Acting credits
203
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Brian Dennehy
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.3
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Movies: 135Series: 68Crew credits: 12
TMDB ID: 6197
IMDb ID: nm0001133
Known for: Acting
Born: July 9, 1938
Died: April 15, 2020
Age: 81
Place of birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2021
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q313545
Also known as
Brian Mannion Dennehy • 布萊思·丹尼希
Other jobs
Director (5)Co-Executive Producer (3)Executive Producer (3)In Memory Of (1)
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 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Brian Dennehy.
as Grandfather
Son of the South
2021 • Movie
as Del
Driveways
2020 • Movie
as Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 • Movie
as Bob
3 Days with Dad
2019 • Movie
as Hal Sway
The Song of Sway Lake
2019 • Movie
as Mr. Cilliano
Tag
2018 • Movie
as Pjotr Sorin
The Seagull
2018 • Movie
as Joe Haggarty
A Very Merry Toy Store
2017 • Movie
as Gus
The Ultimate Legacy
2015 • Movie
as Joseph
Knight of Cups
2015 • Movie
as Rogers
The Challenger Disaster
2013 • Movie
as Sir Toby Belch
Twelfth Night
2012 • Movie
as Raymond Harris
The Big Year
2011 • Movie
as George Brennan
The Next Three Days
2010 • Movie
as Clarence Darrow
Alleged
2010 • Movie
as Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer
2010 • Movie
as Pop Pop
Meet Monica Velour
2010 • Movie
as Ernie
Every Day
2010 • Movie
as Narrator
Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale
2009 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Love and Valor
2009 • Movie
as Hingis
Righteous Kill
2008 • Movie
as Harold
Cat City
2008 • Movie
as Pop, Enochs Father
War Eagle, Arkansas
2007 • Movie
as Bobby Brown
Welcome to Paradise
2007 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Brian Dennehy.
as Jerome Townsend • 1 eps
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020 • Series
as Sheriff Valentine Otis • 2 eps
Hap and Leonard
2016 • Series
as Joe Patton • 7 eps
Public Morals
2015 • Series
as Wade • 1 eps
Cocked
2015 • Series
as Dominic Wilkinson • 9 eps
The Blacklist
2013 • Series
as Dad • 1 eps
The Big C
2010 • Series
as Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy • 1 eps
Rizzoli & Isles
2010 • Series
as Bucky Stabler • 2 eps
The Good Wife
2009 • Series
as Bedzyk • 1 eps
Masters of Science Fiction
2007 • Series
as Kublai Khan • 2 eps
Marco Polo
2007 • Series
as Roy • 1 eps
Rules of Engagement
2007 • Series
as Mickey J • 1 eps
30 Rock
2006 • Series
as Andy Goodman • 2 eps
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004 • Series
as Mitch Baldwin • 1 eps
The 4400
2004 • Series
2 eps
Founding Brothers
2002 • Series
as James Graydon • 1 eps
The Agency
2001 • Series
as Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please") • 1 eps
Night Visions
2001 • Series
as Mr. Fitzgerald • 10 eps
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
2001 • Series
as Captain (voice) • 1 eps
Animated Tales of the World
2001 • Series
as George Washington (voice) • 4 eps
Founding Fathers
2000 • Series
as Rafe Framingham • 1 eps
The West Wing
1999 • Series
as Judson Tierney • 1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 • Series
as Louis Bromfield • 4 eps
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 • Series
as Lowell Davidson • 2 eps
Netforce
1999 • Series