
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

Nine to Five

Midway

Inspector Gadget

The Towering Inferno

The Beverly Hillbillies

Rules Don't Apply

Recess: School's Out

Domino

Tootsie

The Man with One Red Shoe

Dragnet

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

On Golden Pond

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Amos & Andrew

Young Doctors in Love

Recess: All Growed Down

Moonlight Mile

Cloak & Dagger

This Property Is Condemned

Still Working 9 to 5

There Goes the Neighborhood

Rolling Thunder

Night of 100 Stars II

The Scalphunters

Where the Red Fern Grows

Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20

Bite the Bullet

The Trouble with Girls

The Brotherhood of the Bell

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

My Date with the President's Daughter

Where the Heart Is

The President's Plane Is Missing

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Downhill Racer

Short Time

The Slender Thread

North Dallas Forty

Clifford

I Love My Wife

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

A Witch's Way of Love

The Other Side of the Mountain

When She Was Bad...

Hot to Trot

Exiled

Modern Problems

Kiss Me... Kill Me

Meet the Applegates

Giving It Up

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Bad Ronald

Nothing Personal

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

Melvin and Howard

The Making of Midway

Target Earth

Kiss My Act

Maneaters Are Loose!

Callie & Son

Char·ac·ter

Never Forget

The Dove

Plaza Suite

Judicial Consent
TV Shows

Columbo

Yellowstone

Golden Globe Awards

Bonanza

The Love Boat

Mannix

Ironside

Quincy, M.E.

The Fugitive

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Dr. Kildare

The F.B.I.

Cannon

The Donna Reed Show

Naked City

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Ben Casey

Boardwalk Empire

The Guardian

I Dream of Jeannie

Medical Center

Barnaby Jones

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Ray Donovan

The Outer Limits

The Invaders

Pound Puppies

Run for Your Life

Kojak

Switch

The Streets of San Francisco

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Recess

That Girl

Police Story

The Mod Squad

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Judd, for the Defense

McMillan & Wife

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

12 O'Clock High

Arrest and Trial

Hazel

Room 222

Petrocelli

The Magic School Bus

The Flying Nun

The Zeta Project

For the People

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Then Came Bronson

The Manhunter

Dan August

Nanny and the Professor

Medical Story

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Madman of the People

Banyon

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Heartland

Fernwood 2 Night

Fresno

Forever Fernwood

Buffalo Bill

Search

E! True Hollywood Story

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

The Slap Maxwell Story

Sons and Daughters

Courting Alex

Diff'rent Strokes

Baby M





















