Brian Dennehy

ActorCrewProducerDirectorProduction Jul 9 (died age 81) Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA 1944–2021 (77 year career)

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Biography

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 incl…

Known For

Film

Ratatouille

Django (voice)

Film

First Blood

Hope Sheriff Will Teasle

Film

The Blacklist

In Memory Of

Film

Romeo + Juliet

Ted Montague

Film

The Next Three Days

George Brennan

Film

Tag

Mr. Cilliano

Film

Cocoon

Walter

Film

Tommy Boy

Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan

Filmography

Acting (206)

Movies (137)

Son of the South

as Grandfather

Driveways

as Del

The Song of Sway Lake

as Hal Sway

3 Days with Dad

as Bob

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

as Self

Tag

as Mr. Cilliano

The Seagull

as Pjotr Sorin

A Very Merry Toy Store

as Joe Haggarty

Knight of Cups

as Joseph

The Ultimate Legacy

as Gus

The Challenger Disaster

as Rogers

Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

The Big Year

as Raymond Harris

The Next Three Days

as George Brennan

Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer

2010

as Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother

Every Day

as Ernie

Meet Monica Velour

as Pop Pop

Alleged

as Clarence Darrow

Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale

2009

as Narrator

Love and Valor

2009

as Narrator (voice)

Bunker Hill

2009

as Martin 'Mutt' Kelsey

Righteous Kill

as Hingis

Cat City

as Harold

Ratatouille

as Django (voice)

The Ultimate Gift

as Gus

Welcome to Paradise

as Bobby Brown

Trumbo

as Self

Marco Polo

as Kublai Khan

War Eagle, Arkansas

as Pop, Enochs Father

8.0

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

2007

as Andrew Jackson (voice)

Everyone's Hero

as Babe Ruth (voice)

10th & Wolf

as Agent Horvath

The Exonerated

as Gary Gauger

Assault on Precinct 13

2005

as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea

6.2

Our Fathers

2005

as Father Dominic Spagnolia

6.4

She Hate Me

2004

as Billy Church

5.1

Category 6: Day of Destruction

2004

as Andy Goodman

6.3

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

2003

as Tom Stone

6.1

American Valor

2003

as Narrator

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

2003

as Mr. Blue

3.8

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company'

2003

as Fred Silverman

3.6

Making 'The Misfits'

2002

as Narrator

Stolen Summer

2002

as Father Kelly

6.2

Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero

2002

as Narrator

A Season on the Brink

as Bobby Knight

Three Blind Mice

as Matthew Hope

Summer Catch

as John Schiffner

Warden of Red Rock

as Sheriff Selwyn Church

Fail Safe

as Gen. Bogan

Death of a Salesman

as Willy Loman

Dish Dogs

as Frost

Out of the Cold

as David Bards

NetForce

as Lowell Davidson

Sirens

as Lt. Denby

Silicon Towers

as Tom Warner

Voyage of Terror

as The President

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

1998

as Sen. Donald Riegle

4.0

Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

as Eddie Brannigan

Romeo + Juliet

as Ted Montague

A Season in Purgatory

1996

as Gerald Bradley

6.0

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

as Jack Reed

Undue Influence

as Paul Madriani

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us

as Jack Reed

Shadow of a Doubt

as Charley Sloan

Tommy Boy

as Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan

6.8

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

1995

as Jack Reed

4.9

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

as Big Dave McDermot

Leave of Absence

as Sam

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

as Jack Reed

Midnight Movie

as James Boyce

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

1993

as Sgt. Jack Reed

5.3

Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story

as Ervil LeBaron

Foreign Affairs

as Chuck Mumpson

Final Appeal

as Perry Sundquist

The Diamond Fleece

as Inspector Outlaw

Gladiator

as Jimmy Horn

Deadly Matrimony

as Jack Reed

To Catch a Killer

as John Wayne Gacy

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

1992

as Jackie Presser

5.3

Zebras: Patterns in the Grass

as Narrator (voice)

F/X2

as Leo McCarthy

In Broad Daylight

as Len Rowan

Presumed Innocent

as Raymond Horgan

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

1990

as Bruno Morenz

6.0

The Last of the Finest

1990

as Frank Daly

5.9

A Killing in a Small Town

as Ed Reivers

Rising Son

as Gus Robinson

Indio

as Whitaker

Perfect Witness

as James Falcon

Seven Minutes

as Wagner

Day One

as Gen. Leslie Groves

Miles from Home

as Frank Roberts Sr.

Cocoon: The Return

as Walter (uncredited)

6.5

The Man From Snowy River II

as Harrison

A Father's Revenge

as Paul Hobart

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1987

as (voice)

7.1

The Little Mermaid

1987

as King Neptune (Narrator) (voice)

6.3

Best Seller

1987

as Dennis Meechum

5.9

The Belly of an Architect

1987

as Stourley Kracklite

The Lion of Africa

as Sam Marsh

Legal Eagles

as Cavanaugh

F/X

as Lt. Leo McCarthy

Acceptable Risks

as Don Sheppard

The Check is in the Mail...

as Richard Jackson

Silverado

as Cobb

Cocoon

as Walter

Annie Oakley

as Buffalo Bill

Twice in a Lifetime

1985

as Nick

5.7

The Pigs vs. The Freaks

as Sergeant Cheever

Finders Keepers

as Frizzoli

The River Rat

as Doc Cole

Gorky Park

as William Kirwill

Blood Feud

as Edward Grady Partin

Never Cry Wolf

as Rosie

I Take These Men

as Phil Zakarian

First Blood

as Hope Sheriff Will Teasle

7.5

Split Image

1982

as Kevin Stetson

5.9

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

1982

as Grimmet

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

1981

as Grimmet

Fly Away Home

1981

as Tim Arnold

4.7

Skokie

1981

as Police Chief Arthur Buchanan

The Jericho Mile

as Dr. D

Little Miss Marker

as Herbie

The Seduction of Miss Leona

as Bliss Dawson

as Donald

Dummy

as Ragoti

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

1979

as O.C. Hanks

5.0

Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

as John O'Neil

F.I.S.T.

as Frank Vasko

Foul Play

as Fergie

Ruby and Oswald

as George Paulsen

A Death in Canaan

as Barney Parsons

A Real American Hero

as Buford Pusser

Semi-Tough

as T.J. Lambert

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977

as Surgeon

6.4

It Happened at Lakewood Manor

1977

as Fire Chief

4.4

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

1977

as Longshoreman

2.0

Television (69)

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

2020

as Jerome Townsend

6.8

Hap and Leonard

2016

as Sheriff Valentine Otis

Public Morals

as Joe Patton

Cocked

as Wade

The Blacklist

as Dominic Wilkinson

Rizzoli & Isles

as Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy

The Big C

as Dad

The Good Wife

as Bucky Stabler

Rules of Engagement

as Roy

Masters of Science Fiction

as Bedzyk

Marco Polo

as Kublai Khan

30 Rock

as Mickey J

The 4400

as Mitch Baldwin

Category 6: Day of Destruction

as Andy Goodman

Founding Brothers

The Agency

as James Graydon

Night Visions

as Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please")

7.2

The Fighting Fitzgeralds

2001

as Mr. Fitzgerald

Animated Tales of the World

2001

as Captain (voice)

7.8

Arrest & Trial

2000

as Self - Host

Founding Fathers

2000

as George Washington (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Judson Tierney

The West Wing

as Rafe Framingham

Netforce

as Lowell Davidson

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

as Louis Bromfield

Just Shoot Me!

as Red Finch

Nostromo

as Joshua C. Holroyd

A Season in Purgatory

1996

as Gerald Bradley

E! True Hollywood Story

Dead Man's Walk

as Major Chevallier

Undue Influence

Birdland

as Dr. Brian McKenzie

4.0

Murder in the Heartland

as John McArthur

The Burden of Proof

as Dixon Hartnell

To Catch a Killer

as John Wayne Gacy

American Experience

as Aaron Burr (voice)

Screen Two

as James Boyce

Tall Tales & Legends

as Buffalo Bill

Evergreen

as Matthew Malone

The Last Place on Earth

1985

as Frederick Cook

6.8

Miami Vice

1984

as Reverend Billy Bob Proverb

Hunter

as Dr. Bolin

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.4

Blood Feud

1983

as Edward Grady Partin

Cagney & Lacey

1982

as Michael Magruder

7.0

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982

as King Neptune / Narrator (voice)

8.1

Star of the Family

1982

as Leslie 'Buddy' Krebs

Dynasty

as Jake Dunham

Darkroom

as Roland

A Rumor of War

as Sgt. Ned Coleman

Knots Landing

as James Cargill

Big Shamus, Little Shamus

as Arnie Sutter

Dallas

as Luther Frick

Pearl

as Sgt. Otto Chain

Lou Grant

as Wilson

Lucan

as Fisher

The Fitzpatricks

as Coach Hatfield

Lanigan's Rabbi

as Burton Tree

The Tony Randall Show

as Brian Sr.

Serpico

as Jody

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Police Woman

as Burrows

Playhouse

as Grimmet

Kojak

as Peter Connor

M*A*S*H

as M.P. Ernie Connors

7.9

Great Performances

1971

as Grimmet

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner

5.9

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Nominee

7.2

Crew (21)

Movies (19)

Three Blind Mice

Executive Producer

Warden of Red Rock

Executive Producer

Death of a Salesman

Executive Producer

Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

1997

Director

5.0

Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

1997

Executive Producer

5.0

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

1996

Co-Executive Producer

4.9

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

1996

Director

4.9

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

1996

Writer

4.9

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us

1996

Director

5.0

Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us

Writer

Shadow of a Doubt

Director

Shadow of a Doubt

Writer

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

1995

Co-Executive Producer

4.9

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

1995

Director

4.9

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

1995

Writer

4.9

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

1994

Co-Executive Producer

5.6

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

1994

Director

5.6

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

1994

Writer

5.6

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

1993

Co-Executive Producer

5.3

Television (2)

The Blacklist

In Memory Of

Night Visions

Director