Dabney Coleman appears on the set of "Courting Alex" at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2006. 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.
A six-footer with an ample black mustache, Coleman went on to make his mark in numerous popular films, including as a stressed out computer scientist in "War Games," Tom Hanks' father in "You've Got Mail" and a fire fighting official in "The Towering Inferno." Opposite Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie," he was the obnoxious director of a daytime soap opera that Hoffman's character joins by pretending to be a woman. Among Coleman's other films were "North Dallas Forty," "Cloak and Dagger," "Dragnet," "Meet the Applegates," "Inspector Gadget" and "Stuart Little." He reunited with Hoffman as a land developer in Brad Silberling's "Moonlight Mile" with Jake Gyllenhaal.
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. Dabney Coleman -- his real name -- was born in 1932 in Austin, Texas After two years at the Virginia Military Academy, two at the University of Texas and two in the Army, he was a 26-year-old law student when he met another Austin native, Zachry Scott, who starred in "Mildred Pierce" and other films.
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Friday claimed to have shot down an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone. The U.S. military did not immediately acknowledge the incident.A person wanted in connection with the random assault on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month was taken into custody Friday, police said.
Adopted daughter in the Netherlands reunited with sister in Montreal and mother in Colombia, 40 years later British Columbia's provincial government implemented new rules to limit short-term housing at the start of May. But those working to solve the housing crisis Albertans are facing aren't convinced such rules are needed here.Business owners cast doubts on their future in Ottawa's ByWard Market, Rideau Street, poll shows
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