Brian Dennehy

Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. Dennehy won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included First Blood (1982), 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).

Brian Dennehy
Dennehy in 2009
Born	Brian Manion Dennehy (1938-07-09)July 9, 1938 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	April 15, 2020(2020-04-15) (aged 81) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1965–2020
Spouse(s)	Judith Scheff ( m. 1959⁠–⁠1974) Jennifer Arnott ( m. 1988)
Children	5; including Elizabeth Dennehy

According to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill’s works on stage and screen. He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated.[1] He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett.[2] He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the play's authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps."[3] Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.

Early life

Brian Manion Dennehy[4] was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Hannah (Manion) and Edward Dennehy, a wire service editor for the Associated Press.[5] He had two brothers, Michael and Edward.[6][7] He was of Irish ancestry and was raised Catholic.[8][9] The family relocated to Long Island, New York, where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the village of Mineola.[10]

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, driving a taxi and bartending. He hated his brief stint as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in their Manhattan office in the mid 1970s.[11] 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."[12][lower-alpha 1] In the 1970s, stage performances in New York led to television and film work.[16]

Career

Film

Dennehy was primarily known as a dramatic actor. His breakthrough role was as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982) opposite Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo.[17]

His earlier films included several comedies, like 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). He later portrayed a corrupt sheriff in the western Silverado and an alien in Cocoon, both released in 1985.

Dennehy had memorable supporting parts in such films as Split Image (1982), Legal Eagles (1986), F/X: Murder By Illusion (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991) and Prophet of Evil (1993).

Dennehy gradually became a valuable character actor but also achieved leading-man status in the thriller Best Seller (1987) co-starring James Woods. He also starred in the Peter Greenaway film The Belly of an Architect, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 1987 Chicago International Film Festival. Commenting upon this unusual venture, Dennehy said, "I've been in a lot of movies but this is the first film I've made."

He went on to star as Harrison in the Australian film The Man from Snowy River II in 1988.

One of his most well-known roles came in the 1995 Chris Farley-David Spade comedy Tommy Boy as Big Tom Callahan. He also was reunited with his 10 co-star Bo Derek in Tommy Boy, in which she played his wife.

Dennehy had a voice role in the animated movie Ratatouille as Django, father of the rat chef Remy. He appeared as the superior officer of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the 2008 cop drama Righteous Kill and as the father of Russell Crowe in the 2010 suspense film The Next Three Days.

Dennehy starred as Clarence Darrow in Alleged, a film based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, the famous court battle over the teaching of evolution in American public schools.[18]

Television

Dennehy's early professional acting career included small guest roles in such 1970s and 1980s series as Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas, Dynasty, and Hunter. He also appeared in an episode of Miami Vice during the 1987–88 season.

Dennehy in 2003

Dennehy portrayed Sergeant Ned T. "Frozen Chosen" Coleman in the television movie A Rumor of War (1980) opposite Brad Davis. 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. He also played the title role in HBO's Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story.

Dennehy had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star of the Family. Despite his star power, that show was cancelled after a half-season. He starred in the crime drama Jack Reed TV movies.

Dennehy was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television movies. In 1992, he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for his performance as John Wayne Gacy in To Catch a Killer, and he was nominated that same year in a different category, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for The Burden of Proof. Dennehy's other Emmy nominations were for his work in A Killing in a Small Town, Murder in the Heartland (1993) and his work in the Showtime cable TV movie Our Fathers (2005), which was about the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. In 2000, Dennehy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for a television presentation for his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway. While not gaining the actor an Emmy win, the performance did, however, win him a Golden Globe Award. He also appeared as a recurring character in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!.

A cartoon version of Dennehy appeared in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as well as in an episode of The Simpsons.

In January 2007, he starred in the episode "Scheherazade" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a retired criminal who wants to reconnect with his daughter and admit his crimes before dying of a terminal disease thus eventually clearing a wrongfully imprisoned inmate. In April 2008, Dennehy guest-starred as a Teamster boss in "Sandwich Day", an episode of the TV series 30 Rock. He guest-starred in a 2009 episode of Rules of Engagement as the father of the main character, Jeff.[19] Dennehy starred as Elizabeth Keen's grandfather on the NBC series The Blacklist.

Dennehy also narrated many television programs [20] including the Canadian-Irish docudrama Death or Canada.[21][22]

At the time of his death, Dennehy was set to star in the Amazon Studios series Cocked which would co-star Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, Diora Baird, and Sam Trammell.

Theater

Dennehy won two Tony Awards, both times for Best Lead Actor in a Play. His first win was for Death of a Salesman (for which he also won a Laurence Olivier Award for the production's London run), in 1999, and the second was for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003. Both productions were directed by Robert Falls and were originally produced at the Goodman Theatre company in Chicago, Illinois. His acting in the "Salesman" was called "the performance of Dennehy's career."

On stage, Dennehy frequently performed in the Chicago theater world, and made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's Translations. In 1999, he was the first male performer to be voted the Sarah Siddons Award for his work in Chicago theater. He made a return to Broadway in 2007 as Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind opposite Christopher Plummer, then returned again opposite Carla Gugino in a 2009 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.

In fall 1992, he played the lead role of Hickey in Robert Falls's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.[23]

In 2008, Dennehy appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, appearing in All's Well That Ends Well as the King of France,[3] and a double bill of plays, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, where Dennehy reprised the role of Erie Smith.[24] In 2010, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[25] In December 2010, he returned to Ireland to play Bull McCabe in the Olympia Theatre of Dublin's stage version of John B. Keane's The Field.[23][26][27]

In 2011, Dennehy returned to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the role of Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He also played Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, the first Pinter work to be produced there.[28]

In April through June 2012, he played the role of Larry Slade in the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago,[29] which he reprised in 2015 when the production, with most of the Goodman Theater production cast, was revived at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, New York, New York.[30]

Personal life and death

Dennehy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps from 1958 to 1963, including a brief stint on Okinawa. In a 1989 interview, he described being hurt in combat and in 1993, he told an interviewer he had served in Vietnam. In 1999, he apologized for misrepresenting his military record.[31]

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.[11] Two of them became actresses, including Elizabeth Dennehy.[32] After his first marriage ended in divorce in 1987, he married Jennifer Arnott, an Australian, in 1988, and they had two children, a boy and a girl.[4]

Dennehy died on April 15, 2020, of cardiac arrest due to sepsis[2][4][33] in New Haven, Connecticut.[34] He is survived by Arnott and his five children.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Surgeon
1977	Semi-Tough	T.J. Lambert
1978	F.I.S.T.	Frank Vasco
1978	Foul Play	Fergie
1979	Butch and Sundance: The Early Days	O.C. Hanks
1979	10	Don the Bartender
1980	Little Miss Marker	Herbie
1982	Split Image	Kevin Stetson
1982	First Blood	Sheriff William "Will" Teasle
1983	Never Cry Wolf	Rosie Little
1983	Gorky Park	William Kirwill
1984	Finders Keepers	Mayor Frizzoli
1984	The River Rat	Doc Cole
1985	Cocoon	Walter
1985	Silverado	Sheriff Cobb
1985	Twice in a Lifetime	Nick
1986	F/X	Lt. Leo McCarthy
1986	The Check Is in the Mail	Richard Jackson
1986	Legal Eagles	C.J. Cavanaugh
1987	The Belly of an Architect	Stourley Kracklite
1987	Best Seller	Lt. Dennis Meechum
1988	The Man from Snowy River II	Harrison
1988	Miles from Home	Frank Roberts, Sr.
1988	Cocoon: The Return	Walter	Uncredited role
1989	Indio	Whytaker
1989	Seven Minutes	Wagner
1990	Blue Heat	Frank Daly	aka The Last of the Finest
1990	Presumed Innocent	Raymond Horgan
1991	In Broad Daylight	Ken McElroy
1991	F/X2	Leo McCarthy
1992	Gladiator	Jimmy Horn
1994	Jackaboy Blue	Guggles McMillian
1995	Tommy Boy	Big Tom Callahan II
1995	The Stars Fell on Henrietta	Big Dave McDermot
1996	Romeo + Juliet	Ted Montague
1999	Out of the Cold	David Bards
1999	Silicon Towers	Tom Warner
2000	Dish Dogs	Frost
2001	Summer Catch	John Schiffner
2002	Stolen Summer	Father Kelly
2002	Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero	Narrator
2002	Drawing First Blood	Himself	Short
2004	She Hate Me	Chairman Billy Church
2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Jasper O'Shea
2005	Tommy Boy: Behind the Laughter	Himself	Short
2005	10th and Wolf	Agent Horvath
2006	Everyone's Hero	Babe Ruth	Voice
2006	The Ultimate Gift	Gus
2007	Ratatouille	Django	Voice
2007	Welcome to Paradise	Bobby Brown
2007	War Eagle, Arkansas	Pop
2008	Cat City	Harold Vogessor
2008	Righteous Kill	Lt. Hingus
2010	Every Day	Ernie
2010	Meet Monica Velour	Pop Pop
2010	The Next Three Days	George Brennan
2010	Alleged	Clarence Darrow
2011	The Big Year	Raymond Harris
2012	Twelfth Night	Sir Toby Belch
2015	Knight of Cups	Joseph
2018	The Seagull	Sorin
2018	Tag	Mr. Cilliano, Randy's Father	Uncredited
2018	The Song of Sway Lake	Hal Sway
2019	Driveways	Del
2019	Master Maggie[35]	Himself	Short
2019	3 Days with Dad	Bob Mills
2020	Son of the South	Grandfather	Post-production, Posthumous release
TBA	Long Day Journey		Post-production, Posthumous release; Final film role

Television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Bumpers	Ernie Stapp
1977	Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye	Longshoreman
1977	It Happened at Lakewood Manor	Fire Chief
1978	A Real American Hero	Buford Pusser
1978	Ruby and Oswald	George Paulsen
1978	A Death in Canaan	Barney Parsons
1979	Dummy	Ragoti
1979	The Jericho Mile	Dr. D
1979	Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story	Mr. O'Neil
1980	A Rumor of War	Sgt. Ned Coleman
1980	The Seduction of Miss Leona	Bliss Dawson
1981	Skokie	Chief Arthur Buchanan
1981	Fly Away Home	Tim Arnold
1983	I Take These Men	Phil Zakarian
1983	Blood Feud	Edward Grady Partin
1984	Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks)	Sgt. Cheever
1986	Acceptable Risks	Don Sheppard
1987	The Lion of Africa	Sam Marsh
1988	A Father's Revenge	Paul Hobart
1989	Day One	General Leslie Groves
1989	Perfect Witness	James Falcon
1990	A Killing in a Small Town	Ed Reivers
1990	Rising Son	Gus Robinson
1989	Pride and Extreme Prejudice	Bruno Morenz
1991	In Broad Daylight	Len Rowan
1992	The Diamond Fleece	Lt. Merritt Outlaw
1992	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story	Jackie Presser
1992	To Catch a Killer	John Wayne Gacy
1992	The Burden of Proof	Dixon Hartnell
1992	Deadly Matrimony	Sgt. Jack Reed
1993	Foreign Affairs	Chuck Mumpson
1993	Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story	Ervil LeBaron	Film [Hearst Entertainment INC]
1993	Final Appeal	Perry Sundquist
1993	Jack Reed: Badge of Honor	Jack Reed
1993	Murder in the Heartland	John McCarthur
1994	Leave of Absence	Sam
1994	Midnight Movie	James Boyce
1994	Jack Reed: A Search for Justice	Jack Reed
1995	Jack Reed: One of Our Own	Jack Reed
1995	Shadow of a Doubt	Charlie Sloan
1996	Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us	Jack Reed
1996	Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance	Jack Reed
1996	A Season in Purgatory	Gerald Bradley
1996	Undue Influence	Paul Madriani
1997	Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan	Eddie Brannigan
1998	Voyage of Terror	U.S. President
1998	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Senator Riegle
1999	Netforce	Lowell Davidson
1999	Sirens	Lt. Denby
1999	Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke	Louis Bromfield
2000	Fail Safe	Gen. Bogan
2000	Death of a Salesman	Willy Loman
2001	Warden of Red Rock	Sheriff Church
2001	Three Blind Mice	Matthew Hope
2002	A Season on the Brink	Bobby Knight
2003	The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron	Mr. Blue
2003	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Tom Stone
2004	Category 6: Day of Destruction	Andy Goodman
2005	Our Fathers	Father Dominic Spagnolia
2005	The Exonerated	Gary Gauger
2007	Marco Polo	Kublai Khan
2013	The Challenger	Chairman William Rogers
2015	The Ultimate Legacy	Gus Caldwell	hallmark movie
2017	A Very Merry Toy Store	Joe Haggarty

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Kojak	Peter Connor	Episode: "The Godson"
1977	Serpico	Jody	Episode: "Sanctuary"
1977	Lanigan's Rabbi	Burton Tree	Episode: "Corpse of the Year"
1977	Police Woman	Burrows	Episode: "Shadow of Doubt"
1977	Lou Grant	Wilson	Episode: "Nazi"
1977	M*A*S*H	M.P. Sergeant Ernie Connors	Episode: "Souvenirs"
1977	Lucan	Fisher	Episode: "Listen to the Heart Beat"
1977	The Fitzpatricks	Coach Hatfield	Episode: "Superman"
1978	Pearl	Sgt. Otto Chain	3 episodes
1978	Dallas	Luther Frick	Episode: "Winds of Vengeance"
1978	The Tony Randall Show	Brian Sr.	Episode: "Bobby and Brian"
1979	Big Shamus, Little Shamus	Arnie Sutter	2 episodes
1979	Knots Landing	James Cargill	Episode: "Chance of a Lifetime"
1981	Dynasty	D.A. Jake Dunham	5 episodes
1981	Darkroom	Roland	Episode: "Make-Up"
1982	Star of the Family	Leslie Krebs	10 episodes
1984	Cagney & Lacey	Michael MacGruder	Episode: "The Bounty Hunter"
1984	Hunter	Dr. Bolin	Episode: "Hunter"
1985	Evergreen	Matthew Malone	3 episodes
1985	The Last Place on Earth	Frederick Cook	2 episodes
1985	Tall Tales & Legends	Buffalo Bill	Episode: "Annie Oakley"
1987	Miami Vice	Reverend Billy Bob Proverb	Episode: "Amen...Send Money"
1987	Faerie Tale Theatre	King Neptune (Narrator)	Voice, Episode: "The Little Mermaid"
1994	Birdland	Dr. Brian McKenzie	4 episodes
1996	Dead Man's Walk	Major Chvallie	2 episodes
1996	Nostromo	Joshua C. Holyrod	4 episodes
1998–2003	Just Shoot Me	Red Finch	4 episodes
2001	The Fighting Fitzgeralds	Fitzgerald	10 episodes
2005	The West Wing	Senator Rafe Framhagen	Episode: "Ninety Miles Away"
2006	The 4400	Mitch Baldwin	Episode: "Blink"
2007	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit	Judson Tierney	Episode: "Scheherezade"
2007	Masters of Science Fiction	Bedzyk	Episode: "The Discarded"
2008	30 Rock	Mickey J	Episode: "Sandwich Day"
2009	Rules of Engagement	Roy	Episode: "Dad's Visit"
2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Detective Kenny Leahy	Episode: "Boston Strangler Redux"
2012	The Good Wife	Bucky Stabler	2 episodes
2013	The Big C	Mr. Tolkey	Episode: "The Finale"
2015	Public Morals	Joe Patton	8 episodes
2016–2020	The Blacklist	Dominic Wilkinson	9 episodes
2017	Hap and Leonard	Sheriff Valentine Otis	6 episodes
2020	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	Jerome Townsend	Episode: "Sing, Sing, Sing" (dedicated to Dennehy's memory)

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2007	Ratatouille	Django
2012	Kinect Fun Labs: Kinect Rush - A Disney Pixar Adventures: Snapshot	Django

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1990	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	A Killing in a Small Town	Nominated
1992	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	The Burden of Proof	Nominated
1992	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	To Catch a Killer	Nominated
1993	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Murder in the Heartland	Nominated
1994	CableACE Awards	Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Foreign Affairs	Won
1997	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	A Season of Purgatory	Nominated
1999	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Death of a Salesman	Won
1999	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Nominated
1999	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play	Death of a Salesman	Won
2000	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Death of a Salesman	Nominated
2001	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	Death of a Salesman	Won
2001	Producers Guild Awards	Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television	Death of a Salesman	Won
2001	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	Death of a Salesman	Won
2003	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Nominated
2003	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Won
2005	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Our Fathers	Nominated
2005	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Our Fathers	Nominated

Notes

1. Some sources say Dennehy attended or earned a degree at the Yale School of Drama.[1][13] Nothing similar appears in Dennehy's New York Times obituary,[4] and Yale publications that routinely identify graduates do not identify Dennehy that way.[14][15] Nor is Yale mentioned in the interview published in Columbia College Today that discusses his early years at length.[11] Dennehy once described the decade following his graduation from Columbia without mentioning Yale: "From 1965 to 1974 I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend."[9]

References

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External links

• Brian Dennehy on IMDb
• Brian Dennehy at the Internet Broadway Database
• Brian Dennehy at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Photograph of Dennehy as "Doctor D." in Michael Mann's The Jericho Mile (1979)
• Star File: Brian Dennehy
• Brian Dennehy discography at Discogs