Trivia

Diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but took part in a clinical trial which remedied his sight from 20-400 to 20-40 in just a week (2000).

Served for two years in the United States Army's Special Services Division.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6141 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 6, 2014.

A very good tennis player, Dabney gave tennis lessons in the 1960s.

Barry Kemp originally wrote the role of Coach Hayden Fox for Coleman on Coach (1989). However, Coleman became unavailable when Kemp pitched the sitcom to distributor Universal and network ABC, and the role went to Craig T. Nelson instead.

Didn't have a successful television series until he was age 69.

Auditioned for the role of Professor Roy Hinkley on La isla de Gilligan (1964), which went to Russell Johnson.

Was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Class of 1953... left after two years.

Attended the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1950s.

He starred on his own situation comedy, Buffalo Bill (1983), during 1983-84, in which he played an egotistical, chauvinistic talk show host.

Acting mentor and friends with Simon Baker.

Is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity from the Texas Beta Chapter at the University of Texas.

Entered VMI (the prestigious Virginia Military Institute) in 1949, but wound up studying law at the University of Texas and then theater in New York.

The March 10, 1982, issue of Variety announced the film "The Glory Road", directed by Marjoe Gortner starring Gary Busey, Dabney Coleman and Mary Crosby, began filming February 1, 1982, filming suspended February 8, 1982. The film went bankrupt and was never completed.

Has English, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Swiss-German ancestry.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 112-113. New York: Facts on File (1992). ISBN 0816023387.

He comes from the same city as Ethan Hawke and Steve Austin.

Has five grandchildren.

Best known by the public for his starring role as Burton Fallin in El Guardián (2001).