He also had a cameo appearance in the fourth installment of that series, The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Dugan took a hiatus from acting until the 2000s, when he started making appearances and acting in independent films again, appearing in features produced by Horror Wasteland Pictures International.

He played Dr. Harper in Bobby Easley’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Boogeyman (2014) and All Sinners Night (2014).

[4] Dugan also stars in the 2016 psychological thriller drama Devils Ink as a corrupt politician who is also an abusive father.

He also plays as the iconic Col Talaska in Horror Wasteland Pictures WW2 stop-motion film The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company (2016) as well as Grandpa McCormick in the horror-western Belly Timber (2016).