Joe Dorsey

Born: 1932-01-15

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


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Pet Sematary II

as Caretaker
Released: 1992-08-28

The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are...

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as Conley
Released: 1983-06-03

High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a...

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The Longest Yard

as Bartender
Released: 1974-08-21

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison...

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The Philadelphia Experiment

as Sheriff Bates
Released: 1984-10-05

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that...

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Real Genius

as Congressman
Released: 1985-08-07

Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid....

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Hopscotch

as Security Guard
Released: 1980-09-26

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens...

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The Visitor

as Sheriff Paul Townsend
Released: 1979-03-14

An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to...

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Norma Rae

as Woodrow Thompson
Released: 1979-03-02

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working...

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Bat★21

as Col. Douglass
Released: 1988-07-21

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot...

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Grizzly

as Charley Kittridge
Released: 1976-05-21

An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger...

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Wise Blood

as Stranger #4
Released: 1979-10-24

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the...

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Frank Nitti: The Enforcer

as uncredited
Released: 1988-04-17

Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti...

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Stewardess School

as Captain
Released: 1986-08-01

A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see...

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Coward of the County

as Lem Gatlin
Released: 1981-10-07

A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody...

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Brainstorm

as Hal Abramson
Released: 1983-09-30

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back...

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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

as Bill
Released: 1978-12-01

Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as...

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The Great Santini

as Coach Spinks
Released: 1979-10-26

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male...

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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

as Newlin Andrews
Released: 1976-04-22

In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the...

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Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

as Detective Roth
Released: 1992-03-15

True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and...

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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

as Gen. Edward Trafe
Released: 1980-03-25

The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by...

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The Prize Fighter

as Stranger
Released: 1979-11-02

"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair:...

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The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance

as Capt. Guthrie
Released: 1978-02-05

A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee...

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The Lincoln Conspiracy

as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
Released: 1977-10-01

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada...

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The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton

as Sheriff
Released: 1992-06-04

The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper....

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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

as Winfield Sheehan
Released: 1983-11-01

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

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Code of Vengeance

as Chief Milford Carsworth
Released: 1985-06-30

A Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter helps a young, single mother avenge her brother's...

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Angel City

as Tom
Released: 1980-11-12

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no...

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Shadows in the Storm

as Birkenstock
Released: 1988-01-01

A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Harry Kingman
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Bennett J. Devlin
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Doc Schaeffer
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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L.A. Law

as Al Becker
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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Hill Street Blues

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-01-15

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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Highway to Heaven

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-19

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

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Simon & Simon

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-24

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...

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T. J. Hooker

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-03-13

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who...

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Remington Steele

as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
First aired: 1982-10-01

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential...

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Coach

as Opera Patron
First aired: 1989-02-28

Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football...

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Hunter

as Sgt. Louis Whitlow
First aired: 1984-09-18

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...

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Voyagers!

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-03

A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world...

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Cover Up

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-22

Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from...

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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

as Jake
First aired: 1980-04-15

The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.

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The Oldest Rookie

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-16

The Oldest Rookie is an American crime drama that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to...

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