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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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rules Don't Apply (2016) | Raymond Holliday | 6.5 | |
| 2 | Domino (2005) | Drake Bishop | 6.4 | |
| 3 | Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003) | Principal Prickly (voice) | 6 | |
| 4 | Recess: All Growed Down (2003) | Principal Prickley (voice) | - | - |
| 5 | Moonlight Mile (2002) | Mike Mulcahey | 7.3 | |
| 6 | The Climb (2002) | Mack | 6 | |
| 7 | Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street (2001) | Principal Peter Prickly | - | - |
| 8 | Recess: School's Out (2001) | Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | 7 | |
| 9 | Inspector Gadget (1999) | Chief Quimby | 5.1 | |
| 10 | Taken (1999) | Ethan Grover | - | - |
| 11 | Giving It Up (1999) | Johnathan Gallant | - | - |
| 12 | Stuart Little (1999) Oscars 2000 | Dr. Beechwood | 6 | |
| 13 | Exiled (1998) | Lieutenant Kevin Stolper | - | - |
| 14 | My Date with the President's Daughter (1998) | President George Richmond | 6 | |
| 15 | You've Got Mail (1998) | Nelson Fox | 6.4 | |
| 16 | Clifford (1994) | Gerald Ellis | 6.5 | |
| 17 | The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) | Milburn Drysdale | 5.5 | |
| 18 | Amos & Andrew (1993) | Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver | 2 | |
| 19 | Meet the Applegates (1990) | Aunt Bea | - | - |
| 20 | Where the Heart Is (1990) | Stewart McBain | 9 | |
| 21 | Short Time (1990) | Burt Simpson | 6 | |
| 22 | Hot to Trot (1988) | Walter Sawyer | 10 | |
| 23 | Dragnet (1987) | Jerry Caesar | 6.7 | |
| 24 | The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) | Cooper | 8 | |
| 25 | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Martin Price | 7.6 | |
| 26 | Cloak & Dagger (1984) | Jack Flack / Hal Osborne | - | - |
| 27 | WarGames (1983) | McKittrick | 7.7 | |
| 28 | Young Doctors in Love (1982) | Dr. Joseph Prang | - | - |
| 29 | Tootsie (1982) | Ron Carlisle | 6.8 | |
| 30 | On Golden Pond (1981) | Bill Ray | 7 | |
| 31 | Modern Problems (1981) | Mark Winslow | 6 | |
| 32 | Nothing Personal (1980) | Dickerson | 7 | |
| 33 | Melvin and Howard (1980) | Judge Keith Hayes | 6 | |
| 34 | Nine to Five (1980) | Franklin M. Hart Jr. | 7.8 | |
| 35 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980) | Jack Heintzel | - | - |
| 36 | Black Fist (1977) | Heineken | - | - |
| 37 | Rolling Thunder (1977) | Maxwell | 7 | |
| 38 | Midway (1976) | Captain Murray Arnold | 8 | |
| 39 | Bite the Bullet (1975) | Jack Parker | 6 | |
| 40 | Bad Ronald (1974) | Mr. Wood | - | - |
| 41 | The Towering Inferno (1974) | Deputy Chief #1 | 6.8 | |
| 42 | Dying Room Only (1973) | Bob Mitchell | - | - |
| 43 | Cinderella Liberty (1973) | Executive Officer | - | - |
| 44 | The Trouble with Girls (1969) | Harrison Wilby | 6 | |
| 45 | Downhill Racer (1969) | Mayo | 5 | |
| 46 | The Scalphunters (1968) | Jed | 8 | |
| 47 | This Property Is Condemned (1966) | Salesman | 6 | |
| 48 | The Slender Thread (1965) | Charlie | - | - |
