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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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