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Joe Dorsey

Actor · Born 1932-01-15 · Florida, USA

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. WarGames (1983) — Conley
  2. Pet Sematary II (1992) — Caretaker
  3. Real Genius (1985) — Congressman
  4. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Harry Kingman
  5. The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) — Sheriff Bates
  6. The Longest Yard (1974) — Bartender
  7. Brainstorm (1983) — Hal Abramson
  8. Roots (1977) — Calvert
  9. Bat★21 (1988) — Col. Douglass
  10. Norma Rae (1979) — Woodrow Thompson
  11. Highway to Heaven (1984)
  12. Hopscotch (1980) — Security Guard
  13. Grizzly (1976) — Charley Kittridge
  14. Remington Steele (1982) — Sheriff Dwight Clifford
  15. Hill Street Blues (1981) — Anthony Garibaldi
  16. Blue Thunder (1984) — Van Ark
  17. The Visitor (1979) — Sheriff Paul Townsend
  18. Wise Blood (1979) — Stranger #4
  19. Club Paradise (1986) — Data Processing Supervisor
  20. T. J. Hooker (1982) — Capt. Herb
  21. Hunter (1984) — Sgt. Louis Whitlow
  22. Simon & Simon (1981)
  23. Voyagers! (1982)
  24. L.A. Law (1986) — Al Becker
  25. The Great Santini (1979) — Coach Spinks
  26. Coach (1989) — Opera Patron
  27. Stewardess School (1986) — Captain
  28. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) — Jake
  29. Frank Nitti: The Enforcer (1988)
  30. Cover Up (1984)
  31. Coward of the County (1981) — Lem Gatlin
  32. The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977) — Lt. Edward P. Doherty
  33. Project: Kill (1976) — Sen. Walker (uncredited)
  34. They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978) — Bill
  35. Shadows in the Storm (1988) — Birkenstock
  36. The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980) — Gen. Edward Trafe
  37. Angel City (1980) — Tom
  38. The Prize Fighter (1979) — Stranger
  39. Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983) — Winfield Sheehan
  40. The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton (1992) — Sheriff