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Dabney Coleman
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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 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. 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 in New York City from 1958 to 1960. Coleman made his Broadway debut in the short-lived A Call on Kuprin in 1961. 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, he appeared in the sitcom wearing horn-rimmed glasses and with no facial hair. Other early roles in his career included a U.S. Olympic skiing team coach in Downhill Racer (1969), a high-ranking fire chief in The Towering Inferno (1974), 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).
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Acting (160)
Dr. Beechwood
Frank Hager
Nelson Fox
John Dutton Sr.
John Sydney
McKittrick
Ron Carlisle
Chief Quimby
Commodore Louis Kaestner
Drake Bishop
Deputy Chief #1
Hugh Creighton / Detective Murray
Mr. Price
George Webb / Captain Yardley
Milburn Drysdale
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Jerry Caesar
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Bill Ray
Raymond Holliday
Clyde / Ivar Peterson
Martin Price
Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Captain Murray Arnold
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Cooper
Maxwell
Mike Mulcahey
Van Milner
Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
Dr. Williams / James Custer / Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
Alex Linden
Horace Scope (voice)
Jack Parker
Jed
Dr. Burt Travers / Officer Peter O'Neil
Gerald Ellis
Mayo
Salesman
George Richmond
George Todd / Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Mark Winslow
Joel
Principal Prickly (voice)
Congressman Phil Whitman
Tom Esterow / Sgt. Lou Snyder
Emmett Hunter
Judge Keith Hayes
Donald
Daniel Leary
Dr. Joseph Prang
Floyd / Sergeant Keith / Officer George Graham / Steve
Capt. Mitchell Ross / John Carter
Mr. Wood
Burt Simpson
Walter Sawyer
Burton Fallin
Ralph Stoner / Howard Graham
Principal Prickley (voice)
Charlie
Stewart McBain
Grandpa
Aunt Bea
Principal Peter Prickly
Jack Heintzel
Sub. Captain
Dr. Leon Bessemer
George Clark / Ted Sayers / Brad Adamson / Paul Cleveland
Dave McCoy
Executive Officer
Hansen / Walter Jennings
John
Willy Morgan
Harrison Wilby
Jeffrey Babitt
Ira Barker / Allen Clarke / Stanley Leonard / Sam Langlin / Ty Williams / Mr. Jamison / Barnes
Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
Les Swanton
Captain Wilson / Captain Robbins
Rallye Master
Dr. David Kirkson
Bob Mitchell
Merle Jeeter
Ralph Thompson
Dickerson
Johnathan Gallant
Ted Seligson
Agent Shepard
Resident
Senator Ben Arnold
Heineken
Bill Bittinger
Monsieur Fox (voice)
Detective Robinson
Mayor (voice)
C.C. Owens
Mack
Charles Huntley
Clark
Randall Bordeaux
Dabney Coleman
John Kennedy
Frank Wellmam
Charles Mayron
William Cox
Fred Palmer
Sen. Bert Haines
Rick Bessett
Marvin Fleece
'Slap' Maxwell
Tyler Cane
Spray Loomis
Hal
Dr. Ron Carlisle
Jack Wilson
Wayne Holton
Jack Atwell
Frank Donnelly
Arthur Milo
Capt. Logan
William Gunther / Alvin Piper
William Paley
Dr. Goldstone
Ralph Hubbard
Henry
Jack 'Madman' Buckner
Blair
Martin Costigan
Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Gary Skoloff
Ed Sigel
Dr. Bart Jacobs
Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Jesse Kiplinger
Al Stephenson
Seymour Kecker
McCallum
Paul Mathison
Morty Raskin
George Bates
Appearances (8)
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Franklin M. Hart Jr (archive footage)
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