A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Walter Bishop
Birthplace:
Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Born:
September 5, 1946
American director, comedian, and actor Dennis Dugan started his acting career in 1972, 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. 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 series as Moonlighting (was also a guest star in some episodes), Ally McBeal, and NYPD Blue. Dugan's latest film was “Just Go With It”, which is his sixth film with Sandler. The film also starred Jennifer Aniston and Brooklyn Decker. Dugan married actress Joyce Van Patten in 1973 and divorced her fourteen years later. Now he is married to Sharon O'Connor and has a son named Kelly Dugan.
Director:
1990 Problem Child
1992 Brain Donors
1994 The Shaggy Dog
1996 Happy Gilmore
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
1999 Big Daddy
2001 Saving Silverman
2003 National Security
2004 Karroll's Christmas
2006 The Benchwarmers
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2010 Grown Ups
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 Just Go with It
2013 Grown Ups 2
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Executive Producer:
1990 Problem Child
1992 Brain Donors
1994 The Shaggy Dog
1996 Happy Gilmore
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
1999 Big Daddy
2001 Saving Silverman
2003 National Security
2004 Karroll's Christmas
2006 The Benchwarmers
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2010 Grown Ups
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 Just Go with It
2012 That's My Boy
2013 Grown Ups 2
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Original Music Composer:
1990 Problem Child
1992 Brain Donors
1994 The Shaggy Dog
1996 Happy Gilmore
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
1999 Big Daddy
2001 Saving Silverman
2003 National Security
2004 Karroll's Christmas
2006 The Benchwarmers
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2010 Grown Ups
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 Just Go with It
2012 That's My Boy
2013 Grown Ups 2
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Screenplay:
1990 Problem Child
1992 Brain Donors
1994 The Shaggy Dog
1996 Happy Gilmore
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
1999 Big Daddy
2001 Saving Silverman
2003 National Security
2004 Karroll's Christmas
2006 The Benchwarmers
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2010 Grown Ups
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 Just Go with It
2012 That's My Boy
2013 Grown Ups 2
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Story:
1990 Problem Child
1992 Brain Donors
1994 The Shaggy Dog
1996 Happy Gilmore
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
1999 Big Daddy
2001 Saving Silverman
2003 National Security
2004 Karroll's Christmas
2006 The Benchwarmers
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2010 Grown Ups
2011 Jack and Jill
2011 Just Go with It
2012 That's My Boy
2013 Grown Ups 2
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Director:
1971 Columbo
1984 Hunter
1985 Moonlighting
1987 Wiseguy
1989 Doogie Howser, M.D.
1994 Burke's Law
1994 Chicago Hope
1994 The Byrds of Paradise
1995 Marker
1997 Ally McBeal
1998 Love Boat: The Next Wave
1999 Shasta McNasty
2003 Hope & Faith
2003 The Mullets
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.