Was the subject of an article in the New York Times and a related video report on Times website in which he narrated stories about the seven times (as of June 2009) he has played characters who have died on screen. They include
La fin d'un rêve (1996) ,
USS Poséidon (2005) ,
Oz (1997) , and
New York - Unité spéciale (1999). Doyle said that during his first on-screen death, in
La fin d'un rêve (1996) , he was mortified to notice, while watching the finished movie, after his character is supposed to be dead, his eye still twitched a bit. After that, he always died with his eyes open.