Dennis Dugan Filmography

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Crew: Director

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: When two testosterone-fueled firemen attempt to register as domestic partners in order to bypass the bureaucratic red tape preventing one of them from naming his own two children as his life-insurance beneficiaries, their low-key ruse turns into headline news in this quirky matrimonial comedy Read More

The Benchwarmers

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Craig Kilborn

Synopsis: Three guys with little athletic ability strike a blow for everyone chosen last at recess in this comedy. Clark (Jon Heder), Gus (Rob Schneider), and Richie (David Spade) are three geeky guys who have spent most of their lives being humiliated by bullies and taunted by people with greater hand-eye Read More

Karroll's Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just before Christmas, idealistic greeting-card writer Allen Karroll (Tom Everett Scott) cooks up a "special moment" wherein he will propose to his sweetheart Carrie (Deanna Milligan) in a public place before thousands of oohing and aahing spectators. Alas, Carrie turns him down flat, so Read More

National Security

Crew: Director

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating Read More

Saving Silverman

Crew: Director

Actors: Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is from director, former actor, and regular Adam Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) is a loser at love, so his best friends J.D. (Jack Black) and Wayne (Steve Zahn) set him up on a date with his dream girl, Judith (Amanda Peet). A serious Read More

Big Daddy

Crew: Director

Actors: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Josh Mostel, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Prospective parents everywhere, you have a new role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Daddy, Sandler plays 30-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities. However, as his old buddies start getting married and drifting away, Sonny realizes that if he Read More

Shasta NcNasty [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Carmine Giovinazzo, Jake Busey, Mary Lynn Rajskub

The Love Boat: The Next Wave [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Urich, Joan Severance, Corey Parker, Phil Morris, Stacey Travis

Synopsis: Loosely following the format of ABC's 1969-74 comedy anthology series Love, American Style, Aaron Spelling's first Love Boat set sail September 24, 1977 with the series' intertwining stories all taking place aboard the cruise ship Pacific Princess, captained by Gavin MacLeod. Spelling Television Read More

Beverly Hills Ninja

Crew: Director

Actors: Billy Connolly, Will Sasso, Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Nathaniel Parker, Chris Rock, Soon-Teck Oh

Synopsis: Chris Farley stars as an unusual ninja fighter in this over-the-top comedy. An elite society of Japanese warriors have prophesied that one day a blonde-haired, fair-skinned child will come to their village and lead them as a fighter of remarkable skill and bravery. So when an American child who Read More

NYPD Blue: The Truth is Out There

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The squad must deal with a murder witness (Kathleen Doyle) who obviously is not playing with a full deck -- and who is subsequently kidnapped on orders from the suspect's lawyer. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) and Martinez' (Nicholas Turturro) investigation of the latest in a series of cab robberies Read More

NYPD Blue: Sheedy Dealings

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two roommates, both strippers, are murdered, sending Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) off on another trail of contrary clues. Tipped to a possible assassination by ex-cop Sheedy (Jason Andrews), Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) wants to pose as a hitman to catch the perp, but it is Read More

Happy Gilmore

Crew: Director

Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers

Synopsis: Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Scott Weinger, Sharon Lawrence, Jon Polito, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this television remake of Disney's zany feature, a teenager under a magic spell keeps turning into a sheepdog, much to his father's chagrin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo: Butterfly in Shades of Grey

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, William Shatner, Molly Hagan, Jack Laufer, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns as America's favorite rumpled detective. In this episode, the cigar-toting Lt. Columbo investigates a radio-talk-show host suspected of killing a member of his own staff in order to prevent his daughter, who also works at the station, from moving to New York to become a writer. Read More

NYPD Blue: The Final Adjustment

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Investigating the murder of a chiropractor's wife, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) suspect that the victim's husband is the guilty party. Elsewhere, Simone's friend (Isabel Glasser) finds out that her young son is hiding a gun, and while moonlighting as a security guard, Martinez (Nicholas Turturro Read More

NYPD Blue: Ice Follies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Janice Licalsi (Amy Breneman) is blackmailed into cooperating with the Mob. Feeling that Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) didn't do enough to prevent the drug-overdose death of his brother, Martinez' father (Luis Guzman) takes the law into his own hands. And the very married Detective Medavoy (Gordon Clapp Read More

Brain Donors

Crew: Director

Actors: John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith, Nancy Marchand, John Savident

Synopsis: Brain Donors is a game attempt to redo the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera in a contemporary setting. John Turturro plays the "Groucho" character, a shifty lawyer (he's even given a Grouchoesque three-barrelled moniker). Bob Nelson is the "Harpo" counterpart, a puckish handyman. And Mel Smith Read More

Problem Child

Crew: Director

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden

Synopsis: An adoptive parent discovers that some children are given up by their biological parents for very good reasons in this dark comedy. Ben Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tyrannical sporting goods dealer. Ben would love to have Read More

Parenthood

Actors: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Jr., Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help their oldest son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), overcome Read More

Moonlighting: Those Lips, Those Lies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a two-month hiatus, Moonlighting returned for its final volley of episodes in a brand-new Sunday night timeslot (so new that theme-song performer Al Jarreau was allegedly unaware that the series had moved, forcing the cast to perform the opening-credit vocals!) This episode finds David's Read More

Moonlighting: When Girls Collide

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story arc, Virginia Madsen guest stars as Maddie's married cousin Annie Charnock. When David (Bruce Willis) goes to great length to help Annie with her problems, Maddie assumes that it is because David is in love--not with Annie, but with Maddie! This episode Read More

Moonlighting: Lunar Eclipse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This final episode of Moonlighting finds Bert (Curtis Armstrong) and Agnes (Allyce Beasley) getting married, just as David (Bruce Willis) is breaking up with Annie (Virginia Madsen), the cousin of his partner and former lover Maddie (Cybill Shepherd). At the same time, the Blue Moon Detective Read More

Moonlighting: Take My Wife, For Example

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Colleen Dewhurst guest stars as Betty Russell, a famous divorce lawyer better known as "The Barracuda." Exhibiting a hitherto well-hidden conscience, Russell hires Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and David (Bruce Willis) to reunite Lydia and Nathan Kraft (Jane Hallaren, Lawrence Pressman), whose union Read More

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

Actors: Tami Erin, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Diane Hull

Synopsis: Precocious Pippi Longstocking (Tami Erin) falls off her father's pirate ship and washes up in a small coastal town in Florida. She causes social worker Miss Bannister (Eileen Brennan) no end of trouble and influences two neighbor kids with her mischief-making and infectious attitude. Pippi uses Read More

She's Having a Baby

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom

Synopsis: An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy Read More

Moonlighting: Tracks of My Tears

Synopsis: Pregnant with David's baby, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has decided to return from Chicago to LA via train--but she's still not sure whether or not she and David should resume their relationship. En route, Maddie meets a dweebish fellow passenger named Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan), to whom she pours Read More

Moonlighting: Maddie Hayes Got Married

Synopsis: David (Bruce Willis) finally meets Walter (Dennis Dugan), the man whom Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has impulsively married. Rather than get angry or exhibit jealousy, David generously offers to throw a bachelor party for Walter. That David might have an ulterior motive is evidenced when the stripper Read More

Moonlighting: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still grieving over her miscarriage, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) buries herself in her work, while David (Bruce Willis) ponders the option of leaving town. Among Maddie's many cases involves Joan Spring (Cristina Raines-Crowe), who is worried that she will lose her husband to his ex-wife. Once again Read More

Moonlighting: And the Flesh Was Made Word

Synopsis: In the last episode of Moonlighting's fourth season, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) returns to work after ending her brief marriage to Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan). Her first post-nuptual case involves a public-relations man who wants to find his partner's lover, who has proven a major business Read More

Can't Buy Me Love

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Seth Green, Tina Caspary

Synopsis: Borrowing a chapter from the John Hughes school of teen comedy, this likeable caper was a box office success. Patrick Dempsey stars as Ronald Miller, a high school nerd about to enter his senior year, who longs for acceptance as one of the "cool kids." His next-door neighbor Cindy Mancini (Amanda Peterson Read More

Hunter: Night on Bald Mountain

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a modern twist on the classic "old-dark house" genre, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are trapped by a raging storm in the mountain home of a murdered financier. Every member of the dead man's family had good reason to see him dead--and accordingly, every member is under Read More

Hunter: Turning Point

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) investigates when journalist Ralph Ormond (Richard Gilliland), who holds evidence that will put a Mob boss away for good, is reportedly killed in a car bombing. Actually, it's a case of mistaken identity: while the city mourns an innocent bystander, the very-much-alive Ormond Read More

Water

Actors: Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Meant to be a parody of the recent invasions of Grenada and the Falkland Islands, this comedy about the laid-back governor (Michael Caine) of "Cascara," a fictional British island somewhere in the Caribbean, and the international parade of characters who come through his territory is a pastiche Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 06

Hill Street Blues: Season 05

Shadow Chasers

Synopsis: In this adventure a professor of anthropology and a reporter join forces to look into a strange occurrence with supernatural implications. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Toughest Man in the World

Synopsis: There was once a time within living memory when people eagerly awaited a TV-movie starring Mister T. The Toughest Man in the World casts the former Laurence Turand as nightclub bouncer "Bruise" Brubaker. Marshmallow-soft on the inside, Bruise befriends a group of underprivileged kids at a youth Read More

M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows

Synopsis: Charles' (David Ogden Stiers) keeps Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) awake all night. Alas, when they can't sleep, neither can the rest of the camp. But Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) has a more serious matter on his hands, when he discovers that his son-in-law Bob (Dennis Dugan) has Read More

Country Gold

Synopsis: In this musical drama a famed country singer and her newest competitor, a rising star, compete to become female vocalist of the year. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Howling

Actors: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: This groundbreaking, darkly-comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways light-years distant from Universal's horror classic The Wolf Man. The story begins with television reporter/anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) taking part in a dangerous police Read More

The Rockford Files: Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) has cooked up an elaborate sting operation to save the printing plant owned by the father of fellow private eye Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) from the clutches of crooked sports promoter Coombs (Robert Webber). The scam is wide-ranging Read More

The Rockford Files: Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, greenhorn detective Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) asks Jim (James Garner) to help get back the printing plant that has been swindled from Richie's father (Harold Gould) by sleazy sports promoter Harold Jack Coombs (Robert Webber). This undertaking requires Read More

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Actors: Dennis Dugan, Kenneth More, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: We prefer the original release title of Disney's A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court: Unidentified Flying Oddball. In this new twist on an old Mark Twain yarn, NASA scientist Dennis Dugan and his robot clone are whisked back in time to the days of King Arthur (Kenneth More). After performing several Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim Rockford (James Garner) and rookie private eye Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) continue to investigate the suspicious death of their mutual mentor Joe Tooley. When the trail of clues leads to crooked computer-company CEO Garth McGregor (Jackie Cooper) Read More

The Broken Badge

Synopsis: Broken Badge was one of several 2-hour Police Story specials telecast during the 1977-78 TV season. Claude Akins stars as a no-nonsense cop with a bad rep. A prostitute charges Akins with harassing her; shortly afterward, she turns up dead. The rest of the drama concerns Akins' straw-grasping Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) investigates the mysterious death of his mentor Joe Tooley (Paul Fix) on the Ventura Freeway. Assisting Jim--in a manner of speaking--is greenhorn detective Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan), who likewise suspects that Tooley's demise was no Read More

Diary of Richie Brockelman

Synopsis: Richie Brockelman, the intellectual but naive 23-year-old private eye played by Dennis Dugan, was introduced in the 1976 TV movie Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours. He was revived for a 2-hour episode of James Garner's The Rockford Files, telecast February 24, 1978. Three weeks later, Richie Brockelman: Private Eye Read More

The Last of the Good Guys

Actors: Robert Culp, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amnesiac woman hires a young detective to investigate the two men who seem to be trying to kill her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Missing 24 Hours

Synopsis: A new detective is hired to find out why an amnesia victim is being targeted by 2 gunmen. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Norman Is That You?

Actors: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Dennis Dugan, Mike Warren, Tamara Dobson

Synopsis: After wife Beatrice (Pearl Bailey) runs off to Mexico, a despondent Ben Chambers (Redd Foxx) travels to California to visit his son, Norman (Michael Warren). To Ben's dismay, Norman admits that he's gay -- and that his lover is a white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Alice: Pilot

Synopsis: Getting a head start on the 1976-1977 TV season, the movie-based sitcom Alice made its debut with a special airing of its pilot episode on August 31, 1976. After the death of her truck driver husband, Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) decides to resume her career as a piano-bar singer. First, however, she Read More

Smile

Actors: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis, Nicholas Pryor

Synopsis: The American beauty-contest ritual is skewered by screenwriter Jerry Belson and director Michael Ritchie in Smile. The film takes place during an annual pageant in Santa Rosa, CA. The event is supervised by local mover and shaker Brenda DiCarlo (Barbara Feldon), to whom the contest is the most Read More

Night Moves

Actors: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Susan Clark

Synopsis: Private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife (Susan Clark) is cheating on him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her trust-funded daughter Delly (Melanie Griffith Read More

The Day of the Locust

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Read More

Death Race

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges' gloriously unconvincing German accent is but one of the guilty pleasures of Death Race. Set during the African campaign of World War 2, this made-for-TV nailbiter pits Nazi general Bridges against wounded American pilot Roy Thinnes. Manning the controls of a tank, Herr Bridges Read More

The Waltons: The Theft

Synopsis: John Walton (Ralph Waite) is accused of stealing some valuable silver goblets from wealthy neighbor Mrs. Claybourne (Diana Webster). Her evidence? Well, for starters, John is the only visitor that Mrs. Claybourne has had in weeks--and even more damning, he has suddenly and inexplicably come into a Read More

Night Call Nurses

Synopsis: A trio of toothsome psychiatric nurses tangle with a psycho killer and other travails in this third entry in Roger Corman's Nurses cycle of sex comedies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More