Joe Dorsey

Birthday: 1932-01-15
Birthplace: Florida, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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

Credits

Year Title Character
1992-08-28 Pet Sematary II Caretaker
1992-06-04 The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton Sheriff
1992-03-15 Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story Detective Roth
1988-07-21 Bat★21 Col. Douglass
1988-04-17 Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988-01-01 Shadows in the Storm Birkenstock
1987-03-22 Deadly Care Mr. Halloran
1986-08-01 Stewardess School Captain
1985-08-07 Real Genius Congressman
1985-06-30 Code of Vengeance Chief Milford Carsworth
1984-10-05 The Philadelphia Experiment Sheriff Bates
1983-11-01 Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess Winfield Sheehan
1983-09-30 Brainstorm Hal Abramson
1983-06-03 WarGames Conley
1981-10-07 Coward of the County Lem Gatlin
1980-11-12 Angel City Tom
1980-09-26 Hopscotch Security Guard
1980-03-25 The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd Gen. Edward Trafe
1979-11-02 The Prize Fighter Stranger
1979-10-26 The Great Santini Coach Spinks
1979-10-24 Wise Blood Stranger #4
1979-03-14 The Visitor Sheriff Paul Townsend
1979-03-02 Norma Rae Woodrow Thompson
1978-12-01 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way Bill
1978-02-05 The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance Capt. Guthrie
1977-10-01 The Lincoln Conspiracy Lt. Edward P. Doherty
1976-10-01 Project: Kill Sen. Walker (uncredited)
1976-05-21 Grizzly Charley Kittridge
1976-04-22 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys Newlin Andrews
1974-08-21 The Longest Yard Bartender