Joe Dorsey

1932-01-15 Florida, USA 31 Credits

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 Figh...

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Pet Sematary II

Pet Sematary II

1992

as Caretaker

5.5
Acting

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 acc...

The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton

The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton

1992

as Sheriff

6.5
Acting

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 defen...

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

1992

as Detective Roth

7.3
Acting

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 ha...

Bat★21

Bat★21

1988

as Col. Douglass

6.3
Acting

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...

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer

1988

5.5
Acting

Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic ...

Shadows in the Storm

Shadows in the Storm

1988

as Birkenstock

4.2
Acting

A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. The morning after he arrives, he meets a beautif...

Deadly Care

1987

as Mr. Halloran

6.0
Acting

True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.

Stewardess School

Stewardess School

1986

as Captain

4.8
Acting

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 ...

Club Paradise

Club Paradise

1986

as Data Processing Supervisor

5.1
Acting

When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they...

Real Genius

Real Genius

1985

as Congressman

6.7
Acting

When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they d...

Code of Vengeance

Code of Vengeance

1985

as Chief Milford Carsworth

5.5
Acting

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 smu...

The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment

1984

as Sheriff Bates

6.1
Acting

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 t...

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

1983

as Winfield Sheehan

6.3
Acting

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

Brainstorm

Brainstorm

1983

as Hal Abramson

6.2
Acting

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results wh...

WarGames

WarGames

1983

as Conley

7.1
Acting

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 unwitt...

Coward of the County

Coward of the County

1981

as Lem Gatlin

6.2
Acting

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.

Angel City

Angel City

1980

as Tom

5.8
Acting

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.

Hopscotch

Hopscotch

1980

as Security Guard

7.0
Acting

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destro...

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

1980

as Gen. Edward Trafe

4.0
Acting

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 Abraha...

The Prize Fighter

The Prize Fighter

1979

as Stranger

4.8
Acting

"Bags" the boxer (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 tou...

The Great Santini

The Great Santini

1979

as Coach Spinks

6.7
Acting

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated ma...

Wise Blood

Wise Blood

1979

as Stranger #4

6.3
Acting

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...

The Visitor

The Visitor

1979

as Sheriff Paul Townsend

5.2
Acting

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.

Norma Rae

Norma Rae

1979

as Woodrow Thompson

7.2
Acting

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

1978

as Bill

4.0
Acting

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 hi...

The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance

The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance

1978

as Capt. Guthrie

Acting

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...

The Lincoln Conspiracy

The Lincoln Conspiracy

1977

as Lt. Edward P. Doherty

5.6
Acting

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assa...

Project: Kill

Project: Kill

1976

as Sen. Walker (uncredited)

4.6
Acting

A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.

Grizzly

Grizzly

1976

as Charley Kittridge

5.0
Acting

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 captur...

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

1976

as Newlin Andrews

6.0
Acting

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 tha...

The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

1974

as Bartender

6.7
Acting

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...