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Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown on February 22, 1928 in Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an American character actor.

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. 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, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Desperate Housewives. 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.

He is married to writer Winnie Holzman, with whom he has one daughter, Savannah (born 1985).

• 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)

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

• Paul Dooley at Yahoo movies
• Paul Dooley at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Dooley article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.

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