Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman
Dabney Wharton Colemanis an American actor best known for roles in the films On Golden Pond, 9 to 5, Cloak & Dagger, Tootsie, WarGames, You've Got Mail and on television as Burton Fallin on the CBS series The Guardian, Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, the title character in the NBC series Buffalo Bill and the voice of Principal Prickly in the animated series Recess...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 January 1932
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
Then they made an extra out of me and I stood around in a crowd, but I got paid for an actor job, not an extra. And that was my first part.
There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.