Dabney Coleman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dabney Coleman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
WarGames
(McKittrick)
Inspector Gadget
(Chief Quimby)
Clifford
(Gerald Ellis)
The Man with One Red Shoe
(Cooper)
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
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)
The Scalphunters
(Jed)
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)
Domino
(Drake Bishop)
Devil's Food
(Seymour Kecker)
The Trouble with Girls
(Harrison Wilby)
Witch Way Love
(Joel)
Modern Problems
(Mark Winslow)
Hard Four
(Spray Loomis)
This Property Is Condemned
(Salesman)
Giving It Up
(Johnathan Gallant)
Young Doctors in Love
(Dr. Joseph Prang)
Where the Heart Is
(Stewart McBain)
Callie & Son
(Randall Bordeaux)
Cloak & Dagger
(Jack Flack / Hal Osborne)
Recess: School's Out
(Principal Peter Prickly (voice))
Nine to Five
(Franklin M. Hart Jr.)
Recess: All Growed Down
(Principal Prickley (voice))
Viva Knievel!
(Ralph Thompson)
Cinderella Liberty
(Executive Officer)
Bad Ronald
(Mr. Wood)
The Other Side of the Mountain
(Dave McCoy)
Dying Room Only
(Bob Mitchell)
Savage
(Ted Seligson)
Never Forget
(William Cox)
Judicial Consent
(Charles Mayron)
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
(Himself)
Baby M
(Gary Skoloff)
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
(Ed Sigel)
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
(George Bates)
Returning Home
(Al Stephenson)
Nothing Personal
(Dickerson)
Char·ac·ter
(Self)
I Love My Wife
(Frank Donnelly)
Black Fist
(Heineken)
The Beverly Hillbillies
(Milburn Drysdale)
There Goes the Neighborhood
(Jeffrey Babitt)
Maybe Baby
(Hal)
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
(Jack Heintzel)
North Dallas Forty
(Emmett Hunter)
Dragnet
(Jerry Caesar)
Meet the Applegates
(Aunt Bea)
Sworn to Silence
(Martin Costigan)
Exiled
(Lieutenant Kevin Stolper)
Night of 100 Stars II
(Self)
Moving Target
The Dove
(Charles Huntley)
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
(Arthur Milo)
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
(Principal Prickly (voice))
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
(Paul Mathison)
Murrow
(William Paley)
Rules Don't Apply
(Raymond Holliday)
Taken
(Ethan Grover)
The President's Plane Is Missing
(Sen. Bert Haines)
The Towering Inferno
(Deputy Chief #1)
The Slender Thread
(Charlie)
House of Evil
Stuart Little
(Dr. Beechwood)
Plaza Suite
(Jesse Kiplinger)
Must Be Santa
When She Was Bad...
(Jack Wilson)
Kiss Me, Kill Me
(Capt. Logan)
The Brotherhood of the Bell
(Agent Shepard)
Midway
(Captain Murray Arnold)
More Than Friends
(Joshua 'Josh' Harrington)
Lincoln
(Stephen A. Douglas (voice))
Still Working 9 to 5
(Self)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
(Merle Jeeter)
Columbo
(Hugh Creighton)
Boardwalk Empire
(Commodore Louis Kaestner)
Kraft Suspense Theatre
(William Gunther)
The Guardian
(Burton Fallin)
The F.B.I.
(Ira Barker)
I Dream of Jeannie
(George Webb)
That Girl
Diff'rent Strokes
E! True Hollywood Story
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(Frank Hager)
Heartland
Room 222
Mannix
(Ralph Stoner)
The Mod Squad
(John)
Kojak
(Alex Linden)
Medical Center
The Fugitive
(Floyd)
The Zeta Project
Cannon
Ironside
(Daniel Leary)
Madman of the People
(Jack 'Madman' Buckner)
Buffalo Bill
(Bill Bittinger)
Drexell's Class
The Slap Maxwell Story
Nanny and the Professor
(Detective Robinson)
Run for Your Life
(Fred Palmer)
The Fugitive
(Sergeant Keith)
Police Story
Switch
(C.C. Owens)
Sons and Daughters
The Fugitive
(Officer George Graham)
Search
Banyon
(Ralph Hubbard)
Then Came Bronson
Judd for the Defense
The Fugitive
(Steve)
Ben Casey
The Manhunter
Medical Story
Fresno
(Tyler Cane)
Dr. Kildare
(Dr. David Kirkson)
The Outer Limits
(Dr. Williams)
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Forever Fernwood
Apple Pie
(Fast Eddie Murtaugh)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(Sergeant Harry King)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Host)
Columbo
(Detective Murray)
Arrest and Trial
(Wayne Holton)
The F.B.I.
(Allen Clarke)
The F.B.I.
(Stanley Leonard)
The F.B.I.
(Sam Langlin)
The F.B.I.
(Ty Williams)
The F.B.I.
(Mr. Jamison)
The F.B.I.
(Barnes)
Pound Puppies
(Mayor (voice))
The Magic School Bus
(Horace Scope (voice))
The Outer Limits
(James Custer)
Courting Alex
(Jack Atwell)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(Stanley Rivkin)
Petrocelli
(Willy Morgan)
Kraft Suspense Theatre
(Alvin Piper)
McMillan and Wife
(Hansen)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(Monsieur Fox (voice))
Bonanza
(Clyde)
Recess
(Principal Peter Prickly (voice))
Barnaby Jones
(George Clark)
For The People
(Donald)
The Streets of San Francisco
(George Todd)
The Invaders
(Capt. Mitchell Ross)
The Invaders
(John Carter)
The Love Boat
(Van Milner)
Ray Donovan
(Mr. Price)
NCIS
(Army Corporal John Sydney)
Fernwood 2 Night
(Mayor Merle Jeeter)
Quincy, M.E.
(Dr. Burt Travers)
Barnaby Jones
(Ted Sayers)
Quincy, M.E.
(Officer Peter O'Neil)
The Streets of San Francisco
(Andrew Horvath, Sr.)
McMillan and Wife
(Walter Jennings)
Barnaby Jones
(Brad Adamson)
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
(Frank Wellmam)
Dan August
(Rick Bessett)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(Congressman Phil Whitman)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
(Dr. Goldstone)
The Flying Nun
(Sub. Captain)
12 O'Clock High
(Captain Robbins)
12 O'Clock High
(Captain Wilson)
The Outer Limits
(Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited))
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
(Clark)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Bonanza
(Ivar Peterson)
The Donna Reed Show
(Rallye Master)
Hazel
(Les Swanton)
Naked City
(Resident)
Barnaby Jones
(Paul Cleveland)
I Dream of Jeannie
(Captain Yardley)
Yellowstone
(John Dutton Sr.)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(Tom Esterow)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(Sgt. Lou Snyder)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Winner)
Mannix
(Howard Graham)