Dabney Coleman

Acting · 2.3 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 3, 1932 – May 16, 2024
From: Austin, Texas, USA

Biography

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).

Works

93 films

Stuart Little

19996.1

You've Got Mail

19986.7

WarGames

19837.1

The Towering Inferno

19747.0

Inspector Gadget

19994.5

Tootsie

19827.2

Midway

19766.6

The Beverly Hillbillies

19936.3

Nine to Five

19806.9

Recess: School's Out

20016.6

On Golden Pond

19817.3

Dragnet

19876.0

Domino

20055.9

The Man with One Red Shoe

19855.7

The Muppets Take Manhattan

19846.6

Rules Don't Apply

20165.8

Amos & Andrew

19935.5

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

20036.6

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

19876.0

Where the Red Fern Grows

20036.4

Rolling Thunder

19776.8

Young Doctors in Love

19825.3

Cloak & Dagger

19846.4

Downhill Racer

19695.9

This Property Is Condemned

19666.5

Moonlight Mile

20026.3

Short Time

19906.5

Bite the Bullet

19756.4

Recess: All Growed Down

20036.5

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Hot to Trot

19885.2

Clifford

19945.1

The Trouble with Girls

19694.9

There Goes the Neighborhood

19925.5

Modern Problems

19815.4

North Dallas Forty

19796.7

The Scalphunters

19686.4

The Dove

19746.7

When She Was Bad...

19795.0

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

20016.3

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

19805.2

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

19906.8

The Slender Thread

19657.1

Bad Ronald

19746.4

Melvin and Howard

19806.5

The Other Side of the Mountain

19756.3

The President's Plane Is Missing

19736.3

My Date with the President's Daughter

19986.9

Giving It Up

19994.2

Target Earth

19984.4

Where the Heart Is

19906.2

Cinderella Liberty

19736.7

Kiss My Act

20016.0

Dying Room Only

19736.6

A Witch's Way of Love

19975.2

I Love My Wife

19703.5

Plaza Suite

19878.0

Pray TV

19805.5

Char·ac·ter

20124.0

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

19955.3

Judicial Consent

19945.6

Maybe Baby

19885.0

Viva Knievel!

19774.0

Nothing Personal

19805.6

Exiled

19985.9

Lincoln

19927.3

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

1978

Still Working 9 to 5

202210.0

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

20004.0

The Brotherhood of the Bell

19706.0

Moving Target

1973

Meet the Applegates

19905.6

Hard Four

20074.9

Savage!

19735.5

Sworn to Silence

19877.0

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

19876.5

The Making of Midway

20019.0

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

19757.5

Black Fist

19774.4

Callie & Son

19816.8

Murrow

19865.5

Kiss Me... Kill Me

19766.8

Devil's Food

19967.0

House of Evil

19747.5

More Than Friends

197810.0

Maneaters Are Loose!

197810.0

Dan August: The Jealousy Factor

19802.0

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

19866.3

The Climb

20026.1

Never Forget

19915.0

Must Be Santa

19993.5

Returning Home

19756.5

Taken

19995.0