Veteran actor Dabney Coleman , whose decades-long career in Hollywood included memorable roles in 9 to 5 and Tootsie and an Emmy award, has died at the age of 92, according to The Hollywood Reporter .

Coleman had a long career in theater, film and television before playing sexist boss Franklin Hart Jr. in the 1980 hit comedy 9 to 5 , alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. After that movie’s success, Coleman became a familiar face to moviegoers throughout the 1980s, with roles in Tootsie , WarGames , On Golden Pond , Cloak & Dagger and The Muppets Take Manhattan . He also starred as a cop who became reckless on the job when he believed he had a terminal illness in 1990’s Short Time .

Coleman’s career on the small screen was just as impressive, with a notable turn on Norman Lear’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman followed by an acclaimed two-season run as a self-centered talk show host on NBC’s Buffalo Bill that earned him an Emmy nomination. He later starred on ABC’s The Slap Maxwell Story and NBC’s Madman of the People , the latter of which briefly ran between Seinfeld and ER in NBC’s Must See TV Thursday night lineup. He won an Emmy in 1987 for best supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for the TV movie Sworn to Silence .

More recently, Coleman starred opposite Simon Baker in the CBS drama The Guardian , which ran from 2001 to 2004. He went on to play Nucky’s mentor Commodore Louis Kastner on the HBO gangster drama Boardwalk Empire . His most recent TV role was a guest spot as John Dutton Sr., the father of Kevin Costner’s character, on a 2019 episode of Yellowstone .

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