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 ...

Despite playing lovable dads on-screen in films like “Sixteen Candles” and “Runaway Bride,” Paul Dooley recently revealed he spent years estranged from his real-life children. In the recently released ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

"Assisted Living" began thirty years ago when Dooley and Holzman took a stab at answering a pile of fan mail to Dooley. They started riffing on it, then wrote some pages, then put it away for decades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Dooley, who has appeared in dozens of films and TV programs, including “Sixteen Candles” and TV series “The Kids Are Alright, ...

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 ...