Dabney Coleman
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
2026
as Franklin M. Hart Jr (archive footage)
Still Working 9 to 5
2022
as Self
For the People
2018
as Donald
Yellowstone
2018
as John Dutton Sr.
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Raymond Holliday
Ray Donovan
2013
as Mr. Price
Char·ac·ter
2012
as Self
Boardwalk Empire
2010
as Commodore Louis Kaestner
Pound Puppies
2010
as Mayor (voice)
Hard Four
2007
as Spray Loomis
Heartland
2007
as Dr. Bart Jacobs
Courting Alex
2006
as Jack Atwell
Domino
2005
as Drake Bishop
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
as Grandpa
Recess: All Growed Down
2003
as Principal Prickley (voice)
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003
as Principal Prickly (voice)
NCIS
2003
as John Sydney
Moonlight Mile
2002
as Mike Mulcahey
The Climb
2002
as Mack
Recess: School's Out
2001
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Kiss My Act
2001
as Henry
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
2001
as Principal Peter Prickly
The Making of Midway
2001
as Self
The Guardian
2001
as Burton Fallin
The Zeta Project
2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
2000
as John Kennedy
Inspector Gadget
1999
as Chief Quimby
Giving It Up
1999
as Johnathan Gallant
Taken
1999
as Ethan Grover
Stuart Little
1999
as Dr. Beechwood
Must Be Santa
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Frank Hager
Target Earth
1998
as Senator Ben Arnold
My Date with the President's Daughter
1998
as George Richmond
You've Got Mail
1998
as Nelson Fox
Exiled
1998
as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
A Witch's Way of Love
1997
as Joel
Recess
1997
as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Devil's Food
1996
as Seymour Kecker
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
1995
as Arthur Milo
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Monsieur Fox (voice)
Clifford
1994
as Gerald Ellis
Judicial Consent
1994
as Charles Mayron
Madman of the People
1994
as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
The Magic School Bus
1994
as Horace Scope (voice)
Amos & Andrew
1993
as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
as Milburn Drysdale
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
as Jeffrey Babitt
Lincoln
1992
as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
Never Forget
1991
as William Cox
Drexell's Class
1991
Short Time
1990
as Burt Simpson
Where the Heart Is
1990
as Stewart McBain
Meet the Applegates
1990
as Aunt Bea
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
1990
as Self
Hot to Trot
1988
as Walter Sawyer
Maybe Baby
1988
as Hal
Baby M
1988
as Gary Skoloff
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as Ed Sigel
Dragnet
1987
as Jerry Caesar
Sworn to Silence
1987
as Martin Costigan
Plaza Suite
1987
as Jesse Kiplinger
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
The Slap Maxwell Story
1987
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
as Dabney Coleman
Murrow
1986
as William Paley
Fresno
1986
as Tyler Cane
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
as Cooper
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984
as Martin Price
Cloak & Dagger
1984
as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
WarGames
1983
as McKittrick
Buffalo Bill
1983
as Bill Bittinger
Tootsie
1982
as Ron Carlisle
Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Dr. Joseph Prang
On Golden Pond
1981
as Bill Ray
Modern Problems
1981
as Mark Winslow
Callie & Son
1981
as Randall Bordeaux
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980
as Rick Bessett
Melvin and Howard
1980
as Judge Keith Hayes
Pray TV
1980
as Marvin Fleece
Nine to Five
1980
as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Nothing Personal
1980
as Dickerson
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
as Jack Heintzel
North Dallas Forty
1979
as Emmett Hunter
When She Was Bad...
1979
as Jack Wilson
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
as McCallum
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978
as George Bates
More Than Friends
1978
as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
Apple Pie
1978
as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Rolling Thunder
1977
as Maxwell
Viva Knievel!
1977
as Ralph Thompson
Black Fist
1977
as Heineken
Forever Fernwood
1977
The Love Boat
1977
as Van Milner
Fernwood 2 Night
1977
as Mayor Merle Jeeter
Kiss Me... Kill Me
1976
as Capt. Logan
Midway
1976
as Captain Murray Arnold
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976
as Merle Jeeter
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Dr. Burt Travers
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Officer Peter O'Neil
Bite the Bullet
1975
as Jack Parker
The Other Side of the Mountain
1975
as Dave McCoy
Returning Home
1975
as Al Stephenson
Switch
1975
as C.C. Owens
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Paul Mathison
Medical Story
1975
as Blair
Bad Ronald
1974
as Mr. Wood
The Dove
1974
as Charles Huntley
The Towering Inferno
1974
as Deputy Chief #1
House of Evil
1974
Sons and Daughters
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Petrocelli
1974
as Willy Morgan
Cinderella Liberty
1973
as Executive Officer
Dying Room Only
1973
as Bob Mitchell
Savage!
1973
as Ted Seligson
Moving Target
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Sen. Bert Haines
Kojak
1973
as Alex Linden
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
as George Clark
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Ted Sayers
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Brad Adamson
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Paul Cleveland
Search
1972
Banyon
1972
as Ralph Hubbard
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as George Todd
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Columbo
1971
as Hugh Creighton
Cannon
1971
Columbo
1971
as Detective Murray
McMillan & Wife
1971
as Hansen
McMillan & Wife
1971
as Walter Jennings
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Frank Wellmam
I Love My Wife
1970
as Frank Donnelly
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970
as Agent Shepard
Nanny and the Professor
1970
as Detective Robinson
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
as Congressman Phil Whitman
Dan August
1970
as Rick Bessett
Downhill Racer
1969
as Mayo
The Trouble with Girls
1969
as Harrison Wilby
Room 222
1969
Medical Center
1969
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Dr. Goldstone
Then Came Bronson
1969
as Dr. Ron Carlisle
The Scalphunters
1968
as Jed
The Mod Squad
1968
as John
Mannix
1967
as Ralph Stoner
Ironside
1967
as Daniel Leary
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Invaders
1967
as Capt. Mitchell Ross
The Invaders
1967
as John Carter
The Flying Nun
1967
as Sub. Captain
Mannix
1967
as Howard Graham
This Property Is Condemned
1966
as Salesman
That Girl
1966
That Girl
1966
as Dr. Leon Bessemer
The Slender Thread
1965
as Charlie
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ira Barker
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
as George Webb
Run for Your Life
1965
as Fred Palmer
The F.B.I.
1965
as Allen Clarke
The F.B.I.
1965
as Stanley Leonard
The F.B.I.
1965
as Sam Langlin
The F.B.I.
1965
as Ty Williams
The F.B.I.
1965
as Mr. Jamison
The F.B.I.
1965
as Barnes
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
as Clark
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
as Captain Yardley
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Captain Wilson
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Captain Robbins
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as William Gunther
The Fugitive
1963
as Floyd
The Fugitive
1963
as Sergeant Keith
The Fugitive
1963
as Officer George Graham
The Fugitive
1963
as Steve
The Outer Limits
1963
as Dr. Williams
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Sergeant Harry King
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Wayne Holton
The Outer Limits
1963
as James Custer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Stanley Rivkin
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Alvin Piper
The Outer Limits
1963
as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Tom Esterow
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Sgt. Lou Snyder
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. David Kirkson
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
Hazel
1961
as Les Swanton
Bonanza
1959
as Clyde
Bonanza
1959
as Ivar Peterson
The Donna Reed Show
1958
as Rallye Master
Naked City
1958
as Resident
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee