You probably know him as the grumpy dad of the Italophile bicycle racer in "Breaking Away." Or as Molly Ringwald's understanding dad in "Sixteen Candles." Or as the long-suffering dad who walked Julia ...

Paul Dooley is a Hollywood screen veteran who has literally done it all in the entertainment business. Along with acting, he's earned his keep as a magician, clown, comedian, writer, and held ...

Paul Dooley, who has appeared in dozens of films and TV programs, including “Sixteen Candles” and TV series “The Kids Are Alright,” and screenwriter Winnie Holzman, who created the 1990s series “My So ...

Paul Dooley had been a character actor, a commercial pitchman, a Broadway thespian, and a stand-up comedian by the time writer-director John Hughes cast him as the father of Molly Ringwald in 1984’s ...

Paul Dooley, 94, a Parkersburg native, has written about his life in “Movie Dad: Finding Myself and My Family, On Screen and Off.” He has appeared in numerous films including “Breaking Away,” “A ...

While cartoonist E.C. Segar's Popeye commits superhuman feats, thanks to his performance-enhancing spinach, fellow "Thimble Theater" character J. Wellington Wimpy often steals the show by bumming ...

Writers are warned never to give away the ending of a movie or play. But beginnings are fair game. This is how Paul Dooley opens his one-man show, Movie Dad: ‘I am a character actor. That’s the ...