Brian Dennehy Biography

After majoring in history at Columbia University, brawny Brian Dennehy 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, Dennehy is a most versatile actor, at home playing Western baddies (Silverado), ulcerated big-city cops (F/X), serial killers (John Wayne Gacy in the made-for-TV To Catch a Killer), by-the-book military types (General Groves in Day One, another TV movie), and vacillating politicos (Presumed Innocent). One of his most rewarding film assignments was as dying architectural genius Stourley Kracklite in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect (1987).In addition to his many TV-movie roles (one of which, good-old-boy Chuck Munson in 1993's Foreign Affairs, won him a Cable Ace Award), Dennehy has starred in the weekly series Big Shamus, Little Shamus (1977), Star of the Family (1981), and Birdland (1994), as well as the sporadically produced Jack Reed feature-length mysteries. It was in one of the last-mentioned projects, Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994), that Dennehy made his directorial debut. Aside from his work in film and television, Dennehy has also had considerable success on the stage, particularly with his Tony-winning portrayal of Willy Loman in the 1998 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Teasle: He was just another drifter who broke the law!
  2. Trautman: Vagrancy wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.
  3. Teasle: Now don't give me any of that crap Trautman. Do you think Rambo was the only guy who had a tough time in Vietnam? He killed a police officer for Christ's sake!
  4. Trautman: You're goddamn lucky he didn't kill all of you.
  From First Blood (Rambo: First Blood). Submitted by Taylor W (2 months ago)

• 1. Teasle: It's over Johnny.
  2. John Rambo: Nothing is over!
  From First Blood (Rambo: First Blood). Submitted by Jeffrey S (3 months ago)

• 1. Martin Harris: You quit school. You quit work.
  From The Big Year. Submitted by Austin G (4 months ago)

• 1. Martin Harris: You bought me drinks and got what you wanted.
  From The Big Year. Submitted by Austin G (4 months ago)

• 1. Trautman: You want a war you can't win?
  2. Teasle: Are you telling me that 200 men against your boy is a no-win situation for us?
  3. Trautman: You send that many, don't forget one thing.
  4. Teasle: What?
  5. Trautman: A good supply of body bags.
  From First Blood (Rambo: First Blood). Submitted by Dann M (5 months ago)

• 1. Carol: Did you just do a victory dance?
  2. Martin Harris: No. [laughs] Maybe. Yes I did.
  From The Big Year. Submitted by Chris P (7 months ago)

• 1. Teasle: Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo.
  2. Trautman: God didn't make Rambo. I made him.
  From First Blood (Rambo: First Blood). Submitted by rocky k (12 months ago)