Brian Dennehy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-07-09 (82 years old)

Deathday

2020-04-15

Place of Birth

Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Brian Dennehy

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 include Gorky Park (1983), Never Cry Wolf (1983), Legal Eagles (1986), F/X (1986), Tommy Boy (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Ratatouille (2007). A pro...

Acting

1996

Romeo + Juliet

as Ted Montague

1982

First Blood

as Hope Sheriff Will Teasle

2007

Ratatouille

as Django (voice)

1985

Cocoon

as Walter

1987

Best Seller

as Dennis Meechum

1977

Semi-Tough

as T.J. Lambert

1984

Finders Keepers

as Frizzoli

1990

Presumed Innocent

as Raymond Horgan

1995

Tommy Boy

as Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan

2000

Fail Safe

as Gen. Bogan

1985

Silverado

as Cobb

1983

Gorky Park

as William Kirwill

2005

Assault on Precinct 13

as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea

1979

10

as Donald

1986

Legal Eagles

as Cavanaugh

2001

Summer Catch

as John Schiffner

2006

10th & Wolf

as Agent Horvath

1986

F/X

as Lt. Leo McCarthy

2008

1983

2007

Trumbo

as Self

2000

Dish Dogs

as Frost

2005

Our Fathers

as Father Dominic Spagnolia

2006

Everyone's Hero

as Babe Ruth (voice)

2010

The Next Three Days

as George Brennan

2007

War Eagle, Arkansas

as Pop, Enochs Father

1978

Foul Play

as Fergie

1989

Day One

as Gen. Leslie Groves

2010

Every Day

as Ernie

1992

Gladiator

as Jimmy Horn

1991

F/X2

as Leo McCarthy

2002

Stolen Summer

as Father Kelly

1980

1987

The Belly of an Architect

as Stourley Kracklite

1984

The River Rat

as Doc Cole

2001

Three Blind Mice

as Matthew Hope

1988

Miles from Home

as Frank Roberts Sr.

1992

To Catch a Killer

as John Wayne Gacy

1982

Split Image

as Kevin Stetson

1998

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

as Sen. Donald Riegle

1999

NetForce

as Lowell Davidson

2010

Alleged

as Clarence Darrow

2007

Welcome to Paradise

as Bobby Brown

2011

The Big Year

as Raymond Harris

2008

Cat City

as Harold

2010

1980

1986

The Check is in the Mail...

as Richard Jackson

2007

Marco Polo

as Kublai Khan

1990

1978

A Real American Hero

as Buford Pusser

1990

1981

Fly Away Home

as Tim Arnold

1999

Out of the Cold

as David Bards

2001

Warden of Red Rock

as Sheriff Selwyn Church

1991

In Broad Daylight

as Len Rowan

1988

A Father's Revenge

as Paul Hobart

1994

Midnight Movie

as James Boyce

1995

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

as Big Dave McDermot

1987

The Lion of Africa

as Sam Marsh

1978

Ruby and Oswald

as George Paulsen

1983

Blood Feud

as Edward Grady Partin

1993

Foreign Affairs

as Chuck Mumpson

1989

Perfect Witness

as James Falcon

2006

The Exonerated

as Gary Gauger

1979

Dummy

as Ragoti

1993

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

as Sgt. Jack Reed

1981

Skokie

as Police Chief Arthur Buchanan

1978

A Death in Canaan

as Barney Parsons

2000

Death of a Salesman

as Willy Loman

1989

Seven Minutes

as Wagner

1985

Annie Oakley

as Buffalo Bill

1999

Sirens

as Lt. Denby

2012

Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

1990

Rising Son

as Gus Robinson

1983

I Take These Men

as Phil Zakarian

1989

Indio

as Whitaker

2023

Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1991

1986

Acceptable Risks

as Don Sheppard

1992

Deadly Matrimony

as Jack Reed

1996

Shadow of a Doubt

as Charley Sloan

2024

Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2015

2018

The Seagull

as Pjotr Sorin

1992

The Diamond Fleece

as Inspector Outlaw

1990

1996

Undue Influence

as Paul Madriani

1993

Final Appeal

as Perry Sundquist

2017

A Very Merry Toy Store

as Joe Haggarty

1987

The Little Mermaid

as King Neptune (Narrator) (voice)

1984

The Pigs vs. The Freaks

as Sergeant Cheever

2019

2004

She Hate Me

as Billy Church

2020

Driveways

as Del

1996

A Season in Purgatory

as Gerald Bradley

2002

2019

2018

Tag

as Mr. Cilliano

1978

F.I.S.T.

as Frank Vasko

2002

A Season on the Brink

as Bobby Knight

1999

Silicon Towers

as Tom Warner

2021

Son of the South

as Grandfather

2007

1980

2009

Love and Valor

as Narrator (voice)

2003

American Valor

as Narrator

1998

Voyage of Terror

as The President

2010

Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer

as Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother

1988

Cocoon: The Return

as Walter (uncredited)

1977

2009

Bunker Hill

as Martin 'Mutt' Kelsey

Production

2001

Warden of Red Rock

as Executive Producer

1996

1993

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor

as Co-Executive Producer

2000

Death of a Salesman

as Executive Producer

2001

Three Blind Mice

as Executive Producer

1996

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