Joe Dorsey

Joe Dorsey

92 · Born: Jan 15, 1932

Personal Details

Born Jan 15, 1932 Florida, USA

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

Career

1992
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1990
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote as Bennett J. Devlin
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1988
Shadows in the Storm
Shadows in the Storm as Birkenstock
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Bat*21
Bat*21 as Col. Douglass
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1987
Deadly Care
Deadly Care as Mr. Halloran
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1985
Remington Steele
Remington Steele as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
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1984
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment as Sheriff Bates
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1983
WarGames
WarGames as Conley
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Brainstorm
Brainstorm as Hal Abramson
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess as Winfield Sheehan
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1982
Voyagers!
Voyagers!
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Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon
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1981
Coward of the County
Coward of the County as Lem Gatlin
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1979
The Visitor
The Visitor as Sheriff Paul Townsend
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1978
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Disneyland
Disneyland as Capt. Guthrie
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1976
Grizzly
Grizzly as Charley Kittridge
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