Brian Dennehy has appeared in over 40 feature films since his 1977 debut in Michael Ritchie's "Semi Tough." Some of those credits are Blake Edwards' "10," Ron Howard's "Cocoon," Lawrence Kasdan's "Silverado," Alan Pakula's "Presumed Innocent," Michael Apted's "Gorky Park" and Peter Greenaway's "The Belly of the Architect," for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Chicago Film Festival.
He recently starred opposite Chris Farley and David Spade in the hit comedy "Tommy Boy," and co-starred with Robert Duvall in "The Stars Fell on Henrietta."
Dennehy is a familiar face on television, having starred in several television movies based on the real-life police detective Jack Reed. Dennehy made his debut as a co-writer/director on the third installment of the popular NBC movies, "Jack Reed: A Search For Justice," on which he also functioned as co-executive producer. He served in the same capacities on "Jack Reed: One of Our Own." Dennehy also co-wrote, directed and starred in the NBC telefilm "Shadow of a Doubt," with Bonnie Bedelia and Faruiza Balk. The latter two movies ranked in the top ten for NBC for the 1995-96 season.