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  1. Coleman followed 9 to 5 with the role of the arrogant, sexist, soap opera director in Tootsie (1982), also directed by Sydney Pollack.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

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  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0084805Tootsie (1982) - IMDb

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

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  8. 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...