Dabney Coleman
Acting
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).
My Date with the President's Daughter
as President George Richmond
Age 66 (now 92)
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
as Principal Prickly (voice)
Age 71 (now 92)
Recess: All Growed Down
as Principal Prickley (voice)
Age 71 (now 92)
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
as Principal Peter Prickly
Age 69 (now 92)
Recess: School's Out
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Age 69 (now 92)
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
as John Kennedy
Age 68 (now 92)
My Date with the President's Daughter
as President George Richmond
Age 66 (now 92)
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
as Arthur Milo
Age 63 (now 92)
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
as Ed Sigel
Age 55 (now 92)
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Dabney Coleman
Age 54 (now 92)
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
as Rick Bessett
Age 48 (now 92)
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Jack Heintzel
Age 48 (now 92)
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
as George Bates
Age 46 (now 92)
The Other Side of the Mountain
as Dave McCoy
Age 43 (now 92)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Paul Mathison
Age 43 (now 92)
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Sen. Bert Haines
Age 41 (now 92)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Frank Hager
Age 67 (now 92)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Monsieur Fox (voice)
Age 63 (now 92)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
as Merle Jeeter
Age 44 (now 92)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Paul Mathison
Age 43 (now 92)
The Streets of San Francisco
as George Todd
Age 40 (now 92) The Streets of San Francisco
as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Age 40 (now 92)
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Frank Wellmam
Age 39 (now 92)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Congressman Phil Whitman
Age 38 (now 92)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Dr. Goldstone
Age 37 (now 92)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Stanley Rivkin
Age 31 (now 92)Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Sergeant Harry King
Age 31 (now 92)
The Outer Limits
as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
Age 31 (now 92)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 30 (now 92)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Sgt. Lou Snyder
Age 30 (now 92)
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Dabney Wharton Coleman
IMDB
nm0001056