Dabney Coleman

Highest Rated: 93% WarGames (War Games) (1983)

Lowest Rated: 0% Hot to Trot (1988)

Birthday: Jan 3, 1932

Birthplace: Austin, Texas, USA

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 debut in 1965's The Slender Thread. Minus his trademarked mustache for the most part in the mid-1960s, Coleman specialized in secondary character roles. He began to branch into comedy during his supporting stint as obstetrician Leon Bessemer on the Marlo Thomas sitcom That Girl, but his most memorable role would come in 1980 as the nasty, chauvinistic boss in 9 to 5. He would go on to appear in other films, like On Golden Pond [1981], The Beverly Hillbillies [1993], You've Got Mail [1998], and Moonlight Mile, but the actor found more success in television, appearing on a few cult hits that were tragically cancelled, like Drexell's Class and Madman of the People, as well as The Guardian, Courting Alex, Heartland, and Boardwalk Empire.

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Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
55%	Rules Don't Apply	Raymond Holiday	$3.7M	2016
86%	Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You	Actor	$70.6K	2016
No Score Yet	Char-ac-ter	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Hard Four	Spray Loomis	—	2010
No Score Yet	Character	Actor	—	2009
18%	Domino	Drake Bishop	$10.2M	2005
No Score Yet	Hard Four	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Where the Red Fern Grows	Grandpa	—	2004
No Score Yet	Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade	Principal Prickly	—	2003
63%	Moonlight Mile	Mike Mulcahey	—	2002
No Score Yet	The Climb	Mack Leonard	—	2002
No Score Yet	Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	—	2002
No Score Yet	Kiss My Act	Henry Rooney	—	2001
61%	Recess: School's Out	Principal Peter Prickly	$34.9M	2001
No Score Yet	Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street	Principal Prickly	—	2001
No Score Yet	How to Marry a Billionaire	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale	John Kennedy	—	2000
67%	Stuart Little	Dr. Beechwood	—	1999
No Score Yet	Must Be Santa	Tuttle	—	1999
21%	Inspector Gadget	Chief Quimby	—	1999
No Score Yet	Giving It Up	Johnathan Gallant	—	1999
68%	You've Got Mail	Nelson Fox	—	1998
No Score Yet	Exiled (Exiled: A Law & Order Movie)	Lt. Dennis Sloper	—	1998
No Score Yet	My Date With the President's Daughter	Pres. George Richmond	—	1998
No Score Yet	Target Earth	Sen. Ben Arnold	—	1998
No Score Yet	Taken Away	Sen. Ben Arnold	—	1998
No Score Yet	Taken	Ethan Grover	—	1998
No Score Yet	In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped	Arthur Milo	—	1995
10%	Clifford	Gerald	—	1994
No Score Yet	Implicación Judicial	Charles Mayron	—	1994
22%	The Beverly Hillbillies	Mr. Drysdale	—	1993
20%	Amos & Andrew	Tolliver	—	1993
No Score Yet	There Goes the Neighborhood (Paydirt)	Jeffrey	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864	Stephen A. Douglas	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863	Stephen A. Douglas	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862	Stephen A. Douglas	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865	Stephen A. Douglas	—	1992
No Score Yet	Never Forget	William Cox	—	1991
10%	Meet the Applegates	Aunt Bea	—	1991
20%	Short Time	Burt Simpson	—	1990
11%	Where the Heart Is	Stewart McBain	—	1990
No Score Yet	Maybe Baby	Hal	—	1988
0%	Hot to Trot	Walter Sawyer	—	1988
No Score Yet	Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story	Sigel	—	1987
No Score Yet	Sworn to Silence	Martin Costigan	—	1987
50%	Dragnet	Jerry Caesar	—	1987
No Score Yet	Murrow	Actor	—	1986
47%	The Man with One Red Shoe	Cooper	—	1985
64%	Cloak and Dagger	Jack Flack / Hal Osborne	—	1984
83%	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Himself	—	1984
93%	WarGames (War Games)	McKittrick	—	1983
89%	Tootsie	Ron	—	1982
29%	Young Doctors in Love	Joseph Prang	—	1982
No Score Yet	Modern Problems	Mark	—	1981
92%	On Golden Pond	Bill Ray	—	1981
No Score Yet	Callie & Son	Randall Bordeaux	—	1981
No Score Yet	How to Beat the High Cost of Living	Jack Heintzel	—	1980
81%	9 to 5	Franklin M. Hart Jr.	—	1980
90%	Melvin and Howard	Judge Keith Hayes	—	1980
No Score Yet	Nothing Personal	Tom Dickerson	—	1980
No Score Yet	Pray TV a/k/a K-GOD	Actor	—	1980
No Score Yet	When She Was Bad...	Jack Wilson	—	1979
83%	North Dallas Forty	Emmett	—	1979
No Score Yet	Maneaters Are Loose	Actor	—	1978
86%	Rolling Thunder	Maxwell	—	1977
No Score Yet	Black Fist	Heineken	—	1977
17%	Viva Knievel!	Ralph Thompson	—	1977
50%	Midway	Capt. Murray Arnold	—	1976
No Score Yet	The Other Side of the Mountain	Dave McCoy	—	1975
71%	Bite the Bullet	Jack Parker	—	1975
60%	Bad Ronald	Mr. Wood	—	1974
71%	The Towering Inferno	Assistant Fire Chief	—	1974
No Score Yet	The Dove	Charles Huntley	—	1974
57%	Cinderella Liberty	Executive Officer	—	1973
No Score Yet	Savage	Ted Seligson	—	1973
No Score Yet	Dying Room Only	Bob Mitchell	—	1973
No Score Yet	The President's Plane Is Missing	Senator Bert Haines	—	1972
No Score Yet	The Brotherhood of the Bell	Actor	—	1970
No Score Yet	I Love My...Wife	Frank Donnelly	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Trouble with Girls	Harrison Wilby	—	1969
84%	Downhill Racer	Mayo	—	1969
70%	The Scalphunters	Jed	—	1968
64%	This Property Is Condemned	Salesman	—	1966
80%	The Slender Thread	Charlie	—	1965

TV

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	NCIS 2003	John Sydney	2019
92%	Boardwalk Empire 2010-2014	Louis 'The Commodore' Kaestner	2012 2011 2010
No Score Yet	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999	Frank Hagar	2009
No Score Yet	Heartland 2007	Dr. Bart Jacobs	2007
No Score Yet	The Guardian 2001-2004	Burton Fallin	2004 2003 2002 2001
No Score Yet	Recess 1997-2001	Voice	2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
No Score Yet	The Magic School Bus 1994-1997	Voice	1997
14%	Drexell's Class 1991-1992	Otis Drexell	1992 1991
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Hugh Creighton	1991 1973
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	1987
No Score Yet	Buffalo Bill 1983-1984	Bill Bittinger	1984 1983
No Score Yet	Diff'rent Strokes 1978-1986	Fred Tanner	1979
No Score Yet	Quincy, M.E. 1976-1983	Dr. Burt Travers O'Neil	1977
No Score Yet	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 1976-1977	Merle Jeeter	1977 1976
No Score Yet	The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970-1977	Phil Wright	1976
No Score Yet	Kojak 1973-1978	Alex	1974
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Daniel Leary	1973
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Clyde Ivar	1969 1968
No Score Yet	I Dream of Jeannie 1965-1970	Webb	1969 1967 1965
No Score Yet	The Fugitive 1963-1967	George Graham Keith Steve Floyd	1966 1965 1964
29%	Madman of the People 1995	Jack Buckner

QUOTES FROM Dabney Coleman CHARACTERS

Principal Peter Prickly

Don't you ever say I don't care about Summer Vacation, because those memories are the last part of my childhood I got left.

Principal Peter Prickly

Don't you ever say I don't care about Summer Vacation, because those memories are the last part of my childhood I got left.

Grandpa

Have a piece of licorice and go stand on your head.

Franklin Hart Jr.

At LEAST you're pretty. You should see some of the crones who come through here.

Chief Quimby	Claw, you are now in the police department
Chief Quimby	Claw, you are now in the police department.

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