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.
206 acting credits · 7 directing credits
Acting · 206
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Blacklist
2013
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Good Wife
2009
Saturday Night Live
1975
The West Wing
1999
Dallas
1978
Golden Globe Awards
1944
30 Rock
2006
Miami Vice
1984
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
M*A*S*H
1972
Knots Landing
1979
Dynasty
1981
American Experience
1988
Great Performances
1971
Hunter
1984
Tony Awards
1956
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Police Woman
1974
The 4400
2004
Playhouse
1974
Rules of Engagement
2007
Just Shoot Me!
1997
Ratatouille
2007
Kojak
1973
Lou Grant
1977
Screen Two
1985
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
First Blood
1982
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Agency
2001
The Big C
2010
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Romeo + Juliet
1996
The Ultimate Gift
2007
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
Night Visions
2001
The Tony Randall Show
1976
The Next Three Days
2010
Hap and Leonard
2016
Tag
2018
Darkroom
1981
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
Gladiator
1992
Lucan
1977
Cocoon
1985
10
1979
Silverado
1985
Arrest & Trial
2000
Presumed Innocent
1990
Dead Man's Walk
1996
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
The Fitzpatricks
1977
Tommy Boy
1995
Righteous Kill
2008
Pearl
1978
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
1979
F/X
1986
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
The Last Place on Earth
1985
A Rumor of War
1980
Evergreen
1985
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Summer Catch
2001
The Big Year
2011
Cocoon: The Return
1988
Knight of Cups
2015
Founding Fathers
2000
Everyone's Hero
2006
F.I.S.T.
1978
Cocked
2015
Foul Play
1978
Legal Eagles
1986
10th & Wolf
2006
Gorky Park
1983
Birdland
1994
Public Morals
2015
She Hate Me
2004
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
2001
The Burden of Proof
1992
F/X2
1991
The Belly of an Architect
1987
Nostromo
1997
Netforce
1999
Lanigan's Rabbi
1977
A Season in Purgatory
1996
Marco Polo
2007
Murder in the Heartland
1993
Best Seller
1987
Serpico
1976
Fail Safe
2000
To Catch a Killer
1992
Marco Polo
2007
Undue Influence
1996
Driveways
2020
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004
Son of the South
2021
Semi-Tough
1977
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
Trumbo
2007
Blood Feud
1983
Animated Tales of the World
2001
The Seagull
2018
A Season in Purgatory
1996
Never Cry Wolf
1983
Meet Monica Velour
2010
Finders Keepers
1984
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
1977
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
Deadly Matrimony
1992
The River Rat
1984
The Man From Snowy River II
1988
Every Day
2010
Stolen Summer
2002
3 Days with Dad
2019
The Ultimate Legacy
2015
Miles from Home
1988
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
Dish Dogs
2000
Our Fathers
2005
Welcome to Paradise
2007
Skokie
1981
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron
2003
Alleged
2010
Rising Son
1990
A Very Merry Toy Store
2017
Split Image
1982
NetForce
1999
Founding Brothers
2002
Voyage of Terror
1998
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994
The Challenger Disaster
2013
The Last of the Finest
1990
To Catch a Killer
1992
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
1996
Day One
1989
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1998
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
Three Blind Mice
2001
Cat City
2008
Little Miss Marker
1980
Sirens
1999
Jack Reed: One of Our Own
1995
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Fly Away Home
1981
Perfect Witness
1989
A Season on the Brink
2002
Acceptable Risks
1986
The Lion of Africa
1987
Shadow of a Doubt
1996
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
The Jericho Mile
1980
Annie Oakley
1985
Dummy
1979
Indio
1989
A Father's Revenge
1988
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
Final Appeal
1993
The Little Mermaid
1987
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004
Star of the Family
1982
In Broad Daylight
1991
The Song of Sway Lake
2019
Death of a Salesman
2000
I Take These Men
1983
A Death in Canaan
1978
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us
1996
War Eagle, Arkansas
2007
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
1990
The Diamond Fleece
1992
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979
Leave of Absence
1994
The Exonerated
2006
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
1984
Warden of Red Rock
2001
Foreign Affairs
1993
A Real American Hero
1978
Ruby and Oswald
1978
Out of the Cold
1999
The Check is in the Mail...
1986
Seven Minutes
1989
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Three's Company'
2003
Twelfth Night
2012
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
1997
The Seduction of Miss Leona
1980
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
1977
Blood Feud
1983
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
1981
Silicon Towers
1999
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
1982
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
1993
Midnight Movie
1994
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer
2010
Bunker Hill
2009
Making 'The Misfits'
2002
Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale
2009
Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero
2002
American Valor
2003
Love and Valor
2009
Zebras: Patterns in the Grass
1991