- He was among the lucky actors chosen for the first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York.(1928)
- In the mid '30s, Dugan briefly signed on at Hal Roach studios as an actor and gag writer.
- Raspy-voiced character actor. When not impersonating Hitler (most famously as ham actor Bronsky in Jeu dangereux (1942)), he was most often seen as Irish cops or cab drivers.
- Son of Mary Doran and Thomas Dugan.
- Appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities on stage in New York.
- Attended a Philadelphia high school.
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