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Dabney Coleman
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Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. Coleman's best known films include 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Recess: School's Out (2001), Moonlight Mile (2002), and Rules Don't Apply (2016). Coleman's television roles include the title character in Buffalo Bill (1983–1984), Burton Fallin in The Guardian (2001–2004), the voice of Principal Peter Prickly in Recess (1997–2001), and Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner in Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011). He has won one Primetime Emmy Award from six nominations and one Golden Globe Award from three nominations.
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Still Working 9 to 5
Rules Don't Apply
Char·ac·ter
Hard Four
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Climb
The Making of Midway
Kiss My Act
Recess: School's Out
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Inspector Gadget
Taken
Giving It Up
You've Got Mail
Exiled
My Date with the President's Daughter
Target Earth
A Witch's Way of Love
Devil's Food
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
Clifford
Judicial Consent
The Beverly Hillbillies
Amos & Andrew
There Goes the Neighborhood
Never Forget
Meet the Applegates
Short Time
Where the Heart Is
Maybe Baby
Hot to Trot
Plaza Suite
Dragnet
Sworn to Silence
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Murrow
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Cloak & Dagger
WarGames
Tootsie
Young Doctors in Love
Modern Problems
On Golden Pond
Callie & Son
Nine to Five
Pray TV
Nothing Personal
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
When She Was Bad...
North Dallas Forty
More Than Friends
Maneaters Are Loose!
Rolling Thunder
Black Fist
Kiss Me... Kill Me
The Other Side of the Mountain
Bite the Bullet
Bad Ronald
The Dove
Cinderella Liberty
The President's Plane Is Missing
Dying Room Only
Savage
I Love My Wife
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Downhill Racer
The Trouble with Girls
The Scalphunters
This Property Is Condemned
The Slender Thread