Biography
Dennis Dugan (born September 5, 1946) is an American director, comedian, and actor. He started his acting career after appearing in the 1973 made-for-TV movie” The Girl Most Likely to...” He is well known for his frequent collaborations with comedic actor Adam Sandler, directing several films including “Happy Gilmore” and “Grown Ups.” Dennis has also made a career as a television and film director, and appears in cameo parts in many of his films. Dugan has directed episodes of such television s...
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Happy Gilmore 2
2025
Executive Producer
Revisit Happy Gilmore's golf career after his win in the Tour Championship.

Padre no hay más que uno 4: Campanas de boda
2024
as Director Película
The eldest of the family, Sara, comes of age and brings chaos to the family by announcing her intention to marry Ocho. Javier and Marisa try to avoid ...

Knox Goes Away
2024
as Philo Jones
A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life o...

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
2020
as Eddie Stone
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
2020
Story, Original Music Composer, Director
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

Grown Ups 2
2013
as Dr. Larry
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons ...

Grown Ups 2
2013
Director
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons ...

That's My Boy
2012
as School Janitor
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for ...

That's My Boy
2012
Executive Producer
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for ...

Jack and Jill
2011
as Al Pacino's Standby
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit ...

Jack and Jill
2011
Director
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit ...

Just Go with It
2011
Director
While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon t...

Grown Ups
2010
as Referee
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Grown Ups
2010
Director
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
as Homeless Guy
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do any...

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Director
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do any...

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007
as Cab Driver
Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that ...

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007
Director
Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that ...

The Benchwarmers
2006
as Coach Bellows
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league...

The Benchwarmers
2006
Director
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league...

Karroll's Christmas
2004
Director
Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas. As a man who writes greeting ...

National Security
2003
Director
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on op...

Saving Silverman
2001
as Referee
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up the...

Saving Silverman
2001
Director
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up the...

Big Daddy
1999
as Reluctant Trick-or-Treat Giver (uncredited)
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

Big Daddy
1999
Director
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

Beverly Hills Ninja
1997
Director
Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows ...

Happy Gilmore
1996
as Doug Thompson
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — ...

Happy Gilmore
1996
Director
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — ...

The Shaggy Dog
1994
Director
Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Daniel, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihil...

Brain Donors
1992
Director
Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics resul...

Problem Child
1990
as All American Dad
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping ...

Problem Child
1990
Director
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping ...

Parenthood
1989
as David Brodsky
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, ...

Channel 99
1988
Executive returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
1988
as Mr. Settigren
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Ne...

She's Having a Baby
1988
as Bill
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

Can't Buy Me Love
1987
as David Miller
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clo...

Water
1985
as Rob
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling com...

The Toughest Man in the World
1984
as Dick
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with...

Leadfoot
1982
as Officer Needham
Tommy just bought his first car with his own money. He enjoys driving it fast regardless of the speed limit. He ignores several warnings and not even ...

Country Gold
1982
as Darryl Appleby
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news...

The Howling
1981
as Chris
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...

Deer in the Works
1980
as David Potter
David Potter, owner of a small town weekly newspaper, decides to get a more secure job. Despite his wife's misgivings, he applies to be a publicity wr...

Unidentified Flying Oddball
1979
as Tom Trimble
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble...
Last of the Good Guys
1978
as Officer Johnny Lucas (uncredited)
Comedy-drama about a bunch of police rookies who conspire to convince their hard-nosed sergeant that a seriously ill fellow officer, two weeks away fr...

Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
1976
as Richard 'Richie' Brockelman
A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she mig...

Norman... Is That You?
1976
as Garson Hobart
Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.

Harry and Walter Go to New York
1976
as Lewis
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank ...

Smile
1975
as Logan
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who gi...

Night Moves
1975
as boy
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress want...

The Day of the Locust
1975
as Apprentice #3
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with ...

Death Race
1973
as Pvt. Becker
In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi t...

The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
as Charlie Elliott
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.

Night Call Nurses
1972
as Kit
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hos...

The Hospital
1971
as E.R. Doctor (uncredited)
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospit...