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Dabney Coleman
Actor
Died May 16, 2024 (92 years)
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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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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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Filmography
| 2019 | Dolly Parton: Here I Am · as Franklin Hart, Jr. |
| 2018 | Feminists: What Were They Thinking? · as Franklin Hart Jr. |
| 2018 | Yellowstone (2018) (TV Series) · as John Dutton Sr. |
| 2018 | For the People (2018) (TV Series) · as Donald |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply · as Raymond Holliday |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan (TV Series) · as Mr. Price |
| 2010 | Pound Puppies (2010) (TV Series) · as Mayor (voice) |
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire (TV Series) · as Commodore Louis Kaestner |
| 2007 | Hard Four · as Spray Loomis |
| 2007 | Heartland (2007) (TV Series) |
| 2006 | Courting Alex (TV Series) · 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 | Freedom: A History of Us (TV Series) · as Stephen A. Douglas |
| 2003 | NCIS (TV Series) · as Army Corporal John Sydney |
| 2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows · as Grandpa |
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile · as Mike Mulcahey |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street · as Principal Peter Prickly |
| 2001 | The Guardian (TV Series) · as Burton Fallin |
| 2001 | Kiss My Act · as Henry |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out · as Principal Peter Prickly (voice) |
| 2001 | The Zeta Project (TV Series) |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Franklin M. Hart Jr. |
| 2000 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies · as Franklin M. Hart Jr. |
| 1999 | Stuart Little · as Dr. Beechwood |
| 1999 | |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Frank Hager |
| 1999 | Giving It Up · as Johnathan Gallant |
| 1999 | Inspector Gadget · as Chief Quimby |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Principal Peter Prickly (voice) |
| 1997 | A Witch's Way of Love · as Joel |
| 1996 | Sex and the Silver Screen (TV Series) · as Quote Reader |
| 1996 | Jumanji (TV Series) · as Ashton Philips |
| 1996 | Devil's Food · as Seymour Kecker |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1995 | In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped · as Arthur Milo |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Monsieur Fox (voice) |
| 1995 | Judicial Consent · as Charles Mayron |
| 1994 | Madman of the People (TV Series) · as Jack 'madman' Buckner |
| 1994 | The Magic School Bus (TV Series) · 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 (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Columbo: Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star · as Hugh Creighton |
| 1991 | Never Forget · as William Cox |
| 1990 | The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson · as Martin Price |
| 1990 | Meet the Applegates · as Aunt Bea |
| 1990 | Short Time · as Burt Simpson |
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is · as Stewart Mcbain |
| 1988 | Hot to Trot · as Walter Sawyer |
| 1988 | Maybe Baby · as Hal |
| 1988 | Baby M (TV Series) · as Gary Skoloff |
| 1987 | Plaza Suite · as Jesse Kiplinger |
| 1987 | Dolly (TV Series) · as Arthur Andrews |
| 1987 | The Slap Maxwell Story (TV Series) |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Tyler Cane |
| 1986 | Murrow · as William Paley |
| 1985 | The Man with One Red Shoe · as Cooper |
| 1984 | Cloak & Dagger · as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne |
| 1984 | The Muppets Take Manhattan · as Martin Price |
| 1983 | WarGames · as Mckittrick |
| 1983 | Buffalo Bill (TV Series) · 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 | 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 (TV Series) |
| 1978 | More Than Friends · as Joshua 'josh' Harrington |
| 1978 | Go Tell the Spartans · as Helicopter Pilot |
| 1978 | Maneaters Are Loose! · as Mccallum |
| 1978 | The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II · as Dave Mccoy |
| 1977 | Rolling Thunder · as Maxwell |
| 1977 | Forever Fernwood (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Fernwood 2Night (TV Series) · as Mayor Merle Jeeter |
| 1977 | Viva Knievel! · as Ralph Thompson |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Van Milner |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. (TV Series) · as Dr. Burt Travers |
| 1976 | Midway · as Captain Murray Arnold |
| 1976 | Kiss Me, Kill Me · as Capt. Logan |
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) · as Merle Jeeter |
| 1975 | The Other Side of the Mountain · as Dave Mccoy |
| 1975 | Medical Story (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet · as Jack Parker |
| 1975 | Switch (TV Series) · as C.c. Owens |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan · as Paul Mathison |
| 1975 | Caribe (TV Series) · as Donald Coglan |
| 1975 | |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno · as Deputy Chief #1 |
| 1974 | Bad Ronald · as Mr. Wood |
| 1974 | Petrocelli (TV Series) · as Willy Morgan |
| 1974 | The Dove · as Charles Huntley |
| 1974 | Sons and Daughters (TV Series) |
| 1974 | Manhunter (TV Series) |
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty · as Executive Officer |
| 1973 | Kojak (TV Series) · as Alex Linden |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing · as Sen. Bert Haines |
| 1973 | Griff (TV Series) · as George Bates |
| 1973 | Dying Room Only · as Bob Mitchell |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Ted Sayers |
| 1973 | The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Andrew Horvath, Sr. |
| 1972 | Search (TV Series) |
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife (TV Series) · as Hansen |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Detective Murray |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law (TV Series) · as Frank Wellmam |
| 1971 | Banyon (TV Series) · as Ralph Hubbard |
| 1970 | I Love My Wife · as Frank Donnelly |
| 1970 | Dan August (TV Series) · as Rick Bessett |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series) · as Congressman Phil Whitman |
| 1970 | The Brotherhood of the Bell · as Agent Shepard |
| 1970 | Nanny and the Professor (TV Series) · as Detective Robinson |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer · as Mayo |
| 1969 | Room 222 (TV Series) |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series) · as Dr. Goldstone |
| 1969 | The Trouble with Girls · as Harrison Wilby |
| 1969 | Medical Center (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Then Came Bronson (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) · as John |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters · as Jed |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Ralph Stoner |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense (TV Series) |
| 1967 | The Flying Nun (TV Series) · as Sub. Captain |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Daniel Leary |
| 1967 | The Invaders (TV Series) · as John Carter |
| 1966 | The Iron Horse (TV Series) · as Lee Archer |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned · as Salesman |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread · as Charlie |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) · as George Webb |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Ira Barker |
| 1965 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV Series) · as Clark |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Fred Palmer |
| 1964 | Twelve O'Clock High (TV Series) · as Captain Robbins |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as William Gunther |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) · as Stanley Rivkin |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Floyd |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Dr. Williams |
| 1963 | Breaking Point (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Wayne Holton |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Tom Esterow |
| 1961 | Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) · as Lee Mattheson |
| 1961 | Ben Casey (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Dr. David Kirkson |
| 1961 | Hazel (TV Series) · as Les Swanton |
| 1961 | Kraft Mystery Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | Naked City (TV Series) · as Resident |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) · as Rallye Master |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Calvin H. Higby |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as John Mitchell |