Joe Dorsey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1932 (age 94)
- Birthplace
- Florida, USA
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
Filmography
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Movie · as Sheriff
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Movie · as Detective Roth
Pet Sematary II
Movie · as Caretaker
Capital News
TV · as Lt. Colonel DuBois · 1 ep
Coach
TV · as Opera Patron · 1 ep
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Movie
Shadows in the Storm
Movie · as Birkenstock
Bat★21
Movie · as Col. Douglass
Deadly Care
Movie · as Mr. Halloran
The Oldest Rookie
TV · 1 ep
Stewardess School
Movie · as Captain
Club Paradise
Movie · as Data Processing Supervisor
L.A. Law
TV · as Al Becker · 1 ep
Code of Vengeance
Movie · as Chief Milford Carsworth
Real Genius
Movie · as Congressman
The Philadelphia Experiment
Movie · as Sheriff Bates
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Harry Kingman, Bennett J. Devlin, Doc Schaeffer · 2 eps
Highway to Heaven
TV · as Luke Morgan · 1 ep
Cover Up
TV · 1 ep
Hunter
TV · as Sgt. Louis Whitlow · 1 ep
Blue Thunder
TV · as Van Ark · 1 ep
WarGames
Movie · as Conley
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Movie · as Winfield Sheehan
Brainstorm
Movie · as Hal Abramson
Remington Steele
TV · as Sheriff Dwight Clifford · 1 ep
T. J. Hooker
TV · as Capt. Herb · 1 ep
Voyagers!
TV · 1 ep
Coward of the County
Movie · as Lem Gatlin
Simon & Simon
TV · as Frank · 1 ep
Hill Street Blues
TV · as Anthony Garibaldi · 1 ep
Hopscotch
Movie · as Security Guard
Angel City
Movie · as Tom
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Movie · as Gen. Edward Trafe
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV · as Jake · 2 eps
The Great Santini
Movie · as Coach Spinks
The Prize Fighter
Movie · as Stranger
Wise Blood
Movie · as Stranger #4
Norma Rae
Movie · as Woodrow Thompson
The Visitor
Movie · as Sheriff Paul Townsend
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie · as Bill
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Movie · as Capt. Guthrie
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Movie · as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
Young Dan'l Boone
TV · as Jake · 1 ep
Roots
TV · as Calvert · 1 ep
Grizzly
Movie · as Charley Kittridge
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie · as Newlin Andrews
Project: Kill
Movie · as Sen. Walker (uncredited)
The Longest Yard
Movie · as Bartender