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).
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 (Movies)
Still Working 9 to 5
Character:Self
Release Date:13/03/2022
Rules Don't Apply
Character:Raymond Holliday
Release Date:23/11/2016
Char·ac·ter
Character:Self
Release Date:30/11/2012
Hard Four
Character:Spray Loomis
Release Date:01/11/2007
Domino
Character:Drake Bishop
Release Date:14/10/2005
Recess: All Growed Down
Character:Principal Prickley (voice)
Release Date:09/12/2003
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
Character:Principal Prickly (voice)
Release Date:09/12/2003
Where the Red Fern Grows
Character:Grandpa
Release Date:03/05/2003
Moonlight Mile
Character:Mike Mulcahey
Release Date:09/09/2002
The Climb
Character:Mack
Release Date:22/02/2002
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
Character:Principal Peter Prickly
Release Date:06/11/2001
Kiss My Act
Character:Henry
Release Date:23/04/2001
Recess: School's Out
Character:Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Release Date:16/02/2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Character:John Kennedy
Release Date:20/06/2000
Stuart Little
Character:Dr. Beechwood
Release Date:17/12/1999
Must Be Santa
Character:
Release Date:12/12/1999
Inspector Gadget
Character:Chief Quimby
Release Date:23/07/1999
Giving It Up
Character:Johnathan Gallant
Release Date:16/03/1999
Taken
Character:Ethan Grover
Release Date:01/01/1999
You've Got Mail
Character:Nelson Fox
Release Date:18/12/1998
Exiled
Character:Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
Release Date:08/11/1998
My Date with the President's Daughter
Character:President George Richmond
Release Date:19/04/1998
Target Earth
Character:Senator Ben Arnold
Release Date:01/01/1998
A Witch's Way of Love
Character:Joel
Release Date:19/03/1997
Devil's Food
Character:Seymour Kecker
Release Date:02/09/1996
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
Character:Arthur Milo
Release Date:12/03/1995
Judicial Consent
Character:Charles Mayron
Release Date:21/10/1994
Clifford
Character:Gerald Ellis
Release Date:01/04/1994
The Beverly Hillbillies
Character:Milburn Drysdale
Release Date:15/10/1993
Amos & Andrew
Character:Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Release Date:05/03/1993
Lincoln
Character:Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
Release Date:26/12/1992
There Goes the Neighborhood
Character:Jeffrey Babitt
Release Date:30/10/1992
Never Forget
Character:William Cox
Release Date:08/04/1991
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
Character:Self
Release Date:21/11/1990
Meet the Applegates
Character:Aunt Bea
Release Date:06/06/1990
Short Time
Character:Burt Simpson
Release Date:04/05/1990
Where the Heart Is
Character:Stewart McBain
Release Date:23/02/1990
Maybe Baby
Character:Hal
Release Date:05/12/1988
Hot to Trot
Character:Walter Sawyer
Release Date:26/08/1988
Plaza Suite
Character:Jesse Kiplinger
Release Date:03/12/1987
Dragnet
Character:Jerry Caesar
Release Date:26/06/1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:18/05/1987
Sworn to Silence
Character:Martin Costigan
Release Date:06/04/1987
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Character:Ed Sigel
Release Date:03/02/1987
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Character:Dabney Coleman
Release Date:18/04/1986
Murrow
Character:William Paley
Release Date:19/01/1986
The Man with One Red Shoe
Character:Cooper
Release Date:18/07/1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Character:Self
Release Date:10/03/1985
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Character:Martin Price
Release Date:27/06/1984
Cloak & Dagger
Character:Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
Release Date:01/06/1984
WarGames
Character:McKittrick
Release Date:03/06/1983
Tootsie
Character:Ron Carlisle
Release Date:17/12/1982
Young Doctors in Love
Character:Dr. Joseph Prang
Release Date:16/07/1982
Modern Problems
Character:Mark Winslow
Release Date:25/12/1981
On Golden Pond
Character:Bill Ray
Release Date:04/12/1981
Callie & Son
Character:Randall Bordeaux
Release Date:13/10/1981
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
Character:Rick Bessett
Release Date:31/12/1980
Nine to Five
Character:Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Release Date:18/12/1980
Melvin and Howard
Character:Judge Keith Hayes
Release Date:19/09/1980
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Character:Jack Heintzel
Release Date:11/07/1980
Pray TV
Character:Marvin Fleece
Release Date:23/05/1980
Nothing Personal
Character:Dickerson
Release Date:28/03/1980
When She Was Bad...
Character:Jack Wilson
Release Date:25/11/1979
North Dallas Forty
Character:Emmett Hunter
Release Date:03/08/1979
More Than Friends
Character:Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Release Date:20/10/1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
Character:McCallum
Release Date:03/05/1978
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Character:George Bates
Release Date:23/01/1978
Rolling Thunder
Character:Maxwell
Release Date:02/11/1977
Black Fist
Character:Heineken
Release Date:31/08/1977
Viva Knievel!
Character:Ralph Thompson
Release Date:10/06/1977
Midway
Character:Captain Murray Arnold
Release Date:18/06/1976
Kiss Me... Kill Me
Character:Capt. Logan
Release Date:08/05/1976
The Other Side of the Mountain
Character:Dave McCoy
Release Date:14/11/1975
Bite the Bullet
Character:Jack Parker
Release Date:26/09/1975
Returning Home
Character:Al Stephenson
Release Date:29/04/1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Character:Paul Mathison
Release Date:20/02/1975
The Towering Inferno
Character:Deputy Chief #1
Release Date:14/12/1974
Bad Ronald
Character:Mr. Wood
Release Date:23/10/1974
The Dove
Character:Charles Huntley
Release Date:16/06/1974
House of Evil
Character:
Release Date:14/05/1974
Cinderella Liberty
Character:Executive Officer
Release Date:18/12/1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
Character:Sen. Bert Haines
Release Date:23/10/1973
Dying Room Only
Character:Bob Mitchell
Release Date:18/09/1973
Moving Target
Character:
Release Date:22/05/1973
Savage
Character:Ted Seligson
Release Date:31/03/1973
I Love My Wife
Character:Frank Donnelly
Release Date:21/12/1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Character:Agent Shepard
Release Date:17/09/1970
Downhill Racer
Character:Mayo
Release Date:06/11/1969
The Trouble with Girls
Character:Harrison Wilby
Release Date:24/06/1969
The Scalphunters
Character:Jed
Release Date:29/02/1968
This Property Is Condemned
Character:Salesman
Release Date:03/08/1966
The Slender Thread
Character:Charlie
Release Date:15/12/1965
Television Appearances
Yellowstone
Character:John Dutton Sr.
For the People
Character:Donald
Ray Donovan
Character:Mr. Price
Pound Puppies
Character:Mayor (voice)
Boardwalk Empire
Character:Commodore Louis Kaestner
Heartland
Character:Dr. Bart Jacobs
Courting Alex
Character:Jack Atwell
NCIS
Character:Army Corporal John Sydney
The Guardian
Character:Burton Fallin
The Zeta Project
Character:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character:Frank Hager
Recess
Character:Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
E! True Hollywood Story
Character:
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character:Monsieur Fox (voice)
Madman of the People
Character:Jack 'Madman' Buckner
The Magic School Bus
Character:Horace Scope (voice)
Drexell's Class
Character:
Baby M
Character:Gary Skoloff
The Slap Maxwell Story
Character:
Fresno
Character:Tyler Cane
Buffalo Bill
Character:Bill Bittinger
Diff'rent Strokes
Character:
Apple Pie
Character:Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Forever Fernwood
Character:
The Love Boat
Character:Van Milner
Fernwood 2 Night
Character:Mayor Merle Jeeter
Quincy, M.E.
Character:Dr. Burt Travers
Quincy, M.E.
Character:Officer Peter O'Neil
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Character:Merle Jeeter
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
Switch
Character:C.C. Owens
Medical Story
Character:
Sons and Daughters
Character:
The Manhunter
Character:
Petrocelli
Character:Willy Morgan
Kojak
Character:Alex Linden
Police Story
Character:
Barnaby Jones
Character:George Clark
Barnaby Jones
Character:Ted Sayers
Barnaby Jones
Character:Brad Adamson
Barnaby Jones
Character:Paul Cleveland
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:George Todd
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Banyon
Character:Ralph Hubbard
Search
Character:
McMillan & Wife
Character:Hansen
McMillan & Wife
Character:Walter Jennings
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Character:Frank Wellmam
Columbo
Character:Hugh Creighton
Columbo
Character:Detective Murray
Cannon
Character:
Dan August
Character:Rick Bessett
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character:Congressman Phil Whitman
Nanny and the Professor
Character:Detective Robinson
Medical Center
Character:
Then Came Bronson
Character:Dr. Ron Carlisle
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Character:Dr. Goldstone
Room 222
Character:
The Mod Squad
Character:John
Mannix
Character:Ralph Stoner
Mannix
Character:Howard Graham
Judd for the Defense
Character:
The Flying Nun
Character:Sub. Captain
Ironside
Character:Daniel Leary
The Invaders
Character:Capt. Mitchell Ross
The Invaders
Character:John Carter
That Girl
Character:
The F.B.I.
Character:Ira Barker
The F.B.I.
Character:Allen Clarke
The F.B.I.
Character:Stanley Leonard
The F.B.I.
Character:Sam Langlin
The F.B.I.
Character:Ty Williams
The F.B.I.
Character:Mr. Jamison
The F.B.I.
Character:Barnes
I Dream of Jeannie
Character:George Webb
I Dream of Jeannie
Character:Captain Yardley
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Character:Clark
Run for Your Life
Character:Fred Palmer
12 O'Clock High
Character:Captain Robbins
12 O'Clock High
Character:Captain Wilson
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character:William Gunther
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character:Alvin Piper
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character:Sergeant Harry King
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character:Stanley Rivkin
The Fugitive
Character:Floyd
The Fugitive
Character:Sergeant Keith
The Fugitive
Character:Officer George Graham
The Fugitive
Character:Steve
The Outer Limits
Character:Dr. Williams
The Outer Limits
Character:James Custer
The Outer Limits
Character:Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
Arrest and Trial
Character:Wayne Holton
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character:Tom Esterow
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character:Sgt. Lou Snyder
Ben Casey
Character:
Hazel
Character:Les Swanton
Dr. Kildare
Character:Dr. David Kirkson
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Character:
Bonanza
Character:Clyde
Bonanza
Character:Ivar Peterson
Naked City
Character:Resident
The Donna Reed Show
Character:Rallye Master
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
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