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 (48)
MOVIE★ 5.5Pet Sematary II1992as Caretaker
MOVIE★ 6.6The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton1992as Sheriff
MOVIE★ 8.0Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story1992as Detective Roth
TV★ 6.5Capital News1990as Lt. Colonel DuBois
TV★ 6.6Coach1989as Opera Patron
MOVIE★ 6.3Bat★211988as Col. Douglass
MOVIE★ 5.8Frank Nitti: The Enforcer1988
MOVIE★ 4.6Shadows in the Storm1988as Birkenstock
TV★ 7.0The Oldest Rookie1987
MOVIE★ 6.7Deadly Care1987as Mr. Halloran
TV★ 7.1L.A. Law1986as Al Becker
MOVIE★ 4.9Stewardess School1986as Captain
MOVIE★ 5.2Club Paradise1986as Data Processing Supervisor
MOVIE★ 6.7Real Genius1985as Congressman
MOVIE★ 7.0Code of Vengeance1985as Chief Milford Carsworth
MOVIE★ 6.1The Philadelphia Experiment1984as Sheriff Bates
TV★ 7.5Murder, She Wrote1984as Harry Kingman
TV★ 6.9Cover Up1984
TV★ 7.4Highway to Heaven1984
TV★ 7.1Hunter1984as Sgt. Louis Whitlow
TV★ 6.9Blue Thunder1984as Van Ark
MOVIE★ 7.0Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess1983as Winfield Sheehan
MOVIE★ 6.3Brainstorm1983as Hal Abramson
MOVIE★ 7.1WarGames1983as Conley
TV★ 7.5Voyagers!1982
TV★ 7.1Remington Steele1982as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
TV★ 6.5T. J. Hooker1982as Capt. Herb
TV★ 6.7Simon & Simon1981
MOVIE★ 6.5Coward of the County1981as Lem Gatlin
TV★ 7.6Hill Street Blues1981as Anthony Garibaldi
MOVIE★ 6.0Angel City1980as Tom
MOVIE★ 7.0Hopscotch1980as Security Guard
TV★ 7.3Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones1980as Jake
MOVIE★ 5.0The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd1980as Gen. Edward Trafe
MOVIE★ 4.8The Prize Fighter1979as Stranger
MOVIE★ 6.8The Great Santini1979as Coach Spinks
MOVIE★ 6.4Wise Blood1979as Stranger #4
MOVIE★ 5.3The Visitor1979as Sheriff Paul Townsend
MOVIE★ 7.2Norma Rae1979as Woodrow Thompson
MOVIE★ 4.4They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way1978as Bill
MOVIEThe Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance1978as Capt. Guthrie
MOVIE★ 6.0The Lincoln Conspiracy1977as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
TV★ 7.0Young Dan'l Boone1977
TV★ 7.3Roots1977as Calvert
MOVIE★ 5.1Project: Kill1976as Sen. Walker (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.2Grizzly1976as Charley Kittridge
MOVIE★ 7.5Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys1976as Newlin Andrews
MOVIE★ 6.7The Longest Yard1974as Bartender