Brian Dennehy
Actor
Born July 9, 1938 in 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
The Making of 'First Blood'
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
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
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
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
The Agency
James Graydon
Summer Catch
John Schiffner
Night Visions
Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please")
Warden of Red Rock
Sheriff Selwyn Church
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Mr. Fitzgerald
Animated Tales of the World
Captain (voice)
Founding Fathers
George Washington (voice)
Dish Dogs
Frost
Fail Safe
Gen. Bogan
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman
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
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Sen. Donald Riegle
Voyage of Terror
The President
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
Eddie Brannigan
Just Shoot Me!
Red Finch
Nostromo
Joshua C. Holroyd
Shadow of a Doubt
Charley Sloan
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Jack Reed
Romeo + Juliet
Ted Montague
Undue Influence
Paul Madriani
E! True Hollywood Story
Dead Man's Walk
Major Chevallier
A Season in Purgatory
Gerald Bradley
A Season in Purgatory
Gerald Bradley
Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us
Jack Reed
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Big Dave McDermot
Jack Reed: One of Our Own
Jack Reed
Tommy Boy
Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan
Midnight Movie
James Boyce
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
Jack Reed
Leave of Absence
Sam
Birdland
Dr. Brian McKenzie
Final Appeal
Perry Sundquist
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Jack Reed
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
Ervil LeBaron
Murder in the Heartland
John McArthur
Foreign Affairs
Chuck Mumpson
Deadly Matrimony
Jack Reed
The Diamond Fleece
Inspector Outlaw
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Jackie Presser
To Catch a Killer
John Wayne Gacy
Gladiator
Jimmy Horn
The Burden of Proof
Dixon Hartnell
To Catch a Killer
John Wayne Gacy
F/X2
Leo McCarthy
Zebras: Patterns in the Grass
Narrator (voice)
In Broad Daylight
Len Rowan
Presumed Innocent
Raymond Horgan
Rising Son
Gus Robinson
A Killing in a Small Town
Ed Reivers
The Last of the Finest
Frank Daly
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Bruno Morenz
Perfect Witness
James Falcon
Seven Minutes
Wagner
Indio
Whitaker
Day One
Gen. Leslie Groves
American Experience
Aaron Burr (voice)
Miles from Home
Frank Roberts Sr.
Cocoon: The Return
Walter (uncredited)
The Man From Snowy River II
Harrison
A Father's Revenge
Paul Hobart
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(voice)
Best Seller
Dennis Meechum
The Belly of an Architect
Stourley Kracklite
The Lion of Africa
Sam Marsh
The Little Mermaid
King Neptune (Narrator) (voice)
Legal Eagles
Cavanaugh
The Check is in the Mail...
Richard Jackson
Acceptable Risks
Don Sheppard
F/X
Lt. Leo McCarthy
Annie Oakley
Buffalo Bill
Twice in a Lifetime
Nick
Tall Tales & Legends
Buffalo Bill
Silverado
Cobb
Cocoon
Walter
Evergreen
Matthew Malone
The Last Place on Earth
Frederick Cook
Screen Two
James Boyce
The River Rat
Doc Cole
Hunter
Dr. Bolin
Miami Vice
Reverend Billy Bob Proverb
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Sergeant Cheever
Finders Keepers
Frizzoli
Gorky Park
William Kirwill
Never Cry Wolf
Rosie
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
Blood Feud
Edward Grady Partin
Blood Feud
Edward Grady Partin
I Take These Men
Phil Zakarian
First Blood
Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Split Image
Kevin Stetson
Star of the Family
Leslie 'Buddy' Krebs
Faerie Tale Theatre
King Neptune / Narrator (voice)
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
Grimmet
Cagney & Lacey
Michael Magruder
Darkroom
Roland
Skokie
Police Chief Arthur Buchanan
Fly Away Home
Tim Arnold
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Grimmet
Dynasty
Jake Dunham
The Jericho Mile
Dr. D
A Rumor of War
Sgt. Ned Coleman
The Seduction of Miss Leona
Bliss Dawson
Little Miss Marker
Herbie
Knots Landing
James Cargill
10
Donald
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
Arnie Sutter
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
O.C. Hanks
Dummy
Ragoti
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
John O'Neil
A Real American Hero
Buford Pusser
Pearl
Sgt. Otto Chain
Foul Play
Fergie
F.I.S.T.
Frank Vasko
Dallas
Luther Frick
A Death in Canaan
Barney Parsons
Ruby and Oswald
George Paulsen
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
Fire Chief
Semi-Tough
T.J. Lambert
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Surgeon
Lou Grant
Wilson
Lucan
Fisher
The Fitzpatricks
Coach Hatfield
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Longshoreman
The Tony Randall Show
Brian Sr.
Serpico
Jody
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
Police Woman
Burrows
Playhouse
Grimmet
Kojak
Peter Connor
M*A*S*H
M.P. Ernie Connors
Great Performances
Grimmet
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee