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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Boy Makes Girl
2023
as Ben
When his mother passes, a software programmer on the autism spectrum, Aaron, struggles to cope with the change. He builds a lifelike version of his ch...

The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
2023
as Self – Interviewee (voice)
An in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," featuring commentaries from the film's cast a...

Saving Paradise
2021
as Gramps
A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which ...

Selfie Dad
2020
as Barber
Spiraling into a mid-life crisis and feeling disconnected from his family, Ben Marcus, a reality-TV editor, thinks he can only be happy by fulfilling ...

The Gesture and The Word
2020
as Mr. Rostalle
A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving...

The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style a...

Cars 3
2017
as Sarge (voice)
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th...

The Holy Man
2016
as Lou 'The Bull' Devine
This is the story of a man who is fighting for more than just a world boxing championship.

Other People
2016
as Ronnie
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Livin...

The Radiator Springs 500½
2014
as Sarge (voice)
A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as Baja pros descend on the town and challenge Light...

My Santa
2013
as Martin
A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she takes her son Eric to see the local mall Santa, Jen...

Turbo
2013
as The Foreman (voice)
The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.

Hiccups
2013
as Sarge (voice)
When Lightning McQueen gets the hiccups, everyone in Radiator Springs thinks they have the cure.

Spinning
2013
as Sarge (voice)
Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.

Cars 2
2011
as Sarge (voice)
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...

Thanks
2011
as Hank
Three family Thanksgiving gatherings at a California beach house are fraught with tension due to the father's recent remarriage to a younger woman and...

Pixar Short Films
2009
as Sarge (voice)
A collection of 20 computer-animated short films including "Rescue Squad Mater", "Jack-Jack Attack", and Oscar-winners "For The Birds", "Geri's Game",...

Horsemen
2009
as Father Whiteleather
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing...

Bedtime Stories
2008
as Hot Dog Vendor
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...

Celebrating Sixteen Candles
2008
as Himself
A retrospective look at "Sixteen Candles" from cast and crew, as well as fellow screenwriters, directors, and critics.

Chronic Town
2008
as Eleanor's Father
Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his f...

Sunshine Cleaning
2008
as Sherm
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuiti...

Hairspray
2007
as Mr. Spritzer
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Thr...

Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
2007
as Himself
In 1980, the SCTV crew had a request from their broadcaster, the CBC, for distinctively Canadian content. What players Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas cr...

For Your Consideration
2006
as Paper Badge Sergeant
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star ...

Mater and the Ghostlight
2006
as Sarge (voice)
Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8...

Cars
2006
as Sarge (voice)
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u...

Madison
2005
as Mayor Don Vaughn
In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold ...

Come Away Home
2005
as Grandpa Donald
Twelve-year-old Annie Lamm's first day of summer break quickly turns into a disaster. She realizes that her parents have not only decided to fly her t...

Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
as Warden
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she mee...

Employee of the Month
2004
as Reverend Ben Goodwin
"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fian...

Comfort and Joy
2003
as George
High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing her career and spending a bundle on fashionable sho...

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
as Dean Duaney
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's “Tracey Takes On”. After an illustrious career, vetera...

A Mighty Wind
2003
as George Menschell
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion co...
Touch 'Em All McCall
2003
A one-time baseball player returns to his hometown and winds up coaching a farm team.

Insomnia
2002
as Chief Nyback
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

The Perfect You
2002
as Larry
A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New York, meet by colliding on the Brooklyn Bridge, and ...

Rennie's Landing
2001
as Hank
Life is hard. You can't always get what you want. but Alec Nichols has a plan to change all that. It involves his three friends, a bank and five milli...

A Woman's a Helluva Thing
2001
as Hank Luckinbill
After the death of his estranged mother, a misogynistic womanizer returns home to find that his ex-girlfriend had been his mother's secret lesbian lov...

Altman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...

Happy, Texas
1999
as The Judge
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go al...

Guinevere
1999
as Walter
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

Runaway Bride
1999
as Walter Carpenter
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his...

Error in Judgment
1999
as Jack Albert
Eric's art gallery is losing money, and even though his psychiatrist wife wants to help, she can't do much to cheer him up. When a young, sexy woman n...

I'll Remember April
1999
as Earl Schimmel
Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decision to save him.

Angels in the Endzone
1997
as Coach Buck
The football team Jesse is on is terrible, and after the death of his father Jesse quits the team. Then angels come to help the team get better and no...

Loved
1997
as Leo Amerson
After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wro...

Telling Lies in America
1997
as Father Norton
A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment...

Clockwatchers
1997
as Bud Chapman
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent...

Waiting for Guffman
1996
as UFO Abductee
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn tha...

God's Lonely Man
1996
as Polo
As each relentless night turns towards day, Ernest Rackman turns towards violence to escape thoughts of loneliness and suicide. Then he poses as a pol...

Out There
1995
as Emmett Davis
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he...

The Underneath
1995
as Ed Dutton
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...

Evolver
1995
as Jerry Briggs
A teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1995
as Senator Thatch
By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a less than average college boy. Because of his new...

State of Emergency
1994
as Jim Anderson
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an u...

A Dangerous Woman
1993
as Tupperware Salesman
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual...

My Boyfriend's Back
1993
as Big Chuck
Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for years. One night, Johnny is killed trying to win he...

Mother of the Bride
1993
as Richard
A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
Cooperstown
1993
as Sid Wiggins
A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fam...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1992
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Norrell
Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this ...

The Player
1992
as Paul Dooley
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Shakes the Clown
1991
as Owen Cheese
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local ki...

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991
as Hal Roach
When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.

Frogs!
1991
as Twittenham
Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles wit...

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
1990
as Doc
The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town ecce...

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.

Flashback
1990
as Stark
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escor...

When He's Not a Stranger
1989
as Ben McKenna
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, M...

Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
1989
as Robert McFarlane
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North follows the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, beginning with his Naval Academy days t...

Last Rites
1988
as Father Freddie
After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who ...

Lip Service
1988
as Gil Hutchinson
A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he's been hired to promote.

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as John Buxton
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

O.C. and Stiggs
1987
as Randall Schwab
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek rev...

Big Trouble
1986
as George Noozel
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making thing...

Monster in the Closet
1986
as Roy Crane
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band...

Stephen King's Golden Tales
1985
as Chester Caruso
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five...

The Steel Collar Man
1985
as Don Liddle
An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck d...

Sixteen Candles
1984
as Jim Baker
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. ...

Hansel and Gretel
1983
as Father
Abandoned by their parents, a young brother and sister try to find their way home. On the way, they find themselves trapped in the plot of a nasty wit...

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1983
as Museum Security Guard
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the n...

Going Berserk
1983
as Dr. Ted
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics ...

Strange Brew
1983
as Claude Elsinore
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-de...

Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Kendall
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But so...

Rumpelstiltskin
1982
as The Miller
Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced wit...

Endangered Species
1982
as Joe Hiatt
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

The Shady Hill Kidnapping
1982
as Detective
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is...

See China and Die
1981
as Ames Prescott
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from...

Paternity
1981
as Kurt
Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming in...

Popeye
1980
as Wimpy
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...

HealtH
1980
as Dr. Gil Gainey
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...

HealtH
1980
Writer
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...

Rich Kids
1979
as Simon Peterfreund
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

Breaking Away
1979
as Ray Stoller
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...

A Perfect Couple
1979
as Alex Theodopoulos
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.

A Wedding
1978
as Snooks Brenner
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...

Simple Gifts
1977
as (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the earl...

Slap Shot
1977
as Hyannisport Announcer
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1976
as Gazooks (voice)
Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. During Marcella's seventh birthday, Babette, from ...

Fore Play
1975
as Salesman
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

Death Wish
1974
as Cop at Hospital (uncredited)
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be ...

The Dion Brothers
1974
as Doctor
Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.

Up the Sandbox
1972
as Statue of Liberty Guard
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mo...

The Out-of-Towners
1970
as Day Desk Clerk at Hotel
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
1968
as Vic
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
Man in the Square Suit
1966
Comedy TV Film
Howard, Howard and Howard
1965
Three men, all named Howard cope with living in an otherwise humanness world.
The Parisienne and the Prudes
1964
as Ted K. Worrie
A married couple from New York City escape the blistering summer heat by visiting a New Jersey nudist colony. When the husbands' boss finds out, he tr...