Brian Dennehy is dead to me!!!

Oh, this makes me sad!

I first saw him in the movie "10," where he played a bartender. I thought he had a rugged sexiness about him.

I really liked him. I guess Dom wont be making a full recovery on the Blacklist....

Me too r1. He was sexy as hell. Always looked forward to seeing his movies.

For those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s, he was a ubiquitous screen presence. A wonderful character and stage actor. RIP.

Weird, because I had the TV on in the background this morning and heard him being name-checked on an old "Will and Grace."

He was a sexy alien on Cocoon.

My favorite quote of his: "Jessica Lange is a B-I-T-C-H. Bitch, bitch, bitch. Put it in the fucking magazine."

The man had no fucks to give.

Here's my example of the Mandela effect. I always thought he died in the early 90s.

Dead!

So young. AIDS?

The virus?

I remember seeing him on the Tony awards and he had the broadest shoulders I have ever seen on a human being. For some reason that stuck with me.

I saw him in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, he was extraordinary. I'm terribly sad to read this.

Every time I see him I think of John Wayne Gacy, he did an excellent job of portraying him.

I asked him once what was it like to win The Tony Award. He had won for "Death Of A Salesman" and "Long Days Journey". His response: "If you are playing those two fucking roles and you don't win the fucking Tony Award, then you don't know what the fuck you are doing." Total confidence. An imposing man but somewhere in there was agood guy. I liked him

He made big Irish guys sexy, and was a powerhouse on stage and screen.

Thank you for a fine body of work, Brian Dennehy. Rest in Peace.

If I'd ever written a play about my father, he's who I'd've wanted to play him.

I always confused him with Charles Durning.

Variety says death was natural causes and not corona.

I ran into him, literally, once at Joe Allen. I was leaving and he came rushing in and we crashed into each other. He said, "Sorry...my fault." My "brush" with fame.

He seems to have been well liked by audiences and well loved by people who knew him.

Which says a great deal.

Charles Durning was shorter. Brian was 6'2. Charles only 5'6.

My first encounter with him as a gayling was watching him in the first season of "Dynasty" (I think he played a DA?) I found him to be a major DILF. He must have been in his early 40s at the time.

The Time Out interview where he trashed Jess.

R24 I love that!

I was just watching him and James Woods in "Split Image.' One of my favorites roles was with Bryan Brown in "F/X2." About the time "Tommy Boy" was out he did a walk on at SNL. It was during a "Da Bears" skit. Someone (Maybe George Wendt) asked why he was there. Brian said something like "Just trying to set a record for the most fat guys on a stage."

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- John Astin and Cicely Tyson

[quote]Variety says death was natural causes and not corona.

Corona is not a natural cause?

R28 Uh, no.

Fun fact - Brian Dennehy and Martha Stewart used to work as stock brokers together

Not to speak ill of the recently dead..... OTOH, this is DL.

I never cared for his work, or for him. I thought he was an incredible blowhard with a limited range. And one of those straight male actors who overcompensates for the perceived "effeminacy" of their profession with bullying, toxic machismo. Additionally, he lied repeatedly about serving in Vietnam, and was called out in the press about it.

RIP.

I died first!!!!

He was truly creepy as John Wayne Gacy in the TV movies in the 90's.

I was shocked he kept working for as long as he did because he seemed to disappear in the late 90s. Great, familiar presence.

[quote] Those straight male actors who overcompensates for the perceived "effeminacy" of their profession with bullying, toxic machismo.

Take your post feminist BS someplace else.

[quote]I asked him once what was it like to win The Tony Award. He had won for "Death Of A Salesman" and "Long Days Journey". His response: "If you are playing those two fucking roles and you don't win the fucking Tony Award, then you don't know what the fuck you are doing." Total confidence. An imposing man but somewhere in there was agood guy. I liked him

I met him too and asked if it were true he used to live in Amityville and he said "If you call that living".

Shame. He was an excellent actor.

Actor Brian Dennehy claimed for years that he served a five-year tour as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was wounded in action. In reality, Dennehy's only Vietnam "action" was on-screen in "A Rumor of War", in which he portrayed a Marine gunnery sergeant. While Dennehy did serve in the Marines, it was not in Vietnam; his only "combat duty" was playing football in Okinawa in 1962.

I got a chance to meet him back in the 90s when he was in Atlanta filming "A Season in Purgatory". Nice man, very large man. I got to watch while they were filming some outdoor street scenes. That's when I discovered that movie making is the most boring, tedious work imaginable

[quote]Actor Brian Dennehy claimed for years that he served a five-year tour as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was wounded in action. In reality, Dennehy's only Vietnam "action" was on-screen in "A Rumor of War", in which he portrayed a Marine gunnery sergeant.

What a thing to lie about. OTOH, I knew a guy who lied about having AIDS (he didn't).

Charles Durning, OTOH, was a WWII war hero.

Stolen valor is really despised by combat veterans. Some interviewer should have held his feet to the fucking fire for that shit. Imagine setting off the old Irish drunk and printing his response verbatim.

Thought he was older and had been dead for years.

R37, I fail to see the problem.

In my original Universe, the one I was in after the other one was destroyed by nuclear war, he was already dead.

In my original universe (which does not take a capitalization in any cosmos I've known), R44 did not exist.

I miss that universe.

He was sexy in Silverado and in Belly of an Architect.

Buttocks

Daddy

I get him Durning AND Dolph Sweet all mixed up.

I get him Durning AND Dolph Sweet all mixed up.

Just caught him on an episode of Cagney & Lacey last week. He always had swag and that ever-present grin on his face.

The grin

No mention of Rambo ?

As a kid I recognized him as the sheriff in Rambo.

As someone said, he was everywhere in the 80s and 90s.

America's Brian Blessed?

Well then r 45, you might need a remedial course in grammar!

I always pictured him DESTROYING a young Michael Dudikoff in bed back when they were in that short lived sitcom.

Thanks, R24

A small part of my childhood just died.

You might never have guessed he wasn't a woman when he played Lt. Commander Shelby in the class "Best of Both Worlds, Part I and II" for ST: TNG.

He was that convincing in a cross-gender role.

R14 AND R33 beat me to it. That John Wayne Gacy movie is the first thing I think of when Brian Dennehy comes to mind. I was saddened to hear the news but 81 years is a nice long run.

He looks - well, looked - like Hemingway's older brother.

Dennehy narrated the audiobook version of Hemingway's posthumous novel, "True at Fiest Light".

*First*

I saw him in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway. I thought he was excellent as Willy Loman, but Elizabeth Franz as Linda was even better. Both won Tony Awards.

He had a fat ass, but he couldn’t live forever.

Sounds like his military career was the equivalent of Ronald Reagan's.

R29 is wrong. "Natural causes" means anything other than homicide, suicide, or an accident like a car crash. Diseases are natural causes.

R67 COVID-19 is not "natural causes," and it's not a "disease." It's a virus. But do go on.

I wish he and Charles Durning had appeared together in something...anything. They were both so sexy in that burly, Irish, manly way. I just saw Durning in Tootsie again the other night; Dennehy could have played that role (except he hated Jessica!). Dennehy also could have done Durning in Dog Day Afternoon.

R68 you are wrong. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.

COVID-19 is the disease.

Natural causes, not that Dennehy died of that. R67 is correct.

But do go on.

R70 My mom died of cancer, but, ya know, we call it "natural causes."

But do go on.

Yup. COrona VIrus [bold]Disease[/bold] 2019. It's right there in the name. It is not simply "a flu."

He was great in 'The West Wing'.

Not only did Dennehy work as a stockbroker alongside Martha Stewart, he said that he and the other stockbrokers all wanted to get into her hot pants.

r68=Trump voter

"Sounds like his military career was the equivalent of Ronald Reagan's."

No, he actually served overseas, he just wasn't in Vietnam

Dennehy to got to announce the grand entrance in the Season 1 Cliffhanger:

"Your Honor, our witness has arrived."

I liked him until he played John Wayne Gacy, he did such a good job of playing him it scared the shit out of me and I could never watch him in anything else again.

R78 I'm scared to watch it now. I don't think the movie ever got a mainstream release but it's probably online somewhere.

If I remember correctly it was a TV movie not a theatrical release. I'm sure it's posted online somewhere.