Dabney Coleman

Highest Rated:
97% WarGames (War Games) (1983)
Lowest Rated:
0% Hot to Trot (1988)
Birthday:
Jan 3, 1932
Birthplace:
Austin, Texas, USA
Bio:
Coleman attended a Virginia military school before studying law and serving in the army. While attending the University of Texas, Coleman became attracted to acting, and headed to New York, where he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse. After stage experience and TV work, Coleman made his movie…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 97%
Number of Movies: 90
Box Office Since 2001: $51.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Char-ac-ter
  • Actor
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2010 Hard Four
  • Actor
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2009 Character
  • Actor
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2005 19% Domino
  • Drake Bishop
$10.1M
2005 Hard Four
  • Actor
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2003 Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Grandpa
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2003 Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
  • Actor
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2002 Giving It Up
  • Actor
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2002 Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War
  • Narrator
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2002 63% Moonlight Mile
  • Mike Mulcahey
$6.7M
2002 The Climb
  • Mack "Mackie" Leonard
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2001 61% Recess: School's Out
  • Principal Prickly
$34.8M
2001 Kiss My Act
  • Henry Rooney
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2001 Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
  • Actor
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2000 How To Marry A Billionaire - A Christmas Tale
  • John Kennedy
  • Screenwriter
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2000 How to Marry a Billionaire
  • Actor
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1999 Giving It Up
  • Actor
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1999 Must Be Santa
  • Actor
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1999 21% Inspector Gadget
  • Chief Quimby
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1999 66% Stuart Little
  • Dr. Beechwood
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1998 Exiled (Exiled: A Law & Order Movie)
  • Lt. Stober
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1998 Target Earth
  • Sen. Ben Arnold
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1998 Taken
  • Ethan Grover
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1998 My Date with the President's Daughter
  • Actor
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1998 69% You've Got Mail
  • Nelson Fox
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1995 In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
  • Actor
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1994 Judicial Consent
  • Charles Mayron
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1994 9% Clifford
  • Gerald Ellis
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1993 24% The Beverly Hillbillies
  • Milburn Drysdale
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1993 21% Amos & Andrew
  • Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
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1992 There Goes the Neighborhood (Paydirt)
  • Jeffrey Babitt
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1992 Lincoln - The Making of a President: 1860 - 1862
  • Stephen A. Douglas
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1992 Lincoln - The Pivotal Year: 1863
  • Stephen A. Douglas
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1992 Lincoln - "I Want to Finish This Job": 1864
  • Stephen A. Douglas
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1992 Lincoln - "Now He Belongs to the Ages": 1865
  • Stephen A. Douglas
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1991 Never Forget
  • William Cox
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1991 10% Meet the Applegates
  • Aunt Bea
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1990 11% Where the Heart Is
  • Stewart McBain
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1990 20% Short Time
  • Burt Simpson
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1989 Homeboy
  • Actor
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1988 Maybe Baby
  • Hal
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1988 0% Hot to Trot
  • Walter Sawyer
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1987 Guilty Of Innocence
  • Ed Sigel
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1987 Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
  • Actor
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1987 Sworn to Silence
  • Martin Costigan
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1987 46% Dragnet
  • Jerry Caesar
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1985 46% The Man with One Red Shoe
  • Cooper
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1985 Murrow
  • Actor
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1984 67% Cloak & Dagger
  • Jack Flack/Hal Osborne
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1983 97% WarGames (War Games)
  • McKittrick
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1982 88% Tootsie
  • Ron
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1982 0% Young Doctors in Love
  • Joseph Prang
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1981 Modern Problems
  • Mark
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1981 92% On Golden Pond
  • Bill Ray
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1981 Callie & Son (Rags to Riches)
  • Randall Bordeaux
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1980 Nothing Personal
  • Tom Dickerson
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1980 94% Melvin and Howard
  • Judge Keith Hayes
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1980 Pray TV
  • Actor
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1980 82% Nine to Five (9 to 5)
  • Franklin Hart Jr.
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1980 How to Beat the High Cost of Living
  • Actor
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1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
  • Jack Heintzell
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1979 85% North Dallas Forty
  • Emmett
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1979 78% F.I.S.T.
  • Actor
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1979 When She Was Bad...
  • Jack Wilson
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1978 Maneaters Are Loose!
  • Actor
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1977 Viva Knievel
  • Ralph Thompson
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1977 82% Rolling Thunder
  • Maxwell
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1976 Black Fist (Bogard) (Homeboy)
  • Actor
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1976 50% Midway
  • Capt. Murray Arnold
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1975 71% Bite the Bullet
  • Jack Parker
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1975 The Other Side of the Mountain
  • Dave McCoy
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1974 74% The Towering Inferno
  • Assistant Fire Chief
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1974 The Dove
  • Charles Huntley
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1974 Cinderella Liberty
  • Executive Director
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1974 Dove
  • Actor
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1974 Bad Ronald
  • Mr. Wood
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1973 Dying Room Only
  • Bob Mitchell
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1973 Savage (Watch Dog) (The Savage File)
  • Actor
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1972 President's Plane is Missing
  • Senator Bert Haines
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1970 The Brotherhood of the Bell
  • Actor
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1970 I Love My Wife
  • Frank Donnelly
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1969 The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)
  • Harrison Wilby
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1969 79% Downhill Racer
  • Mayo
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1968 75% The Scalphunters
  • Jed
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1967 Invaders 9
  • Actor
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1966 64% This Property Is Condemned
  • Salesman
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1965 The Slender Thread
  • Charlie
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1964 Outer Limits - "Specimen: Unknown"
  • Actor
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1963 Outer Limits - "The Mice"
  • Actor
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Fist
  • Actor
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Quotes from Dabney Coleman's Characters

    1. Franklin Hart Jr.: At LEAST you're pretty. You should see some of the crones who come through here.
    From Nine to Five (9 to 5). Submitted by rick b (13 months ago)
    1. Chief Quimby: Claw, you are now in the police department.
    From Inspector Gadget. Submitted by Jacob F (16 months ago)
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