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
A Loss of Innocence (1996) ,
Tides of War (2005) ,
Oz (1997) , and
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). Doyle said that during his first on-screen death, in
A Loss of Innocence (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.
