![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 9, 1938 in Bridgeport, CT Biography:After majoring in history at Columbia University, brawny "Brian Dennehy" took a string of odd jobs to pay his way through Yale Drama School, and to afford private acting lessons. His first professional break came with the Broadway production Streamers. In films and TV from 1977, Dennehy is a most versatile actor, at home playing Western baddies ("Silverado"), ulcerated big-city cops ("F/X"), serial killers (John Wayne Gacy in the made-for-TV "To Catch a Killer"), by-the-book military types (General Groves in "Day One", another TV movie), and vacillating politicos ("Presumed Innocent"). One of his most rewarding film assignments was as dying architectural genius Stourley Kracklite in "Peter Greenaway"'s "The Belly of an Architect" (1987).
In addition to his many TV-movie roles (one of which, good-old-boy Chuck Munson in 1993's "Foreign Affairs", won him a Cable Ace Award), Dennehy has starred in the... Full Biography
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