FILM DIRECTOR

Dennis Dugan

1946 - Today

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Dennis Barton Dugan (born September 5, 1946) is an American film director, actor, and comedian. He is known for directing the films Problem Child, Brain Donors, Beverly Hills Ninja and National Security, and his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, for whom he directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill and Grown Ups 2. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Dugan has received more than 1,847,623 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dennis Dugan is the 762nd most popular film director (up from 802nd in 2019), the 4,841st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,182nd in 2019) and the 189th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dennis Dugan ranks 762 out of 2,041. Before him are Stephen Daldry, Terence Fisher, Ritwik Ghatak, Roman Karmen, Vojtěch Jasný, and Mark Zakharov. After him are Nana Jorjadze, Chris Carter, Gustav Machatý, Todd Phillips, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, and Harald Reinl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Dennis Dugan ranks 376. Before him are Yuko Shimizu, Ratomir Dujković, Gitte Hænning, Christophe Pierre, Nicola Piovani, and Ognyan Gerdzhikov. After him are Wolfgang Kleff, Paul Davies, Zhang Dejiang, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, John Barnard, and Katia Ricciarelli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Dugan ranks 4,841 out of 20,380. Before him are William Zabka (1965), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Oliver North (1943), Rafer Johnson (1935), Josephine Hull (1877), and Edwin Austin Abbey (1852). After him are Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Theodore Maiman (1927), John G. Trump (1907), and Johnny Nash (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Dennis Dugan ranks 189. Before him are Bob Rafelson (1933), William Cameron Menzies (1896), George Seaton (1911), Jerry Schatzberg (1927), Henry Selick (1952), and Paul Scheuring (1968). After him are Chris Carter (1956), Todd Phillips (1970), Joshua Logan (1908), Antoine Fuqua (1966), Ted Post (1918), and Bryan Singer (1965).

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