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Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a Tony Award winning American actor who has appeared in movies, television, and theater. 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, NY 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
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Jeff Bridges, Brian Dennehy and Carol Kane are among the illustrious cast of performers who bring a trilogy of Shaw stories to life. The three works share a common theme: the emotionalPosted in......
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Barrel-chested character actor Brian Dennehy has one of the most recognizable faces in the industry, mostly due to the staggering number of films on his formidable resume. So it's not surprising that the actor has rarely hidden himself behind animated avatars, but in recent years (with films like Everyone's Hero, where he voiced an animated Babe Ruth, and now with Ratatouille), Dennehy has found a previously unexplored niche.
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In August 2003, Brian Dennehy finished performing on Broadway in Robert Falls’ play Long Days Journey Into Night. He recently won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the production. He ... won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the Showtime production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for the same production. In 2000, Dennehy received an Emmy nomination (his fifth) for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the same Showtime production. In 1999, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, also for Death of a Salesman.
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Brian Dennehy plays a Wambaugh-type cop who has flourished as a novelist. At the moment... Dennehy is suffering from a profound case of writer's block. Coming to the rescue, as it were, is professional hit man James Woods. Recently dumped by his boss, above-suspicion business executive Paul Shenar, Woods is anxious to tell his life story to Dennehy, in hopes of striking it rich with a tell-all bestseller. Shenar, however, takes a dim view of Woods' indiscretions, and for a while it looks as though it's curtains for both Dennehy and his teenaged daughter Allison Balson. Screenwriter Larry Cohen has claimed that Best Seller was based on Strangers on a Train.
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Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1992 made-for-TV crime drama Deadly Matrimony, police detective Reed (Brian Dennehy) returns, this time to bring in a murderous sociopath. He soon discovers... that this routine case is complicated by the U.S. government as they are using the killer as an informant andRead More
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