Brian Dennehy
Audiences rate Brian Dennehy’s films higher than 63% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): First Blood (YouTube, Tubi, Kanopy) · F/X (Tubi, Kanopy) · Presumed Innocent (Tubi, Hoopla, Plex) · The Ultimate Gift (YouTube, Philo, Roku Channel, The CW, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Never Cry Wolf (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · The Next Three Days (Prime Video (free), Hoopla, Fawesome) and 7 more.
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The ThumbScore for Brian Dennehy (73.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 27 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Brian's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of film, stage, and television. His breakthrough film role was as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982). Typically a character actor, Dennehy displayed versatility in varying and often complex roles ranging from villainous (such as a corrupt sheriff in the 1985 western Silverado) to virtuous (such as a benevolent alien leader in Cocoon, also released in 1985). Other notable films featuring Dennehy include Gorky Park (1983), Never Cry Wolf (1983), Legal Eagles (1986), F/X (1986), Tommy Boy (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Ratatouille (2007). A prominent figure in the theater world (especially in Chicago), Dennehy won two Tony Awards for Best Lead Actor, for Death of a Salesman (1999) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2003). He starred in numerous television films and miniseries, garnering six Emmy Award nominations, and had memorable supporting and guest roles in many series including Just Shoot Me, The Good Wife, and The Blacklist.
Born 1938-07-09 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Died 2020-04-15.
On ThumbScore, Brian Dennehy appears in 27 films with an average audience score of 73.0%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.
Sources: TMDB
