FrameThrower · Actors · Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy
10 films · 1,011 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1982–2015
Born 9 July 1938 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA · died 15 April 2020
Brian Manion Dennehy was an American actor of film, stage, and television. His breakthrough film role was as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982). Typically a character actor, Dennehy displayed versatility in varying and often complex roles ranging from villainous (such as a corrupt sheriff in the 1985 western Silverado) to virtuous (such as a benevolent alien leader in Cocoon, also released in 1985).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 1,011 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1982–2015
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play2003
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1999
- honorary doctor of the Hofstra University
- John Jay Award
- Laurence Olivier Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,011 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Brian takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
F/X2
1991 · Leo McCarthy
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Raymond Horgan
The Belly of an Architect
1987 · Stourley Kracklite
F/X
1986 · Lt. Leo McCarthy
Cocoon
1985 · Walter
Gorky Park
1983 · William Kirwill
First Blood
1982 · Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Knight of Cups
2015 · Joseph
Ratatouille
2007 · Django (voice)
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Ted Montague
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,011 frames from Brian Dennehy's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.