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