Lily Tomlin, Morgan Fairchild and Ben Stiller have led tributes to "one-of-a-kind" actor Dabney Coleman following his demise aged 92.

Coleman made his profession taking part in comedic villains, mean-spirited bosses and villains in movies together with 9 to five and Tootsie, in addition to taking part in Commodore Louis Kaestner in Boardwalk Empire.

Lily Tomlin, who starred alongside him in 9 To 5 with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, stated: "We just loved him."

In her publish to X, the actress shared a photograph of her character Violet Newstead wearing a Snow White costume beside a tense-looking Coleman as her egotistical boss Franklin Hart Jr.

Morgan Fairchild, who starred in Falcon Crest and Friends, described Coleman as a "great one".

"So very sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful #DabneyColeman", she wrote on X alongside a black and white picture of them collectively.

"We went out for a bit in the '80s and I adored him. This town has lost one of a kind!"

Coleman "took his last earthly breath peacefully and exquisitely" in his Santa Monica residence on Thursday, his daughter stated in an announcement on Friday on behalf of the household.

"My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humour that tickled the funny bone of humanity", she stated.

"As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery."

Ben Stiller, Zoolander and Meet The Parents actor, praised Coleman for paving the best way for character actors.

"The great Dabney Coleman literally created, or defined, really - in a uniquely singular way - an archetype as a character actor.

"He was so good at what he did it is laborious to think about films and tv of the final 40 years with out him."

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Coleman starred in plenty of movies and TV collection within the Nineteen Sixties, then made his breakthrough as a corrupt mayor within the satirical cleaning soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, in 1976.

His movie credit embody a pc scientist in WarGames, Tom Hanks' father in You've Got Mail and a chief firefighter in The Towering Inferno.

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He received a finest actor Golden Globe for The Slap Maxwell Story and an Emmy for finest supporting actor in Peter Levin's 1987 authorized drama Sworn To Silence.

Coleman additionally received two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a part of the solid of crime drama Boardwalk Empire and obtained Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his starring position within the NBC sitcom Buffalo Bill.

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