Born Sept. 5, 1946, in Wheaton, Ill., Dugan studied acting at Chicago's Goodman Theater School before moving to New York in the late 1960s. After appearing in several off-Broadway shows, he headed for Hollywood, and in 1972, he made his feature film debut in Night Call Nurses. Dugan has worked steadily ever since in film (Night Moves, 1975) and on TV (the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man).
Over the years, Dugan moved into directing, starting with a 1987 episode of "Wiseguy" and including a host of comedic crowd-pleasers such as Saving Silverman (2001), National Security and the TV show "Shasta McNasty."
Unidentified Flying OddballIn this Disney fantasy loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, astronaut Tom Trimble (Dennis Dugan) and his look-alike android companion enter a time-space warp and are transported to the court of King Arthur. When Tom befriends the beautiful Alisande... Read More
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