Dabney Coleman

Dabney Coleman

Date of Birth: 03 Jan 1932

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 70 (Actor)

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    Inspector Gadget
    A remake of the television series, Matthew Broderick stars as Gadget, who suffers an accident at the beginning of the film, and befriends Brenda (Joely Fisher), a robotic surgeon who repairs Gadget so that he can defeat the villain Claw (Everett). In the meantime, Gadget and Brenda fall in love. (imdb)
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    Moonlight Mile
    An emotional tale of disarming honesty and unexpected humor...a story about waking up to life, letting go, and discovering that love comes in the most unexpected circumstances. (Touchstone Pictures)
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    Recess: School\
    The school year is finally over, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to a fun-filled summer. Boredom quickly sets in, until T.J. uncovers a scheme to do away with summer vacation! (Disney)
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    Stuart Little
    Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a little guy with a big heart, not to mention whiskers, a little pink nose and a really dapper wardrobe. When he's adopted by the Littles (a human family played by Davis, Lipnicki and Laurie) he embarks on adventures with a variety of characters -- including his nemesis, family cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane) -- and learns the true meaning of family, loyalty and friendship. (Columbia Tristar)
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    You\
    This sweet romantic comedy reunites "Sleepless In Seattle" stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. He's the owner of a bookstore chain; she's the woman he falls for online. Both are unaware that she runs the little shop his company is trying to shut down.
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    Domino
    Smart. Daring. Defiant and dangerous. As well as beautiful. This is Domino Harvey and this is her real life story... well, sort of.
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    On Golden Pond
    The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage (imdb)
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    WarGames
    A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. (imdb)
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    Tootsie
    An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera. (imdb)
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    Modern Problems
    Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge. (imdb)
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    9 to 5
    Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him. (imdb)
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    Dragnet
    The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery. (imdb)
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    Cloak & Dagger
    11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father is preoccupied with his own problems, has retreated... (imdb)
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    Short Time
    Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then... (imdb)
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    The Beverly Hillbillies
    A feature adaptation of the classic TV show, when nice guy redneck Jed Clampett strikes it rich when he finds black oil, and moves he and his kin to posh Beverly Hills. (imdb)
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    The Man with One Red Shoe
    A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit. (imdb)
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    Amos & Andrew
    When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. (imdb)
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    Clifford
    Clifford is a ten-year-old troublemaker, who puts not only his parents through hell, but also his uncle with whom his parents have discarded him to. (imdb)
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    Rolling Thunder
    Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. (imdb)
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    Cinderella Liberty
    A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during... (imdb)
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    Hot to Trot
    Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago. (imdb)
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    Downhill Racer
    Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. (imdb)
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    The Scalphunters
    Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them... (imdb)
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    Young Doctors in Love
    An 'Airplane'-style spoof of hospital soap operas: a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman - in other words all the usual ingredients present and correct, though in this case the laughs are intentional. (imdb)
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    The Dove
    The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove." (imdb.com)
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    Bite the Bullet
    A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert. (IMDb)
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    My Date with the President\
    Hallie has a curse, she's the daughter of the American President. And to make matters worse, it's an election year. But all she wants to do is go out on a date. Fortunately, geeky Duncan has the same goal When they finally get to the date however, a series of incidents could seriously damage the relationship...and national security. (imdb)
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    Un amour de sorcière
    A witch mother wants to find a godftaher for her son because she wants to give her witchcraft talents to him. Jean Reno pursues her son to maintain his lineage.
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    Dying Room Only
    A married couple are traveling on a desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect foul play. (imdb)
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    Bad Ronald
    Bad Ronald (1974) - TV Movie
    A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside. (imdb)
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    The Trouble with Girls
    Elvis as the manager of a Chautauqua company (medicine show) in the 1920s. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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    Target Earth
    Target Earth (1998) - TV Movie
    A young girl returns home after being abducted - and that's only the beginning of the story! This flick is filled with all sorts of sci-fi surprises - hidden body implants, an FBI investigation and a possible alien invasion. (imdb)
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    This Property Is Condemned
    A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge
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    Where the Heart Is
    Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision, until a group of protesters object to the destruction of one lonely, ugly building, called the Dutch House. Typically, the media is sent to the scene of the protest, and McBain appears on TV in a bad way. (imdb)
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    Meet the Applegates
    Modeling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950's family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
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    How to Beat the High Cost of Living
    Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation. Elaine comes up with a plan to steal the money out of it and split it three ways with Jane and Louise. Of course, one catastrophe after another tries to keep them from achieving their goal. (imdb)
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    Black Fist
    To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters. (imdb)
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    I Love My Wife
    Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
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    Savage
    Savage (1973) - TV Movie
    A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
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    Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
    The Recess gang try to adapt to life in the Fifth Grade.
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    Recess: All Growed Down
    Recess: All Growed Down (2003) - Direct-to-Video
    This movie tells the story of how the Recess gang all met back in Kindergarten. (wikipedia)
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    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Based on the novel by Wilson Rawls, this is a story of a boy, Billy Coleman, who sets his heart on acquiring his own hunting dogs. After months of hard work, Billy saves up enough to purchase two young pups named Old Dan and Little Ann. He trains them to hunt racoons, and eventually enters them in the annual hunting contest.
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    Viva Knievel!
    As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans, help out lonely orphans, and try to get his alcoholic mechanic to reconcile with his son. While all of this is going on, Evel's main rival is plotting to have Evel killed and then get rich by using the Team Evel 18-wheeler to smuggle cocaine into America. (imdb)
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    Attack on Terror
    After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers. (imdb)
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    Kiss Me, Kill Me
    A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher. (imdb)
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    Must Be Santa
    Father Christmas plans to retire after a lifetime of sterling service, but his replacement proves to be something of a surprise and has a hard time living up to his predecessor's expectations. Festive comedy, starring
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    Maneaters Are Loose!
    Man-eating tigers are accidentally set loose near a small California town. (imdb)
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    In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
    A cop determines to catch a gang of ruthless kidnappers holding his son hostage, and exposes a crooked tax official masterminding the operation.
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    Never Forget
    Never Forget (1991) - TV Movie
    A dramatization of a holocaust survivor who confronted a holocaust denial organization's lies in court.
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    Nothing Personal
    Suzanne Somers, an environmentally concerned lawyer, was hired by Donald Sutherland to halt the construction on a breeding ground of endangered species of seals.
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    The Outer Limits
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    Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
    Set in fictional Fernwood, Ohio, this deliriously demented serial focused on the beleaguered heroine Mary Hartman, an average American housewife. (imdb)
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    The Guardian
    The Guardian (2001) - TV Series
    Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings.
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    The Slap Maxwell Story
    "Slap" Maxwell is a sportswriter of the old-school--hard-working, uncompromised. Unfortunately, his type of writing doesn't fit well in the modern world. His wife wants to discover her own talents, which baffles Slap (almost as much as his editor's bizarre metaphors). Slap only makes things worse by starting an affair with a young news writer. Oh, and his only son turns out to have absolutely no talent as a writer or sports fan, despite Slap's dreams.
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    The Other Side of the Mountain
    Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her. (imdb)
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    The Climb
    Film about two rock climbers, who meet each other during a rescue get a chance to realize a climb of a lifetime, but with an unexpected change: they have to work together. It is a special team, with totally different people, who have different life goals, different views, but use the same climbing technique. (Wikipedia)
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    Hard Four
    When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal Spencer Ragusa have less than 24 hours to retrieve the body for burial in New Jersey. (imdb)
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    Go Tell the Spartans
    A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities... (imdb)
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    There Goes the Neighborhood
    Willis Embry, who is a psychologist in a jail, was left by his girl-friend. He has no time to be sad about it because an old man, who is very ill, tells him something about a robbery and the millions of dollars hidden somewhere. The old man asks Willis to find it and give a part of it to his relative, and he can keep the rest. In the next door some bad guy hears it and this causes the complications ... Written by Kornel Osvart (imdb)
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    Taken
    A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor. (imdb)
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    The Slender Thread
    Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late? (imdb)
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    North Dallas Forty
    A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s. (imdb)
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    The F.B.I.
    The F.B.I. (1965) - TV Series
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    The Invaders
    The Invaders (1967) - TV Series
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    Giving It Up
    Womanizing New York adman attempts to identify the causes of, and find a remedy for, his so-called addiction to sex, in order to win the love of a woman he respects. (imdb)
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    The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (1963) - TV Series
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    I Dream of Jeannie
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    Buffalo Bill
    Buffalo Bill (1983) - TV Series
    Bill Bittinger is the egotistical host of a local daytime talk show on WBFL in Buffalo, New York. He's unhappy at being a big fish in a small pond, but unable to break into the big leagues. He makes life miserable for his crew and guests, and especially his station manager Karl Shub, who is constantly dodging lawsuits resulting from Bill's behavior. The one person Bill is unable to bully is his director and on/off lover, Jo Jo White. (imdb)
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    Exiled
    Exiled (1998) - TV Movie
    NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was demoted to a beat on Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, seeks to solve the grisly murder of a prostitute and thereby help regain his old job in Manhattan. (imdb)
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