Brian Dennehy
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Brian Manion Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is an American actor of film, stage, and television.
A winner of one Golden Globe, two Tony Awards and a recipient of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, he gained initial recognition for his role as Sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982).
He has had roles in numerous films including Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Knight of Cups (2015).
Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000).
Early life
Brian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Hannah (Manion), a nurse, and Edward Dennehy, a wire service editor for the Associated Press. He had two brothers, Michael and Edward. He was of Irish ancestry and was raised Catholic. The family relocated to Long Island, New York, where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the village of Mineola.
He entered Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship in the fall of 1956. He interrupted his college education to spend five years in the U.S. Marines. He was stationed in the U.S., Japan, and Korea. He returned to Columbia in 1960 and graduated in 1965 with a B.A. in history. While acting in regional theater he supported his family by working blue-collar jobs including driving a taxi and bartending. He hated his brief stint as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in their Manhattan office in the mid-1970s. He later described how working odd hours allowed him to attend matinee theater performances that provided his acting education: "I never went to acting school—I was a truck driver and I used to go see everything I could see—Wednesday afternoons". In the 1970s, stage performances in New York led to television and film work.
Personal life
Dennehy married for the first time while in the Marines in the early 1960s. Before he finished college he and his first wife had three daughters. Two of them became actresses, including Elizabeth Dennehy. After his first marriage ended in divorce in 1987, he married Jennifer Arnott, an Australian, in 1988, they had two children, a boy and a girl.
Career
Dennehy was best known as a dramatic actor. In First Blood (1982), opposite Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, Will Teasle was his breakthrough role.
Several comedies, including Semi-Tough with Burt Reynolds (in which he portrayed a pro football player), Foul Play with Chevy Chase, and 10 with Dudley Moore (as a Manzanillo bartender), were among his early films. In the western Silverado and an alien in Cocoon, he later depicted a corrupt sheriff.
Dennehy appeared in films including Split Image (1982), Legal Eagles (1986), and Cocoon: The Return (1988), F/X: The Death of Illusion (1990), and Prophet of Evil (1993).
Dennehy's growth as a good character actor, but he also landed leading-man status in James Woods' thriller Best Seller (1987) co-starring Dennehy. He also appeared in the Peter Greenaway film The Belly of an Architect, for which he received the Best Actor Award at the 1985 Chicago International Film Festival. "I've been in a lot of movies, but this is the first film I've made," Dennehy said of this strange venture.
In 1988, Harrison appeared in the Australian film The Man From Snowy River II.
Big Tom Callahan appeared in the 1995 Chris Farley-David Spade comedy Tommy Boy as one of his most well-known roles. In Tommy Boy, he was also reunited with his ten co-star Bo Derek, in which she played his wife.
Dennehy appeared on Django, the father of the rat chef Remy, in the animated film Ratatouille. In the 2010 suspense film The Next Three Days, he appeared as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's chief officer and as the father of Russell Crowe.
In Alleged, a film based on the Scope Monkey Trial, Dennehy appeared as Clarence Darrow, the controversial court contest over evolution teaching in American public schools.
Dennehy's early career in small guest roles in Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas, Dynasty, and Hunter included small guest appearances. He also appeared in an episode of Miami Vice from 1987-88.
In the television film A Rumor of War (1980) opposite Brad Davis, Dennehy played Sergeant Ned T. "Frozen Chosen" Coleman. He continued to appear in such high-profile television films as Skokie (1981), Split Image (1982), Day One (1989), and A Killing in a Small Town (1990) opposite Barbara Hershey. In addition, he appeared in HBO's Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story.
In the short-lived 1982 film Star of the Family, Dennehy played a leading role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs. Despite his fame, the show was cancelled after a half-season. He appeared in Jack Reed's crime drama.
Dennehy was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television shows. In 1992, he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for his role as John Wayne Gacy in To Catch a Killer, and the same year was nominated for Outstanding Support Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for The Burden of Proof. Dennehy's other Emmy awards were for his participation in A Killing in a Small Town, Murder (1993) and his role in the Showtime cable television film Our Fathers (2005), which was about the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Dennehy's performance in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which he had performed on Broadway, was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie in 2000. Although not wining the actor an Emmy Award, his appearance did earn him a Golden Globe Award. In addition, he appeared in NBC's sitcom Just Shoot Me!
Dennehy's cartoon version appeared in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, as well as in an episode of The Simpsons.
He appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in January 2007 as a former convict who wishes to reconnect with his family and confess to his crimes before dying of a terminal disease, resulting in the release of a wrongfully imprisoned prisoner. In "Sandwich Day," an episode of the television show 30 Rock's "Sandwich Day," Dennehy appeared as a Teamster boss. Jeff is the father of the main protagonist in a 2009 episode of Rules of Engagement as the father of the main character.
Dennehy appeared on NBC's The Blacklist for the third season before he died of sepsis. During the show's eighth season, Ron Raines replaces him.
Dennehy appeared in the Amazon Studios pilot Cocked with Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, Diora Baird, and Sam Trammell in 2015.
Dennehy also narrated several television shows, including Death or Canada, a Canadian-Irish docudrama.
Dennehy received two Tony Awards, both times for Best Lead Actor in a Play. Death of a Salesman was his first victory in 1999 (for which he also received a Laurence Olivier Award for the company's London run), and Eugene O'Neill's Long Days Journey into Night was his second victory. Both shows were directed by Robert Falls and originated at the Goodman Theatre company in Chicago, Illinois. "The performance of Dennehy's career" was praised for his role in "Salesman" by the actor.
Dennehy appeared on stage in Chicago and made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's Translations. He was the first male performer to be voted Miss Sarah Siddons Award in 1999 for his work in Chicago's theater. Matthew Harrison Brady appeared in Inherit the Wind opposite Christopher Plummer in 2005, then reprised against Carla Gugino in a 2009 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.
In fall 1992, he appeared in Robert Falls' production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
Dennehy appeared in All's Well That Ends Well as the King of France and Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, where Dennehy reprised the role of Erie Smith. In 2010, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In December 2010, he returned to Ireland to play Bull McCabe in Dublin's stage version of John B. Keane's The Field.
In 2011, Dennehy performed Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Max appeared in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, the first Pinter work to be produced in the United States.
Larry Slade's role in the Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he appeared in 2015 at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, was revived.