Dabney Coleman is Dead to Me!

He was a sexy daddy.

Of course you girls never got to play football....

I thought he was still alive, reports of his death being greatly exaggerated

You got a nice ass, Frank.

He was delightful...as a kid, loved him in Cloak and Dagger, 9 to 5, Muppets Take Manhattan, Wargames, etc. It look like he worked fairly steadily up until 2019 - that's practically 60 years in Hollywood. Impressive.

He had a nice package, but he never showed it off.

[Quote] I thought he was still alive,

HE WAS!!!

Goodbye, Mr. Hart. Hope you're having fun up there.

Rooster or hen?

Classic Merle Jeeter

RIP

So far his death isn't being reported in any of the major news outlets

Tonight on..."Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

Dabney Coleman as Merle Jeeter, Fernwood's slightly devious mayor and Jimmy Joe's father.

Susan Dey was about ready to send her condolences. But then she heard he wasn't dead.

In the ‘80s, I always thought Dabney was sexy. I would’ve put out for Franklin Hart.

Not dead, just back in Buffalo.

I thought it was F HART

He had a hot ass, but couldn’t live forever.

I will always remember him like this.

Great actor. I mean TOOTSIE, c'mon. And add 9 TO 5 and CLOAK AND DAGGER and WARGAMES. My childhood right there!

He was also the voice of Principal Peter Prickly in Disney's Recess.

He took it for his grandkids

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- G.W. Bailey and Dana Ivey.

NOOOOOOO.

One of my favorites - he always made me laugh so hard in 9 to 5, especially in Dolly’s pot smoking dream sequence, when he says “Stud” when she asks him the name of his cologne. He was perfect as Franklin Hart (or F.Art).

r6, see r4.

Are you sure he’s dead?

r23 You ok?

Great actor. RIP

Holy Merde!

I did a one day reading of a tv pilot script at Marlo Thomas’ apartment about 18 years ago. In the cast (besides Marlo) were Kristin Chenoweth, Ana Gasteyer, Marc Kudisch, Norbert Leo Butz, and Dabney Coleman, who was playing Marlo’s ex husband. Marlo, Ana, and the three Bway performers were all being tediously actor-like (they were consoling Kristi Dawn because she had been snubbed by the Tony nominators for The Apple Tree,) and Dabney and I just sat there in silence, going over our scripts. At one point, when Kudisch was bloviating about how egregiously overlooked KC was (“You were ROBBED, Baby! ROBBED!”,) Dabney and I caught each other’s gaze and he proceeded to give me a VERY slow eye roll.

I said to him afterward, “None of these kids know that you played Ann Marie’s neighbor on the first season of ‘That Girl’.”

He replied with a wink, “There’s a LOT that these kids don’t know!”

He was a total pro. Very low key, and yes, slyly sexy.

He was absolutely perfect in 9 to 5, one of the funniest movies ever made.

Great actor with a very wide-ranging career. The Man With One Red Shoe. Tootsie. The Towering Inferno. Bad Ronald. The Invaders. The Flying Nun. War Games. Fresno. 9 to 5. A true patron saint of The Data Lounge.

RIP, Mr. Coleman. You really did have a great ass!

[quote]He was absolutely perfect in 9 to 5, one of the funniest movies ever made.

Aren't you tickled pink that Jennifer Aniston has plans to remake it ?

Surprised he was 92.

I thought he perfectly played that bastard on Boardwalk Empire.

Coleman @ 4:50 the youngest I've ever seen him

[Quote] He was absolutely perfect in 9 to 5, one of the funniest movies ever made.

🙄

I seemed to remember that in the 80s he was arrested at an airport for cocaine possession. But that seems to have been wiped from his bio.

Fuck off r35

Wow, he was pretty in R34's clip - but had the speaking voice of a 50 year old man even then!

I thought he was already dead.

He was wonderful as Jane Curtin's love interest in How to Beat the High Cost of Living. He was a sexy cop in that.

He had 4 children with his second wife Jean Hale who appeared in the camp classic The Oscar (1966) and The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). Hale turned down Valley of the Dolls and was considered for the part of Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde. She appears @ 1:00 in the clip from In Like Flint

That ass!

Oh no! What did he die of?

This is one of their daughters. I guess it was used in the Sally Fields program.

"I thought it was Skinny and Sweet!" Coleman so great as the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5." And still a popular fave almost 45 years later...

He was hilarious in Dragnet (1987). Coleman plays a Hugh Hefner type.

The Hanks/Aykroyd comedy is all over the place, from the serious Christopher Plummer, the over acting of Elizabeth Ashley, to Harry Morgan playing Harry Morgan.

He was so hot even into middle age. That ass was amazing. I loved Cloak & Dagger as a kid and only realize in retrospect that he was a fox in that.

[quote] and Dana Ivey

Dana's mother (Mary Nell Santacroce) was a close friend of my mother.

NOT Dana Ivey. I forbid it!!

R43 He fell and hit his head on the credenza.

Have you seen this documentary?

No love for "Short Time?" I recall thinking that movie was hilarious, but I haven't seen it since it first came out.

Omg, r28, marry me! Actually, I may know you.

Dabney really didn't find his groove until he grew that hot mustache. Until then, he was handsome but rather indistinguishable.

He got gassed by the space mushrooms in The Outer Limits.

I recently rewatched The Other Side Of the Mountain. I’d forgotten he was in it. He was sexy as hell in that movie.

His ass at r4 was perfect for face sitting.

[quote]R41 He had 4 children with his second wife Jean Hale who appeared in the camp classic The Oscar (1966)

I don't think this has been mentioned yet -- he also made 2 guest appearances in 'Columbo' -- one as a police officer, and one as the murderer.

Threads like this one and posts like R28 are why I ❤️ DL.

I honestly thought he died years ago.

Wasn't he banging Schally Fields for a while?

I've always thought it was interesting that Dabney Coleman & Jane Fonda appeared together as boyfriend/girlfriend in "On Golden Pond" the year after they were in "9 to 5" together.

R5 He was in so many movies I watched as a child. 9 to 5 was his standout role. Perhaps we, as a society, took him for granted.

Dabney in a commercial for Diet Delight canned fruit.

Loved him in so many things but Tootsie is my favorite. Wasn’t his character’s name Ron??I loved how Dustin Hoffman would lose it over ever slight he felt Ron sent his way. He and Jessica Lange looked good together.

When I was a young teen in the early 90s I used to fantasize about lounging on a couch with him. Watching TV. Me resting in his lap. Then, at some point, he'd flip me over and fuck the hell out of me. Then, we'd go back to watching Moonlighting.

Ah, the imagination of youth.

Thanks for the memories Dab!

Loved it in "Tootsie," when Dorothy would go off on Ron, usually attired in his Charlton Heston polyester safari jacket!

R62 Jane Fonda asked him personally to play the part, because she loved working with him so much in 9 to 5.

As much as I enjoy Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in "Superman", I always wondered what Coleman would've done with that role and I think he would have been even better.

I think Luthor's dialog would've have perfectly suited for Coleman, but I think back then his stardom wasn't at the level of Hackman's.

Are you famous, R28?

Tom Hanks completely disappears in "You've Got Mail" when he shares a scene with Coleman who plays his womanizing Dad.

R36 I've never heard that.

Now he and Missy can be reunited in that big dego boat in the sky!

Rue Mcclanahan and him didn’t get along on Apple Pie.

Lily loved him.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see all the DC love - and a little lust. I thought I was the only one who kinda thought he was cute.

[quote]Rue Mcclanahan and him didn’t get along on Apple Pie.

Really? Any deets?

I thought he was hot in the ‘90s sitcom Drexel’s Class. Also starring were young AJ Langer, Brittany Murphy and Jason Biggs (on the floor at Dabney’s right).

Eric Braeden was an old friend. He took the role of Victor Newman on Y&R at Dabney’s suggestion.

Damn, that picture at R4. I didn’t realize he had such a hot ass.

[quote]Damn, that picture at [R4]. I didn’t realize he had such a hot ass.

Oh indeed, he did…

I remember watching Cloak and Dagger and wishing I was Henry Thomas (for obvious reasons).

No TCM tribute yet. They're still showing the one for Roger Corman.

R70, I am NOT famous! I was there along with a terrific actress named Dana Slamp and the wonderful Byron Jennings to read all the smaller utility parts (I had a short scene playing Anderson Cooper, I remember).

I remember a lot from that day, because I was the proverbial fly on the wall. Marlo (the terrace of her 5th Ave apartment was stunning; the rest of the decor not my taste) had catered this massive lunch, and poor Norbert Butz kept spilling food on the rug. Ana Gasteyer spent much of the day correcting everyone in the room on the pronunciation of her name (“It’s ‘Ahna’,” over and over again.) Kudisch was Kudisch… a windbag and a general fun sponge. And when Marlo brought up the Apple Tree Tony snub to Kristi Dawn, she squeaked, “Talk about a sucker punch!”

Then Phil shuffled out from his study, Elaine May and Stanley Donen arrived, we all gathered around the table and directed our dialogue into a squawk box that Marlo’s brother Tony was listening to in LA.

We finished. Marlo said, “Tony, what did you think?”

We hear a voice emanating from the intercom: “It stinks!”

And we all went home.

[quote]Rue Mcclanahan and him didn’t get along on Apple Pie.

Similarly, "and him" doesn't get along with the rest of the sentence.

Just die r85

[quote]Rue McClanahan and him didn’t get along on Apple Pie.

In this interview Rue says (at 2:35) that she and Norman Lear chose Dabney over Tony Curtis to play her "husband" in the series. Lear said of all his failed series, it was his favorite, but the clips I've seen from it suggest Tony dodged a bullet. It was cancelled after two episodes were aired, and one reviewer said, "Apple Pie leaves a bad taste." It was loosely based on a (bad) Steve Tesich play, "Baba Goya" (later retitled "Nourish the Beast").

[quote]Rue McClanahan and him didn’t get along on Apple Pie.

It's all in her memoir. Rue is pretty scathing, and says Dabney "behaved as if the series was his own private Idaho" and "the stress of dealing with his shenanigans had me pulling my hair out."

But what were the “shenanigans”?

Read her book.

Loved him in WarGames and Cloak and Dagger. RIP.

I would have loved to get up to some shenanigans with Dab around 1978.

A little Dab'll do ya.

He beat the shit out of me!

Bobbie Wygant interview DC about 9 to 5.

and Jane Fonda

and Dolly

I had to laugh when Jane asks Bobbie if she has seen the movie.

To be fair, R28, Kristin WAS snubbed for The Apple Tree.

Yes, she was, r99.

R99, I think her snub was a case of the nominators realizing that KC had an exceedingly small bag of tricks (something that the NY critics also realized about Raul Esparza after “Leap of Faith”, BTW).

It’s like Judy’s comment after Ray Bolger’s big number in “The Harvey Girls”:

“Same Goddamn dance in every movie…”

Don't underestimate Kristen's talent. She's far more talented than Barbara Cook.

[quote]Don't underestimate Kristen's talent. She's far more talented than Barbara Cook.

Well, yes, but only because Kristen is still alive.