Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-6 of 6
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Dennis Barton Dugan is an American film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter from Wheaton, Illinois who directed several films featuring Adam Sandler including Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Jack & Jill, Grown Ups, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. He also directed Beverly Hills Ninja and The Benchwarmers.- Dennis Michael Dugan is an American humorist, poet, writer and actor from Memphis, Tennessee. Although he had a fervent fan base within academic and intellectual circles it was not until his breakout role in the gritty urban film "Street Life" that he became widely known in popular culture.
In that 2007 Tim Willis production, Dugan starred as "Boss", a senior official with an inflexible "strictly-by-the-books" approach to the new reality of the streets. A classic stereotype of the FBI senior agent: white, well-dressed, mature good looks, is set as foil to junior agent Mike Stone's (D'Army Bailey) street-wise pragmatic approach to urban justice. Stone and another junior agent (played by newcomer Jazzie Ruff) face intensifying conflict between the boss's status quo versus their gut-feeling of imminent violence brewing in the streets.
Dugan's performance, according to one critic, "masterfully created the intense juxtaposition against Bailey's role...both men of honor... yet each with such powerful convictions only one will know honor in the end." - Dennis Dugan is known for An Encounter with the Messiah (2015).
- Transportation Department
Dennis Dugan is known for Taking Chance (2009).