Dabney Coleman
Actor

Dabney Coleman

4 Movies
4 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 4
Birthday January 3, 1932 (94 years old)
Place of Birth Austin, Texas, USA
Also Known As Dabney Wharton Coleman
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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).

Filmography (172)

Still Working 9 to 5 2022
For the People 2018
Yellowstone 2018
Rules Don't Apply 2016
Ray Donovan 2013
CharΒ·acΒ·ter 2012
Boardwalk Empire 2010
Pound Puppies 2010
Hard Four 2007
Heartland 2007
Courting Alex 2006
Domino 2005
Where the Red Fern Grows 2003
Recess: All Growed Down 2003
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade 2003
NCIS 2003
Moonlight Mile 2002
The Climb 2002
Recess: School's Out 2001
Kiss My Act 2001
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street 2001
The Making of Midway 2001
The Guardian 2001
The Zeta Project 2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale 2000
Inspector Gadget 1999
Giving It Up 1999
Taken 1999
Stuart Little 1999
Must Be Santa 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999
Target Earth 1998
My Date with the President's Daughter 1998
You've Got Mail 1998
Exiled 1998
A Witch's Way of Love 1997
Recess 1997
Devil's Food 1996
E! True Hollywood Story 1996
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped 1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995
Clifford 1994
Judicial Consent 1994
Madman of the People 1994
The Magic School Bus 1994
Amos & Andrew 1993
The Beverly Hillbillies 1993
There Goes the Neighborhood 1992
Lincoln 1992
Never Forget 1991
Drexell's Class 1991
Short Time 1990
Where the Heart Is 1990
Meet the Applegates 1990
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson 1990
Hot to Trot 1988
Maybe Baby 1988
Baby M 1988
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story 1987
Dragnet 1987
Sworn to Silence 1987
Plaza Suite 1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood 1987
The Slap Maxwell Story 1987
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer 1986
Murrow 1986
Fresno 1986
The Man with One Red Shoe 1985
Night of 100 Stars II 1985
The Muppets Take Manhattan 1984
Cloak & Dagger 1984
WarGames 1983
Buffalo Bill 1983
Tootsie 1982
Young Doctors in Love 1982
On Golden Pond 1981
Modern Problems 1981
Callie & Son 1981
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor 1980
Melvin and Howard 1980
Pray TV 1980
Nine to Five 1980
Nothing Personal 1980
How to Beat the High Cost of Living 1980
North Dallas Forty 1979
When She Was Bad... 1979
Maneaters Are Loose! 1978
The Case of the Baltimore Girls 1978
More Than Friends 1978
Diff'rent Strokes 1978
Apple Pie 1978
Rolling Thunder 1977
Viva Knievel! 1977
Black Fist 1977
Forever Fernwood 1977
The Love Boat 1977
Fernwood 2 Night 1977
Kiss Me... Kill Me 1976
Midway 1976
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 1976
Quincy, M.E. 1976
Bite the Bullet 1975
The Other Side of the Mountain 1975
Returning Home 1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan 1975
Switch 1975
Saturday Night Live 1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan 1975
Medical Story 1975
Bad Ronald 1974
The Dove 1974
The Towering Inferno 1974
House of Evil 1974
Sons and Daughters 1974
The Manhunter 1974
Petrocelli 1974
Cinderella Liberty 1973
Dying Room Only 1973
Savage! 1973
Moving Target 1973
The President's Plane Is Missing 1973
Kojak 1973
Police Story 1973
Barnaby Jones 1973
Search 1972
Banyon 1972
The Streets of San Francisco 1972
Columbo 1971
Cannon 1971
McMillan & Wife 1971
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 1971
I Love My Wife 1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell 1970
Nanny and the Professor 1970
Dan August 1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970
Downhill Racer 1969
The Trouble with Girls 1969
Room 222 1969
Medical Center 1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors 1969
Then Came Bronson 1969
The Scalphunters 1968
The Mod Squad 1968
Mannix 1967
Ironside 1967
Judd, for the Defense 1967
The Invaders 1967
The Flying Nun 1967
This Property Is Condemned 1966
That Girl 1966
The Slender Thread 1965
The F.B.I. 1965
I Dream of Jeannie 1965
Run for Your Life 1965
Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1965
12 O'Clock High 1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre 1963
The Fugitive 1963
The Outer Limits 1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 1963
Arrest and Trial 1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Ben Casey 1961
Dr. Kildare 1961
Kraft Mystery Theatre 1961
Hazel 1961
Bonanza 1959
The Donna Reed Show 1958
Naked City 1958
Golden Globe Awards 1944