Dabney Coleman
Acting
🎂 1932-01-03
Dabney Wharton Coleman 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).
Cast credits(193)
Frank Hager
1999
Army Corporal John Sydney
2003
John Dutton Sr.
2018
Hugh Creighton
1971
Detective Murray
1971
Clyde
1959
Ivar Peterson
1959
Self
1962
Van Milner
1977
Self - Host
1975
Dr. Burt Travers
1976
Officer Peter O'Neil
1976
Floyd
1963
Sergeant Keith
1963
Officer George Graham
1963
Steve
1963
Mr. Price
2013
Daniel Leary
1967
Ralph Stoner
1967
Howard Graham
1967
Self - Nominee
1944
Lt. George Webb
1965
Captain Yardley
1965
1971
Commodore Louis Kaestner
2010
Resident
1958
Sergeant Harry King
1963
Stanley Rivkin
1963
Ira Barker
1965
Allen Clarke
1965
Stanley Leonard
1965
Sam Langlin
1965
Ty Williams
1965
Mr. Jamison
1965
Barnes
1965
Dr. David Kirkson
1961
Alex Linden
1973
1969
Burton Fallin
2001
1961
George Clark
1973
Ted Sayers
1973
Brad Adamson
1973
Paul Cleveland
1973
Tom Esterow
1962
Sgt. Lou Snyder
1962
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
1997
Fred Palmer
1965
1966
Dr. Williams
1963
James Custer
1963
Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
1963
Rallye Master
1958
Les Swanton
1961
C.C. Owens
1975
Congressman Phil Whitman
1970
William Gunther
1963
Alvin Piper
1963
Mayor (voice)
2010
Capt. Mitchell Ross
1967
John Carter
1967
George Todd
1972
Andrew Horvath, Sr.
1972
Willy Morgan
1974
Horace Scope (voice)
1994
1969
1973
Hansen
1971
Walter Jennings
1971
Merle Jeeter
1976
Dr. Beechwood
1999
Monsieur Fox (voice)
1995
1972
1967
John
1968
Wayne Holton
1963
Captain Murray Arnold
1976
Nelson Fox
1998
Frank Wellmam
1971
McKittrick
1983
Captain Wilson
1964
Captain Robbins
1964
2001
Donald
2018
Detective Robinson
1970
Deputy Chief #1
1974
Chief Quimby
1999
Sub. Captain
1967
Joel
1997
1974
Dr. Ron Carlisle
1969
Drake Bishop
2005
Milburn Drysdale
1993
Clark
1965
Jerry Caesar
1987
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
2001
Rick Bessett
1970
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
1980
Bill Ray
1981
Ralph Hubbard
1972
Ron Carlisle
1982
Dr. Goldstone
1969
Raymond Holliday
2016
Randall Bordeaux
1981
1975
Charles Huntley
1974
Bill Bittinger
1983
Martin Price
1984
Executive Officer
1973
John Kennedy
2000
Mike Mulcahey
2002
Jed
1968
Dr. Bart Jacobs
2007
President George Richmond
1998
Self
2022
Johnathan Gallant
1999
Sen. Bert Haines
1973
Salesman
1966
Cooper
1985
Jack 'Madman' Buckner
1994
Tyler Cane
1986
Mayor Merle Jeeter
1977
Judge Keith Hayes
1980
Emmett Hunter
1979
Grandpa
2003
Principal Prickly (voice)
2003
Marvin Fleece
1980
Gerald Ellis
1994
Arthur Milo
1995
Walter Sawyer
1988
Principal Prickley (voice)
2003
George Bates
1978
Jack Parker
1975
Maxwell
1977
Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
1993
Jack Atwell
2006
Self
1987
Harrison Wilby
1969
Charlie
1965
1991
Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
1998
Jeffrey Babitt
1992
Jack Heintzel
1980
Stewart McBain
1990
Dr. Joseph Prang
1982
1961
Aunt Bea
1990
McCallum
1978
1987
Charles Mayron
1994
Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
1992
Self
1985
Hal
1988
Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
1984
Mark Winslow
1981
Martin Costigan
1987
Burt Simpson
1990
Jack Wilson
1979
Dickerson
1980
Himself
1986
Capt. Logan
1976
Self
1990
Paul Mathison
1975
1996
Mayo
1969
Mr. Wood
1974
Bob Mitchell
1973
Ted Seligson
1973
Ed Sigel
1987
1977
Agent Shepard
1970
1974
1978
Self
2012
Frank Donnelly
1970
William Paley
1986
Ralph Thompson
1977
Mack
2002
Jesse Kiplinger
1987
Heineken
1977
Seymour Kecker
1996
Al Stephenson
1975
Fast Eddie Murtaugh
1978
Dave McCoy
1975
Senator Ben Arnold
1998
1999
Ethan Grover
1999
William Cox
1991
Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
1978
Spray Loomis
2007
Rick Bessett
1980
1974
1973