Paul Dooley

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Paul Dooley is a legend of showbiz. He's played some iconic dads in films like Sixteen Candles, Runaway Bride and Breaking Away. His book Movie Dad: Finding Myself and My Family, On-Screen and Off is about his seven decades in the business. Paul joins us to talk about his memoir and dives into his lengthy career including some more unusual gigs. He also gets into what it was like to portray dads on the big screen while his own family was falling apart.

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1:01.2	Dooley playing a dad.
1:04.0	Maybe in breaking away, about the small town teenager who's obsessed with bike racing.
1:09.0	Dooley played his dad.
1:11.0	Or in 16 candles, where he played Molly Ringwald's.
1:15.0	Why do you think you're a dork? I don't think you're a dork. I don't think mom thinks you're a dork.
1:21.0	Mike thinks I'm a dork. Mike is a dork. So am I. Well, if it's any consolation, I love you.
1:30.8	And if this guy can't see in you all the beautiful and wonderful things that I see,
1:35.0	then he's got the problem.
1:37.0	I know, it just hurts.
1:40.0	That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they call them something else.
1:48.0	He played Julia Roberts-Dad and runaway bride.
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