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Coleman followed 9 to 5 with the role of the arrogant, sexist, soap opera director in Tootsie (1982), also directed by Sydney Pollack.
Jan 31, 1992 · It offered an impeccable cast in Jessica Lange (who won a best supporting actress Oscar), Charles Durning, Terri Garr, Dabney Coleman, an uncredited Bill Murray and Geena Davis in her first...
May 19, 2024 · Coleman had been intended to play the hero’s agent George Fields, but after Hoffman persuaded Tootsie’s director Sydney Pollack to take on that role, Coleman was reassigned as the boorish...
Dec 17, 1982 · Tootsie: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman. Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
May 17, 2024 · His first film, in 1965, was also Sydney Pollack’s first as a director: “The Slender Thread,” a suspense drama starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft.
May 19, 2024 · His first movie job was 1965’s The Slender Thread, directed by his acting teacher and friend, Sydney Pollack, who would later hire him for Tootsie. Coleman’s breakout role – and the one he...
May 17, 2024 · In Tootsie (1982), directed by his longtime friend and mentor Sydney Pollack, Coleman played the sexist TV director who’s dating an actress (Jessica Lange) on his soap opera, Southwest...
