Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman | |
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Born | Dabney Wharton Coleman January 3, 1932 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Died | May 16, 2024 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | (aged 92)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1961–2019 |
Spouses |
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Children | 4 |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | United States Army |
Years of service | 1953–1955[1] |
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).[2]
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.
Career
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[3] in New York City from 1958 to 1960.
Coleman made his Broadway debut in the short-lived A Call on Kuprin in 1961.[4] 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,[5] he appeared in the sitcom wearing horn-rimmed glasses and with no facial hair.[6] Other early roles in his career included a U.S. Olympic skiing team coach in Downhill Racer (1969),[7] a high-ranking fire chief in The Towering Inferno (1974),[8] 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).[9]
Coleman landed the main antagonist part of Franklin Hart, Jr., a sexist boss on whom three female office employees get their revenge in the 1980 film 9 to 5.[10] It was this film that established Coleman in the character type with which he was most identified, and frequently played afterwards – a comic relief villain. Coleman followed 9 to 5 with the role of the arrogant, sexist, soap opera director in Tootsie (1982).[11] He broke from this type somewhat in other film roles. He appeared in the feature film On Golden Pond (1981),[12] playing the sympathetic fiancé of Chelsea Thayer Wayne (Jane Fonda). He also played a military computer scientist in WarGames (1983), and, in 1984, he played a dual role as a loving, but busy father, as well as his son's imaginary hero, in Cloak & Dagger.[13] In 1986 Coleman co-starred opposite Carol Burnett, playing his comic villain persona to the hilt as nefarious raisin tycoon Tyler Cane in the cult 1986 satirical miniseries Fresno, which parodied prime-time soap operas like "Dallas" and "Dynasty". He played an aging cop who thinks he is terminally ill in the 1990 comedy Short Time.[14]
Over the years, Coleman shifted between roles in serious drama and comedies, the latter of which often cast him as a variation of his 9 to 5 character. Coleman received his first Emmy nomination for his lead role, as a skilled, but self-centered TV host, in the critically acclaimed, though short-lived, TV series Buffalo Bill. In 1987, he received an Emmy Award for his role in the television film Sworn to Silence.[15] Coleman played a con artist Broadway producer in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984),[16] a lisping Hugh Hefner-ish magazine mogul in the comedy Dragnet (1987), Bobcat Goldthwait's boss in the 1988 talking-horse comedy Hot to Trot, and befuddled banker Milburn Drysdale in the feature film The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), the last of which reunited him with 9 to 5 co-stars Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. Continuing his streak of comic foils, Coleman played Charles Grodin's sleazy boss, Gerald Ellis, in Clifford (1994), co-starring Martin Short.[17]
From 1997 to 2001, Coleman provided the voice of Principal Prickly on the animated series Recess.[18] He also played a philandering father in You've Got Mail (1998), as well as a less-than-impressionable police commissioner in Inspector Gadget (which reunited him with his WarGames co-star Matthew Broderick).[citation needed]
Coleman appeared as a casino owner in 2005's Domino. He received acclaim as Burton Fallin in the TV series The Guardian (2001–2004). For two seasons, from 2010 to 2011, Coleman was a series regular on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.[17] His most recent roles were a small part in Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes comedy Rules Don't Apply in 2016,[19] and a guest role as Kevin Costner's dying father in Yellowstone, in 2019.[20]
On November 6, 2014, Coleman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[21]
Personal life and death
Coleman was born in Austin, Texas on January 3, 1932.[22] He attended Virginia Military Institute,[23][24] and the University of Texas at Austin.[25] He was drafted into the United States Army in 1953 and served in Europe.[24] He was married to Ann Courtney Harrell from 1957 to 1959 and Jean Hale from 1961 to 1984. He had four children: daughter Meghan with Ann Harrell, and daughter Kelly, son Randy, and daughter Quincy with Jean Hale.[26]
Coleman was an avid tennis player, winning celebrity and charity tournaments. He played mainly at the Riviera Country Club as well as in local tournaments.[27][28] His favorite sports team was the St. Louis Browns,[29] which are now the Baltimore Orioles.[30]
Coleman died at his home in Santa Monica, California, on May 16, 2024, at the age of 92.[31][32]
Filmography
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Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965 | The Slender Thread | Charlie | [17] |
1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Salesman | [17] |
1968 | The Scalphunters | Jed | [17] |
1969 | The Trouble with Girls | Harrison Wilby | [17] |
1969 | Downhill Racer | Mayo | [7] |
1970 | I Love My Wife | Frank Donnelly | [33] |
1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Executive Officer | [34] |
1974 | The Dove | Charles Huntley | [35] |
1974 | The Towering Inferno | SFFD Deputy Chief 1 | [8] |
1974 | Black Fist | Heineken | [17] |
1975 | Bite the Bullet | Jack Parker | [36] |
1975 | The Other Side of the Mountain | Dave McCoy | |
1976 | Midway | Captain Murray Arnold | [37] |
1977 | Viva Knievel! | Ralph Thompson | [38] |
1977 | Rolling Thunder | Maxwell | |
1978 | The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 | Dave McCoy | Uncredited |
1978 | Go Tell the Spartans | Helicopter pilot | Uncredited |
1979 | North Dallas Forty | Emmett Hunter | [17] |
1980 | Nothing Personal | Dickerson | [17] |
1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Jack Heintzel | |
1980 | Melvin and Howard | Judge Keith Hayes | |
1980 | 9 to 5 | Franklin M. Hart, Jr. | [17][11] |
1980 | Pray TV | Marvin Fleece | |
1981 | On Golden Pond | Dr. Bill Ray | [17] |
1981 | Modern Problems | Mark Winslow | [17] |
1982 | Young Doctors in Love | Dr. Joseph Prang | |
1982 | Tootsie | Ron Carlisle | [11] |
1983 | WarGames | Dr. John McKittrick | [17] |
1984 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | Martin Price / Murray Plotsky | [16] |
1984 | Cloak & Dagger | Jack Flack / Hal Osborne | [13][17] |
1985 | The Man with One Red Shoe | Burton Cooper | |
1987 | Dragnet | Jerry Caesar | [17] |
1988 | Hot to Trot | Walter Sawyer | |
1990 | Where the Heart Is | Stewart McBain | |
1990 | Short Time | Burt Simpson | [14] |
1990 | Meet the Applegates | Aunt Bea | |
1992 | There Goes the Neighborhood | Jeffrey Babitt | |
1993 | Amos & Andrew | Police Chief Cecil Tolliver | |
1993 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Milburn Drysdale | [17] |
1994 | Clifford | Gerald Ellis | [17] |
1994 | Judicial Consent | Charles Mayron | |
1997 | Witch Way Love | Joel Andrews | |
1998 | You've Got Mail | Nelson Fox | [39] |
1999 | Giving It Up | Jonathan Gallant | |
1999 | Inspector Gadget | Police Chief Quimby | |
1999 | Stuart Little | Dr. Beechwood | [40] |
1999 | Taken | Ethan Grover | |
2001 | Recess: School's Out | Principal Peter Prickly | Voice[41] |
2001 | Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street | Principal Peter Prickly | Voice[41] |
2002 | The Climb | Mack Leonard | [42] |
2002 | Moonlight Mile | Mike Mulcahey | |
2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Grandpa | |
2003 | Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade | Principal Peter Prickly | Voice[41] |
2003 | Recess: All Growed Down | Principal Peter Prickly | Voice[41] |
2005 | Domino | Drake Bishop | [17] |
2007 | Hard Four | Spray Loomis | |
2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Raymond Holliday | final film role |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1961 | Naked City | Resident | Episode: "Landscape with Dead Figures" |
1963 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Tom Esterow | Season 1 Episode 30: "Dear Uncle George" |
1964 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Sergeant Lou Snyder | Season 2 Episode 31: "Isabel" |
1964 | The Outer Limits | Dr. Williams / Lieutenant Howard / James Custer | 3 episodes |
1964–1966 | The Fugitive | Steve / Officer George Graham / Floyd / Sergeant Keith | 4 episodes |
1965 | I Dream of Jeannie | Lieutenant George Webb | Episode: "Anybody Here Seen Jeannie?" |
1965 | The Donna Reed Show | Rallye Master | Episode: "A-Haunting We Will Go" |
1966–1967 | That Girl | Dr. Leon Bessemer | 8 episodes[6] |
1967 | The Invaders | John Carter / Captain Mitchell Ross | 2 episodes |
1967 | Dundee and the Culhane | Sheriff Wrenn | Episode: "The Jubilee Raid Brief" |
1967 | The Flying Nun | Submarine Captain | Premiere episode |
1968–1969 | Bonanza | Ivar Peterson / Clyde | 2 episodes |
1969 | The Mod Squad | John | Episode: "The Guru" |
1970 | The F.B.I. | Ty | Episode: "Incident in the Desert" |
1970 | The Brotherhood of the Bell | Agent Shepard | Television film |
1971–1972 | Bright Promise | Dr. Tracy Graham | Recurring role |
1973 | Room 222 | Gary Webster Sr. | Episode: "Rights of Others" |
1973 | Dying Room Only | Robert Mitchell | Television film |
1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | Senator Bert Haines | Television film |
1973–1991 | Columbo | Hugh Creighton / Detective Murray | 2 episodes |
1974 | The F.B.I. | SAC Barnes | Episode: "Survival" |
1974 | Bad Ronald | Mr. Wood | Television film |
1974 | Kojak | Alex Linden | Episode: "Therapy in Dynamite" |
1974–1975 | McMillan & Wife | Walter Jennings / Hansen | 2 episodes |
1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Paul Mathison | Television film[9] |
1975 | Barnaby Jones | George Clark | Episode: "A Taste for Murder" |
1975 | Mannix | Howard Graham | Episode: "A Ransom for Yesterday" |
1976 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Congressman Phil Whitman | Episode: "The Seminar" |
1976–1977 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | Merle Jeeter | 148 episodes[27] |
1977 | Fernwood 2 Night | Merle Jeeter | Premiere episode[27] |
1977 | Quincy, M.E. | Officer Peter O'Neil / Dr. Burt Travers | 2 episodes |
1978 | Apple Pie | "Fast Eddie" Murtaugh | 8 episodes |
1978 | Maneaters Are Loose! | McCallum | Television film |
1978 | The Love Boat | Van Milner | Episode "The Last Hundred Bucks" |
1979 | Barnaby Jones | Brad Adamson | Episode "Indoctrination In Evil" |
1979 | Diff'rent Strokes | Fred Tanner | Episode: "Arnold's Girlfriend" |
1983–1984 | Buffalo Bill | Bill Bittinger | 26 episodes[27] |
1986 | Fresno | Tyler Cane | 5 episodes |
1986 | Murrow | CBS President William S. Paley | Television film |
1987 | Sworn to Silence | Martin Costigan | Television film |
1987–1988 | The Slap Maxwell Story | Slap Maxwell | 22 episodes[26] |
1988 | Baby M | Gary Skoloff | 2 episodes |
1991 | Never Forget | William Cox | Television film |
1991–1992 | Drexell's Class | Otis Drexell | 18 episodes |
1994–1995 | Madman of the People | Jack "Madman" Buckner | 16 episodes |
1995–1997 | The Pinocchio Shop | Nolan Howell | Series regular, 78 episodes |
1997 | The Magic School Bus | Horace Scope | Voice, episode: "Sees Stars"[41] |
1997–2001 | Recess | Principal Peter Prickly | Voice, main role |
1997 | Jumanji | Ashton Phillips | Voice, 2 episodes |
1998 | My Date with the President's Daughter | President Richmond | Television film[43] |
1998 | Exiled: A Law & Order Movie | Lieutenant Kevin Stolper | Television film |
2001–2004 | The Guardian | Burton Fallin | 67 episodes[26] |
2002 | The Zeta Project | Thomas Boyle | Voice, episode: "Hunt in the Hub"[41] |
2006 | Courting Alex | Bill Rose | 12 episodes |
2007 | Heartland | Dr. Bart Jacobs | 6 episodes |
2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Frank Hager | Episode: "Snatched" |
2010–2011 | Pound Puppies | Mayor Jerry | Voice, 4 episodes[41] |
2010–2011 | Boardwalk Empire | Commodore Louis Kaestner | 24 episodes[17] |
2016 | Ray Donovan | Mr. Price | Episode: "Federal Boobie Inspector" |
2019 | NCIS | Corporal John Sidney | Episode: "The Last Link" |
2019 | For the People | Donald Newman | Episode: "One Big Happy Family" |
2019 | Yellowstone | John Dutton Jr. | Episode: "Sins of the Father" (Final role)[20] |
Music videos
Year | Title | Artist | Role | Notes |
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2019 | "Star Maps" | Aly & AJ | Himself |
Awards and nominations
Other honors
Year | Honor | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Television | Inducted | [49] |
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