
Acting
Joe Dorsey
EN cinema · 31 credits
Born
15 January 1932 (age 94)
Birthplace
Florida, USA
Also known as Jack Dorsey
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

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

Pet Sematary II
as Caretaker

Shadows in the Storm
as Birkenstock

Bat★21
as Col. Douglass

Deadly Care
as Mr. Halloran

Stewardess School
as Captain

Club Paradise
as Data Processing Supervisor

Code of Vengeance
as Chief Milford Carsworth

Real Genius
as Congressman

The Philadelphia Experiment
as Sheriff Bates

WarGames
as Conley

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
as Winfield Sheehan

Brainstorm
as Hal Abramson

Coward of the County
as Lem Gatlin

Hopscotch
as Security Guard

Angel City
as Tom

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
as Gen. Edward Trafe

The Great Santini
as Coach Spinks

The Prize Fighter
as Stranger

Wise Blood
as Stranger #4

Norma Rae
as Woodrow Thompson

The Visitor
as Sheriff Paul Townsend

The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
as Capt. Guthrie

The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Lt. Edward P. Doherty

Grizzly
as Charley Kittridge

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Newlin Andrews

Project: Kill
as Sen. Walker (uncredited)

The Longest Yard
as Bartender




