By Famed character actor Dabney Coleman has died. He was 92.
Emmy-winner Coleman passed away on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica according to his daughter, singer Quincy Coleman, in a statement to THR.
Famed for his moustache and playing either cantankerous antagonists or warm & fatherly types, Coleman’s career spanned film and television with multiple classics across a career spanning at least 60 works.
Arguably his most famous role was Franklin Hart, Jr. in the 1980 comedy “9 to 5”. He played the sexist boss whom three female office employees (Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin) get their revenge on. Later he would re-team with Fonda in a much more sympathetic role in “On Golden Pond”.
Other notable roles included an arrogant soap opera director in “Tootsie,” a military computer systems engineer in “WarGames,” a U.S. Olympic skiing team coach in “Downhill Racer,” a high-ranking fire chief in “The Towering Inferno,” a cop in “Short Time,” an FBI agent in “Attack on Terror,” a televangelist in “Pray TV,” a sleazy boss in “Clifford,” a sleazy magazine mogul in “Dragnet,” a drag queen in “Meet the Applegates,” a con artist in “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” a banker in “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and a casino owner in “Domino”.
On TV he played a talk show host in “Buffalo Bill,” the first of several sitcoms he headlined that last just one season each – others being “The Slap Maxwell Story,” “Drexell’s Class” and “Madman of the People”. He did have a successful supporting role on satirical soap “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”.
He had more success with drama on TV – playing the father of Simon Baker’s character on “The Guardian,” as Commodore Louis Kaestner on “Boardwalk Empire,” voicing Principal Peter Prickly in the “Recess” series, and more recently appearing as the father of Kevin Costner’s character in “Yellowstone”.
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