Joe Dorsey
Acting • Born 1932-01-15
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
Filmography
51 credits
WarGames
Movie • 1983
Conley
Hopscotch
Movie • 1980
Security Guard
The Great Santini
Movie • 1979
Coach Spinks
Deadly Care
Movie • 1987
Mr. Halloran
The Prize Fighter
Movie • 1979
Stranger
Coward of the County
Movie • 1981
Lem Gatlin
Angel City
Movie • 1980
Tom
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Movie • 1977
Lt. Edward P. Doherty
Grizzly
Movie • 1976
Charley Kittridge
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Movie • 1988
Wise Blood
Movie • 1979
Stranger #4
Shadows in the Storm
Movie • 1988
Birkenstock
Norma Rae
Movie • 1979
Woodrow Thompson
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie • 1978
Bill
The Longest Yard
Movie • 1974
Bartender
The Philadelphia Experiment
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Bates
Stewardess School
Movie • 1986
Captain
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Movie • 1983
Winfield Sheehan
Code of Vengeance
Movie • 1985
Chief Milford Carsworth
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Movie • 1980
Gen. Edward Trafe
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Movie • 1992
Sheriff
Bat★21
Movie • 1988
Col. Douglass
The Visitor
Movie • 1979
Sheriff Paul Townsend
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Movie • 1978
Capt. Guthrie
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Movie • 1992
Detective Roth
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie • 1976
Newlin Andrews
Real Genius
Movie • 1985
Congressman
Brainstorm
Movie • 1983
Hal Abramson
Pet Sematary II
Movie • 1992
Caretaker
Project: Kill
Movie • 1976
Sen. Walker (uncredited)
Club Paradise
Movie • 1986
Data Processing Supervisor
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Harry Kingman
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Sheriff Dwight Clifford
T. J. Hooker
TV • 1982
Capt. Herb
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Al Becker
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Voyagers!
TV • 1982
Cover Up
TV • 1984
Hunter
TV • 1984
Sgt. Louis Whitlow
Young Dan'l Boone
TV • 1977
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Bennett J. Devlin
The Oldest Rookie
TV • 1987
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV • 1980
Jake
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Doc Schaeffer
Coach
TV • 1989
Opera Patron
Capital News
TV • 1990
Lt. Colonel DuBois
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Anthony Garibaldi
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Frank
Blue Thunder
TV • 1984
Van Ark
Roots
TV • 1977
Calvert