Dabney Coleman - # 323

Dabney Coleman, ‘9 to 5’ Star Who Made a Career Out of Playing Jerks, Dies at 92

The Texas native got laughs for his boorish behavior in 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' 'Tootsie,' 'Buffalo Bill' and much more.  

He was number 323 on the list.

Dabney Coleman, the popular comic actor from 9 to 5, Tootsie and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman whose many redeeming qualities including a knack for portraying characters who had none, has died. He was 92.

Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, singer Quincy Coleman, told The Hollywood Reporter.

“My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity,” she said. “As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery.

A teacher, a hero and a king, Dabney Coleman is a gift and blessing in life and in death as his spirit will shine through his work, his loved ones and his legacy … eternally.”

The Emmy-winning actor also portrayed an irascible talk show host in upstate New York on NBC’s Buffalo Bill, but that critical favorite lasted just 26 episodes.

He had at least three other cracks at headlining his own sitcom, but ABC’s The Slap Maxwell Story, Fox’s Drexell’s Class and NBC’s Madman of the People never made it through their first seasons before being canceled.

More recently, the good-natured Coleman brought along his signature mustache to play Burton Fallin, the owner of a law firm and father of Simon Baker’s character, on the CBS drama The Guardian; was Atlantic City power broker Commodore Louis Kaestner on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire; and played John Dutton Sr. (the father of Kevin Costner’s character) on Yellowstone.

Audiences got an early taste of the Texan’s cantankerous charms in 1976 when Coleman appeared as the feisty Fernwood, Ohio, mayor Merle Jeeter on Norman Lear‘s late-night soap-opera satire, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

In a 2012 interview with The A.V. Club, Coleman called that gig, which was supposed to last just six episodes, “the turning point in my career” and “probably the best thing I ever did.”

Jeeter “was just wonderful, just a once-in-a-lifetime character,” he said. “He was just the worst human being. … That’s kind of where it all started, as far as people’s belief that I could do comedy, particularly that negative, caustic, cynical kind of guy. I was pretty good at doing that.”

 

Coleman proved it again as the chauvinistic, backstabbing boss Franklin Hart Jr. in the workplace comedy 9 to 5, the 1980 cinematic paragon of women’s lib that starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and, in her movie debut, Dolly Parton. (For being such a rotten guy, Hart winds up getting hogtied by his secretary, Parton’s Doralee Rhodes.)

“All of ’em were well-established,” he said of his co-stars, “and here’s this guy coming off of Mary Hartman, which is not too shabby. (Laughs.) But it was late-night TV. Anyway, what I’m alluding to is that all three of them went out of their way to make me feel equal. There’s no other way to put it.”

In Tootsie (1982), directed by his longtime friend and mentor Sydney Pollack, Coleman played the sexist TV director who’s dating an actress (Jessica Lange) on his soap opera, Southwest General.

Years earlier, Pollack had been his teacher at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and Coleman’s first three movies were Pollack’s first as a director as well.

Coleman also played the aptly named televangelist Marvin Fleece in the satire Pray TV (1980), the systems engineer overseeing the military mainframe WOPR in John Badham’s WarGames (1983) and the miserly banker Milburn Drysdale in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Asked by Vulture in 2010 if he was proud to have helped make television “safe for jerky lead characters,” he replied: “It’s fun playing those roles. You get to do outlandish things, things that you want to do, probably, in real life, but you just don’t because you’re a civilized human being. There are no-holds-barred when you’re playing [jerks] — I couldn’t imagine anyone not loving playing those parts.”

Dabney Wharton Coleman was born on Jan. 3, 1932, in Austin, the youngest of four children. After his father died of pneumonia when he was 4, his mother raised the family in Corpus Christi, and Coleman became a nationally ranked junior tennis player.

He attended the Virginia Military Institute (many in his family did) for two years, served in the U.S. Army’s Special Services Division for two more and then, back in Austin, studied law at the University of Texas.

Mildred Pierce actor Zachary Scott, a family friend of Coleman’s first wife, Ann Harrell, convinced him that he could be an actor, so he left college a semester short of graduation and headed for Manhattan and Sanford Meisner’s Neighborhood Playhouse at age 26.

Coleman’s first onscreen speaking appearance came on a 1961 episode of Naked City — he earned $90 for that — and he and his second wife, actress Jean Hale (the Mad Hatter’s fetching moll on Batman), moved to Los Angeles in 1962.

Coleman appeared on such shows as Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, Hazel, I Dream of Jeannie and The Fugitive before recurring as Marlo Thomas’ neighbor, the obstetrician Leon Bessemer, on the first season (1966-67) of That Girl.

 

He auditioned for Gilligan’s Island but lost the role of the Professor to Russell Johnson.

 

In 1963, Coleman had appeared on an episode of the ABC hospital drama Breaking Point that Pollack helmed, and the two would reunite for the movies The Slender Thread (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966) — though his scenes were cut — and The Scalphunters (1968).

 

“The idea at that time, when I got out of school, was that I said, ‘I want to be in every movie you make,’ ” Coleman recalled. “He said, ‘OK,’ and we got off to a pretty good start.”

In Cinderella Liberty (1973), he worked with another former Neighborhood Playhouse cohort, James Caan, playing his commanding officer.

Around that time, the blue-eyed Coleman decided to grow a mustache, which he said turned around his career. “Without the mustache, I looked too much like Richard Nixon,” he told Vulture. “There’s no question that when I grew that, all of a sudden, everything changed.”

Producers told him that they would give him the part of Jeeter if he shaved the ‘stache, but he refused — and they hired him anyway. He played the mayor on 148 episodes of Mary Hartman as well as on the spinoffs Fernwood Tonight and Forever Fernwood.

On the Disney animated series Recess and its spinoffs, Coleman provided the grating voice of Principal Peter Prickly.

Working alongside Fonda on 9 to 5 led him to one of his rare non-boorish roles — as her dentist boyfriend in On Golden Pond (1981).

As a leading man, Coleman was hilarious in Short Time (1990), in which he played a police officer diagnosed with a terminal disease who learns his daughter can only collect his pension if he’s killed in the line of duty. His madcap determination to get himself offed, combined with his dismay at invariably winning commendations for “valor,” was memorable. 

Coleman also portrayed an over-the-top oddball in How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), a lisping pornographer in Dragnet (1987) and a slimy drag queen in Meet the Applegates (1990).

His voluminous credits include the films The Trouble With Girls (1969), Downhill Racer (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), North Dallas Forty (1979), Melvin & Howard (1980), Modern Problems (1981), Young Doctors in Love (1982), Cloak & Dagger (1984), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Man With One Red Shoe (1985), There Goes the Neighborhood (1992), Amos & Andrew (1993), Clifford (1994), Devil’s Food (1996), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), Stuart Little (1999), Moonlight Mile (2002), Domino (2005) and Rules Don’t Apply (2016).

Coleman won a supporting actor Emmy in 1987 for his work on the ABC telefilm Sworn to Silence and was nominated twice for playing Buffalo Bill Bittinger and once for his turn as old-school sportswriter Slap Maxwell.

When he wasn’t working, Coleman invariably could be found at Dan Tana’s in West Hollywood, where a hefty New York steak is named for him. “I presume it’s to do with the fact that I ordered the damned thing five times a week for about 15 years,” he said in his A.V. Club chat.

In addition to Quincy, survivors include his other children, Randy, Kelly and Meghan, and his grandchildren, Hale, Gabe, Luie, Kai and Coleman.

 

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2003

 

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2000

 

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)

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6.8

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5.3

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1999

 

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4.3

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6.0

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7.8

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4.2

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1999

 

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1999

 

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6.7

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1998

 

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6.4

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Lieutenant Kevin Stolper

1998

 

The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)

The Wonderful World of Disney

7.4

TV Series

President Richmond

1998

1 episode

 

Dabney Coleman, John C. McGinley, Christopher Meloni, and Marcia Cross in Target Earth (1998)

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4.3

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Senator Ben Arnold, Sam's Uncle

1998

 

Debi Derryberry and Ashley Johnson in Jumanji (1996)

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Devil's Food (1996)

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Judicial Consent (1995)

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Directed by (1994)

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1994

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1994

 

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The Beverly Hillbillies

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1993

 

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Lincoln (1992)

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1992

 

There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

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5.9

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7.7

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1987

 

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7.8

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6.5

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1986

 

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6.7

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1986

 

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5.7

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6.8

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6.6

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1984

 

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7.3

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7.1

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1983

 

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7.4

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1982

 

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5.5

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7.6

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1981

 

Callie & Son (1981)

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5.4

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6.9

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1980

 

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6.8

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6.0

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1980

 

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5.1

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1980

 

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4.6

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1980

 

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5.8

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1979

 

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6.9

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6.6

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6.9

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1979

 

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6.6

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1978

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6.3

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1978

1 episode

 

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5.9

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1978

 

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

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6.6

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1978

 

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5.5

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1978

 

Forever Fernwood (1977)

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7.4

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130 episodes

 

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6.1

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1978

 

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6.9

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1977

 

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7.3

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8.6

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1977

2 episodes

 

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7.9

TV Series

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1976–1977

148 episodes

 

Viva Knievel! (1977)

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3.5

Ralph Thompson

1977

 

Susan Howard, Barry Newman, and Albert Salmi in Petrocelli (1974)

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7.2

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1976

1 episode

 

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7.5

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1976

2 episodes

 

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7.3

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George Todd

1974–1976

2 episodes

 

Midway (1976)

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6.8

Captain Murr Arnold

1976

 

Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976)

Kiss Me, Kill Me

5.5

TV Movie

Capt. Logan

1976

 

Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (1976)

Bert D'Angelo/Superstar

6.0

TV Series

Lee Crawford

1976

1 episode

 

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7.1

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C.C. Owens

1976

1 episode

 

Cannon (1971)

Cannon

6.8

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Jack Sheffield

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2 episodes

 

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)

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8.3

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1976

1 episode

 

Medical Story (1975)

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7.4

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Blair

1976

1 episode

 

Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in McMillan & Wife (1971)

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7.2

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Hansen

1974–1975

2 episodes

 

Beau Bridges and Marilyn Hassett in The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)

The Other Side of the Mountain

6.4

Dave McCoy

1975

 

Returning Home (1975)

Returning Home

6.4

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Al Stephenson

1975

 

Carl Franklin and Stacy Keach in Caribe (1975)

Caribe

6.8

TV Series

Donald Coglan

1975

1 episode

 

Candice Bergen, James Coburn, and Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet (1975)

Bite the Bullet

6.6

Jack Parker

1975

 

James Daly in Medical Center (1969)

Medical Center

7.1

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Brice

1975

1 episode

 

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

7.5

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Paul Mathison

1975

 

Richard Lawson in Black Fist (1975)

Black Fist

4.8

Heineken

1975

 

Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)

Mannix

7.4

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Howard Graham

Stoner

Ralph Stoner

1972–1975

3 episodes

 

Love Is Not Forever

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Jerry Michaells

1974

 

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The Towering Inferno

7.0

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1974

 

The Manhunter (1974)

The Manhunter

7.1

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Sheriff Stigman

1974

1 episode

 

Sons and Daughters

8.6

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1974

1 episode

 

Bad Ronald (1974)

Bad Ronald

6.6

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Mr. Wood

1974

 

The Dove (1974)

The Dove

6.3

Charles Huntley

1974

 

The F.B.I. (1965)

The F.B.I.

7.4

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Barnes

Mr. Jamison

Ty Williams ...

1965–1974

7 episodes

 

Kojak (1973)

Kojak

7.1

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Alex Linden

1974

1 episode

 

House of Evil

6.4

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1974

 

Cinderella Liberty (1973)

Cinderella Liberty

6.7

Executive Officer

1973

 

The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)

The President's Plane Is Missing

5.9

TV Movie

Sen. Bert Haines

1973

 

Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy in Griff (1973)

Griff

6.4

TV Series

George Bates

1973

1 episode

 

Egan

TV Movie

Captain Walter Jones

1973

 

Dying Room Only (1973)

Dying Room Only

6.8

TV Movie

Bob Mitchell

1973

 

Polly Bergen, Donna Mills, Paul Burke, Judy Carne, and Barbara Feldon in The Wide World of Mystery (1973)

The Wide World of Mystery

7.3

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Martin Landau in Savage (1973)

Savage

5.4

TV Movie

Ted Seligson

1973

 

Anthony Franciosa, Doug McClure, and Hugh O'Brian in Search (1972)

Search

8.1

TV Series

Elliott Desmond

1973

1 episode

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

Daniel Leary

1973

1 episode

 

Michael Constantine, Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, and Karen Valentine in Room 222 (1969)

Room 222

7.7

TV Series

Gary Webster Sr.

Calvin Schuller

1970–1973

2 episodes

 

Banyon (1971)

Banyon

7.9

TV Series

Ralph Hubbard

1972

1 episode

 

Arthur Hill in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971)

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

7.0

TV Series

Frank Wellmam

1972

1 episode

 

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

7.0

TV Series

Dr. Goldstone

1972

1 episode

 

Nanny and the Professor (1970)

Nanny and the Professor

7.1

TV Series

Detective Robinson

1970

1 episode

 

Elliott Gould, Angel Tompkins, and Brenda Vaccaro in I Love My Wife (1970)

I Love My Wife

4.8

Frank Donnelly

1970

 

Burt Reynolds and Norman Fell in Dan August (1970)

Dan August

7.2

TV Series

Rick Bessett

1970

1 episode

 

The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)

The Brotherhood of the Bell

7.1

TV Movie

Agent Shephard

1970

 

Bonanza (1959)

Bonanza

7.3

TV Series

Clyde

Ivar Peterson

1968–1969

2 episodes

 

Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv in Downhill Racer (1969)

Downhill Racer

6.3

Mayo

1969

 

Michael Parks in Then Came Bronson (1969)

Then Came Bronson

7.9

TV Series

Dr. Ron Carlisle

1969

1 episode

 

Bright Promise (1969)

Bright Promise

7.5

TV Series

Dr. Tracy Graham (1971-1972)

1969–1972

 

Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969)

The Trouble with Girls

5.2

Harrison Wilby

1969

 

Peggy Lipton, Michael Cole, and Clarence Williams III in Mod Squad (1968)

Mod Squad

6.9

TV Series

John

1968

1 episode

 

Death Valley Days (1952)

Death Valley Days

7.5

TV Series

Calvin H. Higby

1968

1 episode

 

Carl Betz and Stephen Young in Judd for the Defense (1967)

Judd for the Defense

7.7

TV Series

Walter Sims

1968

1 episode

 

The Scalphunters (1968)

The Scalphunters

6.7

Jed

1968

 

Iron Horse (1966)

Iron Horse

7.2

TV Series

Lee Archer

1967

1 episode

 

Dundee and the Culhane (1967)

Dundee and the Culhane

6.1

TV Series

Sheriff Wrenn

1967

1 episode

 

The Invaders (1967)

The Invaders

8.0

TV Series

John Carter

Capt. Mitchell Ross

1967

2 episodes

 

Sally Field in The Flying Nun (1967)

The Flying Nun

6.5

TV Series

Sub. Captain

1967

1 episode

 

Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie (1965)

I Dream of Jeannie

7.4

TV Series

Captain Dan Yardley

Lt. George Webb

1965–1967

2 episodes

 

Marlo Thomas in That Girl (1966)

That Girl

7.3

TV Series

Dr. Leon Bessemer

1966–1967

8 episodes

 

Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life (1965)

Run for Your Life

7.6

TV Series

Fred Palmer

1967

1 episode

 

Sidekicks

TV Movie

Welch

1966

 

Pat Crowley, Jeff Fithian, Mark Miller, Brian Nash, Joe Fithian, and Lord Nelson in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965)

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

6.9

TV Series

Clark

1966

1 episode

 

David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)

The Fugitive

8.1

TV Series

Steve

Officer George Graham

Floyd ...

1964–1966

4 episodes

 

Natalie Wood and Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)

This Property Is Condemned

7.0

Salesman (scenes deleted)

1966

 

12 O'Clock High (1964)

12 O'Clock High

8.1

TV Series

Captain Robbins

Captain Wilson

1964–1966

2 episodes

 

Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier in The Slender Thread (1965)

The Slender Thread

7.0

Charlie

1965

 

Shelley Fabares, Donna Reed, Carl Betz, and Paul Petersen in The Donna Reed Show (1958)

The Donna Reed Show

7.4

TV Series

Rallye Master

1965

1 episode

 

Whitney Blake, Shirley Booth, Bobby Buntrock, and Don DeFore in Hazel (1961)

Hazel

7.2

TV Series

Les Swanton

1965

1 episode

 

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

7.6

TV Series

Sergeant Harry King

Stanley Rivkin

1964–1965

2 episodes

 

The Outer Limits (1963)

The Outer Limits

8.2

TV Series

James Custer

Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard

Dr. Williams

1964

3 episodes

 

Alfred Hitchcock in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

8.5

TV Series

Sgt. Lou Snyder

Tom Esterow

1963–1964

2 episodes

 

Dr. Kildare (1961)

Dr. Kildare

7.0

TV Series

Dr. David Kirkson

1964

1 episode

 

Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)

Kraft Suspense Theatre

7.7

TV Series

Alvin Piper

William Gunther

1964

2 episodes

 

James Dunn in The Movie Maker (1964)

The Movie Maker

6.2

TV Movie

Stanley Rivkin

1964

 

Ben Gazzara and Chuck Connors in Arrest and Trial (1963)

Arrest and Trial

7.7

TV Series

Wayne Holton

1963

1 episode

 

Breaking Point (1963)

Breaking Point

7.5

TV Series

1963

1 episode

 

Ben Casey (1961)

Ben Casey

7.1

TV Series

Dr. Bobby Bainbridge

1963

1 episode

 

Fred Astaire in Alcoa Premiere (1961)

Alcoa Premiere

7.1

TV Series

Lee Mattheson

1963

1 episode

 

Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950)

Armstrong Circle Theatre

7.8

TV Series

Junkie

John Mitchell

1962

3 episodes

 

Naked City (1958)

Naked City

8.2

TV Series

Resident

1961

1 episode

 

Additional Crew

Dabney Coleman, Jason Biggs, Brittany Murphy, Damian Cagnolatti, Randy Graff, A.J. Langer, Dakin Matthews, and Heidi Zeigler in Drexell's Class (1991)

Drexell's Class

6.9

TV Series

executive consultant

1991

3 episodes

 

Producer

Someday Sometime

producer

Pre-production