Dolly Parton described her “9 to 5” co-star Dabney Coleman as “funny, deep and smart.” Dolly Parton is mourning her co-star and longtime friend Dabney Coleman. “He taught me so much when I was doing my first movie, 9 to 5.” The pair met while filming the 1980s classic, which also starred Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Love, Dolly.” Tomlin …
By Bill Trott HT Image May 17 - Dabney Coleman, a character actor who brought a glorious touch of smarm to the screen in playing comedic villains, mean-spirited bosses and outright jerks in films such as "9 to 5" and "Tootsie," has died at age 92. Coleman "took his last earthly breath peacefully and exquisitely" in his Santa Monica, California …
FILE - Actor Dabney Coleman poses at his home in Brentwood, Calif., Sept. 8, 1991. via Associated Press NEW YORK — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died. A six-footer with an ample black mustache, Coleman went on to …
NEW YORK — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died. She said he “took his last earthly breath peacefully and exquisitely.” “The great Dabney Coleman literally created, or defined, really — in a uniquely singular way — an archetype …
Dabney Coleman, the beloved character actor who famously played the dastardly cad overseeing Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in the movie “9 to 5,” has died. I don’t want to do jokes,” the actor told The Times in 1991, when he gained a reputation as the king of TV curmudgeons in the unconventional TV comedies “Mary Hartman, Mary …
