Dennehy, Brian

1938 - Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on the 9th of July.

1959-1963 - Dennehy joined the United States Marine Corps.

1980 - Dennehy gradually became a valuable character actor in films.

1982 - His breakthrough role was as the overzealous Sheriff Will Teasle in the First Blood opposite Sylvester Stallone as Rambo.

1985 - His other roles include: a corrupt sheriff in the western Silverado, and an alien in Cocoon, both released.

1987 - He won the Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.

1989 - Dennehy became a veteran with disputed status when he told the New York Times that he received shrapnel wounds in the Vietnam War.

1990 - He later played memorable supporting parts in such films as Legal Eagles and Presumed Innocent.

1992 - He was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television movies including one for his performance as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the miniseries To Catch A Killer.

1995 - Dennehy has made frequent performances in the Chicago theatre world, and made his Broadway debut in Brian Friel's Translations.

1999 - Dennehy was parodied in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

         - He was the first male performer to be voted the Sarah Siddons Award for his work in Chicago theatre.

2000 - Dennehy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for a television presentation of his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway.

2007 - He made a return to Broadway as Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind opposite Christopher Plummer.