Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley, actually Paul Brown ( born February 22, 1928 in Parkersburg, West Virginia ) is an American actor.
Life
Paul Dooley studied after his departure from the United States Navy theater and drama at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The same time he worked as a cartoonist for a local newspaper in Parkersburg. In the early 1950s, Dooley made a member of the Second City Theater Group in New York as a stage actor first experience.
1965 Dooley was discovered Odd Couple by Neil Simon for the Broadway production. As the successor to Art Carney he was in the role of Felix, the counterpart to Walter Matthau's Oscar known. In the years 1971 and 1972 he wrote scripts for the television show The Electric Company.
An international audience was in 1978 with the comedy The Wedding of Robert Altman known Dooley. In the award-winning movie Breaking Away - We provide all of us creates no he played alongside Dennis Quaid in 1979 a larger supporting role and was awarded in the same year with an NBR Award. In the comedy I need an heir in 1981, he played alongside Burt Reynolds and Beverly D' Angelo. As a supporting character, he starred in the series with Alf.
1999 Dooley played in the comedy The bride who dares not the father of Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts), the alcohol-dependent Walter Carpenter. For his guest roles on the television series Dream On and Practice - The lawyers he was nominated in 1994 and 2000 each for an Emmy Award. Dooley was also in some episodes of the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Since 2005 he plays alongside Bob Balaban in the series Hopeless Pictures.
Dooley married in 1958 Donna Lee water, with whom he has three children. After the divorce, he married Winnie Holzman 1984, the television producer, with whom he has a child.