Paul Dooley
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Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown; February 22, 1928) is an American actor, writer, and comedian.
Early life
Paul Brown was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Pete James Brown, a factory employee.
Parkersburg did not have any attractions that piqued his interest, according to him, because there were no cultural opportunities available. Jimmy Durante, especially Jimmy Durante, loved listening to comedians on the radio.
Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and was the subject of a stripe in Parkersburg's local newspaper. He joined the United States Navy in 1946 and spent two years before returning home and graduating from West Virginia University in 1952.
Personal life
Dooley was married to Winnie Holzman, whom he first encountered in an improv acting class in New York on November 18, 1984. The couple have a child Savannah and live in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California.
He was previously married to Donna Lee Wasser on September 19, 1958, which resulted in divorce. He has three children from his first marriage.
Career
Dooley, a West Virginia University graduate, went to New York City to try his luck in the entertainment industry. He began performing as a clown at children's birthday parties.
He found success as a regular on stage in New York. He made his debut on the New York stage in the early 1950s and was discovered by Mike Nichols. The director gave him his first break by starring him in The Odd Couple on Broadway in 1965. Dooley played Felix Unger as Oscar's poker crony, Homer "Speed" Deegan, and understudied Art Carney, who portrayed Felix Unger; when Carney left the scene later on, Dooley assumed the role of Felix. Because of a Walter Matthau referral who appeared in Oscar Madison, Dooley was represented by the William Morris Agency.
Dooley, who grew interested in comedy, appeared on The Tonight Show for five years, was a member of the Compass Players and the Second City troupe in New York City, and he was also interested in comedy. Alan Arkin and Alan Alda, two fellow citizens of The Second City at the time, were among The Second City's fellow residents.
Dooley used to work as a writer. He created and was one of the head writers on The Electric Company, which was published by the Children's Television Workshop in the United States. Dooley wrote "runners," a series of short sketches involving 8 or ten characters that were broadcast over the course of several weeks. He found out years later that Carl Reiner had recommended him for the job. Dooley's list of the characters included Easy Reader (Morgan Freeman) and Fargo North, Decoder (Skip Hinnant), as well as the soap opera spoof Love of Chair.
Andrew Duncan and Lynne Lipton founded All Over Creation to produce radio and television advertisements. Around 500 TV commercials and 1,000 radio spots were produced. After him, a character named Paul the Gorilla appeared in television commercials was named after him.
Dooley has appeared in films including Sixteen Candles, Popeye, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure, Breaking Away, and Sarge's voice in the Disney/Pixar films Cars, Cars 2 and Cars 3.
He worked with Robert Altman on a regular basis and is known as a prolific journeyman actor. After Altman saw Dooley in the Jules Feiffer comedy Hold Me, he contracted him for a role in his film A Wedding.
The film Health was co-written by him and Altman.
He was also in the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors, but Jim Belushi took his place in the final cut.
Dooley has appeared in several films with Christopher Guest.
On several television shows, including My So-Called Life, Dream On, Grace Under Fire, Grace Under Fire, Thirteen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ALF (playing Whizzer Deaver), Chicago Hope, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dooley has appeared as a variety of recurring characters, including Dooley. He appeared on Bewitched, The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives. Dooley appeared in the short-lived comedy about a couple in an Arizona retirement community, titled Coming of Age, opposite veteran actors Phyllis Newman, Glynis Johns, and Alan Young. In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work as an eccentric judge on The Practice.
Dooley appeared as the head chef at Camp Victory, a fictional fat camp on ABC Family's short-lived ABC Family original series Huge, which was created and written by his wife and daughter in 2010.
Rocky, a fellow vet and retiree to Craig T. Nelson's Zeek Braverman, appeared in an episode of the NBC series Parenthood in 2014.
Glenn, a 72-year-old man with a failing heart and a high pacemaker who can't sleep due to the constant pain he suffers, appeared in the ABC series "22 Steps" in 2017.
With his wife Winnie Holzman, Dooley co-wrote Assisted Living. It was their first theatrical collaboration. On April 5, 2013, the play premiered on April 5, 2013.