Dead actor Brian Dennehy, Rambo's 'bad' sheriff
2020-04-16T20:49:09.188Z
The American actor Brian Dennehy died at 81 in New Haven, Connecticut where he was born in 1938. Her daughter Elisabeth, also an actress, announced her death from natural causes independent of Covid. Dennehy's long career as a co-star, in which he often played the role of the 'bad guy'. Winner of two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, Dennehy is known to the general public mainly for playing the sheriff in search of Sylvester Stallone in 'Rambo First Blood' in 1982. On the sets of Hollywood cinema in the 80s he starred a corrupt sheriff in 1985 'Silverado' with Kevin Kline and Kevin Costner, "Twice in Life" (1985) with Gene Hackman, "F / X" (1986) and his sequel "F / X2 - Replay of a Murder" (1991) , "All the fault of the post office!" (1986) and "Dangerously Together" from 1986 with Robert Redford and Terence Stamp, And again "Best Seller" (1987), "Gli irriducibili" (1988) with John Malkovich, "L'orologiaio" (1989), "Punto d impact "(1990). Multiple nominated for Emmy Awards for various television parts, he almost touches the statuette with "Overwhelming Proof" (1992). He also starred with Harrison Ford in "Presumed Innocent" (1990), and in "Gladiators of the Street" in 1992 when he played a serial killer in 'To Catch a Killer'. Few leading roles, even if it is valuable in "The Belly of the Architect" (1987) by Peter Greenaway. The television sees him in the series "Affairs of the heart", "Prophet of evil", "Final appeal", the series of TV films about Jack Reed that he will also sign as director, "The cruise of fear". In the second half of the nineties he returned to the big screen in "Romeo + Giulietta by William Shakespeare" (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Daines, and in "Security Code" (1999). In 1999 Dennehy was forced to cancel three of the Broadway performances of the TV show "Death of a Traveling Salesman" for hospitalization for hypertension. Despite this unfortunate coincidence, he won a golden Globe and two Tony Awards for best actor for the Arthur Miller drama than for "Long Day's Journey into Night". After leaving the hospital he returned to work for many films, including "Error Proof" (2000) with Harvey Keitel, "The Enron Scandal" (2003), "Chain Catastrophe" (2004), "The Exonerated" (2005 ), with Susan Sarandon, "A Summer's Dream" (2001), "Spike Lee's" The Last Summer "(2002)," She Hates Me "(2004)," 10th & Wolf "(2006) with Dennis Hopper and "Challenge without rules" (2008) with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. In 2008 the director Jon Avnet wants him alongside Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the action film "Challenge without rules". Three years later he returns, directed by Paul Haggis, in the dramatic "The Next Three Days", playing the role of George Brennan, and again in 2011 he is in "A year of lions". The son of a doctor and a housewife, Brian Manion Dennehy grows up with his two brothers in Long Island, New York County, studying at Chaminade High School. He is 19 when he joins the US Marine Corps and remains active until 1963. He enrolled at Columbia University in New York becoming an excellent baseball player. Particularly attracted to acting, he moved to Yale University to study dramatic art, but also rugby. After completing his studies, he began acting in some off-Broadway summer shows. He marries Judith Schef with whom he will have two daughters, actresses Elizabeth and Kathleen Dennehy. In second marriage he will marry Jennifer Arnott with whom he will adopt two children Cormack and Sarah.
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April 16, 2020American actor Brian Dennehy died at 81 years old in New Haven, Connecticut where he was born in 1938. Her daughter Elisabeth, an actress, also announced her death from natural causes independent of Covid. Dennehy's long career as a co-star, in which he often played the role of the 'bad guy'. Winner of two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, Dennehy is known to the general public mainly for playing the sheriff in search of Sylvester Stallone in 'Rambo First Blood' in 1982. On the sets of Hollywood cinema in the 80s he starred a corrupt sheriff in 1985 'Silverado' with Kevin Kline and Kevin Costner, "Twice in Life" (1985) with Gene Hackman, "F / X" (1986) and his sequel "F / X2 - Replay of a Murder" (1991) , "All the fault of the post office!" (1986) and "Dangerously Together" from 1986 with Robert Redford and Terence Stamp, And again "Best Seller" (1987), "Gli irriducibili" (1988) with John Malkovich, "L'orologiaio" (1989), "Punto d impact "(1990). Multiple nominated for Emmy Awards for various television parts, he almost touches the statuette with "Overwhelming Proof" (1992). He also starred with Harrison Ford in "Presumed Innocent" (1990), and in "Gladiators of the Street" in 1992 when he played a serial killer in 'To Catch a Killer'. Few leading roles, even if it is valuable in "The Belly of the Architect" (1987) by Peter Greenaway. The television sees him in the series "Affairs of the heart", "Prophet of evil", "Final appeal", the series of TV films about Jack Reed that he will also sign as director, "The cruise of fear". In the second half of the nineties he returned to the big screen in "Romeo + Giulietta by William Shakespeare" (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Daines, and in "Security Code" (1999). In 1999 Dennehy was forced to cancel three of the Broadway performances of the TV show "Death of a Traveling Salesman" for hospitalization for hypertension. Despite this unfortunate coincidence, he won a golden Globe and two Tony Awards for best actor for the Arthur Miller drama than for "Long Day's Journey into Night". After leaving the hospital he returned to work for many films, including "Error Proof" (2000) with Harvey Keitel, "The Enron Scandal" (2003), "Chain Catastrophe" (2004), "The Exonerated" (2005 ), with Susan Sarandon, "A Summer's Dream" (2001), "Spike Lee's" The Last Summer "(2002)," She Hates Me "(2004)," 10th & Wolf "(2006) with Dennis Hopper and "Challenge without rules" (2008) with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. In 2008 the director Jon Avnet wants him alongside Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the action film "Challenge without rules". Three years later he returns, directed by Paul Haggis, in the dramatic "The Next Three Days", playing the role of George Brennan, and again in 2011 he is in "A year of lions". The son of a doctor and a housewife, Brian Manion Dennehy grows up with his two brothers in Long Island, New York County, studying at Chaminade High School. He is 19 when he joins the US Marine Corps and remains active until 1963. He enrolled at Columbia University in New York becoming an excellent baseball player. Particularly attracted to acting, he moved to Yale University to study dramatic art, but also rugby. After completing his studies, he began acting in some off-Broadway summer shows. He marries Judith Schef with whom he will have two daughters, actresses Elizabeth and Kathleen Dennehy. In second marriage he will marry Jennifer Arnott with whom he will adopt two children Cormack and Sarah.
