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Brian Dennehy

Highest Rated:: 100% Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Lowest Rated:: 7% Summer Catch (2001)

Birthday:: Jul 9, 1938
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

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

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 7% - 100%

Number of Movies: 130

Box Office Since 2001: $331.7M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2012		Twelfth Night	Actor	--
2011	48%	Meet Monica Velour	Pop Pop	$31.6k
2011	40%	The Big Year	Martin Harris	$7.2M
2010	52%	The Next Three Days	George Brennan	$21.1M
2010	33%	Every Day	Ernie	$9.9k
2010		Alleged	Clarence Darrow	--
2009		Love And Valor: The Intimate CIVIL War Letters	Narrator	--
2008		War Eagle, Arkansas	Pop	--
2008		Cat City	Actor	--
2008	19%	Righteous Kill	Lt. Hingis	$40.0M
2007		Welcome to Paradise	Actor	--
2007	81%	Trumbo	Actor	$28.1k
2007		Joyce to the World	Actor	--
2007		Marco Polo	Kublai Khan	--
2007		Rule of the Gun	Actor	--
2007	96%	Ratatouille	Django	$206.4M
2007	32%	The Ultimate Gift	Gus	$3.2M
2006	19%	10th and Wolf	Horvath	--
2006		Shadow of a Doubt	Actor	--
2006	40%	Everyone's Hero	Babe Ruth	$14.5M
2005	60%	Assault on Precinct 13	Jasper O'Shea	$20.0M
2005		The Exonerated	Gary	--
2005		Our Fathers	Father Spagnolia	--
2004		Gunfighters	Actor	--
2004		Gunfighters of the West	Actor	--
2004		Category 6 - Day of Destruction	Andy Goodman	--
2004	19%	She Hate Me	Chairman Church	$81.4k
2003		The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Tom Stone	--
2003		The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron	Mr. Blue	--
2003		American Valor	Actor	--
2002		Allies at War	Narrator	--
2002		A Season on the Brink	Bobby Knight	--
2002		Making The Misfits	Narrator	--
2002	34%	Stolen Summer	Father Kelly	$0.1M
2001		Three Blind Mice	Actor	--
2001		Warden of Red Rock	Sheriff Church	--
2001	7%	Summer Catch	Coach John Schiffner	$19.0M
2001		Out of the Cold	Actor	--
2001		Allies at War	Actor	--
2000	100%	Fail Safe	General Bogan	--
2000		Founding Fathers	Actor	--
2000		Sensational Cities: New York	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		Silicon Towers	Actor	--
1998		Voyage of Terror (Die Schreckensfahrt der Orion Star)(The Fourth Horseman)	Actor	--
1998		Dish Dogs	Frost	--
1998		Gunfighters of the West: John Wesley Hardin	Narrator	--
1996		Dead Man's Walk	Maj. Randall Chevallie	--
1996		Steve Martini: Undue Influence	Paul Madriani	--
1996		Nostromo	Actor	--
1996		Steve Martini's Undue Influence	Actor	--
1996		Jack Reed: One of Our Own	Actor Director	--
1996		Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance	Jack Reed Director	--
1996	71%	Romeo + Juliet	Ted Montague	--
1995		Shadow of a Doubt	Director Charley Sloan	--
1995	44%	The Stars Fell on Henrietta	Big Dave	--
1995	45%	Tommy Boy	Big Tom	--
1994		Jack Reed: A Search for Justice	Screenwriter Jack Reed Director	--
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		Foreign Affairs	Chuck Mumpson	--
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		Diamond Fleece	Outlaw	--
1991	25%	F/X2 (F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion)	Leo McCarthy	--
1991		National Geographic Video - Zebra: Patterns in the Grass	Actor	--
1990		Rising Son	Gus Robinson	--
1990		Skokie	Actor	--
1990	94%	Presumed Innocent	Raymond Horgan	--
1990		The Last Of The Finest	Frank Daly	--
1990		A Killing in a Small Town	Ed Reivers	--
1989		Day One	Gen. Leslie Groves	--
1989		Perfect Witness	James Falcon	--
1989		Indio	Actor	--
1989		Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (Seven Minutes)	Wagner	--
1988		Miles from Home (Farm of the Year)	Frank Roberts Sr.	--
1988		Return to Snowy River	Harrison	--
1988		A Father's Revenge	Paul Hobart	--
1988	36%	Cocoon: The Return	Actor	--
1987		Lion of Africa	Sam Marsh	--
1987	91%	The Belly of an Architect	Stourley Kracklite	--
1987	60%	Best Seller	Detective Lieutenant Dennis Meechum	--
1987	100%	Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam	Actor	--
1986	85%	F/X	Leo McCarthy	--
1986	47%	Legal Eagles	Cavanaugh	--
1986		Acceptable Risks	Don Sheppard	--
1985	83%	Twice in a Lifetime	Nick	--
1985		The Check Is in the Mail...	Richard Jackson	--
1985	76%	Silverado	Cobb	--
1985	80%	Cocoon	Walter	--
1984		Finders Keepers	Mayor Frizzoli	--
1984		The River Rat	Doc	--
1983		I Take These Men	Actor	--
1983	77%	Gorky Park	William Kirwill	--
1983	100%	Never Cry Wolf	Rosie	--
1983		Joyce to the World	Actor	--
1982		Split Image	Kevin	--
1982	87%	First Blood (Rambo: First Blood)	Teasle	--
1981		Skokie	Chief Arthur Buchanan	--
1981		The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories	Actor	--
1980		Little Miss Marker	Herbie	--
1980		Rumor of War	Coleman	--
1980		To Love Again	Actor	--
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		Butch and Sundance - The Early Days	Actor	--
1979		The Jericho Mile	Dr. D.	--
1979	78%	F.I.S.T.	Frank Vasko	--
1978		Ruby & Oswald	Actor	--
1978	74%	Foul Play	Fergie	--
1978		A Real American Hero	Buford Pusser	--
1977	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	--
1948		Great Cop Movies	Actor	--
		Hard Stick	Actor	--
		Guys With Guns	Actor	--
		Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale	Actor	--

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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 (2 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 (5 months ago)