Brian Dennehy
Acting
1938-07-09 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
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.
Filmography
Son of the South
2021 · Movie
Driveways
2020 · Movie
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020 · Series
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Movie
3 Days with Dad
2019 · Movie
The Song of Sway Lake
2019 · Movie
Tag
2018 · Movie
The Seagull
2018 · Movie
A Very Merry Toy Store
2017 · Movie
Hap and Leonard
2016 · Series
The Ultimate Legacy
2015 · Movie
Knight of Cups
2015 · Movie
Public Morals
2015 · Series
Cocked
2015 · Series
The Blacklist
2013 · Series
The Challenger Disaster
2013 · Movie
Twelfth Night
2012 · Movie
The Big Year
2011 · Movie
The Next Three Days
2010 · Movie
Alleged
2010 · Movie
The Big C
2010 · Series
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer
2010 · Movie
Rizzoli & Isles
2010 · Series
Meet Monica Velour
2010 · Movie
Every Day
2010 · Movie
Bunker Hill
2009 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale
2009 · Movie
Love and Valor
2009 · Movie
Righteous Kill
2008 · Movie
Cat City
2008 · Movie
War Eagle, Arkansas
2007 · Movie
Welcome to Paradise
2007 · Movie
Trumbo
2007 · Movie
Masters of Science Fiction
2007 · Series
Ratatouille
2007 · Movie
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007 · Movie
Marco Polo
2007 · Movie
Marco Polo
2007 · Series
The Ultimate Gift
2007 · Movie
Rules of Engagement
2007 · Series
30 Rock
2006 · Series
Everyone's Hero
2006 · Movie
The Exonerated
2006 · Movie
10th & Wolf
2006 · Movie
Our Fathers
2005 · Movie
Assault on Precinct 13
2005 · Movie
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004 · Series
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004 · Movie
She Hate Me
2004 · Movie
The 4400
2004 · Series
American Valor
2003 · Movie
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company'
2003 · Movie
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003 · Movie
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron
2003 · Movie
Making 'The Misfits'
2002 · Movie
Founding Brothers
2002 · Series
Stolen Summer
2002 · Movie
A Season on the Brink
2002 · Movie
Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero
2002 · Movie
Three Blind Mice
2001 · Movie
The Agency
2001 · Series
Summer Catch
2001 · Movie
Night Visions
2001 · Series
Warden of Red Rock
2001 · Movie
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
2001 · Series
Animated Tales of the World
2001 · Series
Founding Fathers
2000 · Series
Arrest & Trial
2000 · Series
Dish Dogs
2000 · Movie
Fail Safe
2000 · Movie
Death of a Salesman
2000 · Movie
Silicon Towers
1999 · Movie
Sirens
1999 · Movie
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Out of the Cold
1999 · Movie
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · Series
Netforce
1999 · Series
NetForce
1999 · Movie
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1998 · Movie
Voyage of Terror
1998 · Movie
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
1997 · Movie
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · Series
Nostromo
1997 · Series
Shadow of a Doubt
1996 · Movie
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
1996 · Movie
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Movie
Undue Influence
1996 · Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Dead Man's Walk
1996 · Series
A Season in Purgatory
1996 · Series
Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us
1996 · Movie
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995 · Movie
Jack Reed: One of Our Own
1995 · Movie
Tommy Boy
1995 · Movie
Midnight Movie
1994 · Movie
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994 · Movie
Leave of Absence
1994 · Movie
Birdland
1994 · Series
Final Appeal
1993 · Movie
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993 · Movie
Murder in the Heartland
1993 · Series
Foreign Affairs
1993 · Movie
Deadly Matrimony
1992 · Movie
The Diamond Fleece
1992 · Movie
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992 · Movie
To Catch a Killer
1992 · Movie
Gladiator
1992 · Movie
The Burden of Proof
1992 · Series
To Catch a Killer
1992 · Series
F/X2
1991 · Movie
Zebras: Patterns in the Grass
1991 · Movie
In Broad Daylight
1991 · Movie
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Movie
Rising Son
1990 · Movie
A Killing in a Small Town
1990 · Movie
The Last of the Finest
1990 · Movie
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
1990 · Movie
Perfect Witness
1989 · Movie
Seven Minutes
1989 · Movie
Indio
1989 · Movie
Day One
1989 · Movie
American Experience
1988 · Series
Miles from Home
1988 · Movie
Cocoon: The Return
1988 · Movie
The Man From Snowy River II
1988 · Movie
A Father's Revenge
1988 · Movie
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987 · Movie
Best Seller
1987 · Movie
The Belly of an Architect
1987 · Movie
The Lion of Africa
1987 · Movie
The Little Mermaid
1987 · Movie
Annie Oakley
1986 · Movie
Legal Eagles
1986 · Movie
The Check is in the Mail...
1986 · Movie
Acceptable Risks
1986 · Movie
F/X
1986 · Movie
Twice in a Lifetime
1985 · Movie
Tall Tales & Legends
1985 · Series
Silverado
1985 · Movie
Cocoon
1985 · Movie
Evergreen
1985 · Series
The Last Place on Earth
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
The River Rat
1984 · Movie
Hunter
1984 · Series
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
1984 · Movie
Finders Keepers
1984 · Movie
Gorky Park
1983 · Movie
Never Cry Wolf
1983 · Movie
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Series
Blood Feud
1983 · Series
Blood Feud
1983 · Movie
I Take These Men
1983 · Movie
First Blood
1982 · Movie
Split Image
1982 · Movie
Star of the Family
1982 · Series
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
1982 · Movie
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Series
The Making of 'First Blood'
1982 · Movie
Darkroom
1981 · Series
Skokie
1981 · Movie
Fly Away Home
1981 · Movie
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
1981 · Movie
Dynasty
1981 · Series
The Jericho Mile
1980 · Movie
A Rumor of War
1980 · Series
The Seduction of Miss Leona
1980 · Movie
Little Miss Marker
1980 · Movie
Knots Landing
1979 · Series
10
1979 · Movie
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
1979 · Series
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979 · Movie
Dummy
1979 · Movie
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979 · Movie
A Real American Hero
1978 · Movie
Pearl
1978 · Series
Foul Play
1978 · Movie
F.I.S.T.
1978 · Movie
Dallas
1978 · Series
A Death in Canaan
1978 · Movie
Ruby and Oswald
1978 · Movie
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
1977 · Movie
Semi-Tough
1977 · Movie
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977 · Movie
Lou Grant
1977 · Series
Lucan
1977 · Series
The Fitzpatricks
1977 · Series
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
1977 · Movie
Lanigan's Rabbi
1977 · Series
The Tony Randall Show
1976 · Series
Serpico
1976 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Police Woman
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Kojak
1973 · Series
M*A*S*H
1972 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series