Opposite Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie," Dabney Coleman was the obnoxious director of a daytime soap opera that Hoffman's character joins by pretending to be a.
Dabney Coleman was also an award-winning television actor, winning an Emmy for "Sworn to Silence" and a Golden Globe for the sitcom "The Slap Maxwell Story."
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Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. He was 92.
In the groundbreaking 1980 hit "9 to 5," Coleman was the “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” boss who tormented his unappreciated female underlings.