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 acting career in the early 1970s with supporting roles and brief appearances on television series. After 1975 in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust made his debut on the big screen, 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 Unidentified Flying Oddball and the horror film The Animal . In 1978 he played the cop Lucas on the side of Larry Hagman and Robert Culp in the film "O'Malley, please report".

From the end of the 1980s he also worked as a director and took over the direction of individual episodes in television series such as Fight against the Mafia and The Model and the Snoop . In 1990, he took over directing a movie for the first time in the comedy So ein Satansbraten . Dugan made a name for himself in the following years as a director of comedies , in which he often worked with Adam Sandler . He often appears in cameo appearances in his films . In 2012 he starred in the film The Chaos Dad .

Dugan was nominated three times for the worst director for the Golden Raspberry . 2000 for the comedy Big Daddy , 2008 for Chuck and Larry - Wie Feuer und Flamme and 2014 for Grown Ups 2 .

Dugan supports a campaign by the Environmental Media Association to reduce tropical wood in the construction of film sets and has already produced Big Daddy with this in mind.

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

Filmography (selection)

as a performer

• 1971: Hospital (The Hospital)
• 1975: The Day of the Locust (The Day of the Locust)
• 1975, 1983: M * A * S * H (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1979: King Arthur and the Astronaut (Unidentified Flying Oddball)
• 1981: The Beast (The Howling)
• 1982: Hill Street Police Station ( Hill Street Blues , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1985: Wasser - The Movie (Water)
• 1987: Can't Buy Me Love
• 1988: She's Having a Baby
• 1988: The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking)
• 1988–1989: The Model and the Sniffer ( Moonlighting , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1989: A Mad Family (Parenthood)
• 2007: Chuck and Larry - Wie Feuer und Flamme (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
• 2008: Do not mess with Zohan (You Do not Mess with the Zohan)
• 2010: Grown Ups (Grown Ups)
• 2011: Jack and Jill (Jack and Jill)
• 2012: The Chaos Dad (That's My Boy)
• 2013: child heads 2 (Grown Ups 2)

as a director

• 1990: Problem Child (Problem Child)
• 1992: Three Lame Ducks (Brain Donors)
• 1994: Bundles - The Shaggy Dog
• 1996: Happy Gilmore
• 1997: Beverly Hills Ninja - Die Kampfwurst (Beverly Hills Ninja)
• 1999: Big Daddy
• 2001: Zickenterror - The Devil is a Woman (Saving Silverman)
• 2003: National Security
• 2006: The Benchwarmers (The Benchwarmers)
• 2007: Chuck and Larry - Wie Feuer und Flamme (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
• 2008: Do not mess with Zohan (You Do not Mess with the Zohan)
• 2010: Grown Ups (Grown Ups)
• 2011: My Invented Wife (Just Go with It)
• 2011: Jack and Jill (Jack and Jill)
• 2013: child heads 2 (Grown Ups 2)

Awards

• 2000 : Nomination for the Golden Raspberry for Worst Director for Big Daddy
• 2008 : Nomination for the Golden Raspberry for Worst Director for Chuck and Larry - Like Fire and Flame
• 2012 : Golden Raspberry for Worst Director for Jack and Jill
• 2014 : Nomination for the Golden Raspberry for the worst director for Grownups 2

Web links

• Dennis Dugan in the Internet Movie Database (English)