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He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the play's authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.īrian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Hannah (Manion), a nurse, and Edward Dennehy, a wire service editor for the Associated Press.
He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett.
He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. Brian's final film was Driveways (2020), in which he plays a veteran of the Korean war, living alone, who befriends a young, shy, boy, who has come with his mom to clean out his deceased aunt's hoarded home.Īccording to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill's works on stage and screen. Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000). Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions.
He won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Brian Manion Dennehy ( / ˈ d ɛ n ə h i/ J– April 15, 2020) was an American actor of stage, television, and film.
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