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Brian Dennehy dies at 81

  • 17-04-2020 01:59AM
    #1
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭


    Sad to here this. Most will remember him as the cop in Rambo First blood but I remember him most from the brilliant 1992 made for tv film 'to catch a killer'

    He played the serial killer John Wayne gacy. Its available on youtube and he is so good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tfyIYKHWk


Comments

  • #2
    moby2101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,635 ✭✭✭moby2101


    RIP

    An amazing talent. Saw him for the first time in To Catch a Killer. He had an amazing onscreen/stage presence.


  • #3
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    Was always in awe of his on-screen presence. Very menacing as John Gacy.

    Saw him in the Abbey in The Iceman Cometh.
    https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/512/
    Was young, and bold, and used a camera in the dark and he heard the click. Mortified and a dope.

    God rest him. Superb actor.


  • #4
    lomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭lomb


    F/X was his best role imho. Great actor.


  • #5
    tdf7187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    I met Brian Dennehy once at a charity event. He was surprisingly down to earth and VERY witty.


  • #6
    Hangdogroad
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    He was a frequent visitor to Ireland, had family in Cork.


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  • #7
    Rodney Bathgate
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    I love Gorky Park, will rewatch it this weekend.


  • #8
    babybuilder
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    Cocoon.


  • #9
    world class wreckin’ cru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭world class wreckin’ cru


    One of those faces that always brought a certain comfort (for want of a better word) while on screen. If you 'switched over' back in the day and saw his face, you knew it was going to something at least semi-enjoyable.

    His portrayal of Will Teasle was excellent. A real authentic mean streak in that performance.

    RIP.


  • #10
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    He was parodied in a episode of the Simpsons, just can't remember which one.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #11
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    Video shops in the eighties were full of a genre of film best described as true-life weepies. Many of them starred Brian Dennehy. He certainly was a busy actor.


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  • #12
    GreeBo
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    Nervous Laugh wrote: »
    One of those faces that always brought a certain comfort (for want of a better word) while on screen. If you 'switched over' back in the day and saw his face, you knew it was going to something at least semi-enjoyable.

    His portrayal of Will Teasle was excellent. A real authentic mean streak in that performance.

    RIP.

    This.

    If you happened upon something with him in it you knew you were ok.


  • #13
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Godspeed, Bri


  • #14
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,510 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Ken. wrote: »
    Sad to here this. Most will remember him as the cop in Rambo First blood but I remember him most from the brilliant 1992 made for tv film 'to catch a killer'

    He played the serial killer John Wayne gacy. Its available on youtube and he is so good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tfyIYKHWk

    Just watched it. He was excellent. Just came across a clip from the film on you tube that must have been cut out from the above, where he's dressed up as a clown. Worth a watch.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Be right back wrote: »
    Just watched it. He was excellent.

    Definitely my favourite one but I loved everything he was in,I went to see him in the INEC in Killarney years ago in The Field,it was excellent, I think he had a house in the Macroom area,he was brilliant and seemed like a really lovely person in interviews, rip Brian.


  • #16
    fryup
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    Sort of ironic he should die in these cocoon'ing times as he starred in Cocoon

    RIP.


  • #17
    Your Face
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    He was so good as Will Teasle I was kind of rooting for him.

    R.I.P.


  • #18
    Green Peter
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    Good actor, RIP


  • #19
    Jonybgud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Jonybgud


    This is devastating...

    they'll still make the rashers, right? :eek:


  • #20
    ArchXStanton
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    RIP

    Always remember him from a film called River rat years ago


  • #21
    Dravokivich
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    He was brilliant in Gladiator. Quite menacing throughout it.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    no better man to play the guy in on the conspiracy, the irish-american mafia or tammany hall politics or the corrupt cop setup

    loved his gig playing up on that image in 30 rock


  • #23
    Mickeroo
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    He did a tour of Ireland playing Bull McCabe in The Field. He was great in it and his irish accent wasn't bad either.

    RIP.

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  • #24
    Thelonious Monk
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    I can't believe he was only 81 tbh


  • #25
    storker
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    He was brilliant in Gladiator. Quite menacing throughout it.

    Ah...that "Gladiator". Self-:rolleyes:

    We was chilling as Gacey, and also good in Gorky Park...and in the now-forgotten, it seems, Best Seller, alongside James Woods.



  • #26
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Great actor.
    Had a real "don't mess with him" performance.


  • #27
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Another talent gone, but the memory will live on. RIP


  • #28
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    He will always be the Sheriff who picks a fight with the wrong man in First Blood to me :)


  • #29
    Dravokivich
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    storker wrote: »
    Ah...that "Gladiator". Self-:rolleyes:

    We was chilling as Gacey, and also good in Gorky Park...and in the now-forgotten, it seems, Best Seller, alongside James Woods.


    If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend it.


  • #30
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    He was a frequent visitor to Ireland, had family in Cork.

    Good Cork surname in fairness.


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