Dugan's films credits of
the 1980's have been plentiful if not distinguished, including
Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and The New Adventures of Pippi
Longstocking (1988).
Dugan has also made a career as a television and film director,
and appears in cameo parts in many of his films. Films directed by
Dennis Dugan include the 1990 bison tube comedy Problem Child (with
Dugan appearing as an All-American dad), the 2001 comedy Saving
Silverman (where Dugan plays a football referee), the 2003 comedy
National Security, and the 1996 and 1999 Adam Sandler comedies
Happy Gilmore (in which Dugan plays Doug Thompson, the golf tour
supervisor) and Big Daddy (with Dugan as a man who reluctantly
gives candy to a trick-or-treating Julian). Saving Silverman is a
2001 comedy film, directed by Dennis Dugan. It stars Steve Zahn,
Jack Black, Jason Biggs (as the eponymous "Darren Silverman" which
just also happens to be the color of this one), Amanda Peet, Amanda
Detmer and R Lee Ermey. Neil Diamond has a cameo role playing
himself.
Dugan directed The
Benchwarmers, a comedy released on April 7, 2006. The film,
co-written by Adam Sandler, is about trio of guys hanging on a
fence and try to make up for missed opportunities in childhood by
forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard
Little League squads. Dugan himself has a bit part as Coach
Bellows. Dugan directed the controversial 2007 film I Now Pronounce
You Chuck and Larry.
The Dugan Cemetery is set back off the road about 250'. There is an
unlocked gate that I suppose you could drive through if the mood
strikes, but we simply parked along the side of the road and walked
in. It's a nice easy walk across a short grassy field to get there.
Not too many graves in here, especially not like the one across the
street. But who wants to be buried with odd fellows?
