Joe Dorsey
Acting
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
TV Shows(17)

Capital News
Lt. Colonel DuBois
1990

Coach
Opera Patron
1989

The Oldest Rookie
1987

L.A. Law
Al Becker
1986

Murder, She Wrote
Harry Kingman
1984

Cover Up
1984

Highway to Heaven
1984

Hunter
Sgt. Louis Whitlow
1984

Blue Thunder
Van Ark
1984

Voyagers!
1982

Remington Steele
Sheriff Dwight Clifford
1982

T. J. Hooker
Capt. Herb
1982

Simon & Simon
1981

Hill Street Blues
Anthony Garibaldi
1981

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Jake
1980

Young Dan'l Boone
1977

Roots
Calvert
1977
Movies(31)

Pet Sematary II
Caretaker
1992

The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Sheriff
1992

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Detective Roth
1992

Bat*21
Col. Douglass
1988

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988

Shadows in the Storm
Birkenstock
1988

Deadly Care
Mr. Halloran
1987

Stewardess School
Captain
1986

Club Paradise
Data Processing Supervisor
1986

Real Genius
Congressman
1985

Code of Vengeance
Chief Milford Carsworth
1985

The Philadelphia Experiment
Sheriff Bates
1984

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Winfield Sheehan
1983

Brainstorm
Hal Abramson
1983

WarGames
Conley
1983

Coward of the County
Lem Gatlin
1981

Angel City
Tom
1980

Hopscotch
Security Guard
1980

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Gen. Edward Trafe
1980

The Prize Fighter
Stranger
1979

The Great Santini
Coach Spinks
1979

Wise Blood
Stranger #4
1979

The Visitor
Sheriff Paul Townsend
1979

Norma Rae
Woodrow Thompson
1979

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Bill
1978

The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Capt. Guthrie
1978

The Lincoln Conspiracy
Lt. Edward P. Doherty
1977

Project: Kill
Sen. Walker (uncredited)
1976

Grizzly
Charley Kittridge
1976

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Newlin Andrews
1976

The Longest Yard
Bartender
1974