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The younger generation may remember Dennehy best as the voice of Django the rat (Remy’s dad) in Ratatouille.
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How did I not know this? I love that movie!
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I loved Dennehy’s performance in Gorky Park.
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The animators did a fair job capturing Dennehy’s intimidating physicality, slightly hunched posture and perpetually furrowed brow look, like he’s never more than a few moments away from picking a fistfight.
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I remember his appearance on the SNL sketch for Bill Swerski’s Superfans: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694675/characters/nm0001133
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That’s a shame. He had charm and gravitas.
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Oh no. What would Brian Boitano do?
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His legacy of stage and screen work is remarkable. He could do the full range, from the comic to the tragic, from the heroic to the villainous.
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somewhat perfunctory…
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bob-swerskis-super-fans/n10687
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Thats what I was thinking. Lead in Belly of an Architect, and he gets remembered for Tommy Boy? What kind of culture do we live in? People like this would elect somebody like Donald Trump…
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Wasn’t he the Police Detective in FX?
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He was fantastic in Never Cry Wolf.
I remember first seeing Brian Dennehy in the movie adaptation of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. While the movie was bears little resemblance to the book at times, it does relay the major concepts of the book with beauty, even if it lacks fidelity as compared to Mowats book. Below is a clip from the film starting at 1 minute 17 seconds, but the whole clip, and movie, is worth watching.
Source: YouTube clip from Never Cry Wolf, 1983 based on the book by Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowat (GoodReads)
[Edited to add] -TIL (today I learned) that there are essays for sale for students to use in classes about the differences between the movie and the book that one can pay to use. I doubt the users are going to site the essay as a source. ; )
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I first saw him in a failed sitcom on ABC-Star of the Family
He was an accurate and chilling John Wayne Gacy in the made for TV film To Catch a Killer
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I think his masterpiece is his fish-out-of-water portrayal of the titular character in The Belly Of An Architect.
There is a raw vulnerability to his performance that you don’t really see in any other of Peter Greenaways characters.
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He was SO good in “Silverado,” every scene he was in you just wanted to smack the smug off Cobb’s face!
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