Dabney Coleman

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Biography: 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.​

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA

Birthday: January 03, 1932

Deathday: May 16, 2024

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

WarGames
Inspector Gadget
Clifford
The Man with One Red Shoe
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Where the Red Fern Grows
Rolling Thunder
Amos & Andrew
Moonlight Mile
Hot to Trot
Target Earth
On Golden Pond
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
Maneaters Are Loose!
Short Time
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Scalphunters
Melvin and Howard
My Date with the President's Daughter
Pray TV
You've Got Mail
Downhill Racer
Bite the Bullet
The Climb
Tootsie
Domino
Devil's Food
The Trouble with Girls
A Witch's Way of Love
Modern Problems
Hard Four
This Property Is Condemned
Giving It Up
Young Doctors in Love
Where the Heart Is
Callie & Son
Cloak & Dagger
Recess: School's Out
Nine to Five
Recess: All Growed Down
Viva Knievel!
Cinderella Liberty
Bad Ronald
The Other Side of the Mountain
Dying Room Only
Savage
Never Forget
Judicial Consent
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Baby M
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Returning Home
Nothing Personal
Char·ac·ter
I Love My Wife
Black Fist
The Beverly Hillbillies
There Goes the Neighborhood
Maybe Baby
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
North Dallas Forty
Dragnet
Meet the Applegates
Sworn to Silence
Exiled
Night of 100 Stars II
Moving Target
The Dove
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Murrow
Rules Don't Apply
Taken
The President's Plane Is Missing
The Towering Inferno
The Slender Thread
House of Evil
Stuart Little
Plaza Suite
Must Be Santa
When She Was Bad...
Kiss Me, Kill Me
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Midway
More Than Friends
Lincoln
Still Working 9 to 5