Brian Dennehy

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Filmography (All Films)

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F.I.S.T. (Fist) (1978): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle…; Earnest union drama with Stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type union leader whose idealism is gradually corrupted. Curious misfire is worth a watch with a…
Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey…; Surprisingly enjoyable prequel to BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID has the roguish duo pursued across various New Mexico landscapes. Utterly…
First Blood (Rambo) (1982): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy…; The first, most serious, and so perhaps most hilarious of the Rambo films has Sly Stallone as a buff Vietnam vet who loses his marbles and goes…
Gorky Park (1983): Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy…; William Hurt plays a brooding Russian detective investigating horrific murders in Moscow. Meaty, convincing thriller.
Never Cry Wolf (1983): Dir. Carroll Ballard
Feat. Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy; Contemplative true story with a biologist studying the declining population of caribou in the Canadian tundra. Caused a small storm for being the…
Cocoon (1985): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn…; Delightful fantasy about a group of elderly folk who find the fountain of youth in a swimming pool that has been adopted by alien visitors. A special…
FX (F/X) (1986): Dir. Robert Mandel
Feat. Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy; Some ingenious set pieces and explosive effects highlight this superior action–suspenser. An FX expert is employed to fake the death of a VIP,…
Legal Eagles (1986): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah…; Light rom–com thriller set in New York's art world with Winger and Redford as feuding attorneys.
Cop (1987): Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. James Woods, Brian Dennehy; James Woods gives another intense performance enduring the occupational hazards of crime–fighting. Based on the James Ellroy novel 'Blood On…
Belly of an Architect, The (1987): Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Sergio Fantoni; Brian Dennehy excels as an American architect who faces a mid–life crisis while setting up his exhibition in Rome. Oblique yet trenchant and of…
Best Seller (1987): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant; An arresting thriller with Brian Dennehy and an on–form James Woods.
Man from Snowy River 2, The (1988): Dir. Geoff Burrowes
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Tom Burlinson; Tom Burlinson returns to gather wild horses from up the Snowy River in this lesser sequel. Fits a love–triangle into the draw as well as the…
Presumed Innocent (1990): Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia…; Scott Turow's best seller is faithfully adapted here with Harrison Ford cast as the D.A. who finds himself accused of the rape and murder of a…
In Broad Daylight (1991): Dir. James Steven Sadwith
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Cloris Leachman, Marcia Gay Harden…; True account of how a group of townsfolk took revenge on a barbaric bully whose unlawful antics kept them at his mercy. Brian Dennehy incarnates the…
FX 2 (1991): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy; Far–fetched sequel has special effects genius Bryan Brown come out of retirement, only to become entangled in an elaborate police…
Gladiator (1992): Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, James Marshall, Robert Loggia…; This fist–clenching he–man pic replays many of the licks from ROCKY, but it's played out with relentless professionalism. Marshall and…
Stars Fell On Henrietta (1995): Dir. James Keach
Feat. Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher…; Robert Duvall is a vagrant claiming to be a former oil man who persuades a down–on–their–luck couple that their fields contain oil…
Tommy Boy (1995): Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy…; The apex of stout American comic Farley's short career, as a small town saviour struggling to keep to an auto–parts factory open. Padded out…
Nostromo (1997): Dir. Alastair Reid
Feat. Colin Firth, Albert Finney, Brian Dennehy…; A superb cast is lavished on this BBC version of Joseph Conrad's novel. Colin Firth plays a young English mine–owner struggling against the…
Stolen Summer (2002): Dir. Pete Jones
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak…; The resultant product of a film–making competition in which a novice screenwriter won a chance to direct his own script, this is a respectable…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (2003): Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft…; Reasonably solid telemovie version of Tennessee Williams' only novel, with Mirren here playing the aging actress lured into an affair after the…
Crooked E: Unshredded Truth About Enron, The (2003): Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Shannon Elizabeth, Brian Dennehy; Brazen Enron telemovie dramatizes the scandalous corporate downfall from an insider’s perspective. Like the documentary, the content is juicy,…
She Hate Me (2004): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin…; Another well–packed 'joint' from Spike Lee, has a corporate whistle–blower (Mackie) fired from his job and recruited to impregnate…
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005): Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Drea De Matteo…; Effective update of John Carpenter's 1970s classic in which high–impact action and a fairly convincing raw tenseness carry the wellworn tale of…
Exonerated, The (2005): Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo…; Jarring prison drama focusing on six death row inmates that are exonerated just before their executions due to new evidence becoming available.…
Every Day (2010): Dir. Richard Levine
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino…; Domestic comedy about a television writer whose life goes haywire when his wife's estranged father comes to stay.
Meet Monica Velour (2010): Dir. Keith Bearden
Feat. Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy…; Kim Cattrall shines in this indie drama about a nerdy, movie–loving teen who lusts after a softcore actress and embarks on a road trip to see…
Knight of Cups (2015): Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman…; Terrence Malick's enigmatic ode to existential despair features Christian Bale as a screenwriter living in LA trying to make sense of the strange…

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Filmography (All Films)