Dabney Coleman

Dabney Coleman

Birthday: 1932-01-03

Deathday: 2024-05-16

Place of birth: Austin, Texas, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0001056

Biography:

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).

Played in movies:

Still Working 9 to 5

Score: 10.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

On Golden Pond

Score: 7.2

Tootsie

Score: 7.2

The Slender Thread

Score: 7.1

WarGames

Score: 7.1

The Towering Inferno

Score: 7.0

Kiss Me, Kill Me

Score: 7.0

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

Score: 7.0

Nine to Five

Score: 6.9

My Date with the President's Daughter

Score: 6.9

Lincoln

Score: 6.8

Cinderella Liberty

Score: 6.8

Rolling Thunder

Score: 6.8

North Dallas Forty

Score: 6.7

You've Got Mail

Score: 6.7

Callie & Son

Score: 6.7

Midway

Score: 6.6

Dying Room Only

Score: 6.6

Recess: School's Out

Score: 6.6

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Score: 6.6

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

Score: 6.5

Recess: All Growed Down

Score: 6.5

Short Time

Score: 6.5

Melvin and Howard

Score: 6.4

Bite the Bullet

Score: 6.4

The Scalphunters

Score: 6.4

Cloak & Dagger

Score: 6.4

The Dove

Score: 6.4

Moonlight Mile

Score: 6.3

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.3

This Property Is Condemned

Score: 6.3

Bad Ronald

Score: 6.3

The Other Side of the Mountain

Score: 6.3

The President's Plane Is Missing

Score: 6.2

Where the Heart Is

Score: 6.2

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Score: 6.2

Stuart Little

Score: 6.1

Plaza Suite

Score: 6.0

House of Evil

Score: 6.0

Sworn to Silence

Score: 6.0

Dragnet

Score: 6.0

Domino

Score: 5.9

Judicial Consent

Score: 5.9

Where the Red Fern Grows

Score: 5.9

Downhill Racer

Score: 5.9

Rules Don't Apply

Score: 5.7

Nothing Personal

Score: 5.7

The Climb

Score: 5.7

The Man with One Red Shoe

Score: 5.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Score: 5.7

Savage

Score: 5.7

Exiled

Score: 5.5

Meet the Applegates

Score: 5.5

Amos & Andrew

Score: 5.4

There Goes the Neighborhood

Score: 5.4

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Score: 5.4

Modern Problems

Score: 5.4

Young Doctors in Love

Score: 5.3

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Score: 5.2

A Witch's Way of Love

Score: 5.2

Hot to Trot

Score: 5.2

Clifford

Score: 5.1

When She Was Bad...

Score: 5.0

Taken

Score: 5.0

Murrow

Score: 5.0

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

Score: 5.0

Returning Home

Score: 5.0

Pray TV

Score: 4.8

The Trouble with Girls

Score: 4.7

Inspector Gadget

Score: 4.5

Maybe Baby

Score: 4.5

Hard Four

Score: 4.4

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Score: 4.3

Black Fist

Score: 4.3

Target Earth

Score: 4.2

Never Forget

Score: 4.2

Giving It Up

Score: 4.1

Char·ac·ter

Score: 4.0

Viva Knievel!

Score: 3.6

Must Be Santa

Score: 3.5

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Score: 3.4

I Love My Wife

Score: 2.0

Dan August: The Jealousy Factor

Score: 2.0

More Than Friends

Score: 0.0

Moving Target

Score: 0.0

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Score: 0.0

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

Score: 0.0

Devil's Food

Score: 0.0

Maneaters Are Loose!

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Yellowstone

Score: 8.3

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Columbo

Score: 8.1

Columbo

Score: 8.1

Boardwalk Empire

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

I Dream of Jeannie

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

I Dream of Jeannie

Score: 7.8

Recess

Score: 7.7

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

The Zeta Project

Score: 7.6

NCIS

Score: 7.6

The Magic School Bus

Score: 7.6

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Judd for the Defense

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Ray Donovan

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

For The People

Score: 7.3

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Run for Your Life

Score: 7.2

12 O'Clock High

Score: 7.2

12 O'Clock High

Score: 7.2

Petrocelli

Score: 7.1

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Score: 7.1

Diff'rent Strokes

Score: 7.1

Kojak

Score: 7.0

Banyon

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

McMillan & Wife

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

McMillan & Wife

Score: 6.9

Search

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

The Invaders

Score: 6.8

The Invaders

Score: 6.8

Hazel

Score: 6.8

Dan August

Score: 6.8

The Guardian

Score: 6.8

Switch

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Score: 6.6

Heartland

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Fresno

Score: 6.4

The Flying Nun

Score: 6.3

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Score: 6.3

Buffalo Bill

Score: 6.3

That Girl

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.2

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

Apple Pie

Score: 6.0

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Score: 6.0

Nanny and the Professor

Score: 6.0

Madman of the People

Score: 6.0

Room 222

Score: 6.0

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Fernwood 2 Night

Score: 5.7

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Drexell's Class

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

Courting Alex

Score: 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

Pound Puppies

Score: 5.2

Forever Fernwood

Score: 5.0

The Manhunter

Score: 5.0

Then Came Bronson

Score: 4.8

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Score: 4.0

The Slap Maxwell Story

Score: 3.5

Medical Story

Score: 3.0

Sons and Daughters

Score: 0.0