Dolph Sweet: Once a cop, always a cop?

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jarrodmcdonald-1 — 9 years ago(August 05, 2016 06:37 PM)

I am watching a 1961 film called THE YOUNG DOCTORS tonight. Dolph Sweet is credited as a police car driver. It's his very first screen appearance.
In the 70s he played a police chief for five years on the NBC daytime soap 'Another World.'
Then in the 80s, he finished out his career as the chief on 'Gimme a Break!'so we can either say he was incredibly typecast, or else he was just plain good at these kinds of roles and born to play them.

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stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 04:50 PM)

Hello, again. In regards to that, since he was this heavy set NY character actor, the role of cop just fit him. I play a cop a lot of times in community theater myself.

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jarrodmcdonald-1 — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 08:25 PM)

That's a great comment Steve. Thanks for sharing.
In the movie THE YOUNG DOCTORS, Dolph doesn't come on till the very end. And he's much younger but the voice is an instant giveaway.

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stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(August 18, 2016 02:09 AM)

Here's another cop role he did: He was the Sheriff in the film version of Finian's Rainbow.

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jarrodmcdonald-1 — 9 years ago(August 18, 2016 10:44 AM)

Here's another cop role he did: He was the Sheriff in the film version of Finian's Rainbow.
I didn't know about that. Interesting!

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stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(November 16, 2016 01:23 AM)

Well, of course he is much younger! It's an older film. Same thing with Finian's Rainbow in 1968. Look on here for his credits on TV and film. He had a good amount.