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 To Be or Not to Be (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.