Dabney Coleman
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
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).
Born
Jan 03, 1932
Austin, Texas, USA
Died
May 16, 2024
Known For
Acting
Movies
93 acting
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Popularity
2.0
Known For
You've Got Mail
1998
as Nelson Fox
The Towering Inferno
1974
as Deputy Chief #1
Stuart Little
1999
as Dr. Beechwood
WarGames
1983
as McKittrick
Midway
1976
as Captain Murray Arnold
Inspector Gadget
1999
as Chief Quimby
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
as Milburn Drysdale
Nine to Five
1980
as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Recess: School's Out
2001
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Tootsie
1982
as Ron Carlisle
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