado), ulcerated big-city cops (F/X), serial killers
(John Wayne Gacy in the made-for-TV To Catch a Killer) by-the-book military types (General Groves in Day One, another TV movie), and vacillating politicos (Presumed Innocent). One of his most rewarding film assignments
was as dying architectural genius Stourley Kracklite in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect (1987).
In addition to his many TV-movie roles (one of which, good-old-boy Chuck Munson in 1993's Foreign
Affairs, won him a Cable Ace Award) Dennehy has starred in the weekly series Big Shamus Little Shamus (1977), Star of the Family (1981) and Birdland (1994), as well as the sporadically produced "Jack Reed"
feature-length mysteries. It was in one of the last-mentioned projects, Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994) that Dennehy made his directorial debut. Aside from his work in film and television, Dennehy has also had
considerable success on the stage, particularly with his Tony-winning portrayal of Willy Loman in the 1998 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman.
2000
Death of a Salesman [TV]
Actor [Starring] /
Executive Producer
F
2000 Fail Safe [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
2000 Arrest & Trial [TV]
Actor [Starring]
T
2000 Founding Fathers: Rebels...With a Cause
[doc]
Voice
D
2000 Founding Fathers: Taking Liberties [doc]
Voice
D
2000 Founding Fathers: You Say You Want a
Revolution [doc]
Voice
D
2000 Founding Fathers: A Healthy
Constitution [doc]
Voice
D
1999 Netforce [TV]
aka Tom Clancy's Netforce (video title)
Actor [Starring]
F
1999 Sirens
Actor [Starring]
1999 Out of the Cold
Actor [Starring]
F
1998 Thanks of a Grateful Nation [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1998 Voyage of Terror
Actor [Starring]
F
1998 Dish Dogs
Actor [Starring]
F
1996 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
aka Romeo & Juliet (TV title)
Actor
F
1996 Jack Reed: One of Our Own
Director / Actor [Starring]
F
1996 Dead Man's Walk [TV]
aka Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk
Actor
T
1995 Tommy Boy
Actor [Starring]
F
1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Actor [Starring]
F
1995 Shadow of a Doubt [TV]
Director / Actor [Starring]
F
1994 Midnight Movie
Actor [Starring]
F
1994 Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
Director / Actor [Starring]
1993 Wild West [TV] [doc]
Actor
D
1993 Murder in the Heartland [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1993 Foreign Affairs [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1993 Jack Reed: Badge of Honor [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1993 Final Appeal
Actor [Starring]
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
[TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1992 To Catch a Killer [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1992 The Diamond Fleece [TV]
Actor
F
1992 The Burden of Proof [TV]
aka Scott Turow's The Burden of Proof
aka The Burden of Proof, Part 1
Actor
F
1992 Deadly Matrimony, Part 2 [TV]
Actor
F
1992 Gladiator
Actor [Starring]
F
1992 Devlin [TV]
Actor
F
1992 Deadly Matrimony, Part 1 [TV]
aka Deadly Matrimony
Actor [Starring]
F
1991 In Broad Daylight [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1991 National Geographic Video: Zebra -
Patterns in the Grass [doc]
Actor
D
1991 F/X 2
aka F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion
Actor [Starring]
F
1990 Rising Son [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1990 The Last of the Finest
aka Blue Heat
aka Sweet Legal
Actor [Starring]
F
1990 Pride and Extreme Prejudice [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1990 A Killing in a Small Town [TV]
aka Evidence of Love
Actor
F
1990 Presumed Innocent
Actor [Starring]
F
1989 Day One [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1989 Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland
aka Georg Elser
aka Seven Minutes
Actor [Starring]
F
1989 Indio
Actor
F
1989 Perfect Witness [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1988 Return to Snowy River
aka The Man from Snowy River II
Actor [Starring]
F
1988 Miles from Home
aka Farm of the Year
Actor [Starring]
F
1988 Cocoon: the Return
aka Cocoon 2
aka Cocoon 2: The Return
Actor
F
1988 A Father's Revenge [TV]
aka Das Rattennest
Actor [Starring]
F
1987 The Lion of Africa [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
[TV] [doc]
Actor
D
1987 The Belly of an Architect
Actor [Starring]
F
1987 Best Seller
Actor [Starring]
F
1986 F/X
aka F/X - Murder by Illusion [1985]
Actor [Starring]
F
1986 Legal Eagles
Actor [Starring]
F
1986 Acceptable Risks [TV]
Actor
F
1985 Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends:
Annie Oakley
Actor
F
1985 Twice in a Lifetime
Actor
F
1985 Silverado
Actor
F
1985 Cocoon
Actor [Starring]
F
1985 Annie Oakley [TV]
aka Shelly Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Annie
Oakley
Actor
T
1985 The Check is in the Mail
Actor [Starring]
F
1984 Hunter [TV]
Actor
F
1984 Off Sides [TV]
aka Pigs vs. Freaks
Actor
F
1984 Finders Keepers
Actor
F
1984 The River Rat
Actor [Starring]
F
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre: Little Mermaid [TV]
aka Faerie Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid
aka The Little Mermaid
Actor
F
1983 I Take These Men [TV]
Actor
F
1983 Blood Feud [TV]
Actor
F
1983 Never Cry Wolf
Actor [Starring]
F
1983 Gorky Park
Actor [Starring]
F
1982 First Blood
Actor [Starring]
F
1982 Split Image
Actor
F
1981 Skokie [TV]
Actor
F
1981 Fly Away Home [TV]
Actor
F
1980 Little Miss Marker
Actor
F
1980 The Seduction of Miss Leona [TV]
Actor
F
1980 To Love Again
Actor
F
1980 A Rumor of War [TV]
Actor [Starring]
F
1979 North Dallas Forty
Actor
F
1979 The Jericho Mile [TV]
Actor
F
1979 10
Actor [Starring]
F
1979 Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neill Story
[TV]
Actor
F
1979 Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Actor [Starring]
F
1979 Dummy [TV]
Actor
F
1978 A Real American Hero [TV]
aka Hard Stick
Actor
F
1978 F.I.S.T.
Actor
F
1978 Foul Play
Actor
F
1978 Ruby and Oswald [TV]
aka Four Days in Dallas
Actor
F
1978 A Death in Canaan [TV]
Actor
F
1977 Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye [TV]
Actor
F
1977 It Happened at Lakewood Manor [TV]
aka Ants!
aka Panic at Lakewood Manor
Actor
F
1977 Semi-Tough
Actor
F
1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Actor
F
Reading Rainbow: Kate Shelley &
Midnight Express
Actor
F
* Film Types: F-Feature, D-Documentary, A-Animated, T-Television, P-Performance, S-Series, V-Video
Best Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie (win)
Death of a Salesman
2000
Golden Globe
Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (nom)
Death of a Salesman
2000
Screen Actors Guild
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