Opposite Dustin Hoffman in"Tootsie," Dabney Coleman was the obnoxious director of a daytime soap opera that Hoffman's character joins by pretending to be a woman.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. He was 92.
He won a Golden Globe for “The Slap Maxwell Story” and an Emmy Award for best supporting actor in Peter Levin’s 1987 small screen legal drama “Sworn to Silence.” Some of his recent credits include “Ray Donovan” and a recurring role on “Boardwalk Empire,” for which he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Coleman's obnoxious characters didn't translate quite as well on television, where he starred in a handful of network comedies. Although some became cult favorites, only one lasted longer than two seasons, and some critics questioned whether a series starring a lead character with absolutely no redeeming qualities could attract a mass audience.
Other failed attempts to find a mass TV audience included"Apple Pie,""Drexell’s Class" and"Madman of the People," another newspaper show in which he clashed this time with his younger boss, who was also his daughter. As he aged, he also began to put his mark on pompous authority figures, notably in 1998's"My Date With the President's Daughter," in which he was not only an egotistical, self-absorbed president of the United States, but also a clueless father to a teenager girl.
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