Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley
Born	Paul Dooley Brown February 22, 1928 (1928-02-22) Parkersburg, West Virginia, US
Occupation	Actor writer
Years active	1963–present
Spouse	Winnie Holzman (1984–present)
Children	Savannah Dooley (b. 1985)

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

Personal life

Dooley was born Paul Dooley Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. Dooley was a 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 Dooley (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 and The Second City troupe in NYC, 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, which the character Paul the Gorilla was named after, and appeared in commercials.

Besides appearing in many movies, including most notably Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Breaking Away, and the voice of Sarge in the Disney/Pixar film Cars and its sequel Cars 2. 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 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like The Wonder Years, 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.

In 2010, Dooley played the part of the head chef at Camp Victory, a fictional fat camp, on the short-lived ABC Family original series Huge.

Filmography

• Fore Play (1975)
• Slap Shot (1977)
• A Wedding (1978)
• A Perfect Couple (1979)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Rich Kids (1979)
• Popeye (1980)
• Paternity (1981)
• Endangered Species (1982)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
• Strange Brew (1983)
• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Monster in the Closet (1986)
• O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
• Lip Service (1988)
• Last Rites (1988)
• When He's Not a Stranger (1989) (TV)
• Flashback (1990)
• White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)
• The Player (1992)
• Shakes the Clown (1992)
• State of Emergency (1993)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
• Evolver (1994)
• The Underneath (1994)
• Out There (1995)
• God's Lonely Man (1996)
• Millennium (1996) (TV)
• Angels in the Endzone (1997)
• Telling Lies in America (1997)
• Waiting for Guffman (1997)
• Clockwatchers (1998)
• Happy, Texas (movie) (1999)
• Guinevere (1999)
• Runaway Bride (1999)
• A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
• Insomnia (2002)
• Crazy Little Thing (2003)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• Come Away Home (2005)
• Madison (2005)
• Cars (2006)
• Hairspray (2007)
• Scrubs (2009) (TV)
• Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
• Huge (2010) (TV)
• Cars 2 (2011)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appearances

• "The Wire"
• "Improbable Cause"
• "The Die is Cast"
• "In Purgatory's Shadow"

External links

• Paul Dooley at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Dooley at Yahoo! Movies
• Paul Dooley at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)