Dabney Coleman

Born

January 3, 1932

Died

May 16, 2024 (92 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Austin, Texas, USA

IMDb

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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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Known For

6.1

NCIS

Still Working 9 to 5

Self

10.0

2022

Yellowstone

John Dutton Sr. · (1 episode)

8.3

2018

For The People

Donald · (1 episode)

7.2

2018

Rules Don't Apply

Raymond Holliday

5.7

2016

Ray Donovan

Mr. Price · (1 episode)

7.5

2013

Char·ac·ter

Self

4.0

2012

Pound Puppies

Mayor (voice) · (4 episodes)

5.2

2010

Boardwalk Empire

Commodore Louis Kaestner · (24 episodes)

8.0

2010

Hard Four

Spray Loomis

4.4

2007

Heartland

(10 episodes)

6.5

2007

Courting Alex

Jack Atwell · (12 episodes)

5.3

2006

Domino

Drake Bishop

5.9

2005

Recess: All Growed Down

Principal Prickley (voice)

6.5

2003

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

Principal Prickly (voice)

6.5

2003

NCIS

Army Corporal John Sydney · (1 episode)

7.6

2003

Where the Red Fern Grows

Grandpa

5.9

2003

Moonlight Mile

Mike Mulcahey

6.3

2002

The Climb

Mack

5.7

2002

The Guardian

Burton Fallin · (67 episodes)

6.8

2001

Recess: School's Out

Principal Peter Prickly (voice)

6.6

2001

The Zeta Project

(1 episode)

7.5

2001

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

3.4

2000

Stuart Little

Dr. Beechwood

6.1

1999

7.7

1997

A Witch's Way of Love

Joel

5.2

1997

Devil's Food

Seymour Kecker

0.0

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

(1 episode)

8.1

1996

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Arthur Milo

4.3

1995

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Monsieur Fox (voice) · (1 episode)

6.0

1995

Judicial Consent

Charles Mayron

5.9

1994

Madman of the People

Jack 'Madman' Buckner · (16 episodes)

6.0

1994

The Magic School Bus

Horace Scope (voice) · (1 episode)

7.6

1994

Clifford

Gerald Ellis

5.1

1994

The Beverly Hillbillies

Milburn Drysdale

6.3

1993

Amos & Andrew

Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver

5.4

1993

Lincoln

Stephen A. Douglas (voice)

6.8

1992

There Goes the Neighborhood

Jeffrey Babitt

5.4

1992

Drexell's Class

(18 episodes)

5.5

1991

Never Forget

William Cox

4.2

1991

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

Self

6.8

1990

Meet the Applegates

Aunt Bea

5.5

1990

Short Time

Burt Simpson

6.4

1990

Where the Heart Is

Stewart McBain

6.1

1990

Maybe Baby

Hal

4.5

1988

Hot to Trot

Walter Sawyer

5.2

1988

Plaza Suite

Jesse Kiplinger

6.0

1987

The Slap Maxwell Story

(22 episodes)

3.5

1987

Dragnet

Jerry Caesar

6.0

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

5.7

1987

Sworn to Silence

Martin Costigan

6.0

1987

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

Ed Sigel

0.0

1987

Fresno

Tyler Cane · (5 episodes)

6.4

1986

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Himself

6.2

1986

Murrow

William Paley

5.0

1986

The Man with One Red Shoe

Cooper

5.7

1985

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

8.0

1985

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Martin Price

6.6

1984

Cloak & Dagger

Jack Flack / Hal Osborne

6.4

1984

WarGames

McKittrick

7.1

1983

Buffalo Bill

Bill Bittinger · (26 episodes)

6.3

1983

Tootsie

Ron Carlisle

7.2

1982

Young Doctors in Love

Dr. Joseph Prang

5.2

1982

Modern Problems

Mark Winslow

5.3

1981

On Golden Pond

Bill Ray

7.2

1981

Callie & Son

Randall Bordeaux

6.7

1981

Dan August: The Jealousy Factor

Rick Bessett

2.0

1980

Nine to Five

Franklin M. Hart Jr.

6.9

1980

Melvin and Howard

Judge Keith Hayes

6.4

1980

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Jack Heintzel

5.2

1980

Pray TV

Marvin Fleece

4.8

1980

Nothing Personal

Dickerson

5.7

1980

When She Was Bad...

Jack Wilson

5.0

1979

North Dallas Forty

Emmett Hunter

6.7

1979

Diff'rent Strokes

(2 episodes)

7.0

1978

More Than Friends

Joshua 'Josh' Harrington

0.0

1978

Apple Pie

Fast Eddie Murtaugh · (2 episodes)

6.0

1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

McCallum

0.0

1978

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

George Bates

0.0

1978

Rolling Thunder

Maxwell

6.8

1974

Cinderella Liberty

Executive Officer

6.8

1973

Kojak

Alex Linden · (1 episode)

7.0

1973

The President's Plane Is Missing

Sen. Bert Haines

6.2

1973

Dying Room Only

Bob Mitchell

6.6

1973

George Clark · (1 episode)

6.9

1973

Barnaby Jones

Ted Sayers · (2 episodes)

6.9

1973

Barnaby Jones

Brad Adamson · (1 episode)

6.9

1973

Barnaby Jones

Paul Cleveland · (1 episode)

6.9

1973

The Streets of San Francisco

George Todd · (1 episode)

6.9

1972

The Streets of San Francisco

Andrew Horvath, Sr. · (1 episode)

Frank Donnelly

2.0

1970

Dan August

Rick Bessett · (1 episode)

6.8

1970

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Congressman Phil Whitman · (1 episode)

7.5

1970

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Agent Shepard

5.4

1970

Nanny and the Professor

Detective Robinson · (1 episode)

6.0

1970

Downhill Racer

Mayo

5.9

1969

Medical Center

(1 episode)

6.1

1969

Then Came Bronson

(1 episode)

4.8

1969

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Dr. Goldstone · (1 episode)

4.0

1969

Room 222

(1 episode)

6.0

1969

The Trouble with Girls

Harrison Wilby

4.7

1969

The Mod Squad

John · (1 episode)

6.3

1968

The Scalphunters

Jed

6.4

1968

Mannix

Ralph Stoner · (1 episode)

6.7

1967

Mannix

Howard Graham · (1 episode)

6.7

1967

Judd for the Defense

(1 episode)

7.5

1967

The Flying Nun

Sub. Captain · (1 episode)

6.3

1967

Ironside

Daniel Leary · (1 episode)

6.8

1967

The Invaders

Capt. Mitchell Ross · (1 episode)

6.8

1967

The Invaders

John Carter · (1 episode)

6.8

1967

That Girl

(8 episodes)

6.3

1966

This Property Is Condemned

Salesman

6.3

1966

The Slender Thread

Charlie

Mr. Jamison · (1 episode)

5.5

1965

The F.B.I.

Barnes · (1 episode)

5.5

1965

I Dream of Jeannie

Lt. George Webb · (1 episode)

7.8

1965

I Dream of Jeannie

Captain Yardley · (1 episode)

7.8

1965

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Clark · (1 episode)

6.6

1965

Run for Your Life

Fred Palmer · (1 episode)

7.2

1965

12 O'Clock High

Captain Wilson · (1 episode)

7.3

1964

12 O'Clock High

Captain Robbins · (1 episode)

7.3

1964

Kraft Suspense Theatre

William Gunther · (1 episode)

5.3

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Alvin Piper · (1 episode)

5.3

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Sergeant Harry King · (1 episode)

5.7

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Stanley Rivkin · (1 episode)

5.7

1963

The Fugitive

Floyd · (1 episode)

7.2

1963

The Fugitive

Sergeant Keith · (1 episode)

7.2

1963

The Fugitive

Officer George Graham · (1 episode)

7.2

1963

The Fugitive

Steve · (1 episode)

7.2

1963

The Outer Limits

Dr. Williams · (1 episode)

7.8

1963

The Outer Limits

James Custer · (1 episode)

7.8

1963

The Outer Limits

Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited) · (1 episode)

7.8

1963

Arrest and Trial

Wayne Holton · (1 episode)

7.7

1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self · (10 episodes)

7.5

1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

7.5

1959

Bonanza

Ivar Peterson · (1 episode)

7.5

1959

Naked City

Resident · (1 episode)

5.5

1958

The Donna Reed Show

Rallye Master · (1 episode)

6.2

1958

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Winner · (1 episode)

7.2

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

7.2

1944