Dabney Coleman
Born January 03, 1932 (Age: 94)
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Austin, Texas, USA
Biography
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).
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
Rules Don't Apply
2016
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as Raymond Holliday
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Age: 84
Domino
2005
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as Drake Bishop
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Age: 73
Moonlight Mile
2002
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as Mike Mulcahey
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Age: 70
The Climb
2002
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as Mack
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Age: 70
The Making of Midway
2001
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as Self
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Age: 69
Recess: School's Out
2001
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as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
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Age: 69
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
2000
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as John Kennedy
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Age: 68
Stuart Little
1999
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as Dr. Beechwood
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Age: 67
Inspector Gadget
1999
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as Chief Quimby
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Age: 67
You've Got Mail
1998
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as Nelson Fox
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Age: 66
Exiled
1998
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as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
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Age: 66
My Date with the President's Daughter
1998
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as President George Richmond
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Age: 66
Target Earth
1998
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as Senator Ben Arnold
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Age: 65
A Witch's Way of Love
1997
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as Joel
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Age: 65
Devil's Food
1996
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as Seymour Kecker
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Age: 64
Clifford
1994
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as Gerald Ellis
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Age: 62
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
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as Milburn Drysdale
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Age: 61
Amos & Andrew
1993
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as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
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Age: 61
No Image
Lincoln
1992
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as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
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Age: 60
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
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as Jeffrey Babitt
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Age: 60
Never Forget
1991
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as William Cox
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Age: 59
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990
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as Self
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Age: 58
Meet the Applegates
1990
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as Aunt Bea
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Age: 58
Short Time
1990
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as Burt Simpson
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Age: 58
Where the Heart Is
1990
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as Stewart McBain
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Age: 58
Maybe Baby
1988
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as Hal
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Age: 56
Hot to Trot
1988
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as Walter Sawyer
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Age: 56
Plaza Suite
1987
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as Jesse Kiplinger
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Age: 55
Dragnet
1987
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as Jerry Caesar
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Age: 55
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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as Self
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Age: 55
Sworn to Silence
1987
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as Martin Costigan
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Age: 55
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
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as Ed Sigel
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Age: 55
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
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as Cooper
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Age: 53
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
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as Self
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Age: 53
The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984
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as Martin Price
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Age: 52
Cloak & Dagger
1984
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as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
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Age: 52
WarGames
1983
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as McKittrick
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Age: 51
Tootsie
1982
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as Ron Carlisle
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Age: 50
Young Doctors in Love
1982
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as Dr. Joseph Prang
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Age: 50
Modern Problems
1981
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as Mark Winslow
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Age: 49
On Golden Pond
1981
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as Bill Ray
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Age: 49
Callie & Son
1981
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as Randall Bordeaux
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Age: 48
No Image
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980
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as Rick Bessett
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Age: 48
Nine to Five
1980
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as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
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Age: 48
Melvin and Howard
1980
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as Judge Keith Hayes
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Age: 48
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
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as Jack Heintzel
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Age: 48
Pray TV
1980
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as Marvin Fleece
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Age: 48
Nothing Personal
1980
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as Dickerson
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Age: 48
North Dallas Forty
1979
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as Emmett Hunter
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Age: 47
More Than Friends
1978
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as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
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Age: 46
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
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as McCallum
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Age: 46
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978
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as George Bates
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Age: 46
Midway
1976
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as Captain Murray Arnold
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Age: 44
The Towering Inferno
1974
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as Deputy Chief #1
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Age: 42
Bad Ronald
1974
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as Mr. Wood
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Age: 42
The Dove
1974
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as Charles Huntley
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Age: 42
House of Evil
1974
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as
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Age: 42
Cinderella Liberty
1973
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as Executive Officer
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Age: 41
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
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as Sen. Bert Haines
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Age: 41
Dying Room Only
1973
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as Bob Mitchell
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Age: 41
Moving Target
1973
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as
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Age: 41
Downhill Racer
1969
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as Mayo
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Age: 37
The Trouble with Girls
1969
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as Harrison Wilby
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Age: 37
This Property Is Condemned
1966
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as Salesman
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Age: 34
The Slender Thread
1965
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as Charlie
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Age: 33