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The New York Times reports:
Dabney Coleman, an award-winning television and movie actor best known for his over-the-top portrayals of garrulous, egomaniacal characters, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92. Mr. Coleman was equally adept at comedy and drama, but he received his greatest acclaim for his comic work — notably in the 1980 movie “9 to 5,” in which he played a thoroughly despicable boss.
Mr. Coleman would continue to play characters audiences loved to hate, notably the misogynist soap opera director in “Tootsie” (1982). But he also gave more nuanced performances, for instance as a judge in “Melvin and Howard” (1980), and a harried computer scientist in “WarGames” (1983). And while he remained best known for comedy, the only Emmy he won (he was nominated six times) was for a dramatic role, as a bedraggled lawyer in the 1987 television movie “Sworn to Silence.”
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Dabney Coleman was one of those actors that no matter what he was in, he was simply brilliant.
He made being a jerk an art form and often times, carried the movies he was in.
This town lost a legend. pic.twitter.com/o0BiXLeGE0
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) May 17, 2024
Dabney Coleman, one of the best-known character actors of the late 20th century, has died at the age of 92. Read more: https://t.co/J4nC5J8yx9 pic.twitter.com/ahCAv17Fit
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) May 17, 2024