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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Pet Sematary II
1992
as Caretaker
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
1992
as Sheriff
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
1992
as Detective Roth
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
1988
as Col. Douglass
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
1988
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
1988
as Birkenstock
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
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
1986
as Captain
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
1986
as Data Processing Supervisor
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
1985
as Congressman
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
1985
as Chief Milford Carsworth
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
1984
as Sheriff Bates
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
1983
as Winfield Sheehan
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

Brainstorm
1983
as Hal Abramson
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results wh...

WarGames
1983
as Conley
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
1981
as Lem Gatlin
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
1980
as Tom
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
1980
as Security Guard
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
1980
as Gen. Edward Trafe
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
1979
as Stranger
"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
1979
as Coach Spinks
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
1979
as Stranger #4
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
1979
as Sheriff Paul Townsend
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
1979
as Woodrow Thompson
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
1978
as Bill
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
1978
as Capt. Guthrie
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
1977
as Lt. Edward P. Doherty
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
1976
as Sen. Walker (uncredited)
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.

Grizzly
1976
as Charley Kittridge
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
1976
as Newlin Andrews
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
1974
as Bartender
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...