Dabney Coleman

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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 Hillb...

Born: January 3, 1932 in Austin, Texas, USA

Died: May 16, 2024 (age 92)

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Boardwalk Empire

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194 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Still Working 9 to 5 Movie	7.0	Actor	Self	2022
For The People TV Show	7.5	Actor	Donald(1 Episode)	2018
Yellowstone TV Show	8.4	Actor	John Dutton Sr.(1 Episode)	2018
Rules Don't Apply Movie	5.5	Actor	Raymond Holliday	2016
Ray Donovan TV Show	8.1	Actor	Mr. Price(1 Episode)	2013
Char·ac·ter Movie	7.4	Actor	Self	2012
Boardwalk Empire TV Show	8.4	Actor	Commodore Louis Kaestner(24 Episodes)	2010
Pound Puppies TV Show	6.0	Actor	Mayor (voice)(4 Episodes)	2010
Hard Four Movie	3.9	Actor	Spray Loomis	2007
Heartland TV Show	5.6	Actor	—(10 Episodes)	2007
Courting Alex TV Show	5.1	Actor	Jack Atwell(12 Episodes)	2006
Domino Movie	5.8	Actor	Drake Bishop	2005
Where the Red Fern Grows Movie	6.3	Actor	Grandpa	2003
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade Movie	6.6	Actor	Principal Prickly (voice)	2003
Recess: All Growed Down Movie	6.4	Actor	Principal Prickley (voice)	2003
NCIS TV Show	7.9	Actor	Army Corporal John Sydney(1 Episode)	2003
The Climb Movie	5.5	Actor	Mack	2002
Moonlight Mile Movie	6.5	Actor	Mike Mulcahey	2002
Recess: School's Out Movie	6.4	Actor	Principal Peter Prickly (voice)	2001
The Guardian TV Show	7.2	Actor	Burton Fallin(67 Episodes)	2001
The Zeta Project TV Show	7.0	Actor	—(1 Episode)	2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale Movie	4.3	Actor	—	2000
Inspector Gadget Movie	4.0	Actor	Chief Quimby	1999
Stuart Little Movie	5.8	Actor	Dr. Beechwood	1999
Taken Movie	5.2	Actor	Ethan Grover	1999
Giving It Up Movie	4.0	Actor	Johnathan Gallant	1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV Show	8.2	Actor	Frank Hager(1 Episode)	1999
Must Be Santa Movie	4.1	Actor	—	1999
You've Got Mail Movie	6.9	Actor	Nelson Fox	1998
My Date with the President's Daughter Movie	6.5	Actor	President George Richmond	1998
Exiled Movie	6.3	Actor	Lieutenant Kevin Stolper	1998
Target Earth Movie	4.1	Actor	Senator Ben Arnold	1998
A Witch's Way of Love Movie	5.3	Actor	Joel	1997
Recess TV Show	7.6	Actor	Principal Peter Prickly (voice)(5 Episodes)	1997
E! True Hollywood Story TV Show	6.7	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1996
Devil's Food Movie	4.8	Actor	Seymour Kecker	1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child TV Show	6.6	Actor	Monsieur Fox (voice)(1 Episode)	1995
Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty Movie	5.2	Actor	Arthur Milo	1995
Clifford Movie	5.7	Actor	Gerald Ellis	1994
Judicial Consent Movie	5.4	Actor	Charles Mayron	1994
Madman of the People TV Show	6.7	Actor	Jack 'Madman' Buckner(16 Episodes)	1994
The Magic School Bus TV Show	7.6	Actor	Horace Scope (voice)(1 Episode)	1994
The Beverly Hillbillies Movie	5.2	Actor	Milburn Drysdale	1993
Amos & Andrew Movie	5.5	Actor	Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver	1993
There Goes the Neighborhood Movie	5.6	Actor	Jeffrey Babitt	1992
Lincoln Movie	6.8	Actor	Stephen A. Douglas (voice)	1992
Drexell's Class TV Show	6.6	Actor	—(18 Episodes)	1991
Never Forget Movie	6.6	Actor	William Cox	1991
Where the Heart Is Movie	6.0	Actor	Stewart McBain	1990
Short Time Movie	6.5	Actor	Burt Simpson	1990
Meet the Applegates Movie	5.7	Actor	Aunt Bea	1990
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson Movie	8.4	Actor	Self	1990
Hot to Trot Movie	4.7	Actor	Walter Sawyer	1988
Maybe Baby Movie	5.2	Actor	Hal	1988
Dragnet Movie	5.8	Actor	Jerry Caesar	1987
The Slap Maxwell Story TV Show	7.4	Actor	—(22 Episodes)	1987
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story Movie	6.5	Actor	Ed Sigel	1987
Sworn to Silence Movie	5.3	Actor	Martin Costigan	1987
Plaza Suite Movie	6.8	Actor	Jesse Kiplinger	1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood TV Special	6.7	Actor	Self	1987
Murrow Movie	6.6	Actor	William Paley	1986
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Movie	6.3	Actor	Himself	1986
Fresno Limited Series	7.6	Actor	Tyler Cane(5 Episodes)	1986
The Man with One Red Shoe Movie	5.5	Actor	Cooper	1985
Night of 100 Stars II TV Special	7.3	Actor	Self	1985
Cloak & Dagger Movie	6.7	Actor	Jack Flack / Hal Osborne	1984
The Muppets Take Manhattan Movie	6.9	Actor	Martin Price	1984
WarGames Movie	7.3	Actor	McKittrick	1983
Buffalo Bill TV Show	7.1	Actor	Bill Bittinger(26 Episodes)	1983
Tootsie Movie	7.5	Actor	Ron Carlisle	1982
Young Doctors in Love Movie	5.4	Actor	Dr. Joseph Prang	1982
Modern Problems Movie	5.2	Actor	Mark Winslow	1981
On Golden Pond Movie	7.7	Actor	Bill Ray	1981
Callie & Son Movie	5.2	Actor	Randall Bordeaux	1981
Nothing Personal Movie	4.3	Actor	Dickerson	1980
Pray TV Movie	4.9	Actor	Marvin Fleece	1980
Nine to Five Movie	7.1	Actor	Franklin M. Hart Jr.	1980
How to Beat the High Cost of Living Movie	5.8	Actor	Jack Heintzel	1980
Melvin and Howard Movie	6.6	Actor	Judge Keith Hayes	1980
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor Movie	6.8	Actor	Rick Bessett	1980
North Dallas Forty Movie	6.8	Actor	Emmett Hunter	1979
When She Was Bad... Movie	5.5	Actor	Jack Wilson	1979
Apple Pie TV Show	6.2	Actor	Fast Eddie Murtaugh(2 Episodes)	1978
Diff'rent Strokes TV Show	6.9	Actor	—(2 Episodes)	1978
Maneaters Are Loose! Movie	5.6	Actor	McCallum	1978
More Than Friends Movie	6.1	Actor	Joshua 'Josh' Harrington	1978
The Case of the Baltimore Girls Movie	6.1	Actor	George Bates	1978
Black Fist Movie	4.6	Actor	Heineken	1977
Rolling Thunder Movie	7.1	Actor	Maxwell	1977
Viva Knievel! Movie	3.4	Actor	Ralph Thompson	1977
The Love Boat TV Show	6.4	Actor	Van Milner(1 Episode)	1977
Forever Fernwood TV Show	7.5	Actor	—(8 Episodes)	1977
Fernwood Tonight TV Show	8.4	Actor	Mayor Merle Jeeter(2 Episodes)	1977
Midway Movie	7.0	Actor	Captain Murray Arnold	1976
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman TV Show	7.7	Actor	Merle Jeeter(325 Episodes)	1976
Quincy, M.E. TV Show	7.4	Actor	Officer Peter O'Neil(1 Episode)	1976
Quincy, M.E. TV Show	7.4	Actor	Dr. Burt Travers(1 Episode)	1976
Kiss Me, Kill Me Movie	5.9	Actor	Capt. Logan	1976
The Other Side of the Mountain Movie	6.5	Actor	Dave McCoy	1975
Bite the Bullet Movie	6.4	Actor	Jack Parker	1975
Medical Story TV Show	7.2	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1975
Switch TV Show	6.9	Actor	C.C. Owens(1 Episode)	1975
Saturday Night Live TV Show	7.8	Actor	Self - Host(1 Episode)	1975
Returning Home Movie	6.6	Actor	Al Stephenson	1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan Movie	7.2	Actor	Paul Mathison	1975
The Dove Movie	6.1	Actor	Charles Huntley	1974
The Towering Inferno Movie	7.1	Actor	Deputy Chief #1	1974
The Manhunter TV Show	7.1	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1974
Petrocelli TV Show	7.0	Actor	Willy Morgan(1 Episode)	1974
Sons and Daughters TV Show	8.5	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1974
Bad Ronald Movie	6.4	Actor	Mr. Wood	1974
House of Evil Movie	6.5	Actor	—	1974
Cinderella Liberty Movie	6.8	Actor	Executive Officer	1973
Moving Target Movie	—	Actor	—	1973
Police Story TV Show	7.3	Actor	—(2 Episodes)	1973
Kojak TV Show	7.2	Actor	Alex Linden(1 Episode)	1973
Barnaby Jones TV Show	6.8	Actor	Paul Cleveland(1 Episode)	1973
Barnaby Jones TV Show	6.8	Actor	Ted Sayers(2 Episodes)	1973
Barnaby Jones TV Show	6.8	Actor	George Clark(1 Episode)	1973
Barnaby Jones TV Show	6.8	Actor	Brad Adamson(1 Episode)	1973
Dying Room Only Movie	6.6	Actor	Bob Mitchell	1973
Savage Movie	5.1	Actor	Ted Seligson	1973
The President's Plane Is Missing Movie	5.7	Actor	Sen. Bert Haines	1973
The Streets of San Francisco TV Show	7.2	Actor	Andrew Horvath, Sr.(1 Episode)	1972
Search TV Show	7.8	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1972
The Streets of San Francisco TV Show	7.2	Actor	George Todd(1 Episode)	1972
Banyon TV Show	7.5	Actor	Ralph Hubbard(1 Episode)	1971
Columbo TV Show	8.2	Actor	Detective Murray(1 Episode)	1971
Cannon TV Show	6.6	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1971
Columbo TV Show	8.2	Actor	Hugh Creighton(1 Episode)	1971
McMillan & Wife TV Show	7.0	Actor	Walter Jennings(1 Episode)	1971
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law TV Show	6.7	Actor	Frank Wellmam(1 Episode)	1971
McMillan & Wife TV Show	7.0	Actor	Hansen(1 Episode)	1971
I Love My Wife Movie	4.7	Actor	Frank Donnelly	1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show TV Show	8.1	Actor	Congressman Phil Whitman(1 Episode)	1970
Nanny and the Professor TV Show	6.9	Actor	Detective Robinson(1 Episode)	1970
Dan August TV Show	6.9	Actor	Rick Bessett(1 Episode)	1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell Movie	6.9	Actor	Agent Shepard	1970
The Trouble with Girls Movie	5.4	Actor	Harrison Wilby	1969
Downhill Racer Movie	6.1	Actor	Mayo	1969
Then Came Bronson TV Show	7.7	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1969
Room 222 TV Show	7.5	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1969
Medical Center TV Show	6.9	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors TV Show	6.6	Actor	Dr. Goldstone(1 Episode)	1969
The Scalphunters Movie	6.5	Actor	Jed	1968
Mod Squad TV Show	6.9	Actor	John(1 Episode)	1968
Judd for the Defense TV Show	7.4	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1967
The Invaders TV Show	7.8	Actor	John Carter(1 Episode)	1967
The Invaders TV Show	7.8	Actor	Capt. Mitchell Ross(1 Episode)	1967
Mannix TV Show	7.2	Actor	Howard Graham(1 Episode)	1967
Ironside TV Show	6.8	Actor	Daniel Leary(1 Episode)	1967
The Flying Nun TV Show	6.3	Actor	Sub. Captain(1 Episode)	1967
Mannix TV Show	7.2	Actor	Ralph Stoner(1 Episode)	1967
This Property Is Condemned Movie	7.1	Actor	Salesman	1966
That Girl TV Show	7.1	Actor	—(8 Episodes)	1966
The Slender Thread Movie	7.2	Actor	Charlie	1965
I Dream of Jeannie TV Show	7.6	Actor	Captain Yardley(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Barnes(1 Episode)	1965
Run for Your Life TV Show	7.4	Actor	Fred Palmer(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Mr. Jamison(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Allen Clarke(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Ira Barker(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Stanley Leonard(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Ty Williams(1 Episode)	1965
The F.B.I. TV Show	7.2	Actor	Sam Langlin(1 Episode)	1965
Please Don't Eat the Daisies TV Show	6.7	Actor	Clark(1 Episode)	1965
I Dream of Jeannie TV Show	7.6	Actor	Lt. George Webb(1 Episode)	1965
12 O'Clock High TV Show	7.9	Actor	Captain Wilson(1 Episode)	1964
12 O'Clock High TV Show	7.9	Actor	Captain Robbins(1 Episode)	1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre TV Show	7.5	Actor	Alvin Piper(1 Episode)	1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre TV Show	7.2	Actor	Stanley Rivkin(1 Episode)	1963
The Fugitive TV Show	7.9	Actor	Steve(1 Episode)	1963
The Outer Limits TV Show	8.0	Actor	Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)(1 Episode)	1963
The Fugitive TV Show	7.9	Actor	Sergeant Keith(1 Episode)	1963
The Fugitive TV Show	7.9	Actor	Officer George Graham(1 Episode)	1963
The Fugitive TV Show	7.9	Actor	Floyd(1 Episode)	1963
The Outer Limits TV Show	8.0	Actor	Dr. Williams(1 Episode)	1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre TV Show	7.5	Actor	William Gunther(1 Episode)	1963
Arrest and Trial TV Show	7.4	Actor	Wayne Holton(1 Episode)	1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre TV Show	7.2	Actor	Sergeant Harry King(1 Episode)	1963
The Outer Limits TV Show	8.0	Actor	James Custer(1 Episode)	1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV Show	8.3	Actor	Sgt. Lou Snyder(1 Episode)	1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV Show	8.3	Actor	Self(10 Episodes)	1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV Show	8.3	Actor	Tom Esterow(1 Episode)	1962
Kraft Mystery Theater TV Show	7.9	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1961
Ben Casey TV Show	6.9	Actor	—(1 Episode)	1961
Dr. Kildare TV Show	6.8	Actor	Dr. David Kirkson(1 Episode)	1961
Hazel TV Show	7.0	Actor	Les Swanton(1 Episode)	1961
Bonanza TV Show	7.4	Actor	Ivar Peterson(1 Episode)	1959
Bonanza TV Show	7.4	Actor	Clyde(1 Episode)	1959
The Donna Reed Show TV Show	7.2	Actor	Rallye Master(1 Episode)	1958
Naked City TV Show	8.0	Actor	Resident(1 Episode)	1958
Golden Globe Awards TV Show	—	Actor	Self - Nominee(1 Episode)	1944
Golden Globe Awards TV Show	—	Actor	Self - Winner(1 Episode)	1944

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