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For twenty years Dabney Coleman has appeared mostly in one type of role: a smarmy selfish, nervous person mostly with money that is out for himself, mostly. The fact is he did such a good job in this type of part he has made a career of it in film. This is quite a departure for a person that once entered the Virginia Military Institute... See full bio »

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2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)
Frank Hager
Snatched (2009) … Frank Hager
 
2007 Hard Four
Spray Loomis
 
2006 Courting Alex (TV series)
Jack Atwell / Bill Rose
A Moving Story (2006) … Jack Atwell
You Compete Me (2006) … Bill Rose
The Perfect Couple (2006) … Bill Rose
Big Client (2006) … Bill Rose
 
2006 Lilo & Stitch: The Series (TV series)
Principal Pete Prickly
 
2001-2004 The Guardian (TV series)
Burton Fallin
Antarctica (2004) … Burton Fallin
The Vote (2004) … Burton Fallin
Remember (2004) … Burton Fallin
 
2003 Freedom: A History of Us (TV series documentary)
Stephen A.Douglas
 
2002 The Zeta Project (TV series)
Dr. Boyle
Hunt in the Hub (2002) … Dr. Boyle (voice)
 
2002 The Climb
Mack
 
2001 Kiss My Act (TV movie)
Henry
 
1999 Must Be Santa (TV movie)
Tuttle
 
1999 Stuart Little
Dr. Beechwood
 
1997-1999 Recess (TV series)
Principal Peter Prickly / Principal Prickly
Gus' Fortune (1999) … Principal Prickly (voice)
A Genius Among Us (1999) … Principal Prickly (voice)
The Break-Up (1999) … Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
 
1999 Giving It Up
Johnathan Gallant
 
1999/I Taken
Ethan Grover
 
1998 Exiled (TV movie)
Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
 
1998 My Date with the President's Daughter (TV movie)
President Richmond
 
1998 Target Earth (TV movie)
Senator Ben Arnold, Sam's Uncle
 
1997 Jumanji (TV series)
Ashton Philips
An Old Story (1997) … Ashton Philips (voice)
The Palace of Clues (1997) … Ashton Philips (voice)
 
1997 The Magic School Bus (TV series)
Horace Scope
Sees Stars (1997) … Horace Scope (voice)
 
1997 Un amour de sorcière
Joel
 
1996 Devil's Food (TV movie)
Seymour Kecker
 
1995 Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (TV movie)
Arthur Milo
 
1994 Texan (TV short)
Richard Williams
 
1994 Clifford
Gerald Ellis
 
1994 Judicial Consent
Charles Mayron
 
1992 Lincoln (TV movie)
Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
 
1992 There Goes the Neighborhood
Jeffrey Babitt
 
1991-1992 Drexell's Class (TV series)
Otis Drexell
The Resentments (1992) … Otis Drexell
Cruisin' (1992) … Otis Drexell
Ashes to Ashes (1992) … Otis Drexell
 
1973-1991 Columbo (TV series)
Detective Murray / Hugh Creighton
Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star (1991) … Hugh Creighton
Double Shock (1973) … Detective Murray
 
1991 Never Forget (TV movie)
William Cox
 
1990 Meet the Applegates
Aunt Bea
 
1990 Short Time
Burt Simpson
 
1990 Where the Heart Is
Stewart McBain
 
1988 Hot to Trot
Walter Sawyer
 
1988 Maybe Baby (TV movie)
Hal
 
1988 Baby M (TV movie)
Gary Skoloff
 
1987-1988 The Slap Maxwell Story (TV series)
Slap Maxwell
Episode #1.22 (1988) … Slap Maxwell
Episode #1.21 (1988) … Slap Maxwell
Episode #1.20 (1988) … Slap Maxwell
Episode #1.19 (1988) … Slap Maxwell
Episode #1.18 (1988) … Slap Maxwell
 
1987 Plaza Suite (TV movie)
Jesse Kiplinger
 
1987 Dragnet
Jerry Caesar
 
1987 Sworn to Silence (TV movie)
Martin Costigan
 
1987 Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (TV movie)
Ed Sigel
 
1986 Fresno (TV mini-series)
Tyler Cane
 
1986 The A-Team (TV series)
Commentator in booth
Quarterback Sneak (1986) … Commentator in booth (uncredited)
 
1986 Murrow (TV movie)
CBS Chairman William Paley
 
1985 The Man with One Red Shoe
Cooper
 
1984 Cloak & Dagger
Jack Flack/Hal Osborne
 
1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan
Martin Price/Murray Plotsky
 
1982 Young Doctors in Love
Dr. Joseph Prang
 
1981 Callie & Son (TV movie)
Randall Bordeaux
 
1980 Melvin and Howard
Judge Keith Hayes
 
1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
Jack Heintzel
 
1980 Nothing Personal
Dickerson
 
1980 Pray TV
Marvin Fleece
 
1979 When She Was Bad... (TV movie)
Jack Wilson
 
1973-1979 Barnaby Jones (TV series)
Ted Sayers / Brad Adamson / George Clark / …
Indoctrination in Evil (1979) … Brad Adamson
Final Judgment: Part 1 (1978) … Ted Sayers
Final Judgment: Part 2 (1978) … Ted Sayers
A Taste for Murder (1975) … George Clark
Blind Terror (1973) … Paul Cleveland
 
1979 Diff'rent Strokes (TV series)
Fred Tanner
 
1979 North Dallas Forty
Emmett Hunter
 
1978 The Love Boat (TV series)
Van Milner
 
1978 More Than Friends (TV movie)
Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
 
1978 Apple Pie (TV series)
Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Ginger-Nell Goes Hollywood (1978) … Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Fast Eddie Slows Down (1978) … Fast Eddie Murtaugh
A Man from Ginger Nell's Past (1978) … Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Ginger-Nell Loses Her Touch (1978) … Fast Eddie Murtaugh
Pilot (1978) … Fast Eddie Murtaugh
 
1978 Go Tell the Spartans
Helicopter pilot (uncredited)
 
1978 Maneaters Are Loose! (TV movie)
McCallum
 
1978 The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2
Dave McCoy (uncredited)
 
1977 Rolling Thunder
Maxwell
 
1977 Quincy M.E. (TV series)
Dr. Burt Travers / Police Officer Peter O'Neil
A Dead Man's Truth (1977) … Police Officer Peter O'Neil
A Good Smack in the Mouth (1977) … Dr. Burt Travers
 
1977 Fernwood Tonight (TV series)
Mayor Merle Jeeter
 
1977 Viva Knievel!
Ralph Thompson
 
1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV series)
Merle Jeeter
Episode #1.76 (1977) … Merle Jeeter
Episode #1.43 (1976) … Merle Jeeter
Episode #1.25 (1976) … Merle Jeeter
Episode #1.24 (1976) … Merle Jeeter
Episode #1.23 (1976) … Merle Jeeter
 
1977 Forever Fernwood (TV series)
Merle Jeeter
 
1976 Police Story (TV series)
Captain Stromwall / Lieutenant Kruse
Three Days to Thirty (1976) … Captain Stromwall
Eamon Kinsella Royce (1976) … Lieutenant Kruse
 
1974-1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV series)
Andrew Horvath, Sr. / George Todd
The Drop (1976) … Andrew Horvath, Sr.
Jacob's Boy (1974) … George Todd
 
1976 Midway
Captain Murray Arnold
 
1976 Kiss Me, Kill Me (TV movie)
Capt. Logan
 
1976 Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (TV series)
 
1976 Petrocelli (TV series)
The Pay Off (1976)
 
1976 Switch (TV series)
C.C. Owens
One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing (1976) … C.C. Owens
 
1973-1976 Cannon (TV series)
Jack Sheffield / Lt. Daggett
The House of Cards (1976) … Jack Sheffield
The Dead Lady's Tears (1973) … Lt. Daggett
 
1976 Mary Tyler Moore (TV series)
Congressman Phil Whitman
The Seminar (1976) … Congressman Phil Whitman
 
1976 Medical Story (TV series)
 
1975 The Other Side of the Mountain
Dave McCoy
 
1974-1975 McMillan & Wife (TV series)
Frank Hansen / Walter Jennings
Aftershock (1975) … Walter Jennings
Cross and Double Cross (1974) … Frank Hansen
 
1975 Bite the Bullet
Jack Parker
 
1975 Returning Home (TV movie)
Al Stephenson
 
1975 Caribe (TV series)
Donald Coglan
Counterfeit Killer (1975) … Donald Coglan
 
1975 Medical Center (TV series)
Brice
Aftershock (1975) … Brice
 
1975 Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (TV movie)
Paul Mathison
 
1975 Mannix (TV series)
Howard Graham
A Ransom for Yesterday (1975) … Howard Graham
 
1974 The Manhunter (TV series)
Sheriff Stigman
A.W.O.L. to Kill (1974) … Sheriff Stigman
 
1974 The Towering Inferno
Deputy Chief #1
 
1974 Sons and Daughters (TV series)
The Invitation (1974)
 
1974 Bad Ronald (TV movie)
Mr. Wood
 
1974 The Dove
Charles Huntley
 
1965-1974 The F.B.I. (TV series)
Barnes / Allen Clarke / Ira Barker / …
Survival (1974) … Barnes
The Vendetta (1974) … Barnes
Game of Terror (1971) … Jamison
 
1974 Kojak (TV series)
Alex Linden
Therapy in Dynamite (1974) … Alex Linden
 
1974 House of Evil (TV movie)
 
1974 Love Is Not Forever (TV movie)
Jerry Michaells
 
1974 Bogard
Heineken
 
1973 Cinderella Liberty
Executive Officer
 
1973 The President's Plane Is Missing (TV movie)
Sen. Bert Haines
 
1973 Griff (TV series)
George Bates
All the Lonely People (1973) … George Bates
 
1973 Wide World Mystery (TV series)
Moving Target (1973)
 
1973 Egan (TV movie)
Captain Walter Jones
 
1973 Dying Room Only (TV movie)
Bob Mitchell
 
1973 Savage (TV movie)
Ted Seligson
 
1973 Search (TV series)
Elliott Desmond
Suffer My Child (1973) … Elliott Desmond
 
1973 Ironside (TV series)
Daniel Leary
The Caller (1973) … Daniel Leary
 
1970-1973 Room 222 (TV series)
Calvin Schuller / Webster
Rights of Others (1973) … Webster
 
1972 Banyon (TV series)
Ralph Hubbard
Think of Me Kindly (1972) … Ralph Hubbard
 
1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series)
Dr. Goldstone
A Standard of Manhood (1972) … Dr. Goldstone
 
1969 Bright Promise (TV series)
Dr. Tracy Graham (1971-1972)
 
1970 Nanny and the Professor (TV series)
Detective Robinson
The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody (1970) … Detective Robinson
 
1970 I Love My Wife
Frank Donnelly
 
1970 Dan August (TV series)
Rick Bessett
The King Is Dead (1970) … Rick Bessett
 
1970 The Brotherhood of the Bell (TV movie)
Agent Shephard
 
1968-1969 Bonanza (TV series)
Clyde / Ivar Peterson
A Darker Shadow (1969) … Clyde
Queen High (1968) … Ivar Peterson
 
1969 Downhill Racer
Mayo
 
1969 Then Came Bronson (TV series)
Doctor Ron Carlisle
The Circle of Time (1969) … Doctor Ron Carlisle
 
1969 The Trouble with Girls
Harrison Wilby
 
1968 Mod Squad (TV series)
John
The Guru (1968) … John
 
1968 Death Valley Days (TV series)
Cal
Ten Day Millionaires (1968) … Cal
 
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV series)
Walter Sims
The Ends of Justice (1968) … Walter Sims
 
1968 The Scalphunters
Jed
 
1967 Iron Horse (TV series)
Archer
Death Has Two Faces (1967) … Archer
 
1967 Dundee and the Culhane (TV series)
Sheriff Wrenn
The Jubilee Raid Brief (1967) … Sheriff Wrenn
 
1967 The Invaders (TV series)
Capt. Mitchell Ross / John Carter
The Saucer (1967) … John Carter
The Innocent (1967) … Capt. Mitchell Ross
 
1967 The Flying Nun (TV series)
Sub. Captain
The Flying Nun (1967) … Sub. Captain
 
1965-1967 I Dream of Jeannie (TV series)
Captain Yardley / Lieutenant George Webb
The Mod Party (1967) … Captain Yardley
Anybody Here Seen Jeannie? (1965) … Lieutenant George Webb
 
1967 Run for Your Life (TV series)
Fred Palmer
The Calculus of Chaos (1967) … Fred Palmer
 
1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV series)
Floyd / George Graham / Sergeant Keith / …
Approach with Care (1966) … Steve
Coralee (1966) … George Graham
World's End (1964) … Sergeant Keith
 
1966 This Property Is Condemned
Salesman
 
1964-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV series)
Capt. Robbins / Capt. Wilson
The Outsider (1966) … Capt. Robbins
Here's to Courageous Cowards (1964) … Capt. Wilson
 
1965 The Slender Thread
Charlie
 
1965 The Donna Reed Show (TV series)
Rallye Master
Rally Round the Girls, Boys (1965) … Rallye Master
 
1965 Hazel (TV series)
Les Swanton
A-Haunting We Will Go (1965) … Les Swanton
 
1964-1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series)
Sergeant Harry King / Stanley Rivkin
The Fliers (1965) … Sergeant Harry King
A Slow Fade to Black (1964) … Stanley Rivkin
 
1964 The Outer Limits (TV series)
Dr. Williams / James Custer / Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard
Wolf 359 (1964) … James Custer
Specimen: Unknown (1964) … Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
The Mice (1964) … Dr. Williams
 
1963-1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
Sgt. Lou Snyder / Tom Esterow
Isabel (1964) … Sgt. Lou Snyder
Dear Uncle George (1963) … Tom Esterow
 
1964 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Dr. Kirkson
A Sense of Tempo (1964) … Dr. Kirkson
 
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV series)
Alvin Piper / William Gunther
Their Own Executioners (1964) … Alvin Piper
The Threatening Eye (1964) … William Gunther
 
1964 The Movie Maker (TV movie)
 
1963 Breaking Point (TV series)
 
1962-1963 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV series)
Junkie
Assignment: Teenage Junkies (1963) … Junkie
Assignment: Teenage Junkies (1962) … Junkie
 
1963 Ben Casey (TV series)
Dr. Bobby Bainbridge
Father Was an Intern (1963) … Dr. Bobby Bainbridge
 
1963 Alcoa Premiere (TV series)
Lee Mattheson
Of Struggle and Flight (1963) … Lee Mattheson
 
1961 Naked City (TV series)
Belleview Resident Doctor
Landscape with Dead Figures (1961) … Belleview Resident Doctor
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1988 Gotham (TV movie) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (25 titles)
2010 Getting There Is the Hard Part (video short)
Himself
 
2009 Char·ac·ter (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 CMT Insider (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 27 September 2008 (2008) … Himself
 
2008 Quincy Coleman: It's All in the Song (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (TV series documentary)
Quote Reader
Forward Into the Past (2007) … Quote Reader (voice)
The Temptations of Eve (2007) … Quote Reader (voice)
 
2006 CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The Perfect Pitch (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The 4th Annual Family Television Awards (TV movie)
Himself
 
2002 Brilliant But Cancelled (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself
Jessica Lange: On Her Own Terms (2001) … Himself
 
1999 Bravo Profiles (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1995 Idols of the Game (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself/Host
 
1994 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 12 September 1994 (1994) … Himself
 
1989-1990 It's Garry Shandling's Show. (TV series)
Himself
The Last Show (1990) … Himself
Mr Peck's: Part 2 (1989) … Himself
 
1988 The 40th Annual Emmy Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Nominee: Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series & Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
 
1988 The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical & Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
 
1987 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Himself - Host / Various
Dabney Coleman/The Cars (1987) … Himself - Host/Various
 
1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1987 The 39th Annual Emmy Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Winner: Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
 
1986 The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV movie)
Himself
 
1985 Night of 100 Stars II (TV movie)
Himself
 
1984 The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical
 
1983 The 35th Annual Emmy Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Comedy Series
 
1981 The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Accepting Award for Favourite Motion Picture-Comedy
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (11 titles)
2011 Dolly Parton Tour TV (TV series documentary)
 
2011 A Current Affair (TV series)
 
2010 Good Morning America (TV series)
 
2006 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2006 The Early Show (TV series)
 
2001 The Making of 'Midway' (video documentary short)
Captain Murray Arnold
 
2001 E! True Hollywood Story (TV series documentary)
 
2000 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (TV special documentary)
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
 
2000 Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (TV documentary)
Franklin M. Hart Jr.
 
1994 Dateline NBC (TV series documentary)
 
1986 60 Minutes (TV series documentary)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1960s) TV commercial: Diet Delight canned fruit See more »

Height:

6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I've played good guys and nice guys, but the truth is I'd rather be nasty than nice. The bad guys are always better written and more fun to play. See more »

Trivia:

Auditioned for the role of The Professor in Gilligan's Island. See more »

Trademark:

Usually plays characters that are 'up to no good' See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn