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Birthday: Jan 15, 1932
Place of Birth: Florida, USA

Joe Dorsey

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

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