Dennis Dugan

Dennis Dugan ( born September 5, 1946 in Wheaton, Illinois) is an American actor and director.

Career

After attending Wheaton Central High School in Wheaton Dugan began his career in the early 1970s as an actor with supporting roles and cameos in television series. After he was on the big screen in 1975 in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust his debut, followed by larger roles in film and television - so he took supporting roles in The Rockford Files - Just call, Can not Buy Me Love, Disney's King Arthur and the astronaut and the horror film the Beast. In 1978 he played alongside Larry Hagman and Robert Culp in the movie " O'Malley, please report " the policeman Lucas.

From the late 1980s he worked as a director and was the director of individual episodes in TV series such as Wiseguy and The Moonlighting. In the comedy Problem Child, he took over in 1990 for the first time the director of a movie. Dugan made ​​himself a name in the following years as a director of film comedies, in which he often worked with Adam Sandler. It occurs in his films often in cameo appearances in appearance.

Dugan was twice nominated for the Golden Raspberry - 2000 for the comedy Big Daddy and 2008 for Chuck and Larry - As fire and flame.

Dugan support a campaign by the Environmental Media Association for the reduction of tropical timber in the construction of film sets and produced already Big Daddy from this point.

He was married twice, most recently with the actress Joyce Van Patten.

In 2012, he starred in the film That's My Boy (orig. That's My Boy) a guest role.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a director

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