Dabney Coleman
Acting
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 of
Dabney Coleman
Self
... 2022
Raymond Holliday
... 2016
Self
... 2012
Spray Loomis
... 2007
Drake Bishop
... 2005
Principal Prickley (voice)
... 2003
Principal Prickly (voice)
... 2003
Grandpa
... 2003
Mike Mulcahey
... 2002
Mack
... 2002
Principal Peter Prickly
... 2001
Self
... 2001
Henry
... 2001
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
... 2001
John Kennedy
... 2000
Dr. Beechwood
... 1999
... 1999
Chief Quimby
... 1999
Johnathan Gallant
... 1999
Ethan Grover
... 1999
Nelson Fox
... 1998
Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
... 1998
President George Richmond
... 1998
Senator Ben Arnold
... 1998
... 1997
Seymour Kecker
... 1996
Arthur Milo
... 1995
Charles Mayron
... 1994
Gerald Ellis
... 1994
Milburn Drysdale
... 1993
Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
... 1993
Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
... 1992
Jeffrey Babitt
... 1992
William Cox
... 1991
... 1990
Aunt Bea
... 1990
Burt Simpson
... 1990
Stewart McBain
... 1990
Hal
... 1988
Walter Sawyer
... 1988
Jesse Kiplinger
... 1987
Jerry Caesar
... 1987
... 1987
Martin Costigan
... 1987
... 1987
Dabney Coleman
... 1986
William Paley
... 1986
Cooper
... 1985
... 1985
Martin Price
... 1984
Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
... 1984
McKittrick
... 1983
Ron Carlisle
... 1982
Dr. Joseph Prang
... 1982
Mark Winslow
... 1981
Bill Ray
... 1981
Randall Bordeaux
... 1981
Rick Bessett
... 1980
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
... 1980
Judge Keith Hayes
... 1980
Jack Heintzel
... 1980
Marvin Fleece
... 1980
Dickerson
... 1980
Jack Wilson
... 1979
Emmett Hunter
... 1979
Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
... 1978
McCallum
... 1978
George Bates
... 1978
Maxwell
... 1977
Heineken
... 1977
Ralph Thompson
... 1977
Captain Murray Arnold
... 1976
Capt. Logan
... 1976
Dave McCoy
... 1975
Jack Parker
... 1975
Al Stephenson
... 1975
Paul Mathison
... 1975
Deputy Chief #1
... 1974
Mr. Wood
... 1974
Charles Huntley
... 1974
... 1974
Executive Officer
... 1973
Sen. Bert Haines
... 1973
Bob Mitchell
... 1973
... 1973
Ted Seligson
... 1973
Frank Donnelly
... 1970
Agent Shepard
... 1970
Mayo
... 1969
Harrison Wilby
... 1969
Jed
... 1968
Salesman
... 1966
Charlie
... 1965