The great Dabney Coleman literally created, or defined, really in a uniquely singular way an archetype as a character actor. He was so good at what he did it's hard to imagine movies and television of the last 40 years without him.
For two decades Coleman labored in movies and TV shows as a talented but largely unnoticed performer. That changed abruptly in 1976 when he was cast as the incorrigibly corrupt mayor of the hamlet of Fernwood in 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' a satirical soap opera that was so over the top no network would touch it.
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.'
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