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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 15, 1932
Place of Birth
Florida, USA
Also Known As
- Jack Dorsey
Joe Dorsey
0.4 Popularity
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
Known For
5.5
Caretaker
Pet Sematary II
1992
6.5
Sheriff
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992
7.3
Detective Roth
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
1992
6.0
Lt. Colonel DuBois
Capital News
1990
6.7
Opera Patron
Coach
1989
6.3
Col. Douglass
Bat★21
1988
5.5
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988
3.8
Birkenstock
Shadows in the Storm
1988
5.5
The Oldest Rookie
1987
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6.0
Mr. Halloran
Deadly Care
1987
Credits
Pet Sematary II
as Caretaker
1992
5.5
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
as Sheriff
1992
6.5
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
as Detective Roth
1992
7.3
Capital News
as Lt. Colonel DuBois
1990
6.0
Coach
as Opera Patron
1989
6.7
Bat★21
as Col. Douglass
1988
6.3
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988
5.5
Shadows in the Storm
as Birkenstock
1988
3.8
The Oldest Rookie
1987
5.5
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Deadly Care
as Mr. Halloran
1987
6.0
L.A. Law
as Al Becker
1986
7.0
Stewardess School
as Captain
1986
4.8
Club Paradise
as Data Processing Supervisor
1986
5.1
Real Genius
as Congressman
1985
6.7
Code of Vengeance
as Chief Milford Carsworth
1985
5.5
The Philadelphia Experiment
as Sheriff Bates
1984
6.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Harry Kingman
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Bennett J. Devlin
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Doc Schaeffer
1984
7.5
Cover Up
1984
6.6
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
Hunter
as Sgt. Louis Whitlow
1984
7.1
Blue Thunder
as Van Ark
1984
6.9
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
as Winfield Sheehan
1983
6.3
Brainstorm
as Hal Abramson
1983
6.3
WarGames
as Conley
1983
7.1
Voyagers!
1982
7.5
Remington Steele
as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
1982
7.1
T. J. Hooker
as Capt. Herb
1982
6.4
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Simon & Simon
as Frank
1981
6.7
Coward of the County
as Lem Gatlin
1981
6.2
Hill Street Blues
as Anthony Garibaldi
1981
7.6
Angel City
as Tom
1980
5.8
Hopscotch
as Security Guard
1980
7.0
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Jake
1980
7.2
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
as Gen. Edward Trafe
1980
4.6
The Prize Fighter
as Stranger
1979
4.8
The Great Santini
as Coach Spinks
1979
6.8
Wise Blood
as Stranger #4
1979
6.3
The Visitor
as Sheriff Paul Townsend
1979
5.2
Norma Rae
as Woodrow Thompson
1979
7.2
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Bill
1978
4.0
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
as Capt. Guthrie
1978
0.0
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
1977
5.6
Young Dan'l Boone
1977
5.0
Roots
as Calvert
1977
7.4
Project: Kill
as Sen. Walker (uncredited)
1976
4.6
Grizzly
as Charley Kittridge
1976
5.1
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Newlin Andrews
1976
6.0
The Longest Yard
as Bartender
1974
6.7