Joe Dorsey

Acting

Joe Dorsey

Born
(age 94)
Birthplace
Florida, USA
Credits
48 titles

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 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

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 48

YearTitleRole
1992 Pet Sematary II Film Caretaker
1992 The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton Film Sheriff
1992 Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story Film Detective Roth
1990 Capital News TV Lt. Colonel DuBois (1 ep)
1989 Coach TV Opera Patron (1 ep)
1988 Bat★21 Film Col. Douglass
1988 Frank Nitti: The Enforcer Film
1988 Shadows in the Storm Film Birkenstock
1987 The Oldest Rookie TV (1 ep)
1987 Deadly Care Film Mr. Halloran
1986 L.A. Law TV Al Becker (1 ep)
1986 Stewardess School Film Captain
1986 Club Paradise Film Data Processing Supervisor
1985 Real Genius Film Congressman
1985 Code of Vengeance Film Chief Milford Carsworth
1984 The Philadelphia Experiment Film Sheriff Bates
1984 Murder, She Wrote TV Harry Kingman, Bennett J. Devlin, Doc Schaeffer (2 ep)
1984 Cover Up TV (1 ep)
1984 Highway to Heaven TV Luke Morgan (1 ep)
1984 Hunter TV Sgt. Louis Whitlow (1 ep)
1984 Blue Thunder TV Van Ark (1 ep)
1983 Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess Film Winfield Sheehan
1983 Brainstorm Film Hal Abramson
1983 WarGames Film Conley
1982 Voyagers! TV (1 ep)
1982 Remington Steele TV Sheriff Dwight Clifford (1 ep)
1982 T. J. Hooker TV Capt. Herb (1 ep)
1981 Simon & Simon TV Frank (1 ep)
1981 Coward of the County Film Lem Gatlin
1981 Hill Street Blues TV Anthony Garibaldi (1 ep)
1980 Angel City Film Tom
1980 Hopscotch Film Security Guard
1980 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones TV Jake (2 ep)
1980 The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd Film Gen. Edward Trafe
1979 The Prize Fighter Film Stranger
1979 The Great Santini Film Coach Spinks
1979 Wise Blood Film Stranger #4
1979 The Visitor Film Sheriff Paul Townsend
1979 Norma Rae Film Woodrow Thompson
1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way Film Bill
1978 The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance Film Capt. Guthrie
1977 The Lincoln Conspiracy Film Lt. Edward P. Doherty
1977 Young Dan'l Boone TV Jake (1 ep)
1977 Roots TV Calvert (1 ep)
1976 Project: Kill Film Sen. Walker (uncredited)
1976 Grizzly Film Charley Kittridge
1976 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys Film Newlin Andrews
1974 The Longest Yard Film Bartender
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