| Brian Dennehy | ||
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| ...as Judson Tierney | ||
| Character Judson Tierney | ||
| Date of birth July 9, 1938 | ||
| Place of birth Bridgeport, Connecticut | ||
| Date of death April 15, 2020 | ||
| Place of death New Haven, Connecticut | ||
| IMDb profile |
Brian Manion Dennehy was an actor who portrayed Judson Tierney in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 8 episode "Scheherazade".
Dennehy won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.
He also starred in the films First Blood, Romeo + Juliet (with Claire Danes, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Paul Sorvino, Diane Venora, Dash Mihok, Zak Orth, and Harold Perrineau), and Ratatouille (with Will Arnett, Brad Garrett, and Janeane Garofalo).
Dennehy starred as Elizabeth Keen's (Megan Boone) grandfather Dominic Wilkinson on the NBC series The Blacklist with Harry Lennix, Hisham Tawfiq, Amir Arison, Laila Robins, and Clark Middleton, since the third season until his death from sepsis. He is replaced by actor Ron Raines during the show's eighth season.
Dennehy married for the first time while in the Marines in the early 1960s. Before he finished college he and his first wife Judith Scheff 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, and they had two children, a boy and a girl.
Dennehy died on April 15, 2020, of cardiac arrest due to sepsis in New Haven, Connecticut. He was survived by Arnott and his five children.