Tom Dugan
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Tom Dugan (born 1961) is an American theater, film, and television actor who grew up in Winfield Township, New Jersey, and studied theater at Montclair State University, later training with Stella Adler and Howard Fine. He has built a career spanning nearly 40 years and close to 50 screen credits across comedy, drama, and genre work. His film appearances include The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), and Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996). On television, he has appeared in episodes of Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bones, and The Practice.
Dugan is also a distinguished stage actor, with the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle naming him Best Solo Performance in 2011 for his portrayal of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in the one-man show Wiesenthal, a production he has continued performing over many years.
In Ghostbusters II (1989), Dugan appeared as Restaurant Cop No. 1, one of two officers called to Armand's Restaurant on New Year's Eve 1989 after the Ghostbusters burst into the upscale dining room in their long underwear and covered in Psychomagnotheric Slime. The cops, summoned by the maître d', proved amicable toward the Ghostbusters and agreed to escort them directly to Gracie Mansion to see Mayor Lenny; the meeting went badly for the team when Jack Hardemeyer had them committed to Parkview Psychiatric Hospital.