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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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • On Golden Pond
  • Bonanza
  • Bite the Bullet
  • Hot to Trot
  • That Girl
  • Death Valley Days
  • The Climb
  • Target Earth
  • Bogard
  • Giving It Up
  • Savage
  • Callie & Son
  • In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
Known For
  • WarGames
  • Tootsie
  • You've Got Mail
  • Nine to Five
  • The Man with One Red Shoe
  • On Golden Pond
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Dragnet
  • My Date with the President's Daughter
  • Cloak & Dagger
  • The Guardian
  • Short Time
  • Rolling Thunder
  • The Beverly Hillbillies
  • Clifford
  • Amos & Andrew
  • Modern Problems
  • Where the Heart Is
  • Dolly Parton: Here I Am
  • Recess: School's Out
  • Columbo
  • Hot to Trot
  • The Scalphunters
  • Meet the Applegates

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
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
2000
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
1996
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (TV Series) · as Quote Reader
1996
Jumanji (TV Series) · as Ashton Philips
1996
Devil's Food · as Seymour Kecker
1996
1995
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
1991
Never Forget · as William Cox
1990
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
1987
Dragnet · as Jerry Caesar
1987
Sworn to Silence · as Martin Costigan
1987
1986
Fresno (TV Series) · as Tyler Cane
1986
Murrow · as William Paley
1985
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
1981
Callie & Son · as Randall Bordeaux
1980
Nine to Five · as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
1980
Melvin and Howard · as Judge Keith Hayes
1980
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
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 Officer Peter O'neil
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
1975
Medical Story (TV Series)
1975
Bite the Bullet · as Jack Parker
1975
Switch (TV Series) · as C.c. Owens
1975
1975
Caribe (TV Series) · as Donald Coglan
1975
Bogard · as Heineken
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
Savage · as Ted Seligson
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 George Todd
1972
Search (TV Series)
1971
McMillan and Wife (TV Series) · as Hansen
1971
Columbo (TV Series) · as Hugh Creighton
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
1967
Mannix (TV Series) · as Ralph Stoner
1967
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
That Girl (TV Series)
1966
1965
The Slender Thread · as Charlie
1965
I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) · as Captain Yardley
1965
The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Stanley Leonard
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 Sergeant Harry King
1963
The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Sergeant Keith
1963
The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as James Custer
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
1959
Bonanza (TV Series) · as Clyde
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

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