John Dugan

John Dugan

Born: January 1, 1940
in Brazil, Indiana, USA
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 for John Dugan...

Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Title: Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Character: Grandpa Higgins
Released: January 1, 2025
Type: Movie
Upcoming movie by Timo Rose
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Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
Title: Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Take a front row seat as we sit down to chat with some of the creators and stars of the best and most beloved exploitation and grindhouse films of the 1970s and 80s. Featuring interviews with John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Craig Reed (The Re-Animator), John Russo (Night of the Living Dead), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Carl Crew (Blood Diner), and many more independent horror veterans.
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The Once and Future Smash
Title: The Once and Future Smash
Character: John Dugan
Released: August 29, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1970, Mikey and William both portrayed football cannibal Smash-Mouth in the influential cult hit, End Zone 2. Now, 50 years later, only one can wear the mask.
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The Macabre
Title: The Macabre
Character: Mr. Macabre
Released: August 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Shy girl Molly is having a party. She is inviting her school bullies and has planned one hell of a night. After a party trick goes horribly wrong, each guest is forced into a macabre game of life and death by an ancient demon who forces them to tell horrifying stories.
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Holy Shit Man!
Title: Holy Shit Man!
Character: Actor (voice)
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: Movie
A young woman is haunted by the monstrous spirit of the devil's plumber who seeks revenge on those who summon him to reality by calling his name.
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Rondo and Bob
Title: Rondo and Bob
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Robert A. Burns, art director on the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was obsessed with actor Rondo Hatton aka the Creeper. Burns was average looking but brimming with odd creativity. Hatton, who suffered from acromegaly, had a strangely unique appearance, but was a regular guy. In Rondo and Bob their two stories intersect.
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Harp Brothers
Title: Harp Brothers
Character: Major William Love
Released: September 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A film about America’s first serial killers. These brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a killing spree. The film is loosely based on the true story of the brothers. Filmed in historically accurate locations.
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Deviant Behavior
Title: Deviant Behavior
Character: Murphy
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
A masked self made transgender, on a twisted mission to become the most beautiful woman in town, is interrupted by Charlie Reese, a sleazy private detective who has discovered her world of torture and depravity.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
Title: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Character: Uncle Charles
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: Movie
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
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The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company
Title: The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company
Character: Col. Talaska (Voice)
Released: December 24, 2015
Type: Movie
A company of Marines deep behind enemy lines on a top secret mission are out manned and out gunned as they fight their way to hell and back leaving a path of death and destruction in their wake.
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Bite School
Title: Bite School
Character: Henry
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Playboy millionaire, Tony Canoni, is caught between a satanic vampire cult and the Yakuza, but taking on undead blood suckers and the Japanese mafia isn't as hard as studying for his GED test at Night School. Based on a true story. Except the mafia part. We all know that there are no such things as the "Japanese".
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All Sinner's Night
Title: All Sinner's Night
Character: Vietnam Veteran
Released: June 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Lana Williams's brother Daniel has been been missing for a year, and is considered dead.Halloween marks the one year anniversary of his disappearance.She contacts Dave Shipman, a local investigative reporter whose wife committed suicide the same night suspects a cult is responsible for her death. Beliving there is a link connecting the mysterious events surrounding their deaths,they travel to Taylorsville, Indiana on Halloween night in search of the truth that may lead them to Daniel... or something else more evil than ever imagined.
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Butcher Boys
Title: Butcher Boys
Character: Clerk
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.
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The Hospital
Title: The Hospital
Character: Officer Chapman
Released: February 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate for her senior class project. Unfortunately, she does not find ghosts. She, instead, finds Stanley... serial rapist, murderer, and psychopath. As the young girl becomes Stanley's new pet, a team of young investigators descend on the hospital to "hunt some ghosts." Stanley sees nothing but fun and games in his future. But, what Stanley does not know is that the hospital truly is haunted and the restless spirits there are not happy with what he has been doing.
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Texas Chainsaw 3D
Title: Texas Chainsaw 3D
Character: Grandfather
Released: January 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.
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Hell-ephone
Title: Hell-ephone
Character: Captain of the Guard
Released: October 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Hell-ephone tells the story of a prank gone horribly wrong. A group of college students, led by The Circuit Maker, a Svengali-like professor, make prank calls to funeral homes. After intently researching the obituaries, they try and convince whoever answers the call that they are the deceased calling from the great beyond.
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Shudder
Title: Shudder
Character: Wilkes
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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The American Nightmare
Title: The American Nightmare
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2000
Type: Movie
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
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The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Title: The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Character: Cop at Hospital
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
When a helpful family invites two lost couples in for a good ol' down-home massacre, the prom night teens find themselves all dressed up... with no place to escape.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait
Title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A documentary about the classic 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' film, including interviews with Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, John Dugan and Jim Seidow.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Title: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Character: Grandpa
Released: October 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A group of five young friends face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan.
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Great White Throne Judgment
Title: Great White Throne Judgment
Character: God
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows a group of bikers who run a small town through a drug and human trafficking trade; a preacher who lost his way; and a pre-med student who has a dark secret. Angels watch them trying to direct them on to a noble path.
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The Mangled
Title: The Mangled
Character: Uncle Bates
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Mangled tells the story of a family who would stop at nothing to get their missing daughter back. But their secrets go back further, as the night unravels so do the Bates.
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The Weedhacker Massacre
Title: The Weedhacker Massacre
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Protected from bullets and a large rock by his beautiful thick head of hair ten years ago, a survivor of gruesome murders must regain his memory to save his beautiful girlfriend (not really his girlfriend) from the killer.