Person
Dabney Coleman
Born 3 January 1932 Died 16 May 2024, aged 92 Austin, Texas, USA TMDB ↗
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).
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The numbers
26age in their first credit on record (1958)
60years on screen and counting
12credits in 1965, their busiest year
190dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 84 Rules Don't Apply
2016as Raymond Holliday
Age: 75 Hard Four
2007as Spray Loomis
Age: 73 Domino
2005as Drake Bishop
Age: 71 Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003as Principal Prickly (voice)
Age: 71 Recess: All Growed Down
2003as Principal Prickley (voice)
Age: 71 Where the Red Fern Grows
2003as Grandpa
Age: 70 Moonlight Mile
2002as Mike Mulcahey
Age: 70 The Climb
2002as Mack
Age: 69 Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
2001as Principal Peter Prickly
Age: 69 Kiss My Act
2001as Henry
Age: 69 Recess: School's Out
2001as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Age: 68 How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
2000as John Kennedy
Age: 67 Stuart Little
1999as Dr. Beechwood
Age: 67 Must Be Santa
1999
Age: 67 Inspector Gadget
1999as Chief Quimby
Age: 67 Giving It Up
1999as Johnathan Gallant
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Age: 66 Taken
1999as Ethan Grover
Age: 66 You've Got Mail
1998as Nelson Fox
Age: 66 Exiled
1998as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
Age: 66 My Date with the President's Daughter
1998as President George Richmond
Age: 65 Target Earth
1998as Senator Ben Arnold
Age: 65 A Witch's Way of Love
1997as Joel
Age: 64 Devil's Food
1996as Seymour Kecker
Age: 63 In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
1995as Arthur Milo
Age: 62 Judicial Consent
1994as Charles Mayron
Age: 62 Clifford
1994as Gerald Ellis
Age: 61 The Beverly Hillbillies
1993as Milburn Drysdale
Age: 61 Amos & Andrew
1993as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
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Age: 60 Lincoln
1992as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
Age: 60 There Goes the Neighborhood
1992as Jeffrey Babitt
Age: 59 Never Forget
1991as William Cox
Age: 58 Meet the Applegates
1990as Aunt Bea
Age: 58 Short Time
1990as Burt Simpson
Age: 58 Where the Heart Is
1990as Stewart McBain
Age: 56 Maybe Baby
1988as Hal
Age: 56 Hot to Trot
1988as Walter Sawyer
Age: 55 Plaza Suite
1987as Jesse Kiplinger
Age: 55 Dragnet
1987as Jerry Caesar
Age: 55 Sworn to Silence
1987as Martin Costigan
Age: 55 Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987as Ed Sigel
Age: 54 The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986as Dabney Coleman
Age: 54 Murrow
1986as William Paley
Age: 53 The Man with One Red Shoe
1985as Cooper
Age: 52 The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984as Martin Price
Age: 52 Cloak & Dagger
1984as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
Age: 51 WarGames
1983as McKittrick
Age: 50 Tootsie
1982as Ron Carlisle
Age: 50 Young Doctors in Love
1982as Dr. Joseph Prang
Age: 49 Modern Problems
1981as Mark Winslow
Age: 49 On Golden Pond
1981as Bill Ray
Age: 48 Callie & Son
1981as Randall Bordeaux
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Age: 48 Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980as Rick Bessett
Age: 48 Nine to Five
1980as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Age: 48 Melvin and Howard
1980as Judge Keith Hayes
Age: 48 How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980as Jack Heintzel
Age: 48 Pray TV
1980as Marvin Fleece
Age: 48 Nothing Personal
1980as Dickerson
Age: 47 When She Was Bad...
1979as Jack Wilson
Age: 47 North Dallas Forty
1979as Emmett Hunter
Age: 46 More Than Friends
1978as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Age: 46 Maneaters Are Loose!
1978as McCallum
Age: 46 The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978as George Bates
Age: 45 Rolling Thunder
1977as Maxwell
Age: 45 Black Fist
1977as Heineken
Age: 45 Viva Knievel!
1977as Ralph Thompson
Age: 44 Midway
1976as Captain Murray Arnold
Age: 44 Kiss Me... Kill Me
1976as Capt. Logan
Age: 43 The Other Side of the Mountain
1975as Dave McCoy
Age: 43 Bite the Bullet
1975as Jack Parker
Age: 43 Returning Home
1975as Al Stephenson
Age: 43 Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975as Paul Mathison
Age: 42 The Towering Inferno
1974as Deputy Chief #1
Age: 42 Bad Ronald
1974as Mr. Wood
Age: 42 The Dove
1974as Charles Huntley
Age: 42 House of Evil
1974
Age: 41 Cinderella Liberty
1973as Executive Officer
Age: 41 The President's Plane Is Missing
1973as Sen. Bert Haines
Age: 41 Dying Room Only
1973as Bob Mitchell
Age: 41 Moving Target
1973
Age: 41 Savage!
1973as Ted Seligson
Age: 38 I Love My Wife
1970as Frank Donnelly
Age: 38 The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970as Agent Shepard
Age: 37 Downhill Racer
1969as Mayo
Age: 37 The Trouble with Girls
1969as Harrison Wilby
Age: 36 The Scalphunters
1968as Jed
Age: 34 This Property Is Condemned
1966as Salesman
Age: 33 The Slender Thread
1965as Charlie
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TV credits
Age: 86 Yellowstone
2018as John Dutton Sr.
Age: 86 For the People
2018as Donald
Age: 81 Ray Donovan
2013as Mr. Price
Age: 78 Pound Puppies
2010as Mayor (voice)
Age: 78 Boardwalk Empire
2010as Commodore Louis Kaestner
Age: 75 Heartland
2007as Dr. Bart Jacobs
Age: 74 Courting Alex
2006as Jack Atwell
Age: 71 NCIS
2003as Army Corporal John Sydney
Age: 69 The Guardian
2001as Burton Fallin
Age: 69 The Zeta Project
2001
Age: 67 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Frank Hager
Age: 65 Recess
1997as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Age: 64 E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Age: 63 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as Monsieur Fox (voice)
Age: 62 Madman of the People
1994as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
Age: 62 The Magic School Bus
1994as Horace Scope (voice)
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Age: 59 Drexell's Class
1991
Age: 56 Baby M
1988as Gary Skoloff
Age: 55 The Slap Maxwell Story
1987
Age: 54 Fresno
1986as Tyler Cane
Age: 51 Buffalo Bill
1983as Bill Bittinger
Age: 46 Diff'rent Strokes
1978
Age: 46 Apple Pie
1978as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Age: 45 Forever Fernwood
1977
Age: 45 The Love Boat
1977as Van Milner
Age: 45 Fernwood 2 Night
1977as Mayor Merle Jeeter
Age: 44 Quincy, M.E.
1976as Dr. Burt Travers
Age: 44 Quincy, M.E.
1976as Officer Peter O'Neil
Age: 44 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976as Merle Jeeter
Age: 43 Switch
1975as C.C. Owens
Age: 43 Medical Story
1975as Blair
Age: 43 Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975as Paul Mathison
Age: 42 Sons and Daughters
1974
Age: 42 The Manhunter
1974
Age: 42 Petrocelli
1974as Willy Morgan
Age: 41 Kojak
1973as Alex Linden
Age: 41 Police Story
1973
Age: 41 Barnaby Jones
1973as George Clark
Age: 41 Barnaby Jones
1973as Brad Adamson
Age: 41 Barnaby Jones
1973as Paul Cleveland
Age: 41 Barnaby Jones
1973as Ted Sayers
Age: 40 The Streets of San Francisco
1972as George Todd
Age: 40 The Streets of San Francisco
1972as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Age: 40 Banyon
1972as Ralph Hubbard
Age: 40 Search
1972
Age: 39 McMillan & Wife
1971as Hansen
Age: 39 McMillan & Wife
1971as Walter Jennings
Age: 39 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971as Frank Wellmam
Age: 39 Columbo
1971as Hugh Creighton
Age: 39 Columbo
1971as Detective Murray
Age: 39 Cannon
1971
Age: 38 Dan August
1970as Rick Bessett
Age: 38 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970as Congressman Phil Whitman
Age: 38 Nanny and the Professor
1970as Detective Robinson
Age: 37 Medical Center
1969
Age: 37 Then Came Bronson
1969as Dr. Ron Carlisle
Age: 37 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969as Dr. Goldstone
Age: 37 Room 222
1969
Age: 36 The Mod Squad
1968as John
Age: 35 Mannix
1967as Ralph Stoner
Age: 35 Mannix
1967as Howard Graham
Age: 35 Judd, for the Defense
1967
Age: 35 The Flying Nun
1967as Sub. Captain
Age: 35 Ironside
1967as Daniel Leary
Age: 35 The Invaders
1967as Capt. Mitchell Ross
Age: 35 The Invaders
1967as John Carter
Age: 34 That Girl
1966 Age: 34 That Girl
1966as Dr. Leon Bessemer
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Ira Barker
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Allen Clarke
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Stanley Leonard
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Sam Langlin
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Ty Williams
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Mr. Jamison
Age: 33 The F.B.I.
1965as Barnes
Age: 33 I Dream of Jeannie
1965as George Webb
Age: 33 I Dream of Jeannie
1965as Captain Yardley
Age: 33 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965as Clark
Age: 33 Run for Your Life
1965as Fred Palmer
Age: 32 12 O'Clock High
1964as Captain Wilson
Age: 32 12 O'Clock High
1964as Captain Robbins
Age: 31 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963as William Gunther
Age: 31 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963as Alvin Piper
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Age: 31 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963as Sergeant Harry King
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Age: 31 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963as Stanley Rivkin
Age: 31 The Fugitive
1963as Floyd
Age: 31 The Fugitive
1963as Sergeant Keith
Age: 31 The Fugitive
1963as Officer George Graham
Age: 31 The Fugitive
1963as Steve
Age: 31 The Outer Limits
1963as Dr. Williams
Age: 31 The Outer Limits
1963as James Custer
Age: 31 The Outer Limits
1963as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
Age: 31 Arrest and Trial
1963as Wayne Holton
Age: 30 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962as Tom Esterow
Age: 30 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962as Sgt. Lou Snyder
Age: 29 Ben Casey
1961
Age: 29 Hazel
1961as Les Swanton
Age: 29 Dr. Kildare
1961as Dr. David Kirkson
Age: 29 Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
Age: 27 Bonanza
1959as Clyde
Age: 27 Bonanza
1959as Ivar Peterson
Age: 26 Naked City
1958as Resident
Age: 26 The Donna Reed Show
1958as Rallye Master