Brian Dennehy To Make Film Directing Debut With 'Redemption'

Golden Globe And Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy is set to make his film-directing debut. Dennehy will helm "Redemption," a fact-based drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Redemption" involves the story of Joyce Ann Brown -- who spent more than nine years in prison for a 1980 fur store robbery and murder in Dallas that she didn't commit -- and Jim McCloskey, a crusader for the wrongly convicted, who fought for her release.

The screenplay for "Redemption" is written by Dennehy and Joe Seldner. Habourton Entertainment, a partnership of McCloskey, Seldner and James Regan., is producing and financing the film, which is set to begin in the spring.

Dennehy will appear in the upcoming Goodman Theater double bill of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" and Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," directed by Robert Falls and Canadian director Jennifer Tarver and will come to Broadway. The production will open first at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in January, and will start performances on Broadway the week of April 12, 2010, at a theater to be announced.

Dennehy's Broadway credits include Desire Under the Elms (2009), Inherit the Wind (2007), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tony Award for Best Actor 2003), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award for Best Actor 1999) and Translations (1995). Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum at The Public Theatre (2008), Trumbo at Westside Theatre (2004), The Cherry Orchard at Brooklyn Academy Of Music (1988) and Says I, Says He at the Phoenix Theater Company (1979). Regional theater credits include All's Well That Ends Well, Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario (2008); The Exonerated (which toured New York/Chicago/Boston/Washington DC); Says I, Says He at Mark Taper Forum; and Rat in the Skull at Wisdom Bridge Theatre. His credits in London's West End include Death of a Salesman, for which he received the Olivier Best Actor Statue in 2005.

Feature films include Every Day, Miss January, Righteous Kill, War Eagle, Welcome to Paradise, Ratatouille, The Ultimate Gift, Everyone's Hero, 10th & Wolf, Assault on Precinct 13, Stolen Summer, Summer Catch, The Warden, Virtuoso, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet, Presumed Innocent, F/X 2, Seven Minutes, Gladiator, Best Seller, The Last of the Finest, The Belly of an Architect (Best Actor Chicago Film Festival), F/X, Cocoon, Silverado, Twice in a Lifetime, Gorky Park, Legal Eagles, Deep River, 10, Butch and Sundance: The Early Years, Little Miss Marker, Finders, Keepers, Foul Play, F.I.S.T. and Semi-Tough.

Dennehy's television films include Our Fathers (Showtime, Emmy Award nomination Best Supporting Actor), The Exonerated (Court TV), Behind the Camera: Three's Company (NBC), The Crooked E (ABC), A Season on the Brink (ESPN), Three Blind Mice (CBS), Death of a Salesman (Showtime, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor), Thanks to a Grateful Nation (Showtime), The Warden (Showtime), Sirens (Showtime), The Doris Duke Story (CBS), Like Father Like Son (CBS), Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance (NBC), Undue Influence (CBS), A Season in Purgatory (NBC), Dead

Man's Walk (ABC), Jack Reed: A Killer Amongst Us (NBC), Burden of Proof (ABC, Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor), In Broad Daylight (CBS), Shadow of a Doubt (NBC), Jack Reed: A Search For Justice (NBC), The Terrorist (ABC), Jack Reed: An Honest Cop (NBC), To Catch a Killer (The John Wayne Gacy Story) (Tribune, Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor), Murder in the Heartland (ABC, Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor), Nostromo (BBC), Foreign Affairs (TNT, Cable Ace Award for Best Actor), Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (HBO), The Last Place on Earth (BBC), A Killing in a Small Town (CBS, Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor), Day One (ABC), Rising Son (TNT), Perfect Witness (HBO, Cable Ace Award nomination for Best Actor), Prophet of Evil (CBS), A Rumor of War (ABC), Shattered Vows (NBC), Final Appeal (NBC), Acceptable Risks (CBS) and Jericho Mile (ABC).

 

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