Whenever he could, Dennehy retreated to the stage in Chicago, saying he preferred the Midwest “because I can sit down with rational people who make $50,000 a year and live in houses and have children and pay their taxes and shop at Sears.” He also starred opposite Christopher Plummer in a 2007 Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind. Dennehy seems to kidnap you by force, trapping you inside Willy’s psyche.” “Yet these emotions ring so unerringly true that Mr.
In the former, the imposing actor displayed “a grand emotional expansiveness that matches his monumental physique,” Ben Brantley wrote in his The New York Times review. He also portrayed lawmen in Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), F/X (1986) and its sequel, Best Seller (1987), The Last of the Finest (1990) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) and starred as hard-charging real-life Chicago detective Jack Reed in five NBC telefilms from 1993-96, writing and directing four of them.Īt 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds, the former college offensive lineman could also be a gentle giant, as when he portrayed the sympathetic bartender who counsels Dudley Moore in 10 (1979), the friendly alien leader Walter in Cocoon (1985) and Chris Farley’s pop in Tommy Boy (1995).ĭennehy won Tony Awards in 19 for playing Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman - he was the fourth actor to play the iconic role on Broadway - and Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
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He was 81.ĭennehy died Wednesday, April 15, 2020, night of natural causes in Connecticut, law enforcement sources told TMZ.ĭennehy played the sheriff in Washington state who doggedly pursues Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) in First Blood (1982) and a district attorney who’s out to save his own skin in the Harrison Ford film Presumed Innocent (1990). Brian Dennehy, the regular-guy actor whose bulldog build, good-guy demeanor and no-nonsense approach meshed in an array of memorable roles for film, television and the theater, has died.
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