Dabney Coleman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dabney Coleman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Austin, Texas, USA, 1932-01-03

Died: 2024-05-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	The Slender Thread	Charlie	71
2	1966	This Property Is Condemned	Salesman	63
3	1968	The Scalphunters	Jed	64
4	1969	The Trouble with Girls	Harrison Wilby	47
5	1969	Downhill Racer	Mayo	59
6	1970	The Brotherhood of the Bell	Agent Shepard	54
7	1970	I Love My Wife	Frank Donnelly	20
8	1973	Savage	Ted Seligson	56
9	1973	Moving Target		0
10	1973	Dying Room Only	Bob Mitchell	66
11	1973	The President's Plane Is Missing	Sen. Bert Haines	62
12	1973	Cinderella Liberty	Executive Officer	68
13	1974	House of Evil		60
14	1974	The Dove	Charles Huntley	64
15	1974	Bad Ronald	Mr. Wood	63
16	1974	The Towering Inferno	Deputy Chief #1	70
17	1975	Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan	Paul Mathison	50
18	1975	Returning Home	Al Stephenson	50
19	1975	Bite the Bullet	Jack Parker	64
20	1975	The Other Side of the Mountain	Dave McCoy	63
21	1976	Kiss Me, Kill Me	Capt. Logan	70
22	1976	Midway	Captain Murray Arnold	66
23	1977	Viva Knievel!	Ralph Thompson	36
24	1977	Black Fist	Heineken	43
25	1977	Rolling Thunder	Maxwell	68
26	1978	The Case of the Baltimore Girls	George Bates	0
27	1978	Maneaters Are Loose!	McCallum	0
28	1978	More Than Friends	Joshua 'Josh' Harrington	0
29	1979	North Dallas Forty	Emmett Hunter	67
30	1979	When She Was Bad...	Jack Wilson	50
31	1980	Nothing Personal	Dickerson	57
32	1980	Pray TV	Marvin Fleece	48
33	1980	How to Beat the High Cost of Living	Jack Heintzel	51
34	1980	Melvin and Howard	Judge Keith Hayes	64
35	1980	Nine to Five	Franklin M. Hart Jr.	69
36	1980	Dan August: The Jealousy Factor	Rick Bessett	20
37	1981	Callie & Son	Randall Bordeaux	67
38	1981	On Golden Pond	Bill Ray	72
39	1981	Modern Problems	Mark Winslow	53
40	1982	Young Doctors in Love	Dr. Joseph Prang	52
41	1982	Tootsie	Ron Carlisle	72
42	1983	WarGames	McKittrick	71
43	1984	Cloak & Dagger	Jack Flack / Hal Osborne	64
44	1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Martin Price	66
45	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
46	1985	The Man with One Red Shoe	Cooper	57
47	1986	Murrow	William Paley	50
48	1986	The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer	Himself	62
49	1987	Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story	Ed Sigel	0
50	1987	Sworn to Silence	Martin Costigan	60
51	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
52	1987	Dragnet	Jerry Caesar	60
53	1987	Plaza Suite	Jesse Kiplinger	60
54	1988	Hot to Trot	Walter Sawyer	52
55	1988	Maybe Baby	Hal	45
56	1990	Where the Heart Is	Stewart McBain	61
57	1990	Short Time	Burt Simpson	64
58	1990	Meet the Applegates	Aunt Bea	55
59	1990	The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson	Self	68
60	1991	Never Forget	William Cox	42
61	1992	There Goes the Neighborhood	Jeffrey Babitt	54
62	1992	Lincoln	Stephen A. Douglas (voice)	68
63	1993	Amos & Andrew	Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver	54
64	1993	The Beverly Hillbillies	Milburn Drysdale	63
65	1994	Clifford	Gerald Ellis	51
66	1994	Judicial Consent	Charles Mayron	59
67	1995	In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped	Arthur Milo	43
68	1996	Devil's Food	Seymour Kecker	0
69	1997	A Witch's Way of Love	Joel	52
70	1998	Target Earth	Senator Ben Arnold	42
71	1998	My Date with the President's Daughter	President George Richmond	69
72	1998	Exiled	Lieutenant Kevin Stolper	55
73	1998	You've Got Mail	Nelson Fox	67
74	1999	Taken	Ethan Grover	50
75	1999	Giving It Up	Johnathan Gallant	41
76	1999	Inspector Gadget	Chief Quimby	45
77	1999	Must Be Santa		35
78	1999	Stuart Little	Dr. Beechwood	61
79	2000	How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale		34
80	2001	Recess: School's Out	Principal Peter Prickly (voice)	66
81	2002	The Climb	Mack	57
82	2002	Moonlight Mile	Mike Mulcahey	63
83	2003	Where the Red Fern Grows	Grandpa	59
84	2003	Recess: All Growed Down	Principal Prickley (voice)	65
85	2003	Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade	Principal Prickly (voice)	65
86	2005	Domino	Drake Bishop	59
87	2007	Hard Four	Spray Loomis	44
88	2012	Char·ac·ter	Self	40
89	2016	Rules Don't Apply	Raymond Holliday	57
90	2022	Still Working 9 to 5	Self	100

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1958	The Donna Reed Show	Rallye Master	62
4	1958	Naked City	Resident	55
5	1959	Bonanza	Clyde	75
6	1959	Bonanza	Ivar Peterson	75
7	1961	Kraft Mystery Theatre		60
8	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. David Kirkson	55
9	1961	Hazel	Les Swanton	68
10	1961	Ben Casey		56
11	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Tom Esterow	78
12	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Sgt. Lou Snyder	78
13	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
14	1963	Arrest and Trial	Wayne Holton	77
15	1963	The Outer Limits	Dr. Williams	78
16	1963	The Outer Limits	James Custer	78
17	1963	The Outer Limits	Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)	78
18	1963	The Fugitive	Floyd	72
19	1963	The Fugitive	Sergeant Keith	72
20	1963	The Fugitive	Officer George Graham	72
21	1963	The Fugitive	Steve	72
22	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Sergeant Harry King	57
23	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Stanley Rivkin	57
24	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	William Gunther	53
25	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Alvin Piper	53
26	1964	12 O'Clock High	Captain Wilson	73
27	1964	12 O'Clock High	Captain Robbins	73
28	1965	Run for Your Life	Fred Palmer	72
29	1965	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	Clark	66
30	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Lt. George Webb	78
31	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Captain Yardley	78
32	1965	The F.B.I.	Ira Barker	55
33	1965	The F.B.I.	Allen Clarke	55
34	1965	The F.B.I.	Stanley Leonard	55
35	1965	The F.B.I.	Sam Langlin	55
36	1965	The F.B.I.	Ty Williams	55
37	1965	The F.B.I.	Mr. Jamison	55
38	1965	The F.B.I.	Barnes	55
39	1966	That Girl		63
40	1967	The Invaders	Capt. Mitchell Ross	68
41	1967	The Invaders	John Carter	68
42	1967	Ironside	Daniel Leary	68
43	1967	The Flying Nun	Sub. Captain	63
44	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
45	1967	Mannix	Ralph Stoner	67
46	1967	Mannix	Howard Graham	67
47	1968	The Mod Squad	John	63
48	1969	Room 222		60
49	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Dr. Goldstone	40
50	1969	Then Came Bronson		48
51	1969	Medical Center		61
52	1970	Nanny and the Professor	Detective Robinson	60
53	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Congressman Phil Whitman	75
54	1970	Dan August	Rick Bessett	68
55	1971	Cannon		65
56	1971	Columbo	Hugh Creighton	81
57	1971	Columbo	Detective Murray	81
58	1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Frank Wellmam	63
59	1971	McMillan & Wife	Hansen	69
60	1971	McMillan & Wife	Walter Jennings	69
61	1972	Search		69
62	1972	Banyon	Ralph Hubbard	70
63	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	George Todd	69
64	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Andrew Horvath, Sr.	69
65	1973	Barnaby Jones	George Clark	69
66	1973	Barnaby Jones	Ted Sayers	69
67	1973	Barnaby Jones	Brad Adamson	69
68	1973	Barnaby Jones	Paul Cleveland	69
69	1973	Police Story		69
70	1973	Kojak	Alex Linden	70
71	1974	Sons and Daughters		0
72	1974	The Manhunter		50
73	1974	Petrocelli	Willy Morgan	71
74	1975	Medical Story		30
75	1975	Switch	C.C. Owens	67
76	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
77	1976	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman	Merle Jeeter	71
78	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Dr. Burt Travers	75
79	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Officer Peter O'Neil	75
80	1977	Fernwood 2 Night	Mayor Merle Jeeter	57
81	1977	The Love Boat	Van Milner	63
82	1977	Forever Fernwood		50
83	1978	Apple Pie	Fast Eddie Murtaugh	60
84	1978	Diff'rent Strokes		70
85	1983	Buffalo Bill	Bill Bittinger	63
86	1986	Fresno	Tyler Cane	64
87	1987	The Slap Maxwell Story		35
88	1991	Drexell's Class		55
89	1994	The Magic School Bus	Horace Scope (voice)	76
90	1994	Madman of the People	Jack 'Madman' Buckner	60
91	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Monsieur Fox (voice)	60
92	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
93	1997	Recess	Principal Peter Prickly (voice)	77
94	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Frank Hager	79
95	2001	The Zeta Project		75
96	2001	The Guardian	Burton Fallin	68
97	2003	NCIS	Army Corporal John Sydney	76
98	2006	Courting Alex	Jack Atwell	53
99	2007	Heartland		65
100	2010	Boardwalk Empire	Commodore Louis Kaestner	80
101	2010	Pound Puppies	Mayor (voice)	52
102	2013	Ray Donovan	Mr. Price	75
103	2018	For The People	Donald	72
104	2018	Yellowstone	John Dutton Sr.	83

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