Paul Dooley

Gender: Male
Born: 22nd February 1928 (currently 84 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: ALF, Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales, Coming of Age, Huge, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hopeless Pictures, Mad About You, Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, Faerie Tale Theatre
Movies: A Perfect Couple, Angels in the Endzone, Cars, Evolver, Health, Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Strange Brew, Mater and the Ghostlight, Monster in the Closet, Flashback, Hairspray, Insomnia, Runaway Bride, Last Rites, Health Quiz: Vol. 2, State of Emergency, Come Away Home, Comfort and Joy, The Murder of Mary Phagan, Breaking Away, O.C. and Stiggs, Paternity, Endangered Species, Clockwatchers, Sunshine Cleaning, The Underneath, Chronic Town, White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd, Guinevere, I'll Remember April, Going Berserk, Big Trouble, Crazy Little Thing, A Mighty Wind, Happy, Texas, Shakes the Clown, Telling Lies in America, God's Lonely Man, A Wedding, Madison, A Woman's a Helluva Thing, Rich Kids, Kiss Me Goodbye, Mother of the Bride, Error in Judgment, The Out-of-Towners, The Horsemen, Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride, Employee of the Month, Thanks, Loved, Thanks

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

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).

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

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