Dabney Coleman
Known for: Acting
Born: January 2, 1932 in Austin, Texas, USA - Died: May 15, 2024
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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WarGames
McKittrick
Inspector Gadget
Chief Quimby
Clifford
Gerald Ellis
The Man with One Red Shoe
Cooper
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
John Kennedy
Where the Red Fern Grows
Grandpa
Rolling Thunder
Maxwell
Amos & Andrew
Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Moonlight Mile
Mike Mulcahey
Hot to Trot
Walter Sawyer
Target Earth
Senator Ben Arnold
On Golden Pond
Bill Ray
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
Rick Bessett
Maneaters Are Loose!
McCallum
Short Time
Burt Simpson
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Martin Price
Melvin and Howard
Judge Keith Hayes
My Date with the President's Daughter
President George Richmond
Pray TV
Marvin Fleece
You've Got Mail
Nelson Fox
Downhill Racer
Mayo
Bite the Bullet
Jack Parker
The Climb
Mack
Tootsie
Ron Carlisle