Brian Dennehy
Sign in to saveAmerican actor (1938–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938-07-09
- Died
- 2020-04-15
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Jack Reed
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
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…
Known for
- Son of the South — Grandfather2021
- Driveways — Del2020
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels — Jerome Townsend2020
- The Song of Sway Lake — Hal Sway2019
- 3 Days with Dad — Bob2019
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self2019
- The Seagull — Pjotr Sorin2018
- Tag — Mr. Cilliano2018
- A Very Merry Toy Store — Joe Haggarty2017
- Hap and Leonard — Sheriff Valentine Otis2016
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 85
Tags
spoken wordshakespeare
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,462x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,149x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,810x
- Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 17,856x
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Key facts
- Born
- Brian Manion Dennehy , ( 1938-07-09 ) July 9, 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut , United States
- Died
- April 15, 2020 (2020-04-15) (aged 81), New Haven , Connecticut , United States
- Education
- Columbia University ( BA )
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1965–2020
- Spouses
- Judith Scheff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1987 ) Jennifer Arnott ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 )
- Children
- 5, including Elizabeth
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Service years
- 1958–1963
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 9 July 1938
- Died
- 15 April 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Brian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bridgeport
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Child
- Elizabeth Dennehy
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Yale School of Drama
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Brian Manion Dennehy (/ˈdɛnəhi/; July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor. Renowned for his performances on stage and screen and once described as "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of Eugene O'Neill's works, he received two Tony Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.
He had a decades-long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the plays’ authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.
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