“I learned first-hand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks,” he told The New York Times in 1989. Marines.īack in New York City in 1965, he pursued acting while working at side jobs. He acted the title role in “Macbeth.” He played football on a scholarship at Columbia University, and he served five years in the U.S. His venture into acting began when he was 14 in New York City and a student at a Brooklyn high school.
And thank you so much for giving us the chance to enunciate them.”ĭennehy was born July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of three sons. They’ve got to be heard, and heard and heard. He was awarded another Tony in 2003 for his role in O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” opposite Vanessa Redgrave, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard.Īt the podium, after thanking his family, co-stars and producers and complementing his competitors, he said: “The words of Eugene O’Neill - they’ve got to be heard. Dennehy seems to kidnap you by force, trapping you inside Willy’s psyche.” “Yet these emotions ring so unerringly true that Mr. “What this actor goes for is close to an everyman quality, with a grand emotional expansiveness that matches his monumental physique,” wrote Ben Brantley in his review of the play for The New York Times. In 1998, Dennehy appeared on Broadway in the classic role of Willy Loman, the worn-out hustler in Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and won the Tony for his performance. In 1990 he played the role of Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh,” a play he reprised at the Goodman with Nathan Lane in 2012 and in Brooklyn in 2015. He appeared in Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” in 1986 and later Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” at far lower salaries than he earned in Hollywood. Those days are gone.”ĭennehy had a long connection with Chicago’s Goodman Theater, which had a reputation for heavy drama. “Movies used to be fun,” he observed in an interview. “The world has lost a great artist,” Sylvester Stallone wrote in tribute on Twitter, saying Dennehy helped him build the character of Rambo.Įventually Dennehy wearied of the studio life.
Tributes came from Hollywood and Broadway, including from Lin-Manuel Miranda, who said he saw Dennehy twice onstage and called the actor “a colossus.” Actor Michael McKean said Dennehy was “brilliant and versatile, a powerhouse actor and a very nice man as well.” Dana Delany, who appeared in a movie with Dennehy, said: “They don’t make his kind anymore.”Īmong his 40-odd films, he played a sheriff who jailed Rambo in “First Blood,” a serial killer in “To Catch a Killer,” and a corrupt sheriff gunned down by Kevin Kline in “Silverado.” He also had some benign roles: the bartender who consoles Dudley Moore in “10” and the levelheaded leader of aliens in “Cocoon” and its sequel.
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