Brian Manion Dennehy

Born in Connecticut and dying in Connecticut, he spent his school years on Long Island, NY. Brian attended college at Columbia University, where he majored in history, played football and rugby, and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He went on to get a grad degree from Yale in dramatic arts and then work for as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in their Manhattan office in the mid 1970s. But in 1977, Dennehy really moved into acting. His first film, "Bumpers", and his first tv film, "Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye" both came out that year. A winner of one Golden Globe, two Tony Awards and a recipient of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, he performed on stage, screen, and tv. He married twice and had 5 children.