Brian Dennehy Biography (3)

Brian Dennehy is perhaps best known for his work in feature films, which include Presumed Innocent, Best Seller, Twice in a Lifetime, F/X, Cocoon, Silverado, Gorky Park, First Blood, Never Cry Wolf and Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect for which he received the Chicago Film Festival Award for best actor.

Currently, he is starring in NBC's new Tuesday night comedy, The Fighting Fitzgeralds. Before that, Dennehy filmed Showtime's The Warden opposite James Caan, which he rewrote and executive produced, Showtime's Sirens, and the ABC miniseries Netforce. Among the over 40 TV films in which he has starred, he also served as director, co-writer and executive producer on the TV movies Shadow of a Doubt and four of the Jack Reed series of films.

Dennehy also won the 1999 Tony Award as best actor for his portrayal as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the S.A.G. Award and Golden Globe Award for best actor in a motion picture or miniseries for the same role in the Showtime screen version. Prior to that he was last seen on Broadway in Brian Friel's Translations. A frequent actor at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, he appeared in leading roles in Robert Fall's productions of A Touch of the Poet, The Iceman Cometh, and Galileo, as well as Death of a Salesman. He and Falls collaborated again for a remounting of The Iceman Cometh at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Additional theater credits include Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater, Wisdom Bridge Theatre's production of Rat in the Skull and Says I, Says He at the Mark Taper Forum and the Phoenix Theater in New York.

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