Brian Dennehy

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Brian Dennehy (2009)

Brian Mannion Dennehy (born July 9, 1938 in Bridgeport , Connecticut , † April 15, 2020 in New Haven , Connecticut) was an American actor . The character actor was seen in several well-known films, especially in the 1980s, and later often in high-profile supporting roles.

life and work

Brian Dennehy came to Columbia University in New York on a football scholarship , where he studied history. He made his first appearance as an actor in 1977 in the TV series Kojak - Einsatz in Manhattan . He also made his film debut in 1977 with In Search of Mr. Goodbar in a supporting role. In the late 1970s, he made minor appearances on television series such as M * A * S * H and Dallas .

His breakthrough came in 1982 as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in Rambo alongside Sylvester Stallone . In the 1983 thriller Gorky Park by Michael Apted , he played one of the leading roles alongside William Hurt and Lee Marvin and in 1986 in F / X - Deadly Tricks alongside Bryan Brown . For his participation in Peter Greenaway's artistically demanding film Der Bauch des Architekten (1987), in which he played the leading role of the doomed architect Stourley Kracklite, he received much critical acclaim; thus he moved into the public eye as an actor. Roger Ebert praised him for his acting role in the film For Lack of Evidence (1989), in which he appeared alongside Harrison Ford . His work for film and television includes more than 175 productions. In 2001 he received a Golden Globe Award for his role in Death of a Salesman (2000) , and he also received a Producers Guild of America Award . He has been nominated for an Emmy five times, and in 1994 he won a CableACE Award .

Dennehy made several claims that he served as a soldier in the Vietnam War , but this turned out to be a lie. Although he was with the Marine Corps , he was stationed in Japan from 1958 to 1963. He never entered the theater of war in Vietnam. He later apologized for his claim.

Dennehy was also a well-known stage actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's play Speech Disturbances (Translations) . In 2005 he played the lead role in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Lyric Theater in London , for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award . In 2003 he played the role of James Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's One Long Day Journey into the Night in a production for the Goodman Theater Company in Chicago . For each of these two appearances he won a Tony Award for best actor in a leading role .

In 2007 he appeared on Broadway alongside Christopher Plummer in Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Who Sows the Wind . In 2008 he was at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in All's Well All's Well, as well as in Samuel Beckett's The Last Tape and Eugene O'Neill's Hughie . From April 14, 2009, he spent three months at the New York “St. James Theater ”in O'Neill's play Greed under the palm trees .

Dennehy married Judith Scheff in 1959, with whom he had three children. The marriage was divorced in 1974. In 1988 he married Jennifer Arnott. His daughter Elizabeth Dennehy is also an actress.

Brian Dennehy died on April 15, 2020 at the age of 81 of cardiac arrest as a result of sepsis .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Series

Theater (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Brian Dennehy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian Dennehy, a giant of Chicago and America's stages, is dead at 81
  2. ↑ David Steinitz: "Rambo" star Brian Dennehy is dead. Accessed June 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Special to The Denver Post: Military lies are harmful to actual veterans. In: denverpost.com. January 26, 2010, accessed February 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dennehy, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennehy, Brian Mannion (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgeport , Connecticut , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2020
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut