Education
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan.
Coffield worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. He is best known for his role in the film Cry Rape!. His other films include Times Square (1980) and Neil Simon"s Only When I Laugh.
Coffield guest starred on several television shows throughout the "70s and early "80s, including The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Eight Is Enough, Wide World Mystery, Family, and Love, Sidney, and he acted in television movies such as Washington: Behind Closed Doors, and The Manitoba Without a Country.
He also performed in several plays on Broadway, including Hamlet (1969), Abelard and Heloise (1971), The Merchant of Venice (1973), Tartuffe (1977), and The Manitoba Who Came to Dinner (1980). In addition to Broadway, Coffield had key roles in Misalliance at the Roundabout Theater, in A. R. Gurney"s Middle Ages at the Hartman Theater in Stamford, Connecticut, and in South. North. Behrman"s Number Time for Comedy at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, and he performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and at the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival Theater in San Diego.
In The New York Times review of Coffield"s performance as a homosexual student in Abelard and Heloise, theater critic Walter Kerr wrote, "Making a mask of his broad, handsome face, Mr. Coffield went about his chores deftly, confidently, with clear and virile purpose.
Saying little, he seemed to think a great deal: thought can be a scene-thief, it turns out.".