Dennis Dugan was born on September 5, 1946 in Wheaton, USA. He is an American actor and film director.

American comic actor Dennis Dugan did quite well for himself trading on a bumbling-but-huggable screen image. On screen at least since 1972, Dugan established his screen persona in brief doses in such films as Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) and Norman Is that You? (1976). In 1979, he was ideally cast as the time-displaced hero in Unidentified Flying Oddball, Disney's updated remake of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Television has always held out a welcome mat for Dugan: he was the star of the short-lived series Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (1977), Empire (1984) and Shadow Chasers (1984), and was a semi-regular as an erstwhile "caped crusader" on Hill Street Blues. Dennis Dugan's film credits of the '80s have been plentiful if not distinguished, including Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988).

He also starred and directed comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007).

Filmography

• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
• Street Life (2007)
• The Benchwarmers (2006)
• Karroll's Christmas (2004)
• Saving Silverman (2001)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• "L.A. Law" (1 episode, 1993)
• Brain Donors (1992)
• Problem Child (1990)
• Parenthood (1989)
• "Moonlighting" (4 episodes, 1988-1989)
• The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
• She's Having a Baby (1988)
• "Hooperman" (1 episode, 1988)
• Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
• Shadow Chasers (1985)
• "Shadow Chasers" (1 episode)
• "St. Elsewhere" (1 episode, 1985)
• Water (1985)
• The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
• "Empire" (1984)
• "M*A*S*H" (2 episodes, 1975-1983)
• Country Gold (1982)
• "Hill Street Blues" (4 episodes, 1982)
• "It's a Living" (1 episode, 1981)
• The Howling (1981)
• The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
• "Supertrain" (1 episode, 1979)
• "The Rockford Files" (3 episodes, 1978-1979)
• "Police Story" (1 episode, 1978)
• "Richie Brockelman, Private Eye" (1978)
• Last of the Good Guys (1978)
• Police Story: The Broken Badge (1977)
• Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder (1976)
• Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours (1976)
• Norman... Is That You? (1976)
• The Fatal Weakness (1976)
• "Alice" (1 episode, 1976)
• Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
• "Good Heavens" (1 episode, 1976)
• Columbo: Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)
• "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976)
• Smile (1975)
• Night Moves (1975)
• The Day of the Locust (1975)
• "The ABC Afternoon Playbreak" (1974)
• "Cannon" (1 episode, 1974)
• Death Race (1973)
• The Girl Most Likely to... (1973)
• "The Waltons" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Love, American Style" (1 episode, 1973)
• "The Mod Squad" (1 episode, 1973)
• "The Sixth Sense" (1 episode, 1972)
• Night Call Nurses (1972)
• The Hospital (1971)