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Dabney Coleman

Actor | * 01/03/1932 († 92, 05/16/2024) | Austin, Texas (United States of America (USA))
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Dabney Wharton Coleman (January 3, 1932 – May 16, 2024) was an American actor. He was recognized for his roles portraying egomaniacal and unlikeable characters in comedic performances. Throughout his career, he appeared in over 175 films and television programs and received awards for both comedic and dramatic performances. Coleman's notable films include 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), and You've Got Mail (1998). His significant television roles included Merle Jeeter on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976–1977), the title characters in Buffalo Bill (1983–1984) and The Slap Maxwell Story..."> ()
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Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is 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 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).

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up ...

Tootsie

PG

1982 | 3.6/5 | 1h 56min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business. ...

You've Got Mail

PG

1998 | 3.3/5 | 1h 59min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and p ...

Nine to Five

PG

1980 | 3.5/5 | 1h 50min
Comedy
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High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war compu ...

WarGames

PG

1983 | 3.5/5 | 1h 54min
Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Dabney Coleman

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Mary Pickford Award
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Movies with Dabney Coleman as Actor(87)

2023 WarGames
as himself2022 Still Working 9 to 5
as Raymond Holliday2016 Rules Don't Apply
as himself2012 Char·ac·ter
as Spray Loomis2007 Hard Four
as Drake Bishop2005 Domino
as Principal Prickly (voice)2003 Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
as Principal Prickley (voice)2003 Recess: All Growed Down
as Grandpa2003 Where the Red Fern Grows
as Mike Mulcahey2002 Moonlight Mile
as Mack2002 The Climb
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)2001 Recess: School's Out
2000 How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
as Dr. Beechwood1999 Stuart Little
1999 Must Be Santa
as Chief Quimby1999 Inspector Gadget
as Johnathan Gallant1999 Giving It Up
as Ethan Grover1999 Taken
as Nelson Fox1998 You've Got Mail
as Senator Ben Arnold1998 Target Earth
as President George Richmond1998 My Date with the President's Daughter
as Kevin Stolper1998 Exiled
as Joel1997 Witch Way Love
as Seymour Kecker1996 Devil's Food
as Arthur Milo1995 In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
as Charles Mayron1994 Judicial Consent
as Gerald Ellis1994 Clifford
as Milburn Drysdale1993 The Beverly Hillbillies
as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver1993 Amos & Andrew
as Jeffrey Babitt1992 There Goes the Neighborhood
as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)1992 Lincoln
as William Cox1991 Never Forget
as Burt Simpson1990 Short Time
as Aunt Bea1990 Meet the Applegates
as Stewart McBain1990 Where the Heart Is
as Gary Skoloff1988 Baby M
as Walter Sawyer1988 Hot to Trot
as Hal1988 Maybe Baby
as Ed Sigel1987 Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
as Jesse Kiplinger1987 Plaza Suite
as Jerry Caesar1987 Dragnet
as Martin Costigan1987 Sworn to Silence
as William Paley1986 Murrow
as himself1986 The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Cooper1985 The Man with One Red Shoe
as Martin Price1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan
as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne1984 Cloak & Dagger
as McKittrick1983 WarGames
as Dr. Joseph Prang1982 Young Doctors in Love
as Ron Carlisle1982 Tootsie
as Randall Bordeaux1981 Callie & Son
as Bill Ray1981 On Golden Pond
as Mark Winslow1981 Modern Problems
as Franklin M. Hart Jr.1980 Nine to Five
as Rick Bessett1980 Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
as Marvin Fleece1980 Pray TV
as Dickerson1980 Nothing Personal
as Jack Heintzel1980 How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Judge Keith Hayes1980 Melvin and Howard
as Jack Wilson1979 When She Was Bad...
as Emmett Hunter1979 North Dallas Forty
as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington1978 More Than Friends
as McCallum1978 Maneaters Are Loose!
as Ralph Thompson1977 Viva Knievel!
as Heineken1977 Black Fist
as Maxwell1977 Rolling Thunder
as Capt. Logan1976 Kiss Me, Kill Me
as Captain Murray Arnold1976 Midway
as Al Stephenson1975 Returning Home
as Dave McCoy1975 The Other Side of the Mountain
as Paul Mathison1975 Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Jack Parker1975 Bite the Bullet
as Mr. Wood1974 Bad Ronald
as Deputy Chief #11974 The Towering Inferno
1974 House of Evil
as Charles Huntley1974 The Dove
as Executive Officer1973 Cinderella Liberty
as Bob Mitchell1973 Dying Room Only
as Sen. Bert Haines1973 The President's Plane Is Missing
as Ted Seligson1973 Savage
as Frank Donnelly1970 I Love My Wife
as Agent Shepard1970 The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Harrison Wilby1969 The Trouble with Girls
as Mayo1969 Downhill Racer
as Jed1968 The Scalphunters
as Salesman1966 This Property Is Condemned
as Charlie1965 The Slender Thread

TV Shows/Series with Dabney Coleman as Actor(72)

as Donald2018 For The People
as John Dutton Sr.2018 Yellowstone
as Mr. Price2013 Ray Donovan
as Mayor (voice)2010 Pound Puppies
as Commodore Louis Kaestner2010 Boardwalk Empire
2007 Heartland
as Jack Atwell2006 Courting Alex
as Burton Fallin2001 The Guardian
2001 The Zeta Project
as Frank Hager1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)1997 Recess
1996 E! True Hollywood Story
1994 Madman of the People
1991 Drexell's Class
1987 The Slap Maxwell Story
as Tyler Cane1986 Fresno
as Bill Bittinger1983 Buffalo Bill
1978 Diff'rent Strokes
as Fast Eddie Murtaugh1978 Apple Pie
as Van Milner1977 The Love Boat
as Merle Jeeter1976 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976 Quincy, M.E.
as C.C. Owens1975 Switch
1975 Medical Story
as Self - Host1975 Saturday Night Live
1974 The Manhunter
1973 Police Story
as Alex Linden1973 Kojak
as Paul Cleveland1973 Barnaby Jones
1972 The Streets of San Francisco
1972 Search
1972 Banyon
as Hugh Creighton1971 Columbo
as Detective Murray1971 Columbo
1971 Cannon
1970 Nanny and the Professor
1969 Room 222
1969 Medical Center
1969 Then Came Bronson
1968 The Mod Squad
1967 Judd for the Defense
as Capt. Mitchell Ross1967 The Invaders
as John Carter1967 The Invaders
1967 Ironside
1967 Mannix
1966 That Girl
as George Webb1965 I Dream of Jeannie
as Captain Yardley1965 I Dream of Jeannie
as Ira Barker1965 The F.B.I.
as Allen Clarke1965 The F.B.I.
as Stanley Leonard1965 The F.B.I.
as Sam Langlin1965 The F.B.I.
as Ty Williams1965 The F.B.I.
as Mr. Jamison1965 The F.B.I.
as Barnes1965 The F.B.I.
as Fred Palmer1965 Run for Your Life
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Sergeant Harry King1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as William Gunther1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Alvin Piper1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Sergeant Keith1963 The Fugitive
as Floyd1963 The Fugitive
as Officer George Graham1963 The Fugitive
as Steve1963 The Fugitive
as Dr. Williams1963 The Outer Limits
as James Custer1963 The Outer Limits
as Tom Esterow1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Sgt. Lou Snyder1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Dr. David Kirkson1961 Dr. Kildare
1961 Ben Casey
1961 Kraft Mystery Theatre
1958 The Donna Reed Show

Born: Sunday, 01/03 1932 (January) in Austin, Texas (United States of America (USA))
Died: Thursday, 05/16 2024 (May) in Santa Monica (aged: 92)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Virginia Military Institute, University of Texas School of Law, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Roy Miller High School
Spouses (current/former): Jean Hale
Children: Quincy Coleman
Other names for Dabney Coleman (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Dabney Wharton Coleman"
Dabney Coleman frequently works together with these people:
Andy Samberg (29x, Actor)
Harold Gould (29x, Actor)
Diana Hyland (27x, Actress)
Joseph V. Perry (27x, Actor)
Leslie Nielsen (26x, Actor)
Richard Anderson (26x, Actor)
Frank Maxwell (26x, Actor)
Jason Wingreen (26x, Actor)
Dabbs Greer (25x, Actor)
Bradford Dillman (25x, Actor)
James B. Sikking (24x, Actor)
Robert Kaufman (8x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1678, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 05/08/2025