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Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor, who has appeared in movies, on television, and performed in live theater. His daughters Elizabeth and Kathleen are also actresses.
Biography
Early Life
Dennehy was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Hannah and Edward Dennehy; he has two brothers, Michael and Edward, and is of Irish descent. The family relocated to Long Island, New York where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the town of Mineola. He went on to attend Columbia on a football scholarship, and majored in history, before moving on to Yale to study dramatic arts. Dennehy joined the United States Marine Corps in 1959 and served until 1963.
Film Career
Dennehy is primarily known as a dramatic actor. His breakthrough role was as the overzealous Sheriff Will Teasle in the First Blood (1982) opposite Sylvester Stallone as Rambo. His other roles include: a corrupt sheriff in the western Silverado, and an alien in Cocoon, both released in 1985. He later played memorable supporting parts in such films as Legal Eagles (1986) and Presumed Innocent (1990).
During the 1980s, Dennehy gradually became a valuable character actor in films and subsequently gained leading man status in the thriller Best Seller (1987) co-starring James Woods.
He gained his arthouse spurs when he 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."
Perhaps one of his most well known roles was in the 1995 Chris Farley-David Spade comedy Tommy Boy as Big Tom Callahan.
Television career
Dennehy began his professional acting career is small guest roles in such 1970s and 1980s series as Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas and Dynasty. Dennehy portrayed Sergeant Ned T. "Frozen Chosen" Coleman in the television movie A Rumor of War (1980) opposite Brad Davis. He continued to appear such high profile television movies as Skokie (1981), Day One (1989), A Killing in a Small Town (1990) opposite Barbara Hershey, In Broad Daylight and Scott Turow's The Burden of Proof.
He also had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star Of The Family. Despite his name noterity, that show was cancelled after only two seasons.
He was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television movies including one for his performance as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the miniseries To Catch A Killer (1992), for which he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie. He was also nominated that same year in a different category, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for The Burden of Proof (1992). He was also nominated for an Emmy Awards for his work in A Killing in a Small Town, Murder in the Heartland (1993) and, most recently, for 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 of his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway. Although he did not win the Emmy (he has yet to win an Emmy), he did receive a Golden Globe award for the presentation.
He has starred in the popular crime drama Jack Reed TV movies. His also guest starred as a re-occurring character in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!
Biography
Early Life
Dennehy was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Hannah and Edward Dennehy; he has two brothers, Michael and Edward, and is of Irish descent. The family relocated to Long Island, New York where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the town of Mineola. He went on to attend Columbia on a football scholarship, and majored in history, before moving on to Yale to study dramatic arts. Dennehy joined the United States Marine Corps in 1959 and served until 1963.
Film Career
Dennehy is primarily known as a dramatic actor. His breakthrough role was as the overzealous Sheriff Will Teasle in the First Blood (1982) opposite Sylvester Stallone as Rambo. His other roles include: a corrupt sheriff in the western Silverado, and an alien in Cocoon, both released in 1985. He later played memorable supporting parts in such films as Legal Eagles (1986) and Presumed Innocent (1990).
During the 1980s, Dennehy gradually became a valuable character actor in films and subsequently gained leading man status in the thriller Best Seller (1987) co-starring James Woods.
He gained his arthouse spurs when he 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."
Perhaps one of his most well known roles was in the 1995 Chris Farley-David Spade comedy Tommy Boy as Big Tom Callahan.
Television career
Dennehy began his professional acting career is small guest roles in such 1970s and 1980s series as Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas and Dynasty. Dennehy portrayed Sergeant Ned T. "Frozen Chosen" Coleman in the television movie A Rumor of War (1980) opposite Brad Davis. He continued to appear such high profile television movies as Skokie (1981), Day One (1989), A Killing in a Small Town (1990) opposite Barbara Hershey, In Broad Daylight and Scott Turow's The Burden of Proof.
He also had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star Of The Family. Despite his name noterity, that show was cancelled after only two seasons.
He was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television movies including one for his performance as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the miniseries To Catch A Killer (1992), for which he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie. He was also nominated that same year in a different category, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for The Burden of Proof (1992). He was also nominated for an Emmy Awards for his work in A Killing in a Small Town, Murder in the Heartland (1993) and, most recently, for 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 of his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway. Although he did not win the Emmy (he has yet to win an Emmy), he did receive a Golden Globe award for the presentation.
He has starred in the popular crime drama Jack Reed TV movies. His also guest starred as a re-occurring character in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!
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