0.4Acting

Joe Dorsey

Jan 15, 1932 - Florida, USA

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

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie1983WarGamesConley
Movie1980HopscotchSecurity Guard
Movie1979The Great SantiniCoach Spinks
Movie1987Deadly CareMr. Halloran
Movie1979The Prize FighterStranger
Movie1981Coward of the CountyLem Gatlin
Movie1980Angel CityTom
Movie1977The Lincoln ConspiracyLt. Edward P. Doherty
Movie1976GrizzlyCharley Kittridge
Movie1988Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Movie1979Wise BloodStranger #4
Movie1988Shadows in the StormBirkenstock
Movie1979Norma RaeWoodrow Thompson
Movie1978They Went That-A-Way & That-A-WayBill
Movie1974The Longest YardBartender
Movie1984The Philadelphia ExperimentSheriff Bates
Movie1986Stewardess SchoolCaptain
Movie1983Rita Hayworth: The Love GoddessWinfield Sheehan
Movie1985Code of VengeanceChief Milford Carsworth
Movie1980The Ordeal of Dr. MuddGen. Edward Trafe
Movie1992The Secret Passion of Robert ClaytonSheriff
Movie1988Bat★21Col. Douglass
Movie1979The VisitorSheriff Paul Townsend
Movie1978The Million Dollar Dixie DeliveranceCapt. Guthrie
Movie1992Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer StoryDetective Roth
Movie1976Judge Horton and the Scottsboro BoysNewlin Andrews
Movie1983BrainstormHal Abramson
Movie1985Real GeniusCongressman
Movie1992Pet Sematary IICaretaker
Movie1976Project: KillSen. Walker (uncredited)
Movie1986Club ParadiseData Processing Supervisor
TV Show1984Murder, She WroteHarry Kingman2
TV Show1982Remington SteeleSheriff Dwight Clifford1
TV Show1982T. J. HookerCapt. Herb1
TV Show1986L.A. LawAl Becker1
TV Show1981Simon & Simon1
TV Show1984Highway to Heaven1
TV Show1982Voyagers!1
TV Show1984Cover Up1
TV Show1984HunterSgt. Louis Whitlow1
TV Show1977Young Dan'l Boone1
TV Show1984Murder, She WroteBennett J. Devlin3
TV Show1987The Oldest Rookie1
TV Show1980Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim JonesJake2
TV Show1984Murder, She WroteDoc Schaeffer1
TV Show1989CoachOpera Patron1
TV Show1990Capital NewsLt. Colonel DuBois1
TV Show1981Hill Street BluesAnthony Garibaldi1
TV Show1981Simon & SimonFrank1
TV Show1984Blue ThunderVan Ark1

Crew

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