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Brian Dennehy, Tony-winning stage, screen actor, dies at 81

by AP Entertainment Writer
| April 19, 2020 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller, has died. He was 81.

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