Dabney Coleman
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Dabney Wharton Coleman (January 3, 1932 – May 16, 2024) was an American actor. Coleman's best known films include 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), Recess: School's Out (2001), Moonlight Mile (2002), and Rules Don't Apply (2016).
Coleman's television roles included the title characters of Buffalo Bill (1983–1984) and The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988), as well as Burton Fallin on The Guardian (2001–2004), the voice of Principal Peter Prickly on Recess (1997–2001), and Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner on Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011). He won one Primetime Emmy Award from six nominations and one Golden Globe Award from three nominations.
Coleman was a character actor with roles in well over 60 films and television programs to his credit. He trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City from 1958 to 1960.
Coleman made his Broadway debut in the short-lived A Call on Kuprin in 1961. In a 1964 episode of Kraft Suspense Theatre titled "The Threatening Eye", Coleman played private investigator William Gunther. Two years later, he played Dr. Leon Bessemer with Bonnie Scott as his wife Judy, neighbors and friends of the protagonist in Season 1 of That Girl, episode 3, "Never Change a Diaper on Opening Night". Noted for his moustache which he grew in 1973, he appeared in the sitcom wearing horn-rimmed glasses and with no facial hair. Other early roles in his career included a U.S. Olympic skiing team coach in Downhill Racer (1969), a high-ranking fire chief in The Towering Inferno (1974), and a wealthy Westerner in Bite the Bullet (1975). He portrayed an FBI agent in Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975).
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Acted in
Still Working 9 to 5
2022
as Self
Yellowstone
2018
as John Dutton Sr.
For The People
2018
as Donald
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Raymond Holliday
Ray Donovan
2013
as Mr. Price
Char·ac·ter
2012
as Self
Pound Puppies
2010
as Mayor (voice)
Boardwalk Empire
2010
as Commodore Louis Kaestner
Hard Four
2007
as Spray Loomis
Heartland
2007
Courting Alex
2006
as Jack Atwell
Domino
2005
as Drake Bishop
Recess: All Growed Down
2003
as Principal Prickley (voice)
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003
as Principal Prickly (voice)
NCIS
2003
as Army Corporal John Sydney
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
as Grandpa
Moonlight Mile
2002
as Mike Mulcahey
The Climb
2002
as Mack
The Guardian
2001
as Burton Fallin
Recess: School's Out
2001
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
The Zeta Project
2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
2000
Stuart Little
1999
as Dr. Beechwood
Must Be Santa
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Frank Hager
Inspector Gadget
1999
as Chief Quimby
Giving It Up
1999
as Johnathan Gallant
Taken
1999
as Ethan Grover
You've Got Mail
1998
as Nelson Fox
Exiled
1998
as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
My Date with the President's Daughter
1998
as President George Richmond
Target Earth
1998
as Senator Ben Arnold
Recess
1997
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Witch Way Love
1997
as Joel
Devil's Food
1996
as Seymour Kecker
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
1995
as Arthur Milo
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Monsieur Fox (voice)
Judicial Consent
1994
as Charles Mayron
Madman of the People
1994
as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
The Magic School Bus
1994
as Horace Scope (voice)
Clifford
1994
as Gerald Ellis
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
as Milburn Drysdale
Amos & Andrew
1993
as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Lincoln
1992
as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
as Jeffrey Babitt
Drexell's Class
1991
Never Forget
1991
as William Cox
Meet the Applegates
1990
as Aunt Bea
Short Time
1990
as Burt Simpson
Where the Heart Is
1990
as Stewart McBain
Maybe Baby
1988
as Hal
Hot to Trot
1988
as Walter Sawyer
Baby M
1988
as Gary Skoloff
Plaza Suite
1987
as Jesse Kiplinger
The Slap Maxwell Story
1987
Dragnet
1987
as Jerry Caesar
Sworn to Silence
1987
as Martin Costigan
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as Ed Sigel
Fresno
1986
as Tyler Cane
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
as Himself
Murrow
1986
as William Paley
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
as Cooper
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984
as Martin Price
Cloak & Dagger
1984
as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
WarGames
1983
as McKittrick
Buffalo Bill
1983
as Bill Bittinger
Tootsie
1982
as Ron Carlisle
Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Dr. Joseph Prang
Modern Problems
1981
as Mark Winslow
On Golden Pond
1981
as Bill Ray
Callie & Son
1981
as Randall Bordeaux
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980
as Rick Bessett
Nine to Five
1980
as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Melvin and Howard
1980
as Judge Keith Hayes
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
as Jack Heintzel
Pray TV
1980
as Marvin Fleece
Nothing Personal
1980
as Dickerson
When She Was Bad...
1979
as Jack Wilson
North Dallas Forty
1979
as Emmett Hunter
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
More Than Friends
1978
as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Apple Pie
1978
as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
as McCallum
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978
as George Bates
Rolling Thunder
1977
as Maxwell
Forever Fernwood
1977
The Love Boat
1977
as Van Milner
Black Fist
1977
as Heineken
Fernwood 2 Night
1977
as Mayor Merle Jeeter
Viva Knievel!
1977
as Ralph Thompson
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Dr. Burt Travers
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Officer Peter O'Neil
Midway
1976
as Captain Murray Arnold
Kiss Me, Kill Me
1976
as Capt. Logan
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976
as Merle Jeeter
The Other Side of the Mountain
1975
as Dave McCoy
Bite the Bullet
1975
as Jack Parker
Switch
1975
as C.C. Owens
Medical Story
1975
Returning Home
1975
as Al Stephenson
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Paul Mathison
The Towering Inferno
1974
as Deputy Chief #1
Bad Ronald
1974
as Mr. Wood
Sons and Daughters
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Petrocelli
1974
as Willy Morgan
The Dove
1974
as Charles Huntley
House of Evil
1974
Cinderella Liberty
1973
as Executive Officer
Kojak
1973
as Alex Linden
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Sen. Bert Haines
Dying Room Only
1973
as Bob Mitchell
Moving Target
1973
Savage
1973
as Ted Seligson
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
as George Clark
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Ted Sayers
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Brad Adamson
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Paul Cleveland
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as George Todd
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Banyon
1972
as Ralph Hubbard
Search
1972
McMillan and Wife
1971
as Hansen
McMillan and Wife
1971
as Walter Jennings
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Frank Wellmam
Columbo
1971
as Hugh Creighton
Columbo
1971
as Detective Murray
Cannon
1971
I Love My Wife
1970
as Frank Donnelly
Dan August
1970
as Rick Bessett
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
as Congressman Phil Whitman
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970
as Agent Shepard
Nanny and the Professor
1970
as Detective Robinson
Downhill Racer
1969
as Mayo
Medical Center
1969
Then Came Bronson
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Dr. Goldstone
Room 222
1969
The Trouble with Girls
1969
as Harrison Wilby
The Mod Squad
1968
as John
The Scalphunters
1968
as Jed
Mannix
1967
as Ralph Stoner
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Flying Nun
1967
as Sub. Captain
Ironside
1967
as Daniel Leary
The Invaders
1967
as Capt. Mitchell Ross
The Invaders
1967
as John Carter
That Girl
1966
This Property Is Condemned
1966
as Salesman
The Slender Thread
1965
as Charlie
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ira Barker
The F.B.I.
1965
as Allen Clarke
The F.B.I.
1965
as Stanley Leonard
The F.B.I.
1965
as Sam Langlin
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ty Williams
The F.B.I.
1965
as Mr. Jamison
The F.B.I.
1965
as Barnes
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
as George Webb
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
as Captain Yardley
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
as Clark
Run for Your Life
1965
as Fred Palmer
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Captain Robbins
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Captain Wilson
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as William Gunther
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Alvin Piper
The Fugitive
1963
as Floyd
The Fugitive
1963
as Sergeant Keith
The Fugitive
1963
as Officer George Graham
The Fugitive
1963
as Steve
The Outer Limits
1963
as Dr. Williams
The Outer Limits
1963
as James Custer
The Outer Limits
1963
as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Wayne Holton
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Tom Esterow
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Sgt. Lou Snyder
Ben Casey
1961
Hazel
1961
as Les Swanton
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. David Kirkson
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
Bonanza
1959
as Clyde
Bonanza
1959
as Ivar Peterson
Naked City
1958
as Resident
The Donna Reed Show
1958
as Rallye Master