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American actor Brian Dennehy , the chiseled featured of pine, and towering figure in dozens of movies, died at the Age Of 81 of Natural Causes .

On the screen, he starred in macho roles such as The Sheriff , the prisons Rambo in "First Blood " and portrayed the serial killer John Wayne Gacy To Catch A murderer.

His work earned him a Golden Globe and six Emmy nominations.

But Dennehy was equally At Home with the classic play On Stage and won two Tony Awards .

Hamilton, Creator of the people on Twitter who say: "happy enough to see Brian Dennehy twice on the stage, mostly in the Love Letters , and Monumental heart-wrenching In Death of A salesman. A Colossus. What a loss. "

a Fellow of The American actor James Woods , who tweeted, played next to him in the Bestseller, complained of a "beloved friend and colleague", "I've never laughed so hard as we Every Day on The Set or off"

Born on 9. July 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he took up acting at the Age Of 14 years in New York City, where he studied at a High School in Brooklyn. He played the title role in a production of Macbeth.

A scholarship at Columbia University followed, And Then five years of service in the US Marines.

Physically, Dennehy was an imposing man, standing at 6ft 3in (1. 9m). To Finance his acting career in the 1960s, he worked as a Truck Driver , a bartender and a seller.

"I had to do a living in those jobs, just so," he told The New York Times in 1989.

Dennehy broke Into Film in 1977, Semi-Tough, starring Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson . He was the $10,000 paid per week for 10 weeks of work and it "looked like it was all The Money in The World ," he was quoted by the Associated Press .

Other films include Gorky Park , Legal Eagles .

In 1991, came To Catch the TV movie, A killer, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding lead actor in a mini series or a Special.

"I'm trying to play rogue, As If they are Good Guys and Good Guys , As If they were villains," He Said in an interview The Following year.

There were numerous roles in TV dramas, including Dallas and dynasty.

In 2007, he has the character of a rat named Django in The Hit Pixar animation Ratatouille, deliver lines like "Now shut up and eat your garbage".

Dennehy 's theatre work ranged from Shakespeare and Chekhov to American sizes such as Miller and O'neill: he won Tony Awards for death of A salesman (1999) and Long day's journey Into night (2003).

The 2000 TV adaptation of " death of a salesman, he received a Golden Globe .

He died not from Natural Causes , in connection with coronavirus at his Connecticut home on Wednesday evening with his wife, Jennifer, and son Cormac on his side, his agent to the news Agency AFP news agency said.

Brian Dennehy is also Survived By four other children, three of whom are from a previous Marriage .

Source of news: bbc.com