| Paul Dooley | |
| Born | February 22, 1928 Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Winnie Holzman |
| Children | Daughter (Savannah) b. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Winnie Holzman (born in 1954 in New York City) is an award-winning American dramatist screenwriter and poet 1985 |
Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American character actor. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A character actor is an Actor who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading ones
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Dooley was born Paul Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née 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. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes 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). Winnie Holzman (born in 1954 in New York City) is an award-winning American dramatist screenwriter and poet
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. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience with the absence of the theatrical " Fourth wall " Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by their Grotesque appearance colored wigs stylistic makeup, outlandish Costumes unusually 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. The Electric Company is an educational American Children's television series which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop A television advertisement or television commercial (often just commercial or advert (US or ad (UK is a span of television programming produced
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 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. Popeye is a 1980 Live-action Film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E Breaking Away is a 1979 film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they My So-Called Life was an American Television Teen drama created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz Dream On is a cult American adult Situation comedy about Martin Tupper a dreamer whose life is full of colorful characters Grace Under Fire is a television series which ran on ABC from 1993 to 1998. Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American Sitcom starring Seinfeld writer co-creator and executive producer Larry David as himself and ALF is a half-hour American Television Sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990 and was created by Paul Fusco This is a list of minor characters from the Science fiction television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. He guest starred in other primetime shows like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, and Desperate Housewives. Sabrina the Teenage Witch was an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, Desperate Housewives is an American Television Dramedy series created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as Show runner, and produced In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as an eccentric judge on The Practice. In popular usage eccentricity refers to unusual or odd Behavior on the part of an individual A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law The Practice is a American Legal drama created by David E Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston He was also in the infamous alternate ending to Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut. Little Shop of Horrors is the 1986 musical Film adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical comedy of the same name James Adam "Jim" Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American Actor, Comedian and Musician, the younger brother
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. Sixteen Candles is a 1984 Coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American Actress, Singer and Dancer. Recently, he played the main sponsor of The Corny Collins Show, Mr. Harriman F. Spritzer in Hairspray. Hairspray is a 2007 Musical film produced by Zadan / Meron Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema.