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
Acting History
1992
Pet Sematary II as Caretaker
1992The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton as Sheriff
1992Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story as Detective Roth
1990Capital News as Lt. Colonel DuBois
1989Coach as Opera Patron
1988Bat★21 as Col. Douglass
1988Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988Shadows in the Storm as Birkenstock
1987The Oldest Rookie
1987Deadly Care as Mr. Halloran
1986L.A. Law as Al Becker
1986Stewardess School as Captain
1986Club Paradise as Data Processing Supervisor
1985Real Genius as Congressman
1985Code of Vengeance as Chief Milford Carsworth
1984The Philadelphia Experiment as Sheriff Bates
1984Murder, She Wrote as Harry Kingman
1984Murder, She Wrote as Bennett J. Devlin
1984Murder, She Wrote as Doc Schaeffer
1984Cover Up
1984Highway to Heaven
1984Hunter as Sgt. Louis Whitlow
1984Blue Thunder as Van Ark
1983Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess as Winfield Sheehan
1983Brainstorm as Hal Abramson
1983WarGames as Conley
1982Voyagers!
1982Remington Steele as Sheriff Dwight Clifford
1982T. J. Hooker as Capt. Herb
1981Simon & Simon
1981Simon & Simon as Frank
1981Coward of the County as Lem Gatlin
1981Hill Street Blues as Anthony Garibaldi
1980Angel City as Tom
1980Hopscotch as Security Guard
1980Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Jake
1980The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd as Gen. Edward Trafe
1979The Prize Fighter as Stranger
1979The Great Santini as Coach Spinks
1979Wise Blood as Stranger #4
1979The Visitor as Sheriff Paul Townsend
1979Norma Rae as Woodrow Thompson
1978They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Bill
1978The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance as Capt. Guthrie
1977The Lincoln Conspiracy as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
1977Young Dan'l Boone
1977Roots as Calvert
1976Project: Kill as Sen. Walker (uncredited)
1976Grizzly as Charley Kittridge
1976Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Newlin Andrews
1974The Longest Yard as Bartender






