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Joe Dorsey
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…
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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
Filmography
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1992
Pet Sematary II
Movie Caretaker
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1992
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Movie Sheriff
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1992
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Movie Detective Roth
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1990
Capital News
TV show Lt. Colonel DuBois
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1989
Coach
TV show Opera Patron
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1988
Bat★21
Movie Col. Douglass
- 1988
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1988
Shadows in the Storm
Movie Birkenstock
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1987
The Oldest Rookie
TV show
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1987
Deadly Care
Movie Mr. Halloran
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1986
L.A. Law
TV show Al Becker
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1986
Stewardess School
Movie Captain
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1986
Club Paradise
Movie Data Processing Supervisor
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1985
Real Genius
Movie Congressman
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1985
Code of Vengeance
Movie Chief Milford Carsworth
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1984
The Philadelphia Experiment
Movie Sheriff Bates
More credits
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Harry Kingman
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1984
Cover Up
TV show
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1984
Highway to Heaven
TV show
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1984
Hunter
TV show Sgt. Louis Whitlow
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1984
Blue Thunder
TV show Van Ark
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1983
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Movie Winfield Sheehan
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1983
Brainstorm
Movie Hal Abramson
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1983
WarGames
Movie Conley
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1982
Voyagers!
TV show
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1982
Remington Steele
TV show Sheriff Dwight Clifford
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1982
T. J. Hooker
TV show Capt. Herb
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1981
Simon & Simon
TV show
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1981
Coward of the County
Movie Lem Gatlin
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1981
Hill Street Blues
TV show Anthony Garibaldi
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1980
Angel City
Movie Tom
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1980
Hopscotch
Movie Security Guard
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1980
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV show Jake
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1980
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Movie Gen. Edward Trafe
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1979
The Prize Fighter
Movie Stranger
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1979
The Great Santini
Movie Coach Spinks
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1979
Wise Blood
Movie Stranger #4
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1979
The Visitor
Movie Sheriff Paul Townsend
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1979
Norma Rae
Movie Woodrow Thompson
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1978
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie Bill
