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Dabney Coleman
Birthday: January 3, 1932 Birth
Place: Austin, Texas, USA Height: 6' 1"
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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 debut in 1965's The Slender Thread. Minus his trademarked mustache for the most part in the mid-1960s, Coleman specialized in secondary character roles that were not outright villains, but somehow lacking in leading-man integrity. The first inkling that Coleman could handle comedy occurred during his supporting stint as obstetrician Leon Bessemer on the Marlo Thomas sitcom That Girl. In 1976, Coleman was cast as self-serving Mayor Jeeter (a role the actor still regards as a favorite) on Norman Lear's soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Four years later, Coleman burst forth in full hissable glory as the nasty, chauvinistic boss in 9 to 5 (1980); he is so thoroughly trounced by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in this film that one wonders how he was able to subsequently co-star with both Fonda and Tomlin in On Golden Pond [1981] and The Beverly Hillbillies [1993] respectively without flinching. After 9 to 5, Coleman's film roles became increasingly stereotyped; he was better served on television, where he starred in the ground-breaking sitcom Buffalo Bill (1983), playing TV's first thoroughly, unremittingly despicable "hero" and winning a nomination for a "Best Actor" Emmy. The series didn't last (audiences laughed at but did not love Buffalo Bill), but made enough of an impression for Coleman to ever afterward find himself playing cantankerous, mean-spirited sitcom leads; as recently as 1994, Coleman sneered his way through the starring role of a reactionary newspaper columnist in NBC's short-lived Madman of the People.
Attended The University of Texas at Austin in early '50s
Auditioned for the role of The Professor in "Gilligan's Island" (1964).
Was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Class of 1953...left after two years.
Entered VMI (the prestigious Virginia Military Institute) in 1949 but wound up studying law at the University of Texas and then theater in New York.
Served 2 years in the Army's Special Services Division.
Diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but took part in a clinical trial which remedied his sight from 20-400 to 20-40 in just a week. [2000]
Is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity from the Texas Beta Chapter at the University of Texas.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 112-113. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
His daughter Quincy (b. 1972) is a singer-songwriter.
His daughter, Quincy, released her first CD on September 30, 2003 called "Also Known As Mary".
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