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Real name: |
Brian Manion Dennehy |
| Birthdate: |
July 09, 1938 |
| Date of death: |
April 15, 2020 |
| Age: |
81 years |
| Country: |
 United States
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| Horoscope: |
Cancer |
| Stature: |
1,90 m (6 ft 2.8 in) |
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Brian Dennehy Nominations & Awards
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for TV WINNER
Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG)
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- Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries WINNER
Emmy
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- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
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- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
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- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
Boston Society of Film Critics
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
Brian Manion Dennehy, better known as Brian Dennehy, was an American Actor and Director. He has won an Golden Globes Awards and an Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG). He's known for Cocoon (1985), Ratatouille (2007) and Romeo + Juliet (1996).
All Movies of Brian Dennehy
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A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement. Based on the Bob Zellner's autobiography "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."
Character:
J.O. Zellner
2020
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Cody’s summer begins with a road trip. Accompanying his mother Kathy, he travels to the house where his late aunt used to live. While Kathy is busy cleaning out the place, the almost nine-year-old has to pass the time on his own...
Character:
Del
2019
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The plot follows a group of friends who have been playing a cutthroat version of the children’s game for the last 30 years.
Character:
Randy's Father
2018
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Two rival toy shop owners reluctantly join forces when an unscrupulous toy magnate opens a box store in their town.
Character:
Joe Haggarty
2017
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In this lyrical character study, a Hollywood screenwriter (Christian Bale) wanders around Los Angeles and Las Vegas while reflecting on his life of excess and connection to the natural world. At the same time, he struggles to bond...
Character:
Joseph
2015
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Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event. It all begins when these 3 friendly rivals (Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson), tired of being ruled by obligations a...
Character:
Raymond
2011
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A comedy about a New York City couple (Schreiber and Hunt) in romantic crisis.
2010
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2010
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A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. T...
Character:
George Brennan
2010
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A private investigator is hired by a woman to determine if her husband, a big land developer, is having an affair. What looks like a simple case soon turns into a murder investigation and the motive may not be as clear as it seems
2008
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A serial murderer walks the streets of Manhattan, targeting violent felons who have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. All the victims are suspected criminals whose bodies are found accompanied by a four-line poem j...
Character:
Hingis
2008
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TRUMBO is the story of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s remarkable journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Focusing on the writer’s own indelible words, the film features performances of some ...
Character:
Self
2007
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In one of Paris' finest restaurants, Remy, a determined rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events.
Character:
voz Django
2007
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When his wealthy grandfather dies, trust fund baby Jason Stevens anticipates a big inheritance. Instead, his grandfather has devised a crash course on life with twelve tasks – or “gifts” – designed to challenge Jason in im...
Character:
Gus
2006
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A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
2006
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In this retelling of John Carpenter's 70s B-grade classic, Laurence Fishburne plays a mobster being held in the soon-to-be-shut-down Precinct 13 on New Year's Eve. Ethan Hawke plays a captain who cobbles together a force made up o...
2005
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A dramatized account of the hidden sexual abuse and scandal that shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that brought the abuse and scandal into existence.
2005
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One heterosexual male. 18 lesbians. His fee 10,000 dollars... each.
Harvard educated biotech executive Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings. Branded ...
Character:
Chairman Billy Church
2004
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A failing star is faced with a life-style change when her rich husband suddenly dies while they are en route to Italy. She then sets off in a series of flings with gigolos found for her by an aging contessa. Each contact spirals f...
Character:
Tom Stone
2003
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A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's...
2001
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This summer couldn't be more crucial for Ryan Dunne, a blue-collar kid with aspirations to become a major league baseball player. Every summer, the hottest college ball players descend upon Cape Cod to pursue their baseball dreams...
Character:
John Schiffner
2001
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2000
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Television film based on the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller.
Character:
Willy Loman
2000
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Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Character:
Gen. Bogan
2000
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Doris Duke, the famous real-life billionairess, is seen going over her life as she prepares to die. Her life includes the early death of her loving father, being raised by a cold mother, two marriages and numerous affairs that sti...
Character:
Louis Bromfield
1999
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An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.
Character:
David Bards
1999
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An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
1998
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True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
1996
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Character:
Major Chevallier
1 episode, 1996
1996
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This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept ap...
Character:
Ted Montague
1996
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Character:
Big Tom
1995
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The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Character:
Ervil LeBaron
1993
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A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
Character:
John McArthur
2 episodes, 1993
1993
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For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, J...
Character:
Jackie Presser
1992
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"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30
1992
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1992
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Brown has left the film world to work on special effects for himself. He's into toys this time, and Bluey, his remote robot is a prize! Again, the Mafia is involved in the story development, this time over a set of gold coins stol...
1991
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1990
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When a female D.A. is killed, the D.A. assigns his assistant to handle the investigation. Only problem is that he was having an affair with her. And the evidence reveals that he is the killer. So he suspects that the man who wants...
Character:
Raymond Horgan
1990
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A small town is shocked by the brutal ax murder of a woman. However, they are even more shocked when a reserved neighboring woman who is a wife and mother becomes the chief suspect.
Character:
Ed Reivers
1990
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Character:
Col. Sam Whitaker
1989
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Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb.
1989
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Story of a man (Quinn) who witnesses a mob killing and rather than testify he goes to prison. When released, he decides to finally testify, even though it means that he and his family will have to go into the "witness protect...
Character:
James Falcon
1989
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The explosive true story that nearly changed world history.
1989
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Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
Character:
Frank Roberts Sr.
1988
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Falling in love can sometimes make you lose your head-or tail-as the Little Mermaid's (Mork and Mindy's Pam Dawber) is about to find out.
It's love at first sight when the Little Mermaid saves a shipwrecked Prince (Everwood's T...
1987
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A thespian feast for the larger-than-life Dennehy as blustering American architect whose personal life and health both crumble as he obsesssively readies an exhibition in Rome. A multi-tiered, carefully composed tragicomedy from t...
1987
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Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather...
1987
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A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.
1986
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Robert Redford, usually a pretty good judge of material, got snookered badly in Legal Eagles, an Ivan Reitman comedy which also stars Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. Redford is a rising assistant D.A. who is prosecuting a woman (Ha...
Character:
Cavanaugh
1986
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Four cowboys join forces in the Old West to combat injustice in "Silverado", director Lawrence Kasdan's loving ode to the Western. Emmett, a quiet loner, saves Paden from sure death in the desert, where a band of outlaws...
Character:
Cobb
1985
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Gene Hackman stars as an aging Steelworker mostly contented but with something missing who falls in love with a beautiful barmaid who also is attracted to him.
Character:
Nick
1985
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Four strangers charter Jack Bonner’s boat and hire him to take them diving off the coast of Florida. They retrieve what they say are giant sea anenomes out of the ocean. But Jack discovers that his mysterious employers are reall...
Character:
Walter
1985
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On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the tr
Character:
Mayor Frizzoli
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1984
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Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert_Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and...
1983
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An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a comp...
Character:
William Kirwill
1983
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Carroll Ballard follows up his beloved THE BLACK STALLION with NEVER CRY WOLF, another inspiring adventure story that deals with the all-important concept of man versus nature. The film opens as the government dispatches Tyler (Ch...
Character:
Rosie
1983
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Sylvester Stallone stars as ex-Green Beret John Rambo, a shell-shocked Vietnam vet adrift in the Pacific Northwest. Harassment by an unsympathetic small-town sheriff brings on nasty flashbacks of torture at the hands of the Viet C...
Character:
Teasle
1982
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TV Series (1981-1982). An anthology horror/thriller series, along the same lines as "Twilight Zone". Each week features a new story and a new cast. Hosted by James Coburn. The 60-minute episodes feature two or three shor...
Character:
Roland
1 episode, 1981
1981
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This is the story of some Modern day Nazi activists who plan to march through the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie. The town officials tell the citizens to ignore them cause there's nothing that they can do.
Character:
Police Chief Arthur Buchanan
1981
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The memories of a US Marine lieutenant in Vietnam who slowly gets disillusioned as the war progresses.
1980
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Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Character:
Mr. O'Neil
1979
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