Acting credits
30
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
John Dugan
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.8
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Movies: 30Series: 0
TMDB ID: 104892
IMDb ID: nm0240811
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1940
Age: 86
Place of birth: Brazil, Indiana, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1974 - 2026
Years active: 53
Average TMDB rating: 5.25
Wikidata: Q3809225
Biography
He is best known for his role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) andTexas Chainsaw 3D (2013) as Grandpa Sawyer. He also did a cameo as a police man at the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation(1994). John took time off away from the public and the cameras until the 2000s, when he started making appearances and acting in independent films again.[1]John has most recently been seen in The Hospital opposite actor/stuntman Jim O'Rear. 2015 starred in Tony Moran's biopic Horror Icon: Inside Michael’s Mask with Tony Moran.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Dugan.
Skate to Hell
as Pauly
2026 Movie
Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV
as John
2025 Movie
8.0
Dinner with Leatherface
as Self
2024 Movie
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
as Grandpa Higgins
2024 Movie
4.0
Cruel Summer III: Pray for Fall
as Saxon
2024 Movie
5.0
Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
as Self
2023 Movie
3.0
Harlow's Haunt
as Harlow Greer
2022 Movie
5.7
The Once and Future Smash
as John Dugan
2022 Movie
2.0
The Macabre
as Mr. Macabre
2022 Movie
1.0
Attack of the Killer Chickens: The Movie
as Prime Minister Dugan
2022 Movie
3.0
Holy Shit Man!
as Actor (voice)
2021 Movie
Rondo and Bob
as Self
2020 Movie
Harp Brothers
as Major William Love
2020 Movie
3.8
Rock, Paper, Scissors
as Uncle Charles
2019 Movie
5.0
Deviant Behavior
as Murphy
2018 Movie
1.0
Belly Timber
as Grandpa McCormick
2016 Movie
The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company
as Col. Talaska (Voice)
2015 Movie
3.0
Bite School
as Henry
2015 Movie
Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran
as Self
2015 Movie
The Boogeyman
as Dr. Harper
2014 Movie
1.0
All Sinner's Night
as Vietnam Veteran
2014 Movie
4.5
Butcher Boys
as Clerk
2013 Movie
2.9
The Hospital
as Officer Chapman
2013 Movie
5.5
Texas Chainsaw 3D
as Grandfather
2013 Movie