
Dabney Coleman
Born January 3, 1932 · Austin, Texas, USA
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).
Movies

You've Got Mail

Stuart Little

WarGames

The Towering Inferno

Midway

Inspector Gadget

Tootsie

The Beverly Hillbillies

Nine to Five

Recess: School's Out

On Golden Pond

Dragnet

The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Man with One Red Shoe

Domino

Rules Don't Apply

Amos & Andrew

Downhill Racer

Rolling Thunder

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

Moonlight Mile

Cloak & Dagger

Bite the Bullet

Hot to Trot

This Property Is Condemned

Where the Red Fern Grows

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Young Doctors in Love

Clifford

Recess: All Growed Down

Short Time

North Dallas Forty

The Trouble with Girls

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

Night of 100 Stars II

The Dove

The Scalphunters

My Date with the President's Daughter

Bad Ronald

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

The Slender Thread

The Other Side of the Mountain

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

Melvin and Howard

There Goes the Neighborhood

When She Was Bad...

Modern Problems

Plaza Suite

A Witch's Way of Love

Where the Heart Is

Target Earth

Pray TV

Moving Target

Giving It Up

Exiled

Cinderella Liberty

Char·ac·ter

Kiss My Act

The President's Plane Is Missing

Hard Four

I Love My Wife

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Meet the Applegates

Savage!

Nothing Personal

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

Viva Knievel!

Dying Room Only

Maybe Baby

Callie & Son

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

More Than Friends

Maneaters Are Loose!
TV Shows

Saturday Night Live

Columbo

The Love Boat

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Ironside

The Donna Reed Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Fugitive

Bonanza

Boardwalk Empire

The Flying Nun

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Quincy, M.E.

Mannix

I Dream of Jeannie

Ray Donovan

Cannon

Dr. Kildare

Naked City

The F.B.I.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Medical Center

The Guardian

Pound Puppies

The Invaders

Run for Your Life

Recess

Room 222

Ben Casey

Barnaby Jones

Kraft Suspense Theatre

That Girl

Kojak

The Outer Limits

The Streets of San Francisco

Switch

Police Story

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

McMillan & Wife

The Mod Squad

Hazel

Petrocelli

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

The Magic School Bus

12 O'Clock High

For the People

Arrest and Trial

The Zeta Project

Judd, for the Defense

Then Came Bronson

Nanny and the Professor

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Dan August

Search

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Heartland

Medical Story

The Manhunter

Banyon

Buffalo Bill

Madman of the People

Fernwood 2 Night

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Forever Fernwood

Fresno

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

E! True Hollywood Story

Courting Alex

Sons and Daughters

The Slap Maxwell Story

Apple Pie

Diff'rent Strokes

Baby M
More Movies

Judicial Consent

Still Working 9 to 5

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Devil's Food

Kiss Me... Kill Me

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Black Fist

House of Evil

Sworn to Silence

Never Forget

The Climb

The Making of Midway

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Returning Home

Must Be Santa




