Paul Dooley
Acting • Born 1928-02-22
Biography
Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown; February 22, 1928) is an American character actor, writer, and comedian. He is known for his roles in Breaking Away, Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Strange Brew and many Christopher Guest mockumentaries. He co-created the PBS show The Electric Company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Dooley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
182 credits
Insomnia
Movie • 2002
Chief Nyback
Cars
Movie • 2006
Sarge (voice)
Bedtime Stories
Movie • 2008
Hot Dog Vendor
The Player
Movie • 1992
Paul Dooley
Hairspray
Movie • 2007
Mr. Spritzer
Runaway Bride
Movie • 1999
Walter Carpenter
Breaking Away
Movie • 1979
Ray Stoller
Popeye
Movie • 1980
Wimpy
Going Berserk
Movie • 1983
Dr. Ted
God's Lonely Man
Movie • 1996
Polo
Shakes the Clown
Movie • 1991
Owen Cheese
O.C. and Stiggs
Movie • 1987
Randall Schwab
Strange Brew
Movie • 1983
Claude Elsinore
Flashback
Movie • 1990
Stark
Mater and the Ghostlight
Movie • 2006
Sarge (voice)
The Underneath
Movie • 1995
Ed Dutton
Frogs!
Movie • 1991
Twittenham
Up the Sandbox
Movie • 1972
Statue of Liberty Guard
Sixteen Candles
Movie • 1984
Jim Baker
Guinevere
Movie • 1999
Walter
Touch 'Em All McCall
Movie • 2003
A Wedding
Movie • 1978
Snooks Brenner
Endangered Species
Movie • 1982
Joe Hiatt
Evolver
Movie • 1995
Jerry Briggs
Horsemen
Movie • 2009
Father Whiteleather
Monster in the Closet
Movie • 1986
Roy Crane
Kiss Me Goodbye
Movie • 1982
Kendall
Paternity
Movie • 1981
Kurt
Loved
Movie • 1997
Leo Amerson
HealtH
Movie • 1980
Dr. Gil Gainey
Chronic Town
Movie • 2008
Eleanor's Father
Clockwatchers
Movie • 1997
Bud Chapman
The Holy Man
Movie • 2016
Lou 'The Bull' Devine
Rich Kids
Movie • 1979
Simon Peterfreund
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Movie • 1992
Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Norrell
Last Rites
Movie • 1988
Father Freddie
Big Trouble
Movie • 1986
George Noozel
A Perfect Couple
Movie • 1979
Alex Theodopoulos
A Dangerous Woman
Movie • 1993
Tupperware Salesman
See China and Die
Movie • 1981
Ames Prescott
Fore Play
Movie • 1975
Salesman
UFO Cafe
Movie • 1990
Doc
Come Away Home
Movie • 2005
Grandpa Donald
State of Emergency
Movie • 1994
Jim Anderson
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Movie • 1968
Vic
Mother of the Bride
Movie • 1993
Richard
The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
Movie • 2023
Self – Interviewee (voice)
Boy Makes Girl
Movie • 2023
Ben
Simple Gifts
Movie • 1977
(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
Telling Lies in America
Movie • 1997
Father Norton
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movie • 1983
Museum Security Guard
Cooperstown
Movie • 1993
Sid Wiggins
Cars 2
Movie • 2011
Sarge (voice)
Employee of the Month
Movie • 2004
Reverend Ben Goodwin
My Boyfriend's Back
Movie • 1993
Big Chuck
Selfie Dad
Movie • 2020
Barber
Death Wish
Movie • 1974
Cop at Hospital (uncredited)
Angels in the Endzone
Movie • 1997
Coach Buck
When He's Not a Stranger
Movie • 1989
Ben McKenna
Nobody Knows Anything!
Movie • 2004
Warden
Man in the Square Suit
Movie • 1966
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
Movie • 1989
Robert McFarlane
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Movie • 1990
Happy, Texas
Movie • 1999
The Judge
For Your Consideration
Movie • 2006
Paper Badge Sergeant
Other People
Movie • 2016
Ronnie
A Woman's a Helluva Thing
Movie • 2001
Hank Luckinbill
Howard, Howard and Howard
Movie • 1965
The Out-of-Towners
Movie • 1970
Day Desk Clerk at Hotel
A Mighty Wind
Movie • 2003
George Menschell
Waiting for Guffman
Movie • 1997
UFO Abductee
My Santa
Movie • 2013
Martin
Rumpelstiltskin
Movie • 1982
The Miller
Hansel and Gretel
Movie • 1983
Father
Madison
Movie • 2005
Mayor Don Vaughn
Comfort and Joy
Movie • 2003
George
Sunshine Cleaning
Movie • 2008
Sherm
Cars 3
Movie • 2017
Sarge (voice)
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Movie • 1993
Chester Caruso
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Movie • 1988
John Buxton
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Movie • 1991
Hal Roach
The Dion Brothers
Movie • 1974
Doctor
Thanks
Movie • 2011
Hank
The Parisienne and the Prudes
Movie • 1964
Ted K. Worrie
Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
Movie • 2007
Self
Hiccups
Movie • 2013
Sarge (voice)
Spinning
Movie • 2013
Sarge (voice)
The Radiator Springs 500½
Movie • 2014
Sarge (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Movie • 2018
Self
The Perfect You
Movie • 2002
Larry
Lip Service
Movie • 1988
Gil Hutchinson
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Movie • 1982
Detective
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
Movie • 1977
Gazooks (voice)
Error in Judgment
Movie • 1999
Jack Albert
Out There
Movie • 1995
Emmett Davis
Slap Shot
Movie • 1977
Hyannisport Announcer
Rennie's Landing
Movie • 2001
Hank
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
Movie • 2008
Himself
The Steel Collar Man
Movie • 1985
Don Liddle
I'll Remember April
Movie • 1999
Earl Schimmel
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Movie • 1995
Senator Thatch
The Gesture and The Word
Movie • 2020
Mr. Rostalle
Turbo
Movie • 2013
The Foreman (voice)
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
Movie • 2003
Dean Duaney
Saving Paradise
Movie • 2021
Gramps
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
Qiana
Movie
Norman Pasco
The Night the Animals Talked
Movie • 1970
(voice)
Capture the Flag
Movie
Burgess
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
Movie • 2001
Hank the Janitor/Mall Santa
The Wilder Summer
Movie • 1983
Grubbins
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Karl Bullen
The Ben Stiller Show
TV • 1992
Mad About You
TV • 1992
Gus Stemple
Duckman
TV • 1994
Stan (voice)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Buddy Ween
Once and Again
TV • 1999
thirtysomething
TV • 1987
Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Addison Prudy
Providence
TV • 1999
Bill Ridley
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Isaac Q. Newton
Early Edition
TV • 1996
McGinty
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Randolph (segment "Forever Ambergris")
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Side Order of Life
TV • 2007
Grace Under Fire
TV • 1993
Dharma & Greg
TV • 1997
Judge Harper
The Practice
TV • 1997
Judge Philip Swackheim
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Father
Millennium
TV • 1996
Joe Bangs
The Wonder Years
TV • 1988
Pops
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Cheryl's Father
ALF
TV • 1986
Whizzer
Get Smart
TV • 1965
Hanlon
The Huntress
TV • 2000
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Photographer
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Walter McTeague
ER
TV • 1994
Henry Lewis
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Judge Wendel Donahue
High Society
TV • 1995
Mel
Coming of Age
TV • 1988
Hopeless Pictures
TV • 2005
Huge
TV • 2010
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Father Michael (voice)
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Chester Caruso
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Dr. Walter Tapley
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
TV • 1996
Ralphie
The Client List
TV • 2012
Earl Hudson
Merry Happy Whatever
TV • 2019
Grandpa Jack
Childrens Hospital
TV • 2008
Grandpa Ben
My So-Called Life
TV • 1994
Chuck Wood
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The Miller
Parenthood
TV • 2010
Rocky
The Murder of Mary Phagan
TV • 1988
William Burns
The Guest Book
TV • 2017
Becker
TV • 1998
Mr. Lerner
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Stan Coffman
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Enabran Tain
Ally McBeal
TV • 1997
Nicholas Engblume
Life in Pieces
TV • 2015
Mort
The Good Doctor
TV • 2017
Glen
Tales of the City
TV • 1993
Herb Tolliver
Dream On
TV • 1990
Mickey Tupper
Modern Family
TV • 2009
Murray
Hot in Cleveland
TV • 2010
Bearded Man aka Santa
American Dad!
TV • 2005
(voice)
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Red
The Geena Davis Show
TV • 2000
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
George Corliss
Ellen
TV • 1994
Thomas Kelsey
Coach
TV • 1989
Horace Van Dam
Shameless
TV • 2011
Ralph
Private Practice
TV • 2007
Abe Nussbaum
The Jake Effect
TV • 2006
Mr. Bernthal
Super Fun Night
TV • 2013
The Old Man
Young & Hungry
TV • 2014
Mr. Fancy
Workaholics
TV • 2011
Ralph
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Detective
Grace Under Fire
TV • 1993
John Shirley
Scrubs
TV • 2001
Paul