Dabney Coleman

Also Credited As:

Dabney Wharton Coleman
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Biography

Among Coleman's most memorable film roles was the misogynist corporate boss of empowered Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda in "9 to 5" (1980), and the egomaniacal soap opera director whose sexist attitude inspired the title "Tootsie" (1982). On television, the Emmy and Golden Globe winner was among the busiest character players of the 1960s before making his mark on the "brilliant-but-canceled" soap opera spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary …
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Job Title

Actor, Consultants & Advisors

Born

Dabney Wharton Coleman on January 3, 1932 in Austin, Texas, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Where the Heart Is

Stewart McBain

Idols of the Game

Scribe

Showtime Presents: The Aspen Comedy Festival

Host

Madman of the People

Jack Buckner

The "Slap" Maxwell Story

Slap Maxwell

Returning Home

Al Stephensen

Buffalo Bill

Bill Bittinger

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Arthur Milo

Short Time

Burt Simpson

Texan

Richard Williams

Taken

Ethan Grover

Maybe Baby

Hal Gilbert

Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Hugh Creighton

Apple Pie

"Fast" Eddie Barnes

Devil's Food

Seymour Kecker

Murrow

William S Paley

Cloak and Dagger

Hal Osborne

The Comedy Zone

Actor

Where the Red Fern Grows

Grandpa

Never Forget

William Cox

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

Ed Siegel

Courting Alex

Bill Rose

Sworn to Silence

Marty Costigan

Fresno

Tyler Cane

Egan

Captain Walter Jones