# RIP Brian Dennehy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [April 16, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938 "2020-04-16T18:25:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/21 "2020-04-17T03:20:48Z")
I think I first spotted him in _10_ as the aw-shucks bartender, but he really made an impression on me in _Cocoon_ and _F/X_. A very talented actor, and he will be missed. He also was, to his credit, a big enough man to apologize for lying about his military service. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/22 "2020-04-17T04:48:55Z")
I saw him on stage in London doing Death of a Salesman a few years back. Magnificent performance. Vale. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/23 "2020-04-17T06:40:23Z")
I winced a little bit when I saw the headline of one story marking him as the “Tommy Boy” actor. I have to imagine that his spirit might’ve winced a little bit, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/24 "2020-04-17T12:06:26Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I winced a little bit when I saw the headline of one story marking him as the “Tommy Boy” actor. I have to imagine that his spirit might’ve winced a little bit, too. To be fair, he was _perfect_ in that role. The whole point is that we spend the rest of the movie watching his son try to follow in Dad’s footsteps, and mostly fall short; and that only works if we first see a genial Brian Dennehy _completely in his element,_ talking like a small-town mayor at the bank before shooting the breeze with the guys on his factory floor before amiably closing a deal that plenty of people are counting on, and all by constantly thinking in terms of quality products that save lives. I can’t readily think of anyone who could’ve fielded that better. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/25 "2020-05-17T17:43:41Z")
I had missed this, until Blacklist did an _in memoriam_ card for with their season finale. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/26 "2020-05-17T18:14:07Z")
The link in post #3 isn’t the one that occurs to me in respect to Brian Dennehy but rather this one (at 1:08): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sNJmfuEWR8w/maxresdefault.jpg "What Would Brian Boitano Do? - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (7/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w) ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938/27 "2020-05-17T22:32:36Z")
[quote=“Wendell\_Wagner, post:26, topic:851938”] The link in post #3 isn’t the one that occurs to me in respect to Brian Dennehy but rather this one (at 1:08): [/QUOTE] If you got a better rhyme than this, I'd like to hear it: Favorite coach: Ditka; Vacation Place: 'Sconsin. Sausage: Johnson’s. Chicken: Swanson’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-brian-dennehy/851938.md?page=1)