“Simply devastated to study that the magnificent Brian Dennehy has died,” actress Mia Farrow wrote on Twitter. “They is nobody I loved working with extra. And there are few pals as valued in my life. I took this photograph backstage after we have been in ‘Love Letters.’ He liked my pup Bowie.”
Dennehy received a Tony for his function in “Demise of a Salesman,” later enjoying the half in a TV manufacturing of the play. He acquired one other for “Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Evening.”
Dennehy had continued to work lately in such sequence as “Hap and Leonard” and NBC’s “The Blacklist.”
Fellow actors mourned Dennehy on Thursday.
Michael McKean
called Dennehy a “
sensible and versatile” and “a powerhouse actor.”
Marlee Matlin
said “his passing is a
horrible loss.”
Brian Dennehy, had a
barely extra humble reflection on his
physique of labor in an interview with the
Daily Actor in 2018.
“I am now 80 and I am simply one other actor and that is advantageous with me. I’ve had a hell of a trip,” he mentioned. “I’ve a pleasant home. I have not acquired a palace, a mansion, however a fairly good, comfy house. I’ve raised a bunch of youngsters and despatched all of them to high school, they usually‘re all doing nicely. All of the folks which are near me are fairly wholesome and comfortable. Hear, that is as a lot as anyone can hope for in life.”