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88%

Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi

PG-13, 2 hr. 14 min.

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Gravity

98%

Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

59%	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
8%	Runner Runner
80%	Prisoners
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Kill Your Darlings

78%

Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan

R, 1 hr. 40 min.

——	Carrie	Oct 18
——	Escape Plan	Oct 18
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After Earth

11%

Will Smith, Jaden Smith

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

38%	The Purge	Jun 07
84%	Much Ado About Nothing	Jun 07
78%	Europa Report	Aug 02
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Iron Man 3

79%

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow

PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.

4%	Scary Movie 5	Apr 12
67%	World War Z	Jun 21
87%	Star Trek Into Darkness	May 16
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Pacific Rim

72%

Charlie Hunnam, Diego Klattenhoff

PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.

65%	The Heat	Jun 28
63%	Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain	Jul 03
97%	A Hijacking	Jun 21
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83%	The Blacklist: Season 1
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88%	Boardwalk Empire: Season 4
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Celebrities » Brian Dennehy

Brian Dennehy

Total Box Office:: $331.7M
Highest Rated:: 100% Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Lowest Rated:: 8% Summer Catch (2001)

Birthday:: Jul 9
Birthplace:: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Bio:: After majoring in history at Columbia University, brawny Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) took a string of odd jobs to pay his way through Yale Drama School, and to afford private acting lessons. His first professional break came with the Broadway production Streamers. In films and TV from 1977,…

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Highest Rated Movies

Never Cry Wolf
100%
Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
100%
Fail Safe
100%
Ratatouille
96%

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
	Twelfth Night	Actor	--	2012
40%	The Big Year	Martin Harris	$7.2M	2011
48%	Meet Monica Velour	Pop Pop	$31.6k	2011
	Alleged	Clarence Darrow	--	2010
52%	The Next Three Days	George Brennan	$21.1M	2010
36%	Every Day	Ernie	$9.9k	2010
	Love And Valor: The Intimate CIVIL War Letters	Narrator	--	2009
	War Eagle, Arkansas	Pop	--	2008
	Cat City	Actor	--	2008
19%	Righteous Kill	Lt. Hingis	$40.0M	2008
96%	Ratatouille	Django	$206.4M	2007
32%	The Ultimate Gift	Gus	$3.2M	2007
	Welcome to Paradise	Actor	--	2007
	Joyce to the World	Actor	--	2007
82%	Trumbo	Actor	$28.1k	2007
	Rule of the Gun	Actor	--	2007
	Marco Polo	Kublai Khan	--	2007
	Shadow of a Doubt	Actor	--	2006
19%	10th and Wolf	Horvath	--	2006
41%	Everyone's Hero	Babe Ruth	$14.5M	2006
	Our Fathers	Father Spagnolia	--	2005
60%	Assault on Precinct 13	Jasper O'Shea	$20.0M	2005
	The Exonerated	Gary	--	2005
19%	She Hate Me	Chairman Church	$81.4k	2004
	Gunfighters	Actor	--	2004
	Gunfighters of the West	Actor	--	2004
	Category 6 - Day of Destruction	Andy Goodman	--	2004
	The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron	Mr. Blue	--	2003
	American Valor	Actor	--	2003
	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Tom Stone	--	2003
	Making The Misfits	Narrator	--	2002
34%	Stolen Summer	Father Kelly	$0.1M	2002
	Allies at War	Narrator	--	2002
	A Season on the Brink	Bobby Knight	--	2002
8%	Summer Catch	Coach John Schiffner	$19.0M	2001
	Allies at War	Actor	--	2001
	Warden of Red Rock	Sheriff Church	--	2001
	Three Blind Mice	Actor	--	2001
	Out of the Cold	Actor	--	2001
	Founding Fathers	Actor	--	2000
	Sensational Cities: New York	Actor	--	2000
100%	Fail Safe	General Bogan	--	2000
	Silicon Towers	Actor	--	1999
	Gunfighters of the West: Elfego Baca	Narrator	--	1999
	Netforce	Director Actor	--	1999
	Gunfighters of the West: Tom Horn	Narrator	--	1999
	Out of the Cold	Director David Bards	--	1999
	Sirens	Actor	--	1999
	Gunfighters of the West: John Wesley Hardin	Narrator	--	1998
	Voyage of Terror (Die Schreckensfahrt der Orion Star)(The Fourth Horseman)	Actor	--	1998
	Dish Dogs	Frost	--	1998
	Nostromo	Actor	--	1996
	Dead Man's Walk	Maj. Randall Chevallie	--	1996
	Steve Martini's Undue Influence	Actor	--	1996
	Steve Martini: Undue Influence	Paul Madriani	--	1996
	Jack Reed: One of Our Own	Actor Director	--	1996
	Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance	Director Jack Reed	--	1996
71%	Romeo + Juliet	Ted Montague	--	1996
44%	The Stars Fell on Henrietta	Big Dave	--	1995
44%	Tommy Boy	Big Tom	--	1995
	Shadow of a Doubt	Director Charley Sloan	--	1995
	Jack Reed: A Search for Justice	Director Screenwriter Jack Reed	--	1994
	Foreign Affairs	Chuck Mumpson	--	1993
	Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story	Actor	--	1993
	Murder in the Heartland	John McArthur	--	1993
	Final Appeal	Actor	--	1993
	Jack Reed: Badge of Honor	Actor	--	1993
	Diamond Fleece	Outlaw	--	1992
	Deadly Matrimony	Sgt. John Reed	--	1992
25%	Gladiator	Jimmy Horn	--	1992
	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story	Jackie Presser	--	1992
	The Burden of Proof	Dixon Hartnell	--	1992
	To Catch a Killer	John Wayne Gacy	--	1992
25%	F/X2 (F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion)	Leo McCarthy	--	1991
	National Geographic Video - Zebra: Patterns in the Grass	Actor	--	1991
85%	Presumed Innocent	Raymond Horgan	--	1990
	The Last Of The Finest	Frank Daly	--	1990
	A Killing in a Small Town	Ed Reivers	--	1990
	Skokie	Actor	--	1990
	Rising Son	Gus Robinson	--	1990
	Indio	Actor	--	1989
	Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (Seven Minutes)	Wagner	--	1989
	Day One	Gen. Leslie Groves	--	1989
	Perfect Witness	James Falcon	--	1989
36%	Cocoon: The Return	Actor	--	1988
	A Father's Revenge	Paul Hobart	--	1988
	Miles from Home (Farm of the Year)	Frank Roberts Sr.	--	1988
	Return to Snowy River	Harrison	--	1988
	Lion of Africa	Sam Marsh	--	1987
91%	The Belly of an Architect	Stourley Kracklite	--	1987
100%	Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam	Actor	--	1987
60%	Best Seller	Detective Lieutenant Dennis Meechum	--	1987
85%	F/X	Leo McCarthy	--	1986
47%	Legal Eagles	Cavanaugh	--	1986
	Acceptable Risks	Don Sheppard	--	1986
80%	Cocoon	Walter	--	1985
83%	Twice in a Lifetime	Nick	--	1985
	The Check Is in the Mail...	Richard Jackson	--	1985
76%	Silverado	Cobb	--	1985
	The River Rat	Doc	--	1984
	Finders Keepers	Mayor Frizzoli	--	1984
77%	Gorky Park	William Kirwill	--	1983
100%	Never Cry Wolf	Rosie	--	1983
	Joyce to the World	Actor	--	1983
	I Take These Men	Actor	--	1983
	Split Image	Kevin	--	1982
87%	First Blood (Rambo: First Blood)	Teasle	--	1982
	The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories	Actor	--	1981
	Skokie	Chief Arthur Buchanan	--	1981
	Little Miss Marker	Herbie	--	1980
	Rumor of War	Coleman	--	1980
	To Love Again	Actor	--	1980
	The Jericho Mile	Dr. D.	--	1979
78%	F.I.S.T.	Frank Vasko	--	1979
	Dummy	Ragoti	--	1979
	Butch and Sundance: The Early Days	O.C. Hanks	--	1979
	Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story	Actor	--	1979
71%	10	Don the bartender	--	1979
	A Real American Hero	Buford Pusser	--	1978
	Ruby & Oswald	Actor	--	1978
74%	Foul Play	Fergie	--	1978
80%	Semi-Tough	T.J. Lambert	--	1977
	Ants	Actor	--	1977
	It Happened at Lakewood Manor (Ants)	Fire Chief	--	1977
75%	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Actor	--	1977
	Great Cop Movies	Actor	--	1948
	Hard Stick	Actor	--
	Guys With Guns	Actor	--
	Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale	Actor	--

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
93%	30 Rock	Mickey J	2006-2013
67%	The Big C	Father	2010-2013
	Rules of Engagement	Roy Bingham	2007-2013
100%	The Good Wife	Bucky Stabler	2009-2014
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Judson Tierney	1999-2013

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1. Walter: I spent five years in the Nam! Wait! No I didn't. But wait! I did! No, I didn't.
From Cocoon. Submitted by Jesse K (7 months ago)

1. Big Tom: I once visited a prostitute during the war, and my life has been a living hell ever since!
From Tommy Boy. Submitted by Scott B (9 months ago)