Review: How Paul Dooley became a beloved movie dad
But there is more to Dooley, 94, than being a movie dad who doesn’t always know best.
In a more than 60-year career, his was an unconventional actor’s journey. He was 49 years old when he landed his first leading role in a movie as, yes, father of the bride in Robert Altman’s “The role that got him noticed by television networks in the 1960s, he writes, was not his month-long stint replacing Art Carney on Broadway opposite Walter Matthau in “The Odd Couple,” but his inspired turn in a popular cigarette commercial that aired during an Academy Awards broadcast.
“Movie Dad” has plenty of stories about generation-defining classics. Dooley shares that he initially turned down what would become one of his iconic roles, as the father in “Sixteen Candles,” but changed his mind after director and screenwriter John Hughes wrote the scene with Ringwald in which she opens up to him about her unrequited high school crush. “That’s why they call them crushes,” her dad reassures her. “If they were easy, they’d call them something else.
As originally written, he reveals, the scene ended on an uncomfortable note, with him patting his daughter on the behind and asking her, “Where the heck are your panties?” He improvised a replacement line that Hughes used in the film: “When you meetBut equally fascinating are the personal revelations. The emotional core of “Movie Dad” is Dooley’s own devastated parenthood. In addition to having an emotionally remote father, the beloved movie dad is twice divorced.
As a character actor, Dooley has enjoyed the kinds of scene-stealing roles that are denied to movie stars whose names are above the title. He had indelible turns as Wimpy in “
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