Dakin Matthews

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Producer
Soundtrack

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Waitress: The Musical (2023)

From February 2014 Dakin is taking on the iconic role of Mickey, the grizzled no-mercy trainer in ROCKY, THE MUSICAL at Broadway's Winter Gardens Theatre. This role was originally played by veteran screen actor Burgess Meredith in the original 1976 movie and he received an Academy award nomination for his achievement.

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Known for

Chucky 3

5.2

Colonel Cochrane

1991

True Grit

7.6

Col. Stonehill

2010

John Cleese, Jack Palance, James Arrington, Liz Callaway, Lex de Azevedo, Sandy Duncan, Davis Gaines, Jonathan Hadary, Mark Harelik, Dakin Matthews, Howard McGillin, Joel McKinnon Miller, Michelle Nicastro, Tom Alan Robbins, Steve Vinovich, Steven Wright, and David Zippel in Le cygne et la princesse (1994)

Le cygne et la princesse

6.4

King William(voice)

1994

Lincoln

7.3

John Usher

2012

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Actor

Étoile
7.5
TV Series
- Harlan
- 2025
Chicago Med
7.6
TV Series
- Art Hubbard
- 2024
Birds Eye View
Short
- Owen
- 2023
The Gilded Age
8.1
TV Series
- Joshua Winterton
- 2023
Waitress: The Musical
7.8
- Joe
- Josie
- 2023
Why Women Kill
8.3
TV Series
- Father Tim
- 2021
Bluff City Law
6.9
TV Series
- Buzzy Bedford
- 2019
Evil
7.8
TV Series
- Father Augustus
- 2019
Instinct
6.7
TV Series
- Judge Brooks
- 2018
Le Résident
7.8
TV Series
- Howie Green
- 2018
Gotham
7.8
TV Series
- Dr. Niles Winthrop
- 2017
Doubt
5.9
TV Series
- Judge Halloran
- 2017
Gilmore Girls: Une nouvelle année
7.5
TV Mini Series
- Headmaster Charleston
- 2016
Madam Secretary
7.8
TV Series
- Ambassador Roy Curtis
- 2016
Crunch Time
6.9
TV Mini Series
- Richardson
- 2016

Producer

Soundtrack

Videos9

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True Grit: "Click" TV Trailer

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True Grit: Trailer #2

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True Grit: Trailer #2

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True Grit

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Waitress: The Musical

Personal details

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Height
- 1.75 m
Born
- November 7, 1940
- Oakland, California, USA
Spouse
- Anne Marie McNaughtonJune 22, 1969 - present (4 children)
Other works
Plays Dick Cheney in "Stuff Happens," written by David Hare at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Trivia
Taught drama at Juilliard and is an Emeritus Professor of English from California State University. Among his former students are Kevin Kline, Annette Bening and Patti LuPone.

Quotes
It's difficult for younger actors in L.A. since TV has gone in a different direction with reality shows. You can become a TV personality without any skills or technique, just based on your looks and a willingness to be publicly humiliated.