Joe Dorsey

Joe Dorsey

Born: January 15, 1932
in Florida, USA
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

Movies for Joe Dorsey...

Pet Sematary II
Title: Pet Sematary II
Character: Caretaker
Released: August 28, 1992
Type: Movie
The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
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The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Title: The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 4, 1992
Type: Movie
The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defense. To make matters worse, both attorneys are in love with the wife of the accused.
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Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Title: Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Character: Detective Roth
Released: March 15, 1992
Type: Movie
True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had happened to them to speak out.
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Bat★21
Title: Bat★21
Character: Col. Douglass
Released: July 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
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Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Title: Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Released: April 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. The result is an engrossing glimpse into mob life in the early 20th century.
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Shadows in the Storm
Title: Shadows in the Storm
Character: Birkenstock
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. The morning after he arrives, he meets a beautiful, mysterious woman named Melanie. She happens to look just like the woman he keeps seeing in his dreams. Thelonius and Melanie meet each other on the shore of a nearby river late at night. Melanie's husband finds them, and attacks Thelonius. Melanie pulls out a pistol and fires 3 shots, knocking her husband's body into the icy river below. The nightmare has begun...
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Title: The Oldest Rookie
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
The Oldest Rookie is an American crime drama that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to January 13, 1988. The series stars Paul Sorvino as Officer Ike Porter, a middle-aged deputy chief in charge of public relations that decides to leave his desk job to become a street cop, and D.W. Moffett as Detective Tony Jonas, his young new partner.
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Deadly Care
Title: Deadly Care
Character: Mr. Halloran
Released: March 22, 1987
Type: Movie
True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Al Becker
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Stewardess School
Title: Stewardess School
Character: Captain
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
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Real Genius
Title: Real Genius
Character: Congressman
Released: August 7, 1985
Type: Movie
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
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Code of Vengeance
Title: Code of Vengeance
Character: Chief Milford Carsworth
Released: June 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter helps a young, single mother avenge her brother's murder and finds himself the target of a gang of dope smugglers on the Mexican border.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Bennett J. Devlin
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Harry Kingman
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Cover Up
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: TV
Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from September 22, 1984 to April 6, 1985. Created by Glen A. Larson, the series stars Jennifer O'Neill, Jon-Erik Hexum, Antony Hamilton, and Richard Anderson.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Sgt. Louis Whitlow
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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The Philadelphia Experiment
Title: The Philadelphia Experiment
Character: Sheriff Bates
Released: August 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Title: Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Character: Winfield Sheehan
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
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Brainstorm
Title: Brainstorm
Character: Hal Abramson
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
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WarGames
Title: WarGames
Character: Conley
Released: June 3, 1983
Type: Movie
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
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Title: Voyagers!
Released: October 3, 1982
Type: TV
Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Sheriff Dwight Clifford
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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Coward of the County
Title: Coward of the County
Character: Lem Gatlin
Released: October 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Angel City
Title: Angel City
Character: Tom
Released: November 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
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Hopscotch
Title: Hopscotch
Character: Security Guard
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
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Title: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Character: Jake
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Title: The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Character: Gen. Edward Trafe
Released: March 25, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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The Prize Fighter
Title: The Prize Fighter
Character: Stranger
Released: November 2, 1979
Type: Movie
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
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The Great Santini
Title: The Great Santini
Character: Coach Spinks
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: Movie
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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Wise Blood
Title: Wise Blood
Character: Stranger #4
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Character: Sheriff Paul Townsend
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
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Norma Rae
Title: Norma Rae
Character: Woodrow Thompson
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Title: They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Character: Bill
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
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The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Title: The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Character: Capt. Guthrie
Released: February 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps them escape after they perform the necessary surgery to remove the bullet from his leg. But they are captured again, and it takes a lucky Union army attack to save them.
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
Title: The Lincoln Conspiracy
Character: Lt. Edward P. Doherty
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.
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Title: Young Dan'l Boone
Released: September 12, 1977
Type: TV
Young Dan'l Boone is a short-lived TV series broadcast on CBS for only four episodes from September 12 to October 10, 1977. The series followed Daniel Boone on his adventures before he was married. His 3 companions were Peter Dawes, a 12-year-old English boy, a runaway slave named Hawk, and a Cherokee named Tsiskwa. Meanwhile, Rebecca Bryan waits at home hoping she and Daniel would marry someday.
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Grizzly
Title: Grizzly
Character: Charley Kittridge
Released: May 21, 1976
Type: Movie
An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Title: Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Character: Newlin Andrews
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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The Longest Yard
Title: The Longest Yard
Character: Bartender
Released: August 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.