Dabney Coleman Filmography

Born:: January 3, 1932 in Austin, TX
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Coleman attended a Virginia military school before studying law and serving in the army. While attending the University of Texas, Coleman became attracted to acting, and headed to New York, where he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse. After stage experience and TV work, Coleman made his movie...Read More

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Courting Alex [TV Series]

Actors: Jenna Elfman, Dabney Coleman, Hugh Bonneville, Josh Randall, Jillian Bach

Synopsis: Four years after ending her successful, star-making run on the series Dharma and Greg, Jenna Elfman returned to television with the heavily hyped situation comedy Courting Alex. Elfman starred as Alex Rose, a high-powered attorney working at a firm run by her father (Dabney Coleman). While Alex is Read More

2006
The Surreal Life: Season 07

2006
Domino

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's Read More

10/14/05
Where the Red Fern Grows

Actors: Dave Matthews, Ned Beatty, Dabney Coleman, Kris Kristofferson, Joseph Ashton

Synopsis: Based on the 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows is a family-oriented drama four years in the making. This project is co-directed by Lyman Dayton, who also adapted the screenplay and produced the 1974 filmed version. The story involves 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton Read More

2003
Moonlight Mile

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying Read More

9/27/02
The Climb

Actors: Jason Winston George, Ned Vaughn, Dabney Coleman, Clifton Davis, Kyli Santiago

Synopsis: An action-filled adventure drama with conservative Christian overtones, The Climb (2002) tells the story of Derrick Williams (Without a Trace's Jason George) and Michael Harris (Apollo 13's Ned Vaughn), two professional mountain climbers constantly at each other's throats. The men push their lives Read More

2002
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

2002
Recess the Movie: School's Out

Actors: Rickey D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence, Courtland Mead

Synopsis: Based on the popular animated children's program Disney's Recess, this full-length film focuses on the end of a school year, where young pupil T.J. Detweiler is looking ahead to having a wild, fun-packed summer vacation. T.J. stumbles upon a plot hatched by the villainous Dr. Benedict, a former Read More

2/16/01
Kiss My Act

Actors: Camryn Manheim, Scott Cohen, Dabney Coleman, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: An aspiring comic who has to hide behind others to get her humor in front of an audience finds you can't do the same thing when it comes to romance. Samantha Berger (Camryn Manheim) works as a bartender at a New York comedy club; possessing a sharp imagination and a quick wit , Samantha writes Read More

2001
The Guardian [TV Series]

Actors: Simon Baker, Dabney Coleman, Alan Rosenberg, Raphael Sbarge, Erica Leerhsen

Synopsis: Simon Baker stars in this weekly, 60-minute drama series as Nick Fallin, a hotshot attorney working for his father Burton's (Dabney Coleman) prestigious Philadelphia law firm. Arrested for doing cocaine, Nick is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. Reluctantly, he signs on as a part-time Read More

2001
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Actors: John Stamos, Joshua Malina, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Anwar, Dorie Barton

Synopsis: This Yuletide-season TV movie reverses the standard "three girls on the make" formula of many an old 20th Century Fox movie, of which How to Marry a Millionaire is a choice example. This time out, a trio of enterprising young men decide to go on the prowl for rich wives, after first consulting a Read More

2000
Stuart Little

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

12/17/99
Inspector Gadget

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick

Synopsis: Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a Read More

7/30/99
Must Be Santa

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Deanna Milligan

Synopsis: In this holiday-themed comedy, Santa Claus decides the time has come for him to retire. However, the selection process for a replacement doesn't go quite as expected, and the new St. Nick turns out to be a young African-American man, who is as puzzled as anyone at how he got the job. Dabney Coleman Read More

1999
Giving It Up

Actors: Mark Feuerstein, Amy Redford, Ali Larter, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Rising advertising executive Ralph (Mark Feuerstein) is irresistible to women and he to them – he can even bed Lesbians. But when he falls for a new co-worker (Amy Redford) Ralph decides to change his ways by becoming celibate, and finds it harder than he thought to stay out of strange beds Read More

1999
You've Got Mail

Actors: Michael Palin, Hallee Hirsh, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance Read More

12/18/98
Target Earth

Synopsis: Ever since the 1950s, the area around the city of Springfield, Illinois has been plagued by mysterious 3-day abductions, with the victims returning just as quickly as they disappeared, seemingly none the worse for wear. In truth, however, these victims have been harvest by aliens, who, using Read More

1998
My Date With the President's Daughter

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Jay Thomas, Will Friedle, Elisabeth Harnois

Synopsis: All poor Hallie Richmond wants is to be able to go on a normal date like every other teenage girl. Unfortunately, as the daughter of the U.S. president, she can never be treated as normal, and everywhere she goes she is followed by an obtrusive cadre of secret servicemen. Considered a bit of a Read More

1998
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie

Actors: Chris Noth, Dabney Coleman, Dana Eskelson, John Fiore, Dann Florek

Synopsis: Essentially a feature-length episode of NBC's long-running series Law & Order, this crime and courtroom drama marks the return of Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) to Manhattan's 27th precinct. For the past three years, Logan has been stuck on Staten Island, the result of an incident in which he Read More

1998
Taken

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Linda Smith

Synopsis: A man being held hostage discovers others besides his captors have it in for him in this taut thriller. Ethan Grover (Dabney Coleman) is a successful businessman who has made more than his share of enemies. His wife, Judy (Linda Smith), has been having an affair with Allan (Stewart Bick), one of Read More

1998
Un Amour de Sorcière

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Jeanne Moreau, Gil Bellows, Jean Reno

Synopsis: The good witch Morgane bears a son and finds herself faced with a painful choice. Tradition requires that she select a godfather for the child at the exact moment of its birth. The moral alignment of the godfather will determine that of the child. The trouble is that there are only six witches Read More

3/19/97
The Magic School Bus Sees Stars (Stars)

Actors: Dabney Coleman

1997
Devil's Food

Synopsis: Aspiring TV journalist Sally McCormick (Suzanne Somers) can't get anyone to hire her--and the reason, she concludes, is that she is simply too chubby for the small screen. Although her boyfriend Andrew Burns (William Katt) tells her that eventually her talent will be judged separate from her Read More

1996
Idols of the Game 1: Inventing the All American

1995
Idols of the Game 2: Babes in Boyland

Synopsis: For some six centuries, professional sports was male-dominated, but eventually women managed to break through the uni-gender status of various professional sports and shine through determination and great skill -- athletes like U.S. Olympic Gold winner and pro golfer Babe Didrikson, tennis Read More

1995
Idols of the Game 3: Love and Money

1995
In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Timothy Busfield, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a fallen IRS agent who has apparently been using taxpayer's most personal information to formulate and execute kidnapping and extortion schemes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Judicial Consent

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Will Patton, Billy Wirth, Dabney Coleman, Michael Greene, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: A judge is set up for murder in this suspenseful thriller. Criminal court judge Gwen Warwick is about to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. One night she engages in sex with law clerk Martin in his office. They begin a torrid affair. A colleague of Gwen's, Charles Matron, is discovered Read More

1994
Clifford

Actors: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman, G.D. Spradlin

Synopsis: Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he Read More

1994
Amos & Andrew

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Dabney Coleman, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: When African-American professional Andrew Sterling (Samual L. Jackson) moves into a summer home on an up-tight all-white New England resort island, the snoopy white neighbors are sure he must be breaking and entering. They call the cops who get too rambunctious and break into Sterling's limo Read More

1993
The Beverly Hillbillies

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar story 'bout a man named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, continues to follow the TV show's format. Jed discovers oil on his Read More

1993
There Goes the Neighborhood

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Hector Elizondo, Rhea Perlman, Dabney Coleman, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Avarice is the motivation behind the zany deeds in this comedy. It all begins when a dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychiatrist who heads to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to find it. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by two fugitive convicts who overheard the Read More

10/30/92
Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

1992
Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

1992
Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

1992
Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

1992
The Applegates

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Stockard Channing, Cami Cooper, Bobby Jacoby, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents and purposes human beings, are actually a clan of giant Brazilian Cocorada bugs. Paterfamilias Dick Applegate (Ed Begley Jr.) takes a job with an Ohio nuclear power plant Read More

2/1/91
Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Actors: Peter Falk, Dabney Coleman, Cheryl Paris, Julian Stone, Shera Danese

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with a brilliant defense attorney who kills his mistress. Trouble ensues when he attempts to frame her lover for the murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Never Forget

Actors: Leonard Nimoy

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-cable docudrama, Leonard Nimoy stars as Mel Mermelstein, a Nazi death camp survivor who wages a court battle against the revisionist Institute for Historical Review over their claims that the Holocaust never occurred. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Short Time

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Gregg Champion, the son of dance stars Marge and Gower Champion, made his feature film directorial debut with this sitcom-influenced cop comedy. Dabney Coleman stars as Burt Simpson, a police detective one week short of retirement, who is told he has a rare blood disease called Wechsler's Curtain Read More

5/4/90
Where the Heart Is

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, David Hewlett, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: In this comedy from writer-director John Boorman, wealthy real estate mogul Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) owns a demolition firm which specializes in blowing up old buildings to make way for upscale new ones. When neighbors protest his plans to raze a dilapidated old building to make way for a Read More

2/23/90
Hot to Trot!

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney (Bob Goldthwaith) must share the family financial business with his scheming stepfather Walter Sawyer (Dabney Coleman) in this misfired comedy. Fred also inherits Don, a talking horse who provides him with hot tips on the stock market. Don's voice is Read More

8/26/88
Maybe Baby

Actors: Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Julia Duffy, David Bowe

Synopsis: The 1988 TV movie Maybe Baby stars Jane Curtin as Julia, a 39 year old career woman, married to upwardly mobile 57-year-old Hal (Dabney Coleman). Julia and Hal had originally agreed not to have children, but after heeding the tick-tock of her biological clock, Julia has changed her mind. At first Read More

1988
Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

1988
Dragnet

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s Read More

6/26/87
Sworn to Silence

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys jeopardize their careers by defending a hated accused murderer whom they believe is innocent. Unfortunately, his confidential confession to them indicates otherwise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Saturday Night Live: Dabney Coleman

Actors: Dabney Coleman, The Cars

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Dabney Coleman and features musical guest the Cars. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Guilty of Innocence - the Lenell Geter Story

Actors: Dorian Harewood, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Dorian Harewood stars as real-life Texas engineer Lenell Geter, who in 1982 was accused of armed robbery. Beyond the fact that both he and the suspect are African-American, Geter looks nothing at all like the actual robber; still, he is identified as the culprit in a police lineup. Despite the Read More

1987
Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

1987
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Actors: Stacy Keach

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was so named for two reasons. For one, this 1986 production appeared after two previous "Hammer" TV movies and a brief weekly series. For another, star Stacy Keach was returning to American television after a British prison term for Read More

1986
The Man with One Red Shoe

Actors: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. Read More

1985
Murrow

Synopsis: Daniel J. Travanti plays a glum, no-nonsense Edward R. Murrow in this made-for-TV biopic. We follow Murrow's rise to prominence as America's foremost news commentator between the years 1940 through 1955, beginning with his on-the-spot radio coverage of the bombing of London. After the war, Murrow Read More

1985
Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas Read More

1984
Buffalo Bill: Season 02

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

1984
Buffalo Bill: Season 01

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

1983
Buffalo Bill [TV Series]

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Geena Davis

1983
WarGames

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Read More

1983
Young Doctors in Love

Actors: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Tootsie

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis

Synopsis: Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since Michael complained that the tomato he was playing wasn't properly Read More

1982
Callie and Son

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars as Callie, who battles her way up the ladder from waitress to fabulously wealthy Texas socialite. The price for her success is her son Randy, played by Jameson Parker. Though wielding great power, Callie is nearly powerless in her efforts to keep Randy away from beautiful Read More

1981
Modern Problems

Actors: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: An air-traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is having the worst luck: first his girlfriend leaves him, and then he experiences a nuclear disaster. His life begins to pick up after he realizes that the radiation fallout has given him magical telekinetic powers. He decides to settle a few scores with Read More

1981
On Golden Pond

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Read More

1981
Pray TV

Synopsis: In this socially conscious, satirical made-for-television drama, a con-artist becomes one of the nation's top televangelists. The film is also known as K-GOD. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James share star-billing with Jessica Lange in this uninspired comedy about three women who need a cash infusion. (Curtin and Saint James would later co-star in the popular sitcom Kate and Allie.) Jane (Saint James) is divorced and financially pressed to raise her Read More

1980
Nothing Personal