Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy
Brian Manion Dennehyis an American actor of film, stage, and television. After gaining recognition for portraying the corrupt Sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood, Dennehy went on to win one Golden Globe, two Tony Awards and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations...
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth9 July 1938
CityBridgeport, CT
palm people
The people who go to the Palm change. But when I go into a Palm, it is always the same for me.
football athlete player
At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
believe matter morality
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
jobs thinking doe
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
stars real hero
My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
dna hell-raising catholic
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.