Marine Corps — though he would backtrack on a story he related about serving in Vietnam — and attended Yale as a graduate student. Early on, he honed his acting chops in regional theater, supporting himself as a meat truck driver, a Merrill Lynch stockbroker and a bartender.
In , he appeared with Stallone in F. After recurring as D. Dennehy had more television success in one-offs, collecting six Emmy nominations for his work in telefilms and miniseries. TMZ was first to report the news of his death. He wanted to be an actor; his father, a journalist for the Associated Press , thought law was a better choice. He joined the Marines Corp at 21 and did a tour of duty in Vietnam during early s. My wounds were superficial and my experience in Vietnam was superficial.
I had no war to speak of. He called it the best apprenticeship to become an actor. Dennehy began acting on stage, where an agent saw the broad-shouldered actor performing Anton Chekhov's Ivanov and set his career in motion. But his real movie breakout came in when he starred as the unreasonable sheriff opposite Sylvester Stallone in First Blood , the first Rambo film. Club in It was a huge success for Stallone. He told the New York Times in that he had incurred shrapnel injuries in Vietnam.
After the Marines, he completed a graduate degree in dramatic arts at Yale and then worked as a delivery driver, a butcher, a bartender and a stockbroker. In the early s he decided to give acting a concerted shot after several years of community theatre in Long Island. Dennehy worked relentlessly throughout his career. He appeared in a series of TV movies, five of which he also directed, as the Chicago cop Jack Reed, beginning with Deadly Matrimony Recently he had recurring roles on television in Public Morals and The Blacklist —
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