PAUL DOOLEY

'Paul Dooley' (born February 22, 1928) is an American character actor.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

Deep Space Nine appearances

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Dooley was born 'Paul Brown' in Parkersburg, West Virginia to Ruth Irene (Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker.^[1] Dooley was a keen cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. He is married to writer Winnie Holzman, with whom he has one daughter, Savannah (born 1985).

Career

Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a standup comedian for five years, and a member of the Compass Players, as well as having brief stints as a magician and as a clown. Not afraid of trying different areas of entertainment, he also worked as a writer. He was one of the writers on ''The Electric Company'' and appeared in commercials.
Besides appearing in many movies, including most notably ''Popeye'' and ''Breaking Away'', Dooley has also appeared as a variety of recurrent characters on numerous television shows, including ''My So-Called Life'', ''Dream On'', ''Grace Under Fire'', ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''ALF'' (playing Whizzer Deaver) and '' where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', ''The Golden Girls'', and ''Desperate Housewives''. In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as an eccentric judge on ''The Practice''. He was also in the infamous alternate ending to ''Little Shop of Horrors'', but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut.
His most famous role was in 1984's Sixteen Candles in which he played the understanding father of the character played by Molly Ringwald, Samantha Baker. Recently, he voiced the character Sarge in Pixar's ''Cars''.

Filmography

★ ''Hairspray'' (2007)

★ ''Cars'' (2006)

★ ''Come Away Home'' (2005)

★ ''Madison'' (2005)

★ ''Crazy Little Thing'' (2003)

★ ''A Mighty Wind'' (2003)

★ ''Insomnia'' (2002)

★ ''A Woman's a Helluva Thing'' (2001)

★ ''Happy, Texas'' (1999)

★ ''Guinevere'' (1999)

★ ''Runaway Bride'' (1999)

★ ''Clockwatchers'' (1998)

★ ''Angels in the EndZone'' (1997)

★ ''Telling Lies in America'' (1997)

★ ''Waiting for Guffman'' (1997)

★ ''God's Lonely Man'' (1996)

★ ''Out There'' (1995)

★ ''Evolver'' (1994)

★ ''The Underneath'' (1994)

★ ''State of Emergency'' (1993)

★ ''A Dangerous Woman'' (1993)

★ ''My Boyfriend's Back'' (1993)

★ ''The Player'' (1992)

★ ''Shakes the Clown'' (1992)

★ ''White Hot - The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd'' (1991)

★ ''Flashback'' (1990)

★ ''Lip Service'' (1988)

★ ''Last Rites'' (1988)

★ ''O.C. & Stiggs'' (1987)

★ ''Monster in the Closet'' (1986)

★ ''Sixteen Candles'' (1984)

★ ''Strange Brew'' (1983)

★ ''Endangered Species'' (1982)

★ ''Kiss Me Goodbye'' (1982)

★ ''Popeye'' (1980)

★ ''Breaking Away'' (1979)

★ ''Rich Kids'' (1979)

★ ''A Wedding'' (1978)

★ ''Slap Shot'' (1977)

★ ''Foreplay'' (1975)

Deep Space Nine appearances

★ "The Wire"

★ "Improbable Cause"

★ "The Die is Cast"

★ "In Purgatory's Shadow"

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/36/Paul-Dooley.html

External links

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