Dabney Coleman: movies and TV shows
Dabney Coleman has 199 credits in the archive: 93 films and 106 TV series, from 1944 to 2022. Highest rated: Yellowstone (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2022 · busiest year: 1963 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Still Working 9 to 5 | Self | Film | 10.0 | 90 |
| 2018 | Yellowstone | John Dutton Sr. | TV | 8.3 | 86 |
| 2018 | For the People | Donald | TV | 7.3 | 86 |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Raymond Holliday | Film | 5.7 | 84 |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Mr. Price | TV | 7.5 | 81 |
| 2012 | Char·ac·ter | Self | Film | 4.0 | 80 |
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire | Commodore Louis Kaestner | TV | 8.0 | 78 |
| 2010 | Pound Puppies | Mayor (voice) | TV | 5.3 | 78 |
| 2007 | Heartland | Dr. Bart Jacobs | TV | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2007 | Hard Four | Spray Loomis | Film | 4.9 | 75 |
| 2006 | Courting Alex | Jack Atwell | TV | 5.8 | 74 |
| 2005 | Domino | Drake Bishop | Film | 5.9 | 73 |
| 2003 | NCIS | Army Corporal John Sydney | TV | 7.6 | 71 |
| 2003 | Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade | Principal Prickly (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 71 |
| 2003 | Recess: All Growed Down | Principal Prickley (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 2003 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Grandpa | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile | Mike Mulcahey | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2002 | The Climb | Mack | Film | 6.1 | 70 |
| 2001 | The Guardian | Burton Fallin | TV | 7.1 | 69 |
| 2001 | The Zeta Project | TV | 7.6 | 69 | |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 69 |
| 2001 | The Making of Midway | Self | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 2001 | Kiss My Act | Henry | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2001 | Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street | Principal Peter Prickly | Film | 6.3 | 69 |
| 2000 | How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale | John Kennedy | Film | 4.0 | 68 |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Frank Hager | TV | 8.0 | 67 |
| 1999 | Stuart Little | Dr. Beechwood | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 1999 | Inspector Gadget | Chief Quimby | Film | 4.5 | 67 |
| 1999 | Giving It Up | Johnathan Gallant | Film | 4.2 | 67 |
| 1999 | Must Be Santa | Film | 3.5 | 67 | |
| 1999 | Taken | Ethan Grover | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 1998 | You've Got Mail | Nelson Fox | Film | 6.7 | 66 |
| 1998 | Exiled | Lieutenant Kevin Stolper | Film | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1998 | My Date with the President's Daughter | President George Richmond | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 1998 | Target Earth | Senator Ben Arnold | Film | 4.4 | 66 |
| 1997 | Recess | Principal Peter Prickly (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1997 | A Witch's Way of Love | Joel | Film | 5.2 | 65 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 64 | |
| 1996 | Devil's Food | Seymour Kecker | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Monsieur Fox (voice) | TV | 6.3 | 63 |
| 1995 | In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped | Arthur Milo | Film | 5.3 | 63 |
| 1994 | The Magic School Bus | Horace Scope (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 62 |
| 1994 | Madman of the People | Jack 'Madman' Buckner | TV | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1994 | Judicial Consent | Charles Mayron | Film | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1994 | Clifford | Gerald Ellis | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 1993 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Milburn Drysdale | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1993 | Amos & Andrew | Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 1992 | There Goes the Neighborhood | Jeffrey Babitt | Film | 5.5 | 60 |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Stephen A. Douglas (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 1991 | Never Forget | William Cox | Film | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1991 | Drexell's Class | TV | 6.3 | 59 | |
| 1990 | Meet the Applegates | Aunt Bea | Film | 5.6 | 58 |
| 1990 | Where the Heart Is | Stewart McBain | Film | 6.2 | 58 |
| 1990 | Short Time | Burt Simpson | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1990 | The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson | Self | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1988 | Hot to Trot | Walter Sawyer | Film | 5.2 | 56 |
| 1988 | Baby M | Gary Skoloff | TV | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1988 | Maybe Baby | Hal | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 1987 | Plaza Suite | Jesse Kiplinger | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1987 | Dragnet | Jerry Caesar | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1987 | Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | Self | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1987 | Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story | Ed Sigel | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1987 | The Slap Maxwell Story | TV | 4.0 | 55 | |
| 1987 | Sworn to Silence | Martin Costigan | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1986 | Fresno | Tyler Cane | TV | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1986 | The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Dabney Coleman | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1986 | Murrow | William Paley | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 1985 | The Man with One Red Shoe | Cooper | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 1984 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | Martin Price | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1984 | Cloak & Dagger | Jack Flack / Hal Osborne | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1983 | WarGames | McKittrick | Film | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1983 | Buffalo Bill | Bill Bittinger | TV | 6.7 | 51 |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Ron Carlisle | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1982 | Young Doctors in Love | Dr. Joseph Prang | Film | 5.3 | 50 |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Bill Ray | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 1981 | Callie & Son | Randall Bordeaux | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1981 | Modern Problems | Mark Winslow | Film | 5.4 | 49 |
| 1980 | Nine to Five | Franklin M. Hart Jr. | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1980 | Nothing Personal | Dickerson | Film | 5.6 | 48 |
| 1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Jack Heintzel | Film | 5.2 | 48 |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Judge Keith Hayes | Film | 6.5 | 48 |
| 1980 | Pray TV | Marvin Fleece | Film | 5.5 | 48 |
| 1980 | Dan August: The Jealousy Factor | Rick Bessett | Film | 2.0 | 48 |
| 1979 | When She Was Bad... | Jack Wilson | Film | 5.0 | 47 |
| 1979 | North Dallas Forty | Emmett Hunter | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1978 | Diff'rent Strokes | TV | 7.1 | 46 | |
| 1978 | The Case of the Baltimore Girls | George Bates | Film | — | 46 |
| 1978 | More Than Friends | Joshua 'Josh' Harrington | Film | 10.0 | 46 |
| 1978 | Apple Pie | Fast Eddie Murtaugh | TV | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1978 | Maneaters Are Loose! | McCallum | Film | 10.0 | 46 |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Van Milner | TV | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1977 | Rolling Thunder | Maxwell | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1977 | Fernwood 2 Night | Mayor Merle Jeeter | TV | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1977 | Forever Fernwood | TV | 5.0 | 45 | |
| 1977 | Viva Knievel! | Ralph Thompson | Film | 4.0 | 45 |
| 1977 | Black Fist | Heineken | Film | 4.4 | 45 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Dr. Burt Travers | TV | 7.5 | 44 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Officer Peter O'Neil | TV | 7.5 | 44 |
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | Merle Jeeter | TV | 7.3 | 44 |
| 1976 | Midway | Captain Murray Arnold | Film | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1976 | Kiss Me... Kill Me | Capt. Logan | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1975 | Switch | C.C. Owens | TV | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1975 | Medical Story | Blair | TV | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1975 | The Other Side of the Mountain | Dave McCoy | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1975 | Bite the Bullet | Jack Parker | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Paul Mathison | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1975 | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Paul Mathison | TV | — | 43 |
| 1975 | Returning Home | Al Stephenson | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1974 | Petrocelli | Willy Morgan | TV | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1974 | The Manhunter | TV | 7.0 | 42 | |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Deputy Chief #1 | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1974 | House of Evil | Film | 7.5 | 42 | |
| 1974 | The Dove | Charles Huntley | Film | 6.7 | 42 |
| 1974 | Bad Ronald | Mr. Wood | Film | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1974 | Sons and Daughters | TV | 9.0 | 42 | |
| 1973 | Kojak | Alex Linden | TV | 7.2 | 41 |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | George Clark | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Ted Sayers | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Brad Adamson | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Paul Cleveland | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1973 | Police Story | TV | 7.0 | 41 | |
| 1973 | Dying Room Only | Bob Mitchell | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1973 | Moving Target | Film | — | 41 | |
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Executive Officer | Film | 6.7 | 41 |
| 1973 | Savage! | Ted Seligson | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | Sen. Bert Haines | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | George Todd | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | Andrew Horvath, Sr. | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | Search | TV | 7.1 | 40 | |
| 1972 | Banyon | Ralph Hubbard | TV | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Hugh Creighton | TV | 8.1 | 39 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Detective Murray | TV | 8.1 | 39 |
| 1971 | Cannon | TV | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1971 | McMillan & Wife | Hansen | TV | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1971 | McMillan & Wife | Walter Jennings | TV | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Frank Wellmam | TV | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Congressman Phil Whitman | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 1970 | Dan August | Rick Bessett | TV | 7.2 | 38 |
| 1970 | Nanny and the Professor | Detective Robinson | TV | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1970 | I Love My Wife | Frank Donnelly | Film | 3.5 | 38 |
| 1970 | The Brotherhood of the Bell | Agent Shepard | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1969 | Medical Center | TV | 6.4 | 37 | |
| 1969 | Room 222 | TV | 6.1 | 37 | |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Dr. Goldstone | TV | 4.8 | 37 |
| 1969 | Then Came Bronson | Dr. Ron Carlisle | TV | 5.2 | 37 |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | Mayo | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1969 | The Trouble with Girls | Harrison Wilby | Film | 4.9 | 37 |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | John | TV | 6.1 | 36 |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters | Jed | Film | 6.4 | 36 |
| 1967 | Ironside | Daniel Leary | TV | 6.9 | 35 |
| 1967 | Mannix | Ralph Stoner | TV | 6.8 | 35 |
| 1967 | Mannix | Howard Graham | TV | 6.8 | 35 |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Capt. Mitchell Ross | TV | 6.9 | 35 |
| 1967 | The Invaders | John Carter | TV | 6.9 | 35 |
| 1967 | The Flying Nun | Sub. Captain | TV | 6.3 | 35 |
| 1967 | Judd, for the Defense | TV | 7.7 | 35 | |
| 1966 | That Girl | TV | 6.2 | 34 | |
| 1966 | That Girl | Dr. Leon Bessemer | TV | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Salesman | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie | George Webb | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie | Captain Yardley | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Ira Barker | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Allen Clarke | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Stanley Leonard | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Sam Langlin | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Ty Williams | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Mr. Jamison | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Barnes | TV | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Fred Palmer | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1965 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Clark | TV | 6.8 | 33 |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread | Charlie | Film | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Captain Wilson | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Captain Robbins | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Floyd | TV | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Sergeant Keith | TV | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Officer George Graham | TV | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Steve | TV | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Sergeant Harry King | TV | 5.9 | 31 |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Stanley Rivkin | TV | 5.9 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Dr. Williams | TV | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | James Custer | TV | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (uncredited) | TV | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | William Gunther | TV | 6.5 | 31 |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Alvin Piper | TV | 6.5 | 31 |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | Wayne Holton | TV | 8.3 | 31 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Tom Esterow | TV | 7.8 | 30 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Sgt. Lou Snyder | TV | 7.8 | 30 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. David Kirkson | TV | 5.7 | 29 |
| 1961 | Hazel | Les Swanton | TV | 6.8 | 29 |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | TV | 5.9 | 29 | |
| 1961 | Kraft Mystery Theatre | TV | 7.3 | 29 | |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Clyde | TV | 7.5 | 27 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Ivar Peterson | TV | 7.5 | 27 |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show | Rallye Master | TV | 6.5 | 26 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Resident | TV | 5.7 | 26 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 12 |