# Brian Dennehy

Brian Manion Dennehy (/ˈdɛnəhi/; July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included First Blood (1982), Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Tommy Boy (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Knight of Cups (2015). Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000). Dennehy's final film was Driveways (2019), in which he plays a veteran of the Korean War, living alone, who befriends a young, shy boy who has come with his mother to clean out his deceased aunt's hoarded home.
According to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill's works on stage and screen. He had a decades-long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the plays’ authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.

## Early life

Brian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Hannah (Manion), a nurse, and Edward Dennehy, a wire service editor for the Associated Press. He had two brothers, Michael and Edward. He was of Irish ancestry and was raised Catholic. The family relocated to Long Island, New York, where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the village of Mineola.
He entered Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship in the fall of 1956. He interrupted his college education to spend five years in the U.S. Marines. He was stationed in the U.S., Japan, and Korea. He returned to Columbia in 1960 and graduated in 1965 with a B.A. in history. While acting in regional theater he supported his family by working blue-collar jobs including driving a taxi and bartending. He hated his brief stint as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in their Manhattan office in the mid-1970s. He later described how working odd hours allowed him to attend matinee theater performances that provided his acting education: "I never went to acting school—I was a truck driver and I used to go see everything I could see—Wednesday afternoons". In the 1970s, stage performances in New York led to television and film work.

## Career
### Film

Dennehy was primarily known as a dramatic actor. His breakthrough role was as the overzealous sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982) opposite Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo.
His earlier films included several comedies, like Semi-Tough (1977) with Burt Reynolds (in which he portrayed a pro football player), Foul Play (1978) with Chevy Chase, and 10 (1979) with Dudley Moore (as a Manzanillo bartender). He appeared in the 1983 thriller Gorky Park as William Kirwill opposite William Hurt and Lee Marvin. He later portrayed a corrupt sheriff in the western Silverado and an alien in Cocoon, both released in 1985.
Dennehy had memorable supporting parts in such films as Split Image (1982), Never Cry Wolf (1983), Legal Eagles (1986), Cocoon: The Return (1988), F/X: Murder By Illusion (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991) and Prophet of Evil (1993).
Dennehy gradually became a valuable character actor but also achieved leading-man status in the thriller Best Seller (1987) co-starring James Woods. That same year, he also starred in the Peter Greenaway film The Belly of an Architect, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 1987 Chicago International Film Festival. Commenting upon this unusual venture, Dennehy said, "I've been in a lot of movies but this is the first film I've made."
He went on to star as Harrison in the Australian film The Man from Snowy River II in 1988.
One of his most well-known roles came in the 1995 Chris Farley-David Spade comedy Tommy Boy as Big Tom Callahan. He also was reunited with his 10 co-star Bo Derek in Tommy Boy, in which she played his wife. The following year, he played Romeo's father in Romeo + Juliet.
Dennehy had a voice role in the 2007 animated movie Ratatouille as Django, father of the rat chef Remy. He appeared as the superior officer of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the 2008 cop drama Righteous Kill and as the father of Russell Crowe in the 2010 suspense film The Next Three Days.
Dennehy starred as Clarence Darrow in Alleged, a film based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, the famous court battle over the teaching of evolution in American public schools.

### Television

Dennehy's early professional acting career included small guest roles in such 1970s and 1980s series as Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas, Dynasty, and Hunter. He also appeared in an episode of Miami Vice during the 1987–88 season.
Dennehy portrayed Sergeant Ned T. "Frozen Chosen" Coleman in the television movie A Rumor of War (1980) opposite Brad Davis. He continued to appear in such high-profile television films as Skokie (1981), Split Image (1982), Day One (1989), and A Killing in a Small Town (1990) opposite Barbara Hershey. He also played the title role in HBO's Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story.
Dennehy had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star of the Family. Despite his star power, that show was cancelled after a half-season. He starred in the crime drama Jack Reed TV movies.
Dennehy was nominated for Emmy Awards six times for his television movies. In 1992, he was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for his performance as John Wayne Gacy in To Catch a Killer, and he was nominated that same year in a different category, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for The Burden of Proof. Dennehy's other Emmy nominations were for his work in A Killing in a Small Town, Murder in the Heartland (1993) and his work in the Showtime cable TV movie Our Fathers (2005), which was about the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. In 2000, Dennehy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for a television presentation for his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman which he had performed on Broadway. While not gaining the actor an Emmy win, the performance did, however, win him a Golden Globe Award. He also appeared as a recurring character in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!.
A cartoon version of Dennehy appeared in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as well as in an episode of The Simpsons.
In January 2007, he starred in the episode "Scheherazade" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a retired criminal who wants to reconnect with his daughter and admit his crimes before dying of a terminal disease thus eventually clearing a wrongfully imprisoned inmate. In April 2008, Dennehy guest-starred as a Teamster boss in "Sandwich Day", an episode of the TV series 30 Rock. He guest-starred in a 2009 episode of Rules of Engagement as the father of the main character, Jeff.
Dennehy starred as Elizabeth Keen's grandfather on the NBC series The Blacklist since the third season until his death from sepsis. He is replaced by actor Ron Raines during the show's eighth season.
In 2015 Dennehy co-starred in the Amazon Studios pilot Cocked with Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, Diora Baird, and Sam Trammell.
Dennehy also narrated many television programs including the Canadian-Irish docudrama Death or Canada.

### Theater

Dennehy won two Tony Awards, both times for Best Lead Actor in a Play. His first win was for Death of a Salesman (for which he also won a Laurence Olivier Award for the production's London run), in 1999, and the second was for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003. Both productions were directed by Robert Falls and were originally produced at the Goodman Theatre company in Chicago, Illinois. His acting in the "Salesman" was called "the performance of Dennehy's career".
On stage, Dennehy frequently performed in the Chicago theater world, and made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's Translations. In 1999, he was the first male performer to be voted the Sarah Siddons Award for his work in Chicago theater. He made a return to Broadway in 2007 as Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind opposite Christopher Plummer, then returned again opposite Carla Gugino in a 2009 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.
In fall 1992, he played the lead role of Hickey in Robert Falls's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
In 2008, Dennehy appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Ontario, appearing in All's Well That Ends Well as the King of France, and a double bill of plays, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, where Dennehy reprised the role of Erie Smith. In 2010, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In December 2010, he returned to Ireland to play Bull McCabe in the Olympia Theatre of Dublin's stage version of John B. Keane's The Field.
In 2011, Dennehy returned to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the role of Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He also played Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, the first Pinter work to be produced there.
In April through June 2012, he played the role of Larry Slade in the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, which he reprised in 2015 when the production, with most of the Goodman Theater production cast, was revived at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, New York, New York.

## Military service

Dennehy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps serving from 1958 to 1963, including playing football on Okinawa. In several interviews, he described being wounded in combat and repeatedly claimed to have served in Vietnam.
In 1999, he apologized for misrepresenting his military record, stating: "I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that."

## Personal life

Dennehy married for the first time while in the Marines in 1959. Before he finished college he and his first wife had three daughters. Two of them became actresses, including Elizabeth Dennehy. After his first marriage ended in divorce in 1987, he married Jennifer Arnott, an Australian, in 1988, they had two children, a son and a daughter.

## Death

Dennehy died on April 15, 2020, of cardiac arrest due to sepsis. in New Haven, Connecticut. He was survived by his wife and his five children.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1977 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Surgeon | |
| 1977 | Semi-Tough | T.J. Lambert | |
| 1978 | F.I.S.T. | Frank Vasko | |
| 1978 | Foul Play | Inspector "Fergie" Ferguson | |
| 1979 | Butch and Sundance: The Early Days | O.C. Hanks | |
| 1979 | 10 | Don, The Bartender | |
| 1980 | Little Miss Marker | Herbie | |
| 1982 | Split Image | Kevin Stetson | |
| 1982 | First Blood | Sheriff Will Teasle | |
| 1983 | Never Cry Wolf | Rosie Little | |
| 1983 | Gorky Park | William Kirwill | |
| 1984 | Finders Keepers | Mayor Frizzoli | |
| 1984 | The River Rat | "Doc" Cole | |
| 1985 | Cocoon | Walter | |
| 1985 | Silverado | Sheriff Cobb | |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime | Nick | |
| 1986 | F/X | Detective Leo McCarthy | |
| 1986 | The Check Is in the Mail | Richard Jackson | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | C.J. Cavanaugh | |
| 1987 | The Belly of an Architect | Stourley Kracklite | |
| 1987 | Best Seller | Lieutenant Dennis Meechum | |
| 1988 | The Man from Snowy River II | Harrison | |
| 1988 | Miles from Home | Frank Roberts Sr. | |
| 1988 | Cocoon: The Return | Walter | Uncredited role |
| 1989 | Indio | Whytaker | |
| 1989 | Seven Minutes | Wagner | |
| 1990 | Blue Heat | Detective Lieutenant Frank Daly | aka The Last of the Finest |
| 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Raymond Horgan | |
| 1991 | F/X2 | Leo McCarthy | |
| 1992 | Gladiator | Jimmy Horn | |
| 1995 | Tommy Boy | Tom "Big Tom" Callahan II | |
| 1995 | The Stars Fell on Henrietta | Dave "Big Dave" McDermot | |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Ted Montague | |
| 1999 | Out of the Cold | David Bards | |
| 1999 | Silicon Towers | Tom Warner | |
| 2000 | Dish Dogs | Frost | |
| 2001 | Summer Catch | John Schiffner | |
| 2002 | Stolen Summer | Father Kelly | |
| 2002 | Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero | The Narrator | |
| 2002 | Drawing First Blood | Himself | Short |
| 2004 | She Hate Me | Chairman Billy Church | |
| 2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Officer Jasper O'Shea | |
| 2005 | Tommy Boy: Behind the Laughter | Himself | Short |
| 2005 | 10th and Wolf | FBI Agent Horvath | |
| 2006 | Everyone's Hero | Babe Ruth | Voice |
| 2006 | The Ultimate Gift | Gus Caldwell | |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Django | Voice |
| 2007 | Welcome to Paradise | Bobby Brown | |
| 2007 | War Eagle, Arkansas | Pop | |
| 2008 | Cat City | Harold Vogessor | |
| 2008 | Righteous Kill | Lieutenant J.D. Hingus | |
| 2010 | Every Day | Ernie Freed | |
| 2010 | Meet Monica Velour | "Pop Pop" | |
| 2010 | The Next Three Days | George Brennan | |
| 2010 | Alleged | Clarence Darrow | |
| 2011 | The Big Year | Raymond Harris | |
| 2012 | Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Joseph | |
| 2018 | The Seagull | Sorin Arkadin | |
| 2018 | Tag | Mr. Cilliano, Randy's Father | Uncredited |
| 2018 | The Song of Sway Lake | Hal Sway | |
| 2019 | Driveways | Del | |
| 2019 | Master Maggie | Himself | Short |
| 2019 | 3 Days with Dad | Bob Mills | |
| 2020 | Son of the South | J.O. Zellner | Posthumous release |
| TBA | Long Day Journey | | Post-production, Posthumous release; Final film role |

### Television films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1977 | Bumpers | Ernie Stapp | |
| 1977 | Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye | Longshoreman | |
| 1977 | It Happened at Lakewood Manor | Fire Chief | |
| 1978 | A Real American Hero | Buford Pusser | |
| 1978 | Ruby and Oswald | George Paulsen | |
| 1978 | A Death in Canaan | Barney Parsons | |
| 1979 | Dummy | Ragoti | |
| 1979 | The Jericho Mile | Dr. D | |
| 1979 | Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story | Mr. O'Neil | |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Sergeant Ned Coleman | Miniseries |
| 1980 | The Seduction of Miss Leona | Bliss Dawson | |
| 1981 | Skokie | Chief Arthur Buchanan | |
| 1981 | Fly Away Home | Tim Arnold | |
| 1983 | I Take These Men | Phil Zakarian | |
| 1983 | Blood Feud | Edward Grady Partin | |
| 1984 | Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks) | Sergeant Cheever | |
| 1986 | Acceptable Risks | Don Sheppard | |
| 1987 | The Lion of Africa | Sam Marsh | |
| 1988 | A Father's Revenge | Paul Hobart | |
| 1989 | Day One | General Leslie Groves | |
| 1989 | Perfect Witness | James Falcon | |
| 1990 | A Killing in a Small Town | Ed Reivers | |
| 1990 | Rising Son | Gus Robinson | |
| 1989 | Pride and Extreme Prejudice | Bruno Morenz | |
| 1991 | In Broad Daylight | Len Rowan | |
| 1992 | The Diamond Fleece | Lieutenant Merritt Outlaw | |
| 1992 | Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story | Jackie Presser | |
| 1992 | To Catch a Killer | John Wayne Gacy | |
| 1992 | The Burden of Proof | Dixon Hartnell | Miniseries |
| 1992 | Deadly Matrimony | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1993 | Foreign Affairs | Chuck Mumpson | |
| 1993 | Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story | Ervil LeBaron | Film [Hearst Entertainment INC] |
| 1993 | Final Appeal | Perry Sundquist | |
| 1993 | Jack Reed: Badge of Honor | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1993 | Murder in the Heartland | John McCarthur | Miniseries |
| 1994 | Leave of Absence | Sam | |
| 1994 | Midnight Movie | James Boyce | |
| 1994 | Jack Reed: A Search for Justice | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1995 | Jack Reed: One of Our Own | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1995 | Shadow of a Doubt | Charlie Sloan | |
| 1996 | Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1996 | Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance | Sergeant Jack Reed | |
| 1996 | A Season in Purgatory | Gerald Bradley | |
| 1996 | Undue Influence | Paul Madriani | |
| 1997 | Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan | Eddie Brannigan | |
| 1998 | Voyage of Terror | U.S. President | |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Senator Riegle | |
| 1999 | Netforce | Lowell Davidson | |
| 1999 | Sirens | Lieutenant Denby | |
| 1999 | Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke | Louis Bromfield | |
| 2000 | Fail Safe | General Bogan | |
| 2000 | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | |
| 2001 | Warden of Red Rock | Sheriff Church | |
| 2001 | Three Blind Mice | Matthew Hope | |
| 2002 | A Season on the Brink | Bobby Knight | |
| 2003 | The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron | Mr. Blue | |
| 2003 | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Tom Stone | |
| 2004 | Category 6: Day of Destruction | Andy Goodman | Miniseries |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Father Dominic Spagnolia | |
| 2005 | The Exonerated | Gary Gauger | |
| 2007 | Marco Polo | Kublai Khan | |
| 2013 | The Challenger Disaster | Chairman William Rogers | |
| 2015 | The Ultimate Legacy | Gus Caldwell | Hallmark movie |
| 2017 | A Very Merry Toy Store | Joe Haggarty | |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1977 | Kojak | Peter Connor | Episode: "The Godson" |
| 1977 | Serpico | Jody | Episode: "Sanctuary" |
| 1977 | Lanigan's Rabbi | Burton Tree | Episode: "Corpse of the Year" |
| 1977 | Police Woman | Burrows | Episode: "Shadow of Doubt" |
| 1977 | Lou Grant | Wilson | Episode: "Nazi" |
| 1977 | M*A*S*H | M.P. Sergeant Ernie Connors | Episode: "Souvenirs" |
| 1977 | Lucan | Fisher | Episode: "Listen to the Heart Beat" |
| 1977 | The Fitzpatricks | Coach Hatfield | Episode: "Superman" |
| 1978 | Pearl | Sergeant Otto Chain | 3 episodes |
| 1978 | Dallas | Luther Frick | Episode: "Winds of Vengeance" |
| 1978 | The Tony Randall Show | Brian Sr. | Episode: "Bobby and Brian" |
| 1979 | Big Shamus, Little Shamus | Arnie Sutter | 2 episodes |
| 1979 | Knots Landing | James Cargill | Episode: "Chance of a Lifetime" |
| 1981 | Dynasty | District Attorney Jake Dunham | 5 episodes |
| 1981 | Darkroom | Roland | Episode: "Make-Up" |
| 1982 | Star of the Family | Leslie Krebs | 10 episodes |
| 1984 | Cagney & Lacey | Michael MacGruder | Episode: "The Bounty Hunter" |
| 1984 | Hunter | Dr. Bolin | Episode: "Hunter" |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Matthew Malone | 3 episodes |
| 1985 | The Last Place on Earth | Frederick Cook | 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Tall Tales & Legends | Buffalo Bill | Episode: "Annie Oakley" |
| 1987 | Miami Vice | Reverend Billy Bob Proverb | Episode: "Amen...Send Money" |
| 1987 | Faerie Tale Theatre | King Neptune (Narrator) | Voice, Episode: "The Little Mermaid" |
| 1994 | Birdland | Dr. Brian McKenzie | 4 episodes |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Major Chvallie | 2 episodes |
| 1996 | Nostromo | Joshua C. Holyrod | 4 episodes |
| 1998–2003 | Just Shoot Me | 'Red' Finch | 4 episodes |
| 2001 | The Fighting Fitzgeralds | Fitzgerald | 10 episodes |
| 2005 | The West Wing | Senator Rafe Framhagen | Episode: "Ninety Miles Away" |
| 2006 | The 4400 | Mitch Baldwin | Episode: "Blink" |
| 2007 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Judson Tierney | Episode: "Scheherezade" |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction | Bedzyk | Episode: "The Discarded" |
| 2008 | 30 Rock | Mickey J. | Episode: "Sandwich Day" |
| 2009 | Rules of Engagement | Roy | Episode: "Dad's Visit" |
| 2010 | Rizzoli & Isles | Detective Kenny Leahy | Episode: "Boston Strangler Redux" |
| 2012 | The Good Wife | 'Bucky' Stabler | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | The Big C | Mr. Tolkey | Episode: "The Finale" |
| 2015 | Public Morals | Joe Patton | 8 episodes |
| 2016–2020 | The Blacklist | Dominic Wilkinson | 9 episodes (dedicated to Dennehy's memory in his 9th episode) |
| 2017 | Hap and Leonard | Sheriff Valentine Otis | 6 episodes |
| 2020 | Penny Dreadful: City of Angels | Jerome Townsend | Episode: "Sing, Sing, Sing" (dedicated to Dennehy's memory) |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Django |
| 2012 | Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | Django |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 1993 | American Television Awards | Best Actor in a Miniseries | To Catch a Killer | Won |
| 2020 | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Driveways | Runner-up |
| 1991 | CableACE Awards | Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Perfect Witness | Nominated |
| 1994 | CableACE Awards | Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Foreign Affairs | Won |
| 2020 | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Driveways | Nominated |
| 1999 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Death of a Salesman | Won |
| 2003 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated |
| 1996 | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Television Feature of Miniseries | Shadow of a Doubt | Nominated |
| 2020 | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Driveways | Runner-up |
| 2000 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Death of a Salesman | Won |
| 2000 | Grammy Awards | Best Spoken Word Album | The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets | Nominated |
| 2020 | Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Driveways | Nominated |
| 2002 | Online Film & Television Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Nominated |
| 1990 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | A Killing in a Small Town | Nominated |
| 1992 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | To Catch a Killer | Nominated |
| 1992 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | The Burden of Proof | Nominated |
| 1993 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Murder in the Heartland | Nominated |
| 2000 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Death of a Salesman | Nominated |
| 2005 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Our Fathers | Nominated |
| 2020 | Producers Guild of America Awards | David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Death of a Salesman | Won |
| 2020 | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Actor | Driveways | Nominated |
| 1996 | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | A Season in Purgatory | Nominated |
| 1998 | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Nominated |
| 2005 | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | Our Fathers | Nominated |
| 2020 | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Motion Picture | Driveways | Nominated |
| 2000 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | Death of a Salesman | Won |
| 2020 | Sochi International Film Festival | Best Actor | Driveways | Won |
| 1999 | Tony Awards | Best Leading Actor in a Play | Death of a Salesman | Won |
| 2003 | Tony Awards | Best Leading Actor in a Play | Long Day's Journey into Night | Won |