Joe Dorsey
Well-known and supported actor Joe Dorsey started acting in the early 70s, with The Mean Machine (1974). Though his acting career had just started, he got a great role which would also be his most remembered role as the greedy "Parks Supervisor Kittridge" in the 1976 box office hit Grizzly (1976). Dorsey got a great amount of profits with his second film. He then went on to supporting roles throughout the seventies in films like The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977), Wise Blood (1979) and The Prize Fighter (1979). His next remembered role was as "Coach Spinks" in The Great Santini (1979) and, by 1980, Dorsey was just getting better in Hopscotch (1980) and WarGames (1983). Dorsey occasionally took breaks from acting for golfing, going on a vacation and visiting family, until he was offered a role as a scientist in the science fiction box office smash with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in Brainstorm (1983). Dorsey was shocked when his new best friend (Wood) died during filming. Brainstorm (1983) and Grizzly (1976) were both Dorsey's greatest so far. He later did other films like Real Genius (1985), Club Paradise (1986), Stewardess School (1986), and the epic war drama Bat*21 (1988). As the 90s rolled, Dorsey was in Pet Sematary II (1992) and appeared uncredited in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). He then worked with his relative Alexander Dorsey in Killing Midnight (1997) as "Anthony Cambers". Dorsey also has other relatives in films like actress Sandra Dorsey and his other relatives owned a music industry in the 50s. Dorsey also does Broadway plays. Actually lives in the coast of Colon, Republic of Panama
Known For
Credits
- 1992 · Pet Sematary II as Caretaker
- 1992 · The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton as Sheriff
- 1992 · Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story as Detective Roth
- 1990 · Capital News as Lt. Colonel DuBois
- 1989 · Coach as Opera Patron
- 1988 · Bat★21 as Col. Douglass
- 1988 · Frank Nitti: The Enforcer as
- 1988 · Shadows in the Storm as Birkenstock
- 1987 · The Oldest Rookie as
- 1987 · Deadly Care as Mr. Halloran
- 1986 · L.A. Law as Al Becker
- 1986 · Stewardess School as Captain
- 1985 · Real Genius as Congressman
- 1985 · Code of Vengeance as Chief Milford Carsworth
- 1984 · The Philadelphia Experiment as Sheriff Bates
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Harry Kingman
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Bennett J. Devlin
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Doc Schaeffer
- 1984 · Cover Up as
- 1984 · Highway to Heaven as
- 1984 · Hunter as Sgt. Louis Whitlow
- 1983 · Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess as Winfield Sheehan
- 1983 · Brainstorm as Hal Abramson
- 1983 · WarGames as Conley
- 1982 · Voyagers! as
- 1982 · Remington Steele as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
- 1982 · T. J. Hooker as
- 1981 · Simon & Simon as
- 1981 · Coward of the County as Lem Gatlin
- 1981 · Hill Street Blues as Anthony Garibaldi
- 1980 · Angel City as Tom
- 1980 · Hopscotch as Security Guard
- 1980 · Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Jake
- 1980 · The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd as Gen. Edward Trafe
- 1979 · The Prize Fighter as Stranger
- 1979 · The Great Santini as Coach Spinks
- 1979 · Wise Blood as Stranger #4
- 1979 · The Visitor as Sheriff Paul Townsend
- 1979 · Norma Rae as Woodrow Thompson
- 1978 · They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Bill
- 1978 · The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance as Capt. Guthrie
- 1977 · The Lincoln Conspiracy as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
- 1977 · Young Dan'l Boone as
- 1976 · Grizzly as Charley Kittridge
- 1976 · Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Newlin Andrews
- 1974 · The Longest Yard as Bartender