Dabney Coleman
Age: N/A | From: Austin, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Austin, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 46
TV Involvements: 36
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Frank Hager
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995) Monsieur Fox (voice)
Yellowstone
(2018) John Dutton Sr.
Columbo
(1971) Detective Murray
Run for Your Life
(1965) Fred Palmer
The Guardian
(2001) Burton Fallin
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Tom Esterow
The Fugitive
(1963) SteveActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self | |
| 2018 | John Dutton Sr. | |
| Donald | ||
| 2016 | Raymond Holliday | |
| 2013 | Mr. Price | |
| 2012 | Self | |
| 2010 | Mayor (voice) | |
| Commodore Louis Kaestner | ||
| 2007 | Spray Loomis | |
| N/A | ||
| 2006 | Jack Atwell | |
| 2005 | Drake Bishop | |
| 2003 | Principal Prickley (voice) | |
| Principal Prickly (voice) | ||
| Grandpa | ||
| 2002 | Mike Mulcahey | |
| Mack | ||
| 2001 | Burton Fallin | |
| N/A | ||
| Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | ||
| 2000 | N/A | |
| 1999 | Dr. Beechwood | |
| N/A | ||
| Frank Hager | ||
| Chief Quimby | ||
| Johnathan Gallant | ||
| Ethan Grover | ||
| 1998 | Nelson Fox | |
| Kevin Stolper | ||
| President George Richmond | ||
| Senator Ben Arnold | ||
| 1997 | Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | |
| Joel | ||
| 1996 | Seymour Kecker | |
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | Monsieur Fox (voice) | |
| Arthur Milo | ||
| 1994 | N/A | |
| (voice) | ||
| Gerald Ellis | ||
| Charles Mayron | ||
| 1993 | Milburn Drysdale | |
| Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver | ||
| 1992 | Stephen A. Douglas (voice) | |
| Jeffrey Babitt | ||
| 1991 | N/A | |
| William Cox | ||
| 1990 | Aunt Bea | |
| Burt Simpson | ||
| Stewart McBain | ||
| 1988 | Hal | |
| Walter Sawyer | ||
| Gary Skoloff | ||
| 1987 | Jesse Kiplinger | |
| N/A | ||
| Jerry Caesar | ||
| Martin Costigan | ||
| Ed Sigel | ||
| 1986 | Tyler Cane | |
| Himself | ||
| William Paley | ||
| 1985 | Cooper | |
| Self | ||
| 1984 | Martin Price | |
| Jack Flack / Hal Osborne | ||
| 1983 | McKittrick | |
| Bill Bittinger | ||
| 1982 | Ron Carlisle | |
| Dr. Joseph Prang | ||
| 1981 | Mark Winslow | |
| Bill Ray | ||
| Randall Bordeaux | ||
| 1980 | Franklin M. Hart Jr. | |
| Judge Keith Hayes | ||
| Jack Heintzel | ||
| Marvin Fleece | ||
| Dickerson | ||
| 1979 | Jack Wilson | |
| Emmett Hunter | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Joshua 'Josh' Harrington | ||
| Fast Eddie Murtaugh | ||
| McCallum | ||
| George Bates | ||
| 1977 | Maxwell | |
| N/A | ||
| Van Milner | ||
| Heineken | ||
| Ralph Thompson | ||
| 1976 | N/A | |
| Captain Murray Arnold | ||
| Capt. Logan | ||
| Merle Jeeter | ||
| 1975 | Dave McCoy | |
| Self - Host | ||
| Jack Parker | ||
| C.C. Owens | ||
| N/A | ||
| Al Stephenson | ||
| Paul Mathison | ||
| 1974 | Deputy Chief #1 | |
| Mr. Wood | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Charles Huntley | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1973 | Executive Officer | |
| Alex Linden | ||
| Sen. Bert Haines | ||
| Bob Mitchell | ||
| Ted Seligson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Paul Cleveland | ||
| 1972 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
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| 1971 | Hugh Creighton | |
| Detective Murray | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Frank Donnelly | |
| Agent Shepard | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1969 | Mayo | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Harrison Wilby | ||
| 1968 | N/A | |
| Jed | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Mitchell Ross | ||
| John Carter | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Salesman | ||
| 1965 | Charlie | |
| Ira Barker | ||
| Allen Clarke | ||
| Stanley Leonard | ||
| Sam Langlin | ||
| Ty Williams | ||
| Mr. Jamison | ||
| Barnes | ||
| George Webb | ||
| Captain Yardley | ||
| Fred Palmer | ||
| 1963 | William Gunther | |
| Alvin Piper | ||
| Sergeant Harry King | ||
| Stanley Rivkin | ||
| Sergeant Keith | ||
| Floyd | ||
| Officer George Graham | ||
| Steve | ||
| Dr. Williams | ||
| James Custer | ||
| Wayne Holton | ||
| 1962 | Sgt. Lou Snyder | |
| Tom Esterow | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Dr. David Kirkson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Rick Bessett | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
