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Joe Dorsey

ActingBorn January 15, 1932 (age 94)Florida, USA

Biography

Well-known and supported actor Joe Dorsey started acting in the early 70s, with The Mean Machine (1974). Though his acting career had just started, he got a great role which would also be his most remembered role as the greedy "Parks Supervisor Kittridge" in the 1976 box office hit Grizzly (1976). Dorsey got a great amount of profits with his second film. He then went on to supporting roles throughout the seventies in films like The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977), Wise Blood (1979) and The Prize Fighter (1979). His next remembered role was as "Coach Spinks" in The Great Santini (1979) and, by 1980, Dorsey was just getting better in Hopscotch (1980) and WarGames (1983). Dorsey occasionally took breaks from acting for golfing, going on a vacation and visiting family, until he was offered a role as a scientist in the science fiction box office smash with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in Brainstorm (1983). Dorsey was shocked when his new best friend (Wood) died during filming. Brainstorm (1983) and Grizzly (1976) were both Dorsey's greatest so far. He later did other films like Real Genius (1985), Club Paradise (1986), Stewardess School (1986), and the epic war drama Bat*21 (1988). As the 90s rolled, Dorsey was in Pet Sematary II (1992) and appeared uncredited in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). He then worked with his relative Alexander Dorsey in Killing Midnight (1997) as "Anthony Cambers". Dorsey also has other relatives in films like actress Sandra Dorsey and his other relatives owned a music industry in the 50s. Dorsey also does Broadway plays. Actually lives in the coast of Colon, Republic of Panama

Filmography

1992
Pet Sematary II

as Caretaker

Movie
1990
Capital News

as Lt. Colonel DuBois

TV
1989
Coach

as Opera Patron

TV
1988
Bat★21

as Col. Douglass

Movie
1988
Shadows in the Storm

as Birkenstock

Movie
1987
Deadly Care

as Mr. Halloran

Movie
1986
L.A. Law

as Al Becker

TV
1986Movie
1986
Club Paradise

as Data Processing Supervisor

Movie
1985
Real Genius

as Congressman

Movie
1985
Code of Vengeance

as Chief Milford Carsworth

Movie
1984Movie
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Harry Kingman

TV
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Bennett J. Devlin

TV
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Doc Schaeffer

TV
1984TV
1984
Highway to Heaven

as Luke Morgan

TV
1984
Hunter

as Sgt. Louis Whitlow

TV
1984
Blue Thunder

as Van Ark

TV
1983Movie
1983
Brainstorm

as Hal Abramson

Movie
1983
WarGames

as Conley

Movie
1982TV
1982
Remington Steele

as Sheriff Dwight Clifford

TV
1982
T. J. Hooker

as Capt. Herb

TV
1981TV
1981Movie
1981
Hill Street Blues

as Anthony Garibaldi

TV
1980Movie
1980
Hopscotch

as Security Guard

Movie
1980
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

as Gen. Edward Trafe

Movie
1979Movie
1979
The Great Santini

as Coach Spinks

Movie
1979
Wise Blood

as Stranger #4

Movie
1979
The Visitor

as Sheriff Paul Townsend

Movie
1979
Norma Rae

as Woodrow Thompson

Movie
1978Movie
1977
The Lincoln Conspiracy

as Lt. Edward P. Doherty

Movie
1977
Roots

as Calvert

TV
1976
Project: Kill

as Sen. Walker (uncredited)

Movie
1976
Grizzly

as Charley Kittridge

Movie
1976Movie
1974
The Longest Yard

as Bartender

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJanuary 15, 1932
Place of BirthFlorida, USA
Popularity0.6