FrameThrower · Actors · Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman
2 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–1998
Born 3 January 1932 · Austin, Texas, USA · died 16 May 2024
Dabney Wharton Coleman was an American actor. Coleman's best known films include 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), You've Got Mail (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), Recess: School's Out (2001), Moonlight Mile (2002), and Rules Don't Apply (2016).
Coleman's television roles included the title characters of Buffalo Bill (1983–1984) and The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988), as well as Burton Fallin on The Guardian (2001–2004), the voice of Principal Peter Prickly on Recess (1997–2001), and Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner on Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–1998
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy1987
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2011
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1987
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Mary Pickford Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 235 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dabney takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Dabney takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 235 frames from Dabney Coleman's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.