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
Credits
- 2022 · Still Working 9 to 5 as Self
- 2018 · Yellowstone as John Dutton Sr.
- 2018 · For The People as Donald
- 2016 · Rules Don't Apply as Raymond Holliday
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Mr. Price
- 2012 · Char·ac·ter as Self
- 2010 · Pound Puppies as Mayor (voice)
- 2010 · Boardwalk Empire as Commodore Louis Kaestner
- 2007 · Hard Four as Spray Loomis
- 2007 · Heartland as
- 2006 · Courting Alex as Jack Atwell
- 2005 · Domino as Drake Bishop
- 2003 · Recess: All Growed Down as Principal Prickley (voice)
- 2003 · Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade as Principal Prickly (voice)
- 2003 · NCIS as Army Corporal John Sydney
- 2003 · Where the Red Fern Grows as Grandpa
- 2002 · Moonlight Mile as Mike Mulcahey
- 2002 · The Climb as Mack
- 2001 · The Guardian as Burton Fallin
- 2001 · Recess: School's Out as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
- 2001 · The Zeta Project as
- 2000 · How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale as
- 1999 · Stuart Little as Dr. Beechwood
- 1999 · Must Be Santa as
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Frank Hager
- 1999 · Inspector Gadget as Chief Quimby
- 1999 · Giving It Up as Johnathan Gallant
- 1999 · Taken as Ethan Grover
- 1998 · You've Got Mail as Nelson Fox
- 1998 · Exiled as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
- 1998 · My Date with the President's Daughter as President George Richmond
- 1998 · Target Earth as Senator Ben Arnold
- 1997 · Recess as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
- 1997 · Witch Way Love as Joel
- 1996 · Devil's Food as Seymour Kecker
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Monsieur Fox (voice)
- 1995 · In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped as Arthur Milo
- 1994 · Judicial Consent as Charles Mayron
- 1994 · Madman of the People as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
- 1994 · The Magic School Bus as Horace Scope (voice)
- 1994 · Clifford as Gerald Ellis
- 1993 · The Beverly Hillbillies as Milburn Drysdale
- 1993 · Amos & Andrew as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
- 1992 · Lincoln as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
- 1992 · There Goes the Neighborhood as Jeffrey Babitt
- 1991 · Drexell's Class as
- 1991 · Never Forget as William Cox
- 1990 · Meet the Applegates as Aunt Bea
- 1990 · Short Time as Burt Simpson
- 1990 · Where the Heart Is as Stewart McBain
- 1988 · Maybe Baby as Hal
- 1988 · Hot to Trot as Walter Sawyer
- 1988 · Baby M as Gary Skoloff
- 1987 · Plaza Suite as Jesse Kiplinger
- 1987 · The Slap Maxwell Story as
- 1987 · Dragnet as Jerry Caesar
- 1987 · Sworn to Silence as Martin Costigan
- 1987 · Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as Ed Sigel
- 1986 · Fresno as Tyler Cane
- 1986 · The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Himself
- 1986 · Murrow as William Paley
- 1985 · The Man with One Red Shoe as Cooper
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1984 · The Muppets Take Manhattan as Martin Price
- 1984 · Cloak & Dagger as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
- 1983 · WarGames as McKittrick
- 1983 · Buffalo Bill as Bill Bittinger
- 1982 · Tootsie as Ron Carlisle
- 1982 · Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Joseph Prang
- 1981 · Modern Problems as Mark Winslow
- 1981 · On Golden Pond as Bill Ray
- 1981 · Callie & Son as Randall Bordeaux
- 1980 · Dan August: The Jealousy Factor as Rick Bessett
- 1980 · Nine to Five as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
- 1980 · Melvin and Howard as Judge Keith Hayes
- 1980 · How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Jack Heintzel
- 1980 · Pray TV as Marvin Fleece
- 1980 · Nothing Personal as Dickerson
- 1979 · When She Was Bad... as Jack Wilson
- 1979 · North Dallas Forty as Emmett Hunter
- 1978 · Diff'rent Strokes as
- 1978 · More Than Friends as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
- 1978 · Apple Pie as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
- 1978 · Maneaters Are Loose! as McCallum
- 1978 · The Case of the Baltimore Girls as George Bates
- 1977 · Rolling Thunder as Maxwell
- 1977 · Forever Fernwood as
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Van Milner
- 1977 · Black Fist as Heineken
- 1977 · Fernwood 2 Night as Mayor Merle Jeeter
- 1977 · Viva Knievel! as Ralph Thompson
- 1976 · Quincy, M.E. as Dr. Burt Travers
- 1976 · Quincy, M.E. as Officer Peter O'Neil
- 1976 · Midway as Captain Murray Arnold
- 1976 · Kiss Me, Kill Me as Capt. Logan
- 1976 · Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as Merle Jeeter
- 1975 · The Other Side of the Mountain as Dave McCoy
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Bite the Bullet as Jack Parker
- 1975 · Switch as C.C. Owens
- 1975 · Medical Story as
- 1975 · Returning Home as Al Stephenson
- 1975 · Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan as Paul Mathison
- 1974 · The Towering Inferno as Deputy Chief #1
- 1974 · Bad Ronald as Mr. Wood
- 1974 · Petrocelli as Willy Morgan
- 1974 · The Manhunter as
- 1974 · Sons and Daughters as
- 1974 · The Dove as Charles Huntley
- 1974 · House of Evil as
- 1973 · Cinderella Liberty as Executive Officer
- 1973 · Kojak as Alex Linden
- 1973 · The President's Plane Is Missing as Sen. Bert Haines
- 1973 · Dying Room Only as Bob Mitchell
- 1973 · Moving Target as
- 1973 · Savage as Ted Seligson
- 1973 · Police Story as
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as George Clark
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Ted Sayers
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Brad Adamson
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Paul Cleveland
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as George Todd
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
- 1972 · Banyon as Ralph Hubbard
- 1972 · Search as
- 1971 · McMillan and Wife as Hansen
- 1971 · McMillan and Wife as Walter Jennings
- 1971 · Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Frank Wellmam
- 1971 · Columbo as Hugh Creighton
- 1971 · Columbo as Detective Murray
- 1971 · Cannon as
- 1970 · I Love My Wife as Frank Donnelly
- 1970 · Dan August as Rick Bessett
- 1970 · The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Congressman Phil Whitman
- 1970 · The Brotherhood of the Bell as Agent Shepard
- 1970 · Nanny and the Professor as Detective Robinson
- 1969 · Downhill Racer as Mayo
- 1969 · Medical Center as
- 1969 · Then Came Bronson as
- 1969 · The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Dr. Goldstone
- 1969 · Room 222 as
- 1969 · The Trouble with Girls as Harrison Wilby
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as John
- 1968 · The Scalphunters as Jed
- 1967 · Mannix as Ralph Stoner
- 1967 · Judd for the Defense as
- 1967 · The Flying Nun as Sub. Captain
- 1967 · Ironside as Daniel Leary
- 1967 · The Invaders as Capt. Mitchell Ross
- 1967 · The Invaders as John Carter
- 1966 · That Girl as
- 1966 · This Property Is Condemned as Salesman
- 1965 · The Slender Thread as Charlie
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Ira Barker
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Allen Clarke
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Stanley Leonard
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Sam Langlin
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Ty Williams
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Mr. Jamison
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Barnes
- 1965 · I Dream of Jeannie as George Webb
- 1965 · I Dream of Jeannie as Captain Yardley
- 1965 · Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Clark
- 1965 · Run for Your Life as Fred Palmer
- 1964 · 12 O'Clock High as Captain Robbins
- 1964 · 12 O'Clock High as Captain Wilson
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as William Gunther
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as Alvin Piper
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Sergeant Harry King
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Stanley Rivkin
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Floyd
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Sergeant Keith
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Officer George Graham
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Steve
- 1963 · The Outer Limits as Dr. Williams
- 1963 · The Outer Limits as James Custer
- 1963 · The Outer Limits as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
- 1963 · Arrest and Trial as Wayne Holton
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Tom Esterow
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Sgt. Lou Snyder
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1961 · Hazel as Les Swanton
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Dr. David Kirkson
- 1961 · Kraft Mystery Theatre as
- 1959 · Bonanza as Clyde
- 1959 · Bonanza as Ivar Peterson
- 1958 · Naked City as Resident
- 1958 · The Donna Reed Show as Rallye Master
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner