Dabney Wharton Coleman was born on January 3,1932 and is an American actor.
24 Facts About Dabney Coleman
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Dabney Coleman has won one Primetime Emmy Award from six nominations and one Golden Globe Award from three nominations.
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Dabney Coleman is a character actor with roles in well over 60 films and television programs to his credit.
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Dabney Coleman trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City from 1958 to 1960.
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Dabney Coleman played Dr Leon Bessemer with Bonnie Scott as his wife Judy, neighbors and friends of the protagonist in Season 1 of That Girl.
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Dabney Coleman portrayed an FBI agent in Attack on Terror: The FBI vs the Ku Klux Klan.
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Dabney Coleman landed the main antagonist part of Franklin Hart, Jr.
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Dabney Coleman broke from this type somewhat in other film roles.
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Dabney Coleman appeared in the feature film On Golden Pond, playing the sympathetic fiance of Chelsea Thayer Wayne.
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Dabney Coleman played an aging cop who thinks he is terminally ill in the 1990 comedy Short Time.
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Dabney Coleman received his first Emmy nomination for his lead role, as a skilled, but self-centered TV host, in the critically acclaimed, though short-lived, TV series Buffalo Bill.
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Dabney Coleman played a con artist Broadway producer in The Muppets Take Manhattan, a lisping Hugh Hefner-ish magazine mogul in the comedy Dragnet, Bobcat Goldthwait's boss in the 1988 talking-horse comedy Hot to Trot, and befuddled banker Milburn Drysdale in the feature film The Beverly Hillbillies, the last of which reunited him with 9 to 5 co-stars Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton.
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From 1997 to 2001, Dabney Coleman provided the voice of Principal Prickly on the animated series Recess.
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Dabney Coleman played a philandering father in You've Got Mail.
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Dabney Coleman received acclaim as Burton Fallin in the TV series The Guardian.
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For two seasons, from 2010 to 2011, Dabney Coleman was a series regular on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
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On November 6,2014, Dabney Coleman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dabney Coleman attended Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Dabney Coleman was drafted in the United States Army in 1953 and served in Europe.
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Dabney Coleman was married to Ann Courtney Harrell from 1957 to 1959 and Jean Hale from 1961 to 1984.
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Dabney Coleman has four children, including three by Hale: Kelly, Randy and Quincy.
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In 1998, Dabney Coleman worked with fellow actor Bronson Pinchot at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to help protect local forests and helped lead a campaign to educate others on how to care for and protect forests nationwide.
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Dabney Coleman is an avid tennis player, winning celebrity and charity tournaments.
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Dabney Coleman played mainly at the Riviera Country Club as well as in local tournaments.