Brian Manion Dennehy — Actor (54)
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Perfect Witness (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Perfect Witness
director: Robert Mandel actor: Brian Dennehy / Aidan Quinn …
other title: Testimone d'accusa / Testimonio fatal …
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
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Little Miss Marker (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Little Miss Marker
director: Walter Bernstein actor: Walter Matthau / Julie Andrews …
other title: E io mi gioco la bambina / Ein reizender Fratz …
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
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Day One (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Day One
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Brian Manion Dennehy / David Strathairn …
other title: Die Bombe / Day one
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
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Twice in a Lifetime (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Twice in a Lifetime
director: Bud Yorkin actor: Gene Hackman / Ann-Margret …
other title: Due volte nella vita / Zweimal im Leben …
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
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Split Image (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Split Image
director: Ted Kotcheff actor: Michael O'Keefe / Karen Allen …
other title: Punto debole / Das Idol …
An impressionable young man finds himself enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
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The Last of the Finest (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Last of the Finest
director: John Mackenzie actor: Brian Dennehy / Joe Pantoliano …
other title: Punto d'impatto / Blue Heat - Einsame Zeit für Helden …
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
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Finders Keepers (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Finders Keepers
director: Richard Lester actor: Michael O'Keefe / Beverly D'Angelo …
other title: Il treno più pazzo del mondo / Penge på kistebunden …
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.
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Best Seller (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Best Seller
director: John Flynn actor: James Woods / Brian Dennehy …
other title: Pacto Fatal / Bestseller …
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
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The Diamond Fleece (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Diamond Fleece
director: Al Waxman actor: Ben Cross / Kate Nelligan …
other title: La piel del diamante / Diamantenfeuer
Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to consult in constructing safety precautions. However, Inspector Outlaw suspects that Rick may be up to his old wiles.
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Foul Play (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Foul Play
director: Colin Higgins actor: Goldie Hawn / Chevy Chase …
other title: Gioco sleale / Pigen der vidste for meget …
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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In Broad Daylight (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
In Broad Daylight
director: James Steven Sadwith actor: Brian Dennehy / Cloris Leachman …
other title: Vendetta alla luce del giorno
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
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Dummy (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dummy
director: Frank Perry actor: LeVar Burton / Paul Sorvino …
other title: Il sordomuto / El mudo …
The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.
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Son of the South (2021) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Son of the South
director: Barry Alexander Brown actor: Lucas Till / Julia Ormond …
other title: Il colore della libertà / Un fils du sud …
In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him