
Dabney Coleman
Biography
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (172)
Movies (93)
Still Working 9 to 5
2022as Self
Rules Don't Apply
2016as Raymond Holliday
Char·ac·ter
2012as Self
Hard Four
2007as Spray Loomis
Domino
2005as Drake Bishop
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003as Principal Prickly (voice)
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003as Grandpa
Recess: All Growed Down
2003as Principal Prickley (voice)
Moonlight Mile
2002as Mike Mulcahey
The Climb
2002as Mack
Recess: School's Out
2001as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Kiss My Act
2001as Henry
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
2001as Principal Peter Prickly
The Making of Midway
2001as Self
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
2000as John Kennedy
Stuart Little
1999as Dr. Beechwood
Inspector Gadget
1999as Chief Quimby
Taken
1999as Ethan Grover
Giving It Up
1999as Johnathan Gallant
Must Be Santa
1999
You've Got Mail
1998as Nelson Fox
Exiled
1998as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
My Date with the President's Daughter
1998as President George Richmond
Target Earth
1998as Senator Ben Arnold
A Witch's Way of Love
1997as Joel
Devil's Food
1996as Seymour Kecker
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
1995as Arthur Milo
Clifford
1994as Gerald Ellis
Judicial Consent
1994as Charles Mayron
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993as Milburn Drysdale
Amos & Andrew
1993as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Lincoln
1992as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992as Jeffrey Babitt
Never Forget
1991as William Cox
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990as Self
Meet the Applegates
1990as Aunt Bea
Short Time
1990as Burt Simpson
Where the Heart Is
1990as Stewart McBain
Hot to Trot
1988as Walter Sawyer
Maybe Baby
1988as Hal
Dragnet
1987as Jerry Caesar
Plaza Suite
1987as Jesse Kiplinger
Sworn to Silence
1987as Martin Costigan
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987as Self
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987as Ed Sigel
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986as Dabney Coleman
Murrow
1986as William Paley
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985as Cooper
Night of 100 Stars II
1985as Self
The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984as Martin Price
Cloak & Dagger
1984as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
WarGames
1983as McKittrick
Tootsie
1982as Ron Carlisle
Young Doctors in Love
1982as Dr. Joseph Prang
On Golden Pond
1981as Bill Ray
Modern Problems
1981as Mark Winslow
Callie & Son
1981as Randall Bordeaux
Nine to Five
1980as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Pray TV
1980as Marvin Fleece
Melvin and Howard
1980as Judge Keith Hayes
Nothing Personal
1980as Dickerson
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980as Jack Heintzel
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980as Rick Bessett
North Dallas Forty
1979as Emmett Hunter
When She Was Bad...
1979as Jack Wilson
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978as McCallum
More Than Friends
1978as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978as George Bates
Rolling Thunder
1977as Maxwell
Viva Knievel!
1977as Ralph Thompson
Black Fist
1977as Heineken
Midway
1976as Captain Murray Arnold
Kiss Me... Kill Me
1976as Capt. Logan
Bite the Bullet
1975as Jack Parker
Returning Home
1975as Al Stephenson
The Other Side of the Mountain
1975as Dave McCoy
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975as Paul Mathison
The Towering Inferno
1974as Deputy Chief #1
Bad Ronald
1974as Mr. Wood
The Dove
1974as Charles Huntley
House of Evil
1974
Cinderella Liberty
1973as Executive Officer
Savage
1973as Ted Seligson
Moving Target
1973
Dying Room Only
1973as Bob Mitchell
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973as Sen. Bert Haines
I Love My Wife
1970as Frank Donnelly
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970as Agent Shepard
Downhill Racer
1969as Mayo
The Trouble with Girls
1969as Harrison Wilby
The Scalphunters
1968as Jed
This Property Is Condemned
1966as Salesman
The Slender Thread
1965as Charlie
Television (79)
Yellowstone
2018as John Dutton Sr.
For the People
2018as Donald
Ray Donovan
2013as Mr. Price
Boardwalk Empire
2010as Commodore Louis Kaestner
Pound Puppies
2010as Mayor (voice)
Heartland
2007as Dr. Bart Jacobs
Courting Alex
2006as Jack Atwell
NCIS
2003as Army Corporal John Sydney
The Guardian
2001as Burton Fallin
The Zeta Project
2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Frank Hager
Recess
1997as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as Monsieur Fox (voice)
The Magic School Bus
1994as Horace Scope (voice)
Madman of the People
1994as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
Drexell's Class
1991
Baby M
1988as Gary Skoloff
The Slap Maxwell Story
1987
Fresno
1986as Tyler Cane
Buffalo Bill
1983as Bill Bittinger
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
Apple Pie
1978as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
The Love Boat
1977as Van Milner
Fernwood 2 Night
1977as Mayor Merle Jeeter
Forever Fernwood
1977
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976as Merle Jeeter
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976as Merle Jeeter
Quincy, M.E.
1976as Dr. Burt Travers
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Host
Switch
1975as C.C. Owens
Medical Story
1975
The Manhunter
1974
Petrocelli
1974as Willy Morgan
Sons and Daughters
1974
Kojak
1973as Alex Linden
Barnaby Jones
1973as Paul Cleveland
Police Story
1973
The Streets of San Francisco
1972as George Todd
Search
1972
Banyon
1972as Ralph Hubbard
Columbo
1971as Detective Murray
Cannon
1971
McMillan & Wife
1971as Hansen
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971as Frank Wellmam
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970as Congressman Phil Whitman
Nanny and the Professor
1970as Detective Robinson
Dan August
1970as Rick Bessett
Medical Center
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969as Dr. Goldstone
Room 222
1969
Then Came Bronson
1969as Dr. Ron Carlisle
The Mod Squad
1968as John
Ironside
1967as Daniel Leary
Mannix
1967as Ralph Stoner
The Invaders
1967as Capt. Mitchell Ross
The Flying Nun
1967as Sub. Captain
Judd for the Defense
1967
That Girl
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
1965as George Webb
The F.B.I.
1965as Ira Barker
Run for Your Life
1965as Fred Palmer
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965as Clark
12 O'Clock High
1964as Captain Wilson
The Fugitive
1963as Sergeant Keith
The Outer Limits
1963as Dr. Williams
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963as Stanley Rivkin
Arrest and Trial
1963as Wayne Holton
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963as William Gunther
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962as Tom Esterow
Dr. Kildare
1961as Dr. David Kirkson
Hazel
1961as Les Swanton
Ben Casey
1961
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
Bonanza
1959as Ivar Peterson
Naked City
1958as Resident
The Donna Reed Show
1958as Rallye Master
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee
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