Dabney Coleman
Acting
🎂 1932-01-03
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.​
Cast credits(194)
Self
1962
Army Corporal John Sydney
2003
Frank Hager
1999
1971
Frank Wellmam
1971
John Dutton Sr.
2018
Hugh Creighton
1971
Detective Murray
1971
Fred Palmer
1965
Congressman Phil Whitman
1970
Lt. George Webb
1965
Captain Yardley
1965
Dr. David Kirkson
1961
Clyde
1959
Ivar Peterson
1959
Ralph Stoner
1967
Howard Graham
1967
Tom Esterow
1962
Sgt. Lou Snyder
1962
Merle Jeeter
1976
Self - Winner
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
Clark
1965
George Clark
1973
Ted Sayers
1973
Brad Adamson
1973
Paul Cleveland
1973
Sub. Captain
1967
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
1997
Ira Barker
1965
Allen Clarke
1965
Stanley Leonard
1965
Sam Langlin
1965
Ty Williams
1965
Mr. Jamison
1965
Barnes
1965
Commodore Louis Kaestner
2010
1969
Dr. Goldstone
1969
Alex Linden
1973
1973
John
1968
Capt. Mitchell Ross
1967
John Carter
1967
Rallye Master
1958
1961
Mayor (voice)
2010
Dr. Williams
1963
James Custer
1963
Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
1963
Self - Host
1975
Horace Scope (voice)
1994
Wayne Holton
1963
C.C. Owens
1975
Van Milner
1977
Mr. Price
2013
Sergeant Harry King
1963
Stanley Rivkin
1963
Willy Morgan
1974
George Todd
1972
Andrew Horvath, Sr.
1972
Les Swanton
1961
Floyd
1963
Sergeant Keith
1963
Officer George Graham
1963
Steve
1963
1991
Monsieur Fox (voice)
1995
Hansen
1971
Walter Jennings
1971
Mayor Merle Jeeter
1977
1974
Ralph Hubbard
1972
1969
Dr. Burt Travers
1976
Officer Peter O'Neil
1976
Rick Bessett
1970
1966
William Gunther
1963
Alvin Piper
1963
Daniel Leary
1967
1969
2007
1961
Resident
1958
Burton Fallin
2001
Jack 'Madman' Buckner
1994
Detective Robinson
1970
Jack Atwell
2006
Donald
2018
Captain Wilson
1964
Captain Robbins
1964
1987
1975
1996
1972
1967
1974
2001
McKittrick
1983
Milburn Drysdale
1993
Dr. Beechwood
1999
Captain Murray Arnold
1976
Nelson Fox
1998
Fast Eddie Murtaugh
1978
Deputy Chief #1
1974
Bill Ray
1981
Bill Bittinger
1983
Chief Quimby
1999
Jerry Caesar
1987
Ron Carlisle
1982
Tyler Cane
1986
Martin Price
1984
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
1980
Principal Prickly (voice)
2003
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
2001
1978
Raymond Holliday
2016
Maxwell
1977
Drake Bishop
2005
Jed
1968
Jack Parker
1975
Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
1984
Cooper
1985
Self
1987
Salesman
1966
Dave McCoy
1975
Gerald Ellis
1994
Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
1993
Randall Bordeaux
1981
Grandpa
2003
Mayo
1969
Self
1985
Burt Simpson
1990
Heineken
1977
Harrison Wilby
1969
Principal Prickley (voice)
2003
1977
President George Richmond
1998
Walter Sawyer
1988
Dr. Joseph Prang
1982
Senator Ben Arnold
1998
Mark Winslow
1981
Stewart McBain
1990
Mike Mulcahey
2002
Judge Keith Hayes
1980
Mr. Wood
1974
Agent Shepard
1970
Emmett Hunter
1979
Charles Huntley
1974
Dickerson
1980
Aunt Bea
1990
Jack Heintzel
1980
Joel
1997
Self
2022
Charlie
1965
Jeffrey Babitt
1992
Jack Wilson
1979
Self
2012
Executive Officer
1973
William Cox
1991
Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
1998
Johnathan Gallant
1999
Arthur Milo
1995
Ralph Thompson
1977
Charles Mayron
1994
Paul Mathison
1975
Ed Sigel
1987
Mack
2002
Al Stephenson
1975
Hal
1988
Frank Donnelly
1970
Marvin Fleece
1980
Self
1990
Ted Seligson
1973
McCallum
1978
George Bates
1978
Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
1978
Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
1992
Spray Loomis
2007
Sen. Bert Haines
1973
2000
Capt. Logan
1976
Himself
1986
Martin Costigan
1987
Bob Mitchell
1973
Rick Bessett
1980
Jesse Kiplinger
1987
Ethan Grover
1999
William Paley
1986
1973
1974
Seymour Kecker
1996
1999