Dabney Coleman
1932-01-03 ( 93 years old ) in Austin, Texas, USA

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.​

Movies

Char·ac·ter 2012-11-30
Hard Four 2007-11-01
Domino 2005-10-14
Moonlight Mile 2002-09-09
The Climb 2002-02-22
Stuart Little 1999-12-17
Must Be Santa 1999-12-12
Giving It Up 1999-03-16
Taken 1999-01-01
Exiled 1998-11-08
Target Earth 1998-01-01
Devil's Food 1996-09-02
Clifford 1994-04-01
Amos & Andrew 1993-03-05
Lincoln 1992-12-26
Never Forget 1991-04-08
Short Time 1990-05-04
Maybe Baby 1988-12-05
Hot to Trot 1988-08-26
Plaza Suite 1987-12-03
Dragnet 1987-06-23
Murrow 1986-01-19
Cloak & Dagger 1984-06-01
WarGames 1983-06-03
Tootsie 1982-12-17
On Golden Pond 1981-12-04
Callie & Son 1981-10-13
Nine to Five 1980-12-18
Pray TV 1980-05-23
Black Fist 1977-08-31
Viva Knievel! 1977-06-10
Midway 1976-06-18
Returning Home 1975-04-30
Bad Ronald 1974-10-23
The Dove 1974-06-16
House of Evil 1974-05-14
Moving Target 1973-05-22
Savage 1973-03-31
I Love My Wife 1970-12-21
Downhill Racer 1969-11-06