1932-01-03 Austin, Texas, USA
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.
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Still Working 9 to 5 | Self | 2022-03-13 |
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Rules Don't Apply | Raymond Holliday | 2016-11-23 |
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Char·ac·ter | Self | 2012-11-30 |
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Hard Four | Spray Loomis | 2007-11-01 |
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Domino | Drake Bishop | 2005-10-14 |
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Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade | Principal Prickly (voice) | 2003-12-09 |
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Recess: All Growed Down | Principal Prickley (voice) | 2003-12-09 |
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Where the Red Fern Grows | Grandpa | 2003-05-03 |
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The Climb | Mack | 2002-02-22 |
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Moonlight Mile | Mike Mulcahey | 2002-09-09 |
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Recess: School's Out | Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | 2001-02-16 |
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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale | 2000-06-20 | |
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Inspector Gadget | Chief Quimby | 1999-07-23 |
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Must Be Santa | 1999-12-12 | |
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Stuart Little | Dr. Beechwood | 1999-12-17 |
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Giving It Up | Johnathan Gallant | 1999-03-16 |
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Taken | Ethan Grover | 1999-01-01 |
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You've Got Mail | Nelson Fox | 1998-12-18 |
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Target Earth | Senator Ben Arnold | 1998-01-01 |
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My Date with the President's Daughter | President George Richmond | 1998-04-19 |
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Exiled | Lieutenant Kevin Stolper | 1998-11-08 |
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Un amour de sorcière | Joel | 1997-03-19 |
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Devil's Food | Seymour Kecker | 1996-09-02 |
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In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped | Arthur Milo | 1995-03-12 |
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Judicial Consent | Charles Mayron | 1994-10-21 |
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Clifford | Gerald Ellis | 1994-04-01 |
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The Beverly Hillbillies | Milburn Drysdale | 1993-10-15 |
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Amos & Andrew | Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver | 1993-03-05 |
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Lincoln | Stephen A. Douglas (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
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There Goes the Neighborhood | Jeffrey Babitt | 1992-10-30 |
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Never Forget | William Cox | 1991-04-08 |
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Meet the Applegates | Aunt Bea | 1990-11-08 |
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Short Time | Burt Simpson | 1990-05-04 |
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Where the Heart Is | Stewart McBain | 1990-02-23 |
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Hot to Trot | Walter Sawyer | 1988-08-26 |
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Maybe Baby | Hal | 1988-12-05 |
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Baby M | Gary Skoloff | 1988-05-22 |
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Dragnet | Jerry Caesar | 1987-06-23 |
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story | Ed Sigel | 1987-02-03 |
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Sworn to Silence | Martin Costigan | 1987-04-06 |
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Plaza Suite | Jesse Kiplinger | 1987-12-03 |
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Murrow | William Paley | 1986-01-19 |
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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Himself | 1986-04-18 |
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The Man with One Red Shoe | Cooper | 1985-07-18 |
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Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan | Martin Price | 1984-06-27 |
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Cloak & Dagger | Jack Flack / Hal Osborne | 1984-06-01 |
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WarGames | McKittrick | 1983-06-03 |
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Young Doctors in Love | Dr. Joseph Prang | 1982-07-16 |
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Tootsie | Ron Carlisle | 1982-12-17 |
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Modern Problems | Mark Winslow | 1981-12-25 |
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Callie & Son | Randall Bordeaux | 1981-10-13 |
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On Golden Pond | Bill Ray | 1981-12-04 |
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Jack Heintzel | 1980-07-11 |
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Nine to Five | Franklin M. Hart Jr. | 1980-12-18 |
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Nothing Personal | Dickerson | 1980-03-28 |
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Pray TV | Marvin Fleece | 1980-05-23 |
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Melvin and Howard | Judge Keith Hayes | 1980-09-19 |
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Dan August: The Jealousy Factor | Rick Bessett | 1980-12-31 |
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North Dallas Forty | Emmett Hunter | 1979-08-03 |
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When She Was Bad... | Jack Wilson | 1979-11-25 |
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More Than Friends | Joshua 'Josh' Harrington | 1978-10-20 |
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls | George Bates | 1978-01-23 |
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Maneaters Are Loose! | McCallum | 1978-05-03 |
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Rolling Thunder | Maxwell | 1977-11-02 |
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Viva Knievel! | Ralph Thompson | 1977-06-10 |
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Black Fist | Heineken | 1977-08-31 |
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Midway | Captain Murray Arnold | 1976-06-18 |
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Kiss Me, Kill Me | Capt. Logan | 1976-05-08 |
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Returning Home | Al Stephenson | 1975-04-30 |
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Paul Mathison | 1975-02-20 |
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Bite the Bullet | Jack Parker | 1975-09-26 |
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The Other Side of the Mountain | Dave McCoy | 1975-11-14 |
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The Towering Inferno | Deputy Chief #1 | 1974-12-14 |
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House of Evil | 1974-05-14 | |
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Bad Ronald | Mr. Wood | 1974-10-23 |
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The Dove | Charles Huntley | 1974-06-16 |
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Dying Room Only | Bob Mitchell | 1973-09-18 |
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Savage | Ted Seligson | 1973-03-31 |
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Moving Target | 1973-05-22 | |
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Cinderella Liberty | Executive Officer | 1973-12-18 |
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The President's Plane Is Missing | Sen. Bert Haines | 1973-10-23 |
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I Love My Wife | Frank Donnelly | 1970-12-21 |
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The Brotherhood of the Bell | Agent Shepard | 1970-09-17 |
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Downhill Racer | Mayo | 1969-11-06 |
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The Trouble with Girls | Harrison Wilby | 1969-06-24 |
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The Scalphunters | Jed | 1968-02-29 |
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This Property Is Condemned | Salesman | 1966-08-03 |
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The Slender Thread | Charlie | 1965-12-15 |
