Brian Dennehy
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.
Movies
Son of the South
Grandfather
Driveways
Del
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
The Ultimate Legacy
Gus
Knight of Cups
Joseph
The Challenger Disaster
Rogers
Twelfth Night
Sir Toby Belch
The Big Year
Raymond Harris
The Next Three Days
George Brennan
Alleged
Clarence Darrow
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer
Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother
Meet Monica Velour
Pop Pop
Every Day
Ernie
Bunker Hill
Martin 'Mutt' Kelsey
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
Ratatouille
Django (voice)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Andrew Jackson (voice)
Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
The Ultimate Gift
Gus
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
She Hate Me
Billy Church
American Valor
Narrator
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company'
Fred Silverman
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Tom Stone
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron
Mr. Blue
Making 'The Misfits'
Narrator
Stolen Summer
Father Kelly
A Season on the Brink
Bobby Knight
Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero
Narrator
Three Blind Mice
Matthew Hope
Summer Catch
John Schiffner
Warden of Red Rock
Sheriff Selwyn Church
Dish Dogs
Frost
Fail Safe
Gen. Bogan
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman
Silicon Towers
Tom Warner
Sirens
Lt. Denby
Out of the Cold
David Bards
NetForce
Lowell Davidson
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Sen. Donald Riegle
Voyage of Terror
The President
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
Eddie Brannigan
Shadow of a Doubt
Charley Sloan
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Jack Reed
Romeo + Juliet
Ted Montague
Undue Influence
Paul Madriani
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
Final Appeal
Perry Sundquist
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Sgt. Jack Reed
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
Ervil LeBaron
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
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
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
Silverado
Cobb
Cocoon
Walter
The River Rat
Doc Cole
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Sergeant Cheever
Finders Keepers
Frizzoli
Gorky Park
William Kirwill
Never Cry Wolf
Rosie
Blood Feud
Edward Grady Partin
I Take These Men
Phil Zakarian
First Blood
Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Split Image
Kevin Stetson
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
Grimmet
Skokie
Police Chief Arthur Buchanan
Fly Away Home
Tim Arnold
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Grimmet
The Jericho Mile
Dr. D
The Seduction of Miss Leona
Bliss Dawson
Little Miss Marker
Herbie
10
Donald
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
Foul Play
Fergie
F.I.S.T.
Frank Vasko
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
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Longshoreman
TV Series
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Jerome Townsend
1 Episode
Hap and Leonard
Sheriff Valentine Otis
2 Episodes
Public Morals
Joe Patton
7 Episodes
Cocked
Wade
1 Episode
The Blacklist
Dominic Wilkinson
9 Episodes
The Big C
Dad
1 Episode
Rizzoli & Isles
Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy
1 Episode
The Good Wife
Bucky Stabler
2 Episodes
Masters of Science Fiction
Bedzyk
1 Episode
Marco Polo (2007)
Kublai Khan
2 Episodes
Rules of Engagement
Roy
1 Episode
30 Rock
Mickey J
1 Episode
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Andy Goodman
2 Episodes
The 4400
Mitch Baldwin
1 Episode
Founding Brothers
2 Episodes
The Agency
James Graydon
1 Episode
Night Visions
Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please")
1 Episode
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Mr. Fitzgerald
10 Episodes
Animated Tales of the World
Captain (voice)
1 Episode
Founding Fathers
George Washington (voice)
4 Episodes
The West Wing
Rafe Framingham
1 Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Judson Tierney
1 Episode
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Louis Bromfield
4 Episodes
Netforce
Lowell Davidson
2 Episodes
Just Shoot Me!
Red Finch
4 Episodes
Nostromo
Joshua C. Holroyd
3 Episodes
Steve Martini's Undue Influence
2 Episodes
E! True Hollywood Story
2 Episodes
Dead Man's Walk
Major Chevallier
1 Episode
A Season in Purgatory
Gerald Bradley
2 Episodes
Birdland
Dr. Brian McKenzie
7 Episodes
Murder in the Heartland
John McArthur
2 Episodes
The Burden of Proof
Dixon Hartnell
2 Episodes
To Catch a Killer
John Wayne Gacy
2 Episodes
American Experience
Aaron Burr (voice)
1 Episode
Tall Tales & Legends
Buffalo Bill
1 Episode
Evergreen
Matthew Malone
3 Episodes
The Last Place on Earth
Frederick Cook
2 Episodes
Screen Two
James Boyce
1 Episode
Hunter
Dr. Bolin
1 Episode
Miami Vice
Reverend Billy Bob Proverb
1 Episode
Blood Feud
Edward Grady Partin
2 Episodes
Star of the Family
Leslie 'Buddy' Krebs
10 Episodes
Faerie Tale Theatre
King Neptune / Narrator (voice)
1 Episode
Cagney & Lacey
Michael Magruder
1 Episode
Darkroom
Roland
1 Episode
Dynasty
Jake Dunham
5 Episodes
A Rumor of War
Sgt. Ned Coleman
2 Episodes
Knots Landing
James Cargill
1 Episode
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
Arnie Sutter
10 Episodes
Pearl
Sgt. Otto Chain
3 Episodes
Dallas
Luther Frick
1 Episode
Lou Grant
Wilson
1 Episode
Lucan
Fisher
1 Episode
The Fitzpatricks
Coach Hatfield
1 Episode
Lanigan's Rabbi
Burton Tree
1 Episode
The Tony Randall Show
Brian Sr.
1 Episode
Serpico
Jody
1 Episode
Police Woman
Burrows
1 Episode
Playhouse
Grimmet
1 Episode
Kojak
Peter Connor
1 Episode
M*A*S*H
M.P. Ernie Connors
1 Episode
Great Performances
Grimmet
1 Episode