July 9th, 1938 was the birthday of Brian Dennehy. He is most often remembered for his role as the alien leader in Coccoon, but he was cast in many other movies and in hundreds of television shows.
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Brian Dennehy was also the sheriff in First Blood one of the movies that motivated me to join the military, afterall who didn’t want to be Rambo?
Ummm…Mr. Dennehy, who was an actual Marine, which is commendable, also claimed to have engaged in lots and lots of combat during several years’ service in Viet Nam, which certainly is not commendable. So he’s got that going for him………
Ooops, need an edit to my comment.
Mr. Dennehy FALSELY claimed a combat record in Viet Nam. Didn’t happen. Whilst actual service in Viet Nam is absolutely commendable, falsely claiming to have done so absolutely is not!
Sorry about that, folks.