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Dabney Coleman was born in Austin Texas in 1932 and was raised in Corpus Christi. Coleman attended both the Virginia Military Institute and the…more

Born

1/3/1932, Austin, Texas

Birth Name

Dabney Wharton Coleman

Gender

Male

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Star (15)

Role
- Boardwalk Empire
  Commodore Louis Kaestner
  - S 2: Ep 8 Two Boats and a Lifeguard
    11/13/11
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Age of Reason
    10/30/11
  - S 2: Ep 4 What Does the Bee Do?
    10/16/11
  - S 2: Ep 3 A Dangerous Maid
    10/9/11
  - S 2: Ep 2 Ourselves Alone
    10/2/11
  - + 11 More Credits
- Boardwalk Empire
  Commodore Kaestner
  - S 1: Ep 12 A Return to Normalcy
    12/5/10
  - S 1: Ep 8 Hold Me in Paradise
    11/7/10
- Heartland
  Dr. Bart Jacobs
  - S 1: Ep 6 Domino Effect
    7/23/07
  - S 1: Ep 4 Mother & Child Reunion
    7/9/07
  - S 1: Ep 2 I Make Myself Into Something New
    6/25/07
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    6/18/07
- Courting Alex
  Bill Rose
  - S 1: Ep 8 Big Client
    3/29/06
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Mattress
    3/22/06
  - S 1: Ep 6 Birthday
    3/6/06
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Fix-Up
    2/27/06
  - S 1: Ep 4 New Best Friend
    2/13/06
  - + 7 More Credits
- The Guardian
  Burton Fallin
  - S 3: Ep 22 Antarctica
    5/4/04
  - S 3: Ep 21 Blood In, Blood Out
    4/27/04
  - S 3: Ep 20 The Vote
    4/20/04
  - S 3: Ep 19 Remember
    4/6/04
  - S 3: Ep 18 The Bachelor Party
    3/9/04
  - + 62 More Credits
- Recess
  Voice of Principal Peter Prickly
  - S 6: Ep 8 Taking the 5th Grade
    12/9/03
  - S 6: Ep 7 All Growed Down
    12/9/03
  - S 6: Ep 6 Recess Christmas
    11/6/01
  - S 6: Ep 5 Lost Leader
    11/4/01
  - S 6: Ep 4 Mundy, Mundy
    11/4/01
  - + 123 More Credits
- Madman of the People
  Jack "Madman" Buckner
  - S 1: Ep 16 The Madman and the Showgirl
    6/17/95
  - S 1: Ep 15 Anytime, Anywhere
    6/10/95
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword
    1/26/95
  - S 1: Ep 13 Truths My Father Told
    1/12/95
  - S 1: Ep 12 Notes from the Underground
    1/5/95
  - + 11 More Credits
- Drexell's Class
  Otis Drexell
  - S 1: Ep 18 The Resentments
    3/5/92
  - S 1: Ep 17 Cruisin'
    2/20/92
  - S 1: Ep 16 Till Death Do You Part
    2/13/92
  - S 1: Ep 15 Ashes to Ashes
    2/6/92
  - S 1: Ep 14 Beauty and the Beast
    1/23/92
  - + 13 More Credits
- The Slap Maxwell Story
  Slap Maxwell
  - S 1: Ep 16 Slap's Father
    2/10/88
- Fresno
  Tyler Cane
  - S 1: Ep 5 Episode 5
    11/20/86
  - S 1: Ep 4 Episode 4
    11/19/86
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode 3
    11/18/86
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode 2
    11/17/86
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    11/16/86
- Buffalo Bill
  Self
  - S 2: Ep 14 Church of the Poisoned Mind
    3/29/84
- Buffalo Bill
  Bill Bittinger
  - S 2: Ep 13 Have Yourself a Very Degrading Christmas
    3/22/84
  - S 2: Ep 12 The Tap Dancer
    3/15/84
  - S 2: Ep 11 A Hero
    3/8/84
  - S 2: Ep 10 Buffalo Bill and the Soviets
    3/1/84
  - S 2: Ep 9 The Girl on the Jetty
    2/23/84
  - + 20 More Credits
- Apple Pie
  "Fast Eddie" Murtaugh
  - S 1: Ep 2 Ginger Nell Goes Hollywood
    9/30/78
  - S 1: Ep 1 Fast Eddie Slows Down
    9/23/78
  - S 1: Ep 0 Pilot
  - S 1: Ep 7 They Walk Among Us
  - S 1: Ep 6 A Man from Ginger Nell's Past
  - + 3 More Credits
- Forever Fernwood
  Merle Jeeter
  - S 1: Ep 8 Episode 008
    10/12/77
  - S 1: Ep 7 Episode 007
    10/11/77
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode 006
    10/10/77
  - S 1: Ep 5 Episode 005
    10/7/77
  - S 1: Ep 4 Episode 004
    10/6/77
  - + 3 More Credits
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
  Merle Jeeter (1976-1977)
  - S 2: Ep 177 Episode 307
    3/10/77
  - S 2: Ep 176 Episode 306
    3/9/77
  - S 2: Ep 175 Episode 305
    3/6/77
  - S 2: Ep 174 Episode 304
    3/5/77
  - S 2: Ep 173 Episode 303
    3/4/77
  - + 302 More Credits
Recurring Role (13)

Role
- Pound Puppies
  Mayor
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Yipper Caper
    10/10/10
  - S 1: Ep 2 Nightmare on Pound Street
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  Guest
  - S 29: Ep 174 Show #4404
    9/18/91
  - S 29: Ep 105 Show #4335
    4/25/91
  - S 28: Ep 109 Show #4154
    5/2/90
  - S 28: Ep 74 Show #4119
    2/23/90
  - S 22: Ep 74 Show #3574
    3/21/84
- Barnaby Jones
  Brad Adamson
  - S 8: Ep 7 Indoctrination in Evil
    11/1/79
- Barnaby Jones
  George Clark
  - S 4: Ep 12 A Taste for Murder
    12/4/75
- The F.B.I.
  Barnes
  - S 9: Ep 23 Survival
    4/28/74
  - S 9: Ep 21 The Vendetta
    4/7/74
- Barnaby Jones
  Paul Cleveland
  - S 2: Ep 1 Blind Terror
    9/16/73
- The F.B.I.
  Jamison
  - S 7: Ep 9 The Game of Terror
    11/7/71
- The F.B.I.
  Ty Williams
  - S 6: Ep 13 Incident in the Desert
    12/20/70
- The F.B.I.
  Pilot Sam Langlin
  - S 5: Ep 7 Flight
    10/26/69
- That Girl (1966)
  Leon
  - S 1: Ep 28 This Little Piggy Had a Ball
    3/23/67
  - S 1: Ep 27 The Honeymoon Apartment
    3/16/67
  - S 1: Ep 22 Paper Hats and Everything
    2/9/67
  - S 1: Ep 14 Phantom of the Horse Opera
    12/8/66
  - S 1: Ep 11 What's in a Name?
    11/17/66
  - + 2 More Credits
- The F.B.I.
  Stanley Leonard
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Conspirators
    2/5/67
- The F.B.I.
  Allen Clarke
  - S 1: Ep 15 The Hijackers
    12/26/65
- The F.B.I.
  Ira Barker
  - S 1: Ep 4 Slow March Up a Steep Hill
    10/10/65
Guest Star (90)

Role
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Frank Hager
  - S 10: Ep 13 Snatched
    2/3/09
- TMZ
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 63 Episode #2.063
    11/19/08
  - S 2: Ep 13 Episode #2.013
    9/22/08
- Heartland
  Bart Jacobs
  - S 1: Ep 9 Smile
    8/13/07
- Heartland
  Dr. Bart Jacobs
  - S 1: Ep 8 As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other
    8/6/07
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series
  Principal Prickly
  - S 2: Ep 19 Lax
    1/16/06
- The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)
  Chief Quimby
  - S 5: Ep 22 Inspector Gadget
    2/9/03
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 50 Dabney Coleman, Josie Maran, and Erykah Badu
    9/30/02
  - S 4: Ep 122 Dabney Coleman, Kristin Datillo, and Jimmy Dore
    1/7/02
- The Zeta Project
  Dr. Boyle
  - S 2: Ep 5 Hunt in the Hub
    4/20/02
- E! True Hollywood Story
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 1 The Beverly Hillbillies
    1/7/01
- Inspector Gadget: Original Series
  Chief Quimby
  - S 2: Ep 24 Inspector Gadget
    7/23/99
- Jumanji
  Ashton Philips
  - S 3: Ep 13 An Old Story aka (Bark At Jumanji)
    11/30/98
- Law & Order
  Lt. Lou Stober
  - S 9: Ep 25 Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
    11/8/98
- The Magic School Bus
  Horace Scope
  - S 4: Ep 7 Sees Stars
    10/25/97
- Jumanji
  Ashton Phillips
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Palace of Clues
    10/19/97
- Late Night With David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 10: Ep 120 Show #1548
    11/1/91
  - S 6: Ep 105 Show #0923
    10/1/87
  - S 2: Ep 62 Show #0237 (830531)
    5/31/83
  - S 1: Ep 156 Show #0156
    12/6/82
- Columbo
  Hugh Creighton
  - S 10: Ep 3 Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
    4/29/91
- The Arsenio Hall Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 147 May 9, 1990
    5/9/90
- It's Garry Shandling's Show
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 10 Save Mr. Peck's (2)
    2/10/89
- Saturday Night Live
  Himself
  - S 13: Ep 3 Dabney Coleman/The Cars
    10/31/87
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
    4/18/86
- The Muppet Show
  Martin Price
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Muppets Take Manhattan
    7/13/84
- Diff'rent Strokes
  Fred Tanner
  - S 2: Ep 1 Arnold's Girlfriend (1)
    9/21/79
  - S 2: Ep 2 Arnold's Girlfriend (Ep# 0203)
    9/21/79
- The Love Boat
  Van Milner
  - S 2: Ep 13 Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks
    12/9/78
- Quincy, M.E.
  Officer Peter O'Neil
  - S 3: Ep 3 A Dead Man's Truth
    9/30/77
- Dinah!
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 13 September 28, 1977
    9/28/77
- Fernwood 2Night
  Merle Jeeter
  - S 1: Ep 33 8/17/77
    8/17/77
  - S 1: Ep 1 Talk to a Jew
    7/4/77
- Tattletales
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 35 May 3, 1977
    5/3/77
- Quincy, M.E.
  Burt Travers
  - S 2: Ep 8 A Good Smack in the Mouth
    4/15/77
- Police Story
  Capt. Stromwall
  - S 4: Ep 5 Three Days to Thirty
    11/9/76
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  Andrew Horvath, Sr.
  - S 5: Ep 4 The Drop
    10/28/76
- Police Story
  Lt. Kruse
  - S 3: Ep 20 Eamon Kinsella Royce
    2/20/76
- Cannon
  Jack Sheffield
  - S 5: Ep 18 The House of Cards
    1/14/76
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  Phil Wright
  - S 6: Ep 17 The Seminar
    1/10/76
- Medical Story
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Quality of Mercy
    1/8/76
- McMillan & Wife
  Walter Jennings
  - S 5: Ep 3 Aftershock
    11/9/75
- Caribe
  Donald Coglan
  - S 1: Ep 11 Counterfeit Killer
    4/28/75
- Medical Center
  Brice
  - S 6: Ep 22 Aftershock
    3/10/75
- Mannix
  Howard Graham
  - S 8: Ep 17 A Ransom for Yesterday
    2/9/75
- Manhunter
  Sheriff Stigman
  - S 1: Ep 13 A.W.O.L. to Kill
    12/11/74
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  George Todd
  - S 3: Ep 7 Jacob's Boy
    10/24/74
- Kojak
  Alex Linden
  - S 1: Ep 21 Therapy in Dynamite
    4/10/74
- McMillan & Wife
  Frank Hansen
  - S 3: Ep 6 Cross & Double Cross
    2/17/74
- Cannon
  Lt. Daggert
  - S 3: Ep 10 Dead Lady's Tears
    11/7/73
- Griff
  George Bates
  - S 1: Ep 3 All The Lonely People
    10/13/73
  - S 1: Ep 0 The Case Of The Baltimore Girls
    1/1/73
- The Wide World Of Mystery
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 3 Moving Target
    5/22/73
- Search
  Elliott Desmond
  - S 1: Ep 22 Suffer My Child
    3/28/73
- Columbo
  Detective Murray
  - S 2: Ep 8 Double Shock
    3/25/73
- Ironside
  Daniel Leary
  - S 6: Ep 17 The Caller
    1/25/73
- Room 222
  Webster
  - S 4: Ep 16 Rights of Others
    1/12/73
- Banyon
  Ralph Hubbard
  - S 1: Ep 9 Think of Me Kindly
    11/17/72
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
  Dr. Goldstone
  - S 4: Ep 5 A Standard For Manhood
    10/17/72
- Mannix
  Stoner
  - S 6: Ep 5 Portrait of a Hero
    10/15/72
- Nanny and the Professor
  Detective Robinson
  - S 2: Ep 13 The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody
    12/25/70
- Dan August
  Rick Bessett
  - S 1: Ep 3 The King Is Dead
    10/14/70
- In the Line of Duty
  Arthur Milo
  - S 1: Ep 1 Kidnapped
- Petrocelli
  Willy Morgan
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Payoff
- Bonanza
  Clyde
  - S 11: Ep 10 A Darker Shadow
    11/23/69
- Then Came Bronson
  Doc
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Circle of Time
    10/8/69
- The Mod Squad
  John
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Guru
    12/31/68
- Death Valley Days
  Cal
  - S 17: Ep 12 Ten Day Millionaires
    12/21/68
- Bonanza
  Ivar Peterson
  - S 10: Ep 11 Queen High
    12/1/68
- Judd for the Defense
  Walter Sims
  - S 2: Ep 3 The Ends of Justice
    10/4/68
- The Iron Horse
  Archer
  - S 2: Ep 15 Death Has Two Faces
    12/23/67
- Dundee and the Culhane
  Sheriff Wrenn
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Jubilee Raid Brief
    10/18/67
- The Invaders
  John Carter
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Saucer
    9/12/67
- The Flying Nun
  Sub Captain
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Flying Nun
    9/7/67
- I Dream of Jeannie
  Captain Yardley
  - S 2: Ep 31 The Mod Party
    4/24/67
- The Invaders
  Captain Mitchell Ross
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Innocent
    3/14/67
- Run for Your Life
  Fred Palmer
  - S 2: Ep 22 The Calculus of Chaos
    2/19/67
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Steve
  - S 4: Ep 9 Approach with Care
    11/15/66
- The Fugitive (1963)
  George Graham
  - S 3: Ep 30 Coralee
    4/26/66
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Captain Robbins
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Outsider
    1/31/66
- The Donna Reed Show
  Rally Master
  - S 8: Ep 12 Rally Around the Girls, Boys
    12/2/65
- I Dream of Jeannie
  Lt. George Webb
  - S 1: Ep 7 Anybody Here Seen Jeannie?
    10/30/65
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Sergeant Harry King
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Fliers
    2/5/65
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Floyd Pierce
  - S 2: Ep 18 Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet
    1/19/65
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Captain Wilson
  - S 1: Ep 11 Here's to Courageous Cowards
    12/4/64
- The Outer Limits
  James Custer
  - S 2: Ep 8 Wolf 359
    11/7/64
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Sgt. Keith
  - S 2: Ep 2 World's End
    9/22/64
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Sgt. Lou Snyder
  - S 2: Ep 31 Isabel
    6/5/64
- Dr. Kildare
  Dr. David Kirkson
  - S 3: Ep 32 Sense Of Tempo
    5/7/64
- Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Alvin
  - S 1: Ep 23 Their Own Executioners
    4/23/64
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Stanley Rivkin
  - S 1: Ep 21 A Slow Fade to Black
    3/27/64
- Kraft Suspense Theatre
  William Gunther
  - S 1: Ep 18 The Threatening Eye
    3/12/64
- The Outer Limits
  Dr. Williams
  - S 1: Ep 15 The Mice
    1/6/64
- Breaking Point
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 1 Solo for B-Flat Clarinet
    9/16/63
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Tom Esterow
  - S 1: Ep 30 Dear Uncle George
    5/10/63
- Ben Casey
  Dr. Bobby Bainbridge
  - S 2: Ep 26 Father Was an Intern
    4/1/63
- Alcoa Premiere
  Lee Mattheson
  - S 2: Ep 25 Of Struggle and Flight
    3/28/63
- The Armstrong Circle Theatre
  John Mitchell
  - S 13: Ep 10 Assignment: Teen-Age Junkies
    2/28/62

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- Coleman has been nominated three times for a Golden Globe, and has won once. He won for his work as a leading man in The "Slap" Maxwell Story (1987) and was nominated in the same category for Buffalo Bill (1983). Coleman has also received a nomination for "Actor in a supporting role" for 1987's Sworn to Silence.
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