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Dabney Coleman
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Dabney Coleman

1932 – 2024 · Austin, Texas, USA · Active 1944–2022

Dabney Coleman, born in 1932, is an American actor known for his diverse roles in cult cinema. He appears in I Love My Wife (1970), where his comedic timing shines as a man navigating the complexities of marriage. In Young Doctors in Love (1982), Coleman delivers a memorable performance that captures the absurdity of hospital life. With a career that spans over six decades, his contributions to films like Bad Ronald (1974) and Pray TV (1980) highlight his ability to bring depth to both comedic and dramatic roles, solidifying his place in the world of cult and exploitation cinema.

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Young Doctors in Love

Young Doctors in Love

1982 ★ 5.2
as Dr. Joseph Prang

An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.

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Filmography

199 credits
2020s 1 credit
2022
Movie ★ 10.0
2010s 7 credits
2018
TV ★ 7.3
2018
Yellowstone as John Dutton Sr.
TV ★ 8.3
2016
Rules Don't Apply as Raymond Holliday
Movie ★ 5.7
2013
Ray Donovan as Mr. Price
TV ★ 7.5
2012
Movie ★ 4.0
2010
Boardwalk Empire as Commodore Louis Kaestner
TV ★ 8.0
2010
Pound Puppies as Mayor (voice)
TV ★ 5.3
2000s 17 credits
2007
Hard Four as Spray Loomis
Movie ★ 4.9
2007
Heartland as Dr. Bart Jacobs
TV ★ 6.5
2006
Courting Alex as Jack Atwell
TV ★ 5.8
2005
Domino as Drake Bishop
Movie ★ 5.9
2003
Movie ★ 6.3
2003
Recess: All Growed Down as Principal Prickley (voice)
Movie ★ 6.5
2003
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade as Principal Prickly (voice)
Movie ★ 6.6
2003
NCIS as Army Corporal John Sydney
TV ★ 7.6
2002
Moonlight Mile as Mike Mulcahey
Movie ★ 6.3
2002
The Climb as Mack
Movie ★ 6.1
2001
Recess: School's Out as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
Movie ★ 6.6
2001
Kiss My Act as Henry
Movie ★ 6.0
2001
Movie ★ 6.3
2001
Movie ★ 9.0
2001
The Guardian as Burton Fallin
TV ★ 7.0
2001
TV ★ 7.6
2000
Movie ★ 4.0
1990s 30 credits
1999
Inspector Gadget as Chief Quimby
Movie ★ 4.5
1999
Giving It Up as Johnathan Gallant
Movie ★ 4.2
1999
Taken as Ethan Grover
Movie ★ 5.0
1999
Stuart Little as Dr. Beechwood
Movie ★ 6.1
1999
Movie ★ 3.5
1999
TV ★ 7.9
1998
Target Earth as Senator Ben Arnold
Movie ★ 4.4
1998
My Date with the President's Daughter as President George Richmond
Movie ★ 6.9
1998
You've Got Mail as Nelson Fox
Movie ★ 6.7
1998
Exiled as Lieutenant Kevin Stolper
Movie ★ 5.9
1997
Movie ★ 5.2
1997
Recess as Principal Peter Prickly (voice)
TV ★ 7.7
1996
Devil's Food as Seymour Kecker
Movie ★ 7.0
1995
Movie ★ 5.3
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1994
Clifford as Gerald Ellis
Movie ★ 5.1
1994
Judicial Consent as Charles Mayron
Movie ★ 5.6
1994
Madman of the People as Jack 'Madman' Buckner
TV ★ 6.5
1994
The Magic School Bus as Horace Scope (voice)
TV ★ 7.7
1993
Amos & Andrew as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
Movie ★ 5.5
1993
The Beverly Hillbillies as Milburn Drysdale
Movie ★ 6.3
1992
Movie ★ 5.5
1992
Lincoln as Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
Movie ★ 7.3
1991
Never Forget as William Cox
Movie ★ 5.0
1991
TV ★ 6.3
1990
Short Time as Burt Simpson
Movie ★ 6.5
1990
Where the Heart Is as Stewart McBain
Movie ★ 6.2
1990
Movie ★ 5.6
1990
Movie ★ 6.8
1980s 29 credits
1988
Hot to Trot as Walter Sawyer
Movie ★ 5.2
1988
Movie ★ 5.0
1988
Baby M as Gary Skoloff
TV ★ 7.0
1987
Movie ★ 6.5
1987
Dragnet as Jerry Caesar
Movie ★ 6.0
1987
Sworn to Silence as Martin Costigan
Movie ★ 7.0
1987
Plaza Suite as Jesse Kiplinger
Movie ★ 8.0
1987
Movie ★ 6.0
1987
TV ★ 4.0
1986
Movie ★ 6.3
1986
Murrow as William Paley
Movie ★ 5.5
1986
Fresno as Tyler Cane
TV ★ 6.7
1985
Movie ★ 5.7
1985
Movie ★ 8.0
1984
Movie ★ 6.6
1984
Cloak & Dagger as Jack Flack / Hal Osborne
Movie ★ 6.4
1983
WarGames as McKittrick
Movie ★ 7.1
1983
Buffalo Bill as Bill Bittinger
TV ★ 6.7
1982
Tootsie as Ron Carlisle
Movie ★ 7.2
1982
Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Joseph Prang
Movie ★ 5.3
1981
On Golden Pond as Bill Ray
Movie ★ 7.3
1981
Modern Problems as Mark Winslow
Movie ★ 5.4
1981
Callie & Son as Randall Bordeaux
Movie ★ 6.8
1980
Movie ★ 2.0
1980
Melvin and Howard as Judge Keith Hayes
Movie ★ 6.5
1980
Pray TV as Marvin Fleece
Movie ★ 5.5
1980
Nine to Five as Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Movie ★ 6.9
1980
Nothing Personal as Dickerson
Movie ★ 5.6
1980
Movie ★ 5.2
1970s 59 credits
1979
North Dallas Forty as Emmett Hunter
Movie ★ 6.7
1979
When She Was Bad... as Jack Wilson
Movie ★ 5.0
1978
Movie ★ 10.0
1978
Movie
1978
More Than Friends as Joshua 'Josh' Harrington
Movie ★ 10.0
1978
TV ★ 7.1
1978
Apple Pie as Fast Eddie Murtaugh
TV ★ 7.5
1977
Movie ★ 6.7
1977
Viva Knievel! as Ralph Thompson
Movie ★ 4.1
1977
Black Fist as Heineken
Movie ★ 4.4
1977
TV ★ 5.0
1977
The Love Boat as Van Milner
TV ★ 6.3
1977
Fernwood 2 Night as Mayor Merle Jeeter
TV ★ 6.1
1976
Kiss Me... Kill Me as Capt. Logan
Movie ★ 6.8
1976
Midway as Captain Murray Arnold
Movie ★ 6.6
1976
TV ★ 7.3
1976
Quincy, M.E. as Dr. Burt Travers
TV ★ 7.5
1976
Quincy, M.E. as Officer Peter O'Neil
TV ★ 7.5
1975
Bite the Bullet as Jack Parker
Movie ★ 6.5
1975
Movie ★ 6.3
1975
Returning Home as Al Stephenson
Movie ★ 6.5
1975
Movie ★ 7.5
1975
Switch as C.C. Owens
TV ★ 6.7
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
TV ★ 6.9
1975
TV ★ 5.0
1974
Bad Ronald as Mr. Wood
Movie ★ 6.4
1974
The Dove as Charles Huntley
Movie ★ 6.7
1974
The Towering Inferno as Deputy Chief #1
Movie ★ 7.0
1974
Movie ★ 7.5
1974
TV ★ 9.0
1974
TV ★ 7.0
1974
Petrocelli as Willy Morgan
TV ★ 7.2
1973
Cinderella Liberty as Executive Officer
Movie ★ 6.7
1973
Dying Room Only as Bob Mitchell
Movie ★ 6.6
1973
Savage! as Ted Seligson
Movie ★ 5.5
1973
Movie
1973
Movie ★ 6.3
1973
Kojak as Alex Linden
TV ★ 7.1
1973
TV ★ 7.0
1973
Barnaby Jones as George Clark
TV ★ 7.0
1973
Barnaby Jones as Ted Sayers
TV ★ 7.0
1973
Barnaby Jones as Brad Adamson
TV ★ 7.0
1973
Barnaby Jones as Paul Cleveland
TV ★ 7.0
1972
TV ★ 7.1
1972
Banyon as Ralph Hubbard
TV ★ 8.0
1972
TV ★ 7.0
1972
The Streets of San Francisco as Andrew Horvath, Sr.
TV ★ 7.0
1971
Columbo as Hugh Creighton
TV ★ 8.1
1971
TV ★ 6.7
1971
Columbo as Detective Murray
TV ★ 8.1
1971
TV ★ 7.0
1971
McMillan & Wife as Walter Jennings
TV ★ 7.0
1971
TV ★ 6.5
1970
I Love My Wife as Frank Donnelly
Movie ★ 3.5
1970
Movie ★ 6.0
1970
Nanny and the Professor as Detective Robinson
TV ★ 6.4
1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Congressman Phil Whitman
TV ★ 7.6
1970
Dan August as Rick Bessett
TV ★ 7.2
1960s 51 credits
1969
Movie ★ 5.9
1969
The Trouble with Girls as Harrison Wilby
Movie ★ 4.8
1969
TV ★ 6.1
1969
TV ★ 6.4
1969
TV ★ 4.8
1969
Then Came Bronson as Dr. Ron Carlisle
TV ★ 5.2
1968
Movie ★ 6.4
1968
TV ★ 6.1
1967
Mannix as Ralph Stoner
TV ★ 6.8
1967
Ironside as Daniel Leary
TV ★ 6.9
1967
TV ★ 7.7
1967
The Invaders as Capt. Mitchell Ross
TV ★ 6.8
1967
The Invaders as John Carter
TV ★ 6.8
1967
The Flying Nun as Sub. Captain
TV ★ 6.3
1967
Mannix as Howard Graham
TV ★ 6.8
1966
Movie ★ 6.5
1966
TV ★ 6.2
1966
That Girl as Dr. Leon Bessemer
TV ★ 6.2
1965
Movie ★ 7.1
1965
The F.B.I. as Ira Barker
TV ★ 5.6
1965
I Dream of Jeannie as George Webb
TV ★ 7.8
1965
Run for Your Life as Fred Palmer
TV ★ 7.1
1965
The F.B.I. as Allen Clarke
TV ★ 5.6
1965
The F.B.I. as Stanley Leonard
TV ★ 5.6
1965
The F.B.I. as Sam Langlin
TV ★ 5.6
1965
The F.B.I. as Ty Williams
TV ★ 5.6
1965
The F.B.I. as Mr. Jamison
TV ★ 5.6
1965
The F.B.I. as Barnes
TV ★ 5.6
1965
TV ★ 6.8
1965
I Dream of Jeannie as Captain Yardley
TV ★ 7.8
1964
12 O'Clock High as Captain Wilson
TV ★ 7.2
1964
12 O'Clock High as Captain Robbins
TV ★ 7.2
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre as William Gunther
TV ★ 6.5
1963
TV ★ 7.3
1963
The Fugitive as Sergeant Keith
TV ★ 7.3
1963
The Fugitive as Officer George Graham
TV ★ 7.3
1963
TV ★ 7.3
1963
The Outer Limits as Dr. Williams
TV ★ 7.8
1963
TV ★ 5.9
1963
Arrest and Trial as Wayne Holton
TV ★ 8.3
1963
The Outer Limits as James Custer
TV ★ 7.8
1963
TV ★ 5.9
1963
TV ★ 6.5
1963
The Outer Limits as Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited)
TV ★ 7.8
1962
TV ★ 7.8
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Sgt. Lou Snyder
TV ★ 7.8
1961
TV ★ 5.9
1961
Dr. Kildare as Dr. David Kirkson
TV ★ 5.7
1961
TV ★ 7.3
1961
Hazel as Les Swanton
TV ★ 6.8
1950s 4 credits
1959
Bonanza as Clyde
TV ★ 7.5
1959
Bonanza as Ivar Peterson
TV ★ 7.5
1958
The Donna Reed Show as Rallye Master
TV ★ 6.5
1958
Naked City as Resident
TV ★ 5.7
1940s 1 credit
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
TV ★ 7.2