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 directed such movies include comedies Big Daddy (1999) and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007).

Director

• You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
• The Benchwarmers (2006)
• "Hope & Faith" (2 episodes, 2005)
• Karroll's Christmas (2004)
• "The Mullets" (1 episode, 2004)
• "NYPD Blue" (6 episodes, 1993-2004)
• National Security (2003)
• Saving Silverman (2001)
• "Shasta McNasty" (1999)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• "Ally McBeal" (1 episode, 1998)
• "The Love Boat: The Next Wave" (1 episode, 1998)
• Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• "Marker" (1995)
• The Shaggy Dog (1994)
• "Chicago Hope" (1994)
• "Traps" (1994)
• "The Byrds of Paradise" (1994)
• "L.A. Law" (2 episodes, 1993-1994)
• "Burke's Law" (1 episode, 1994)
• Columbo: Butterfly in Shades of Grey (1993)
• "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1 episode, 1993)
• Brain Donors (1992)
• Problem Child (1990)
• "Moonlighting" (1 episode, 1989)
• "Hunter" (1 episode, 1987)
• "Wiseguy" (1987)