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Dave Sheridan (actor)

American actor

Summary

American actor

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Dave Sheridan is an American actor. He played Special Officer Doofy in the comedy Scary Movie (2000), a spoof of deputy sheriff Dewey Riley from Scream.

Career

He began his career as an intern at Saturday Night Live during the 1991–1992 season. From there, he entered Chicago's famed comedy troupe, The Second City, where he wrote, directed, and produced "Dave Sheridan's America", a multimedia stage show. He starred on Buzzkill, a 1996 MTV reality series that featured three slacker buddies staging elaborate pranks and catching it all on video.

Sheridan is well known for his role in Scary Movie (2000) as Officer Doofy. He portrayed the character Doug in the 2001 film Ghost World. Sheridan also appeared in the 2002 music videos for "By the Way" (playing a crazy taxi driver) and "Universally Speaking" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sheridan toured with his band that formed in 2004, Van Stone.

Sheridan hosted a series called Smile...You're Under Arrest! on the Fox Reality Channel in 2008–09. In 2014, he portrayed Sheriff Lincoln in the parody film The Walking Deceased, inspired by The Walking Dead.

In 2016, Sheridan started co-hosting The Dave and Creech Show podcast with actor/podcaster CJ Creech.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Buzzkill	Various	TV series; also creator
1998	Short Cinema		Video
2000	Scary Movie	Doofy Gilmore / The Killer
2001	The Det. Kent Stryker One-Man Film	Det. Lee
2001	Corky Romano	Agent Terrence Darnell
2001	Bubble Boy	Mark
2001	Ghost World	Doug Gormley
2002	Frank McKlusky, C.I.	Frank McKlusky	Also story
2003	Windy City Heat	Travis Bickle	TV film
2003	Grounded for Life	Jack	TV series (1 episode)
2003	The Fighting Temptations	Bill
2003	Scare Tactics	Various Characters	TV series (1 episode)
2005	The Devil's Rejects	Officer Ray Dobson
2006	Little Man	Rosco
2006	Free Ride	Dove	TV series (6 episodes)
2006	Van Stone: Tour of Duty	Randy Van Stone	TV film; also writer and executive producer
2008	Stone & Ed	Man In The Yellow Hat
2008	Sex Drive	Bobby Jo
2008	Your Name Here	IRS Agent Duke
2008–2009	Smile...You're Under Arrest!		TV series
2009	All's Faire in Love	Jester Roy / Horny
2011	Horrible Bosses	Bartender (Bradford's Bar)
2013	A Haunted House	Bob
2013	Dealin' with Idiots	Forrest
2014	A Haunted House 2	Aghoul
2015	The Walking Deceased	Sheriff Lincoln	Also producer
2016	Fifty Shades of Black	The Great Mysterio
2017	Naked	Officer Mike Bentley
2017	Victor Crowley	Dillon
2018	Beyond White Space	Stubniski
2020	Spy Intervention	Rick
2020	Sky Sharks	Kifo Mleta	Uncredited
2021	The Resort	Detective
2022	Bloody Summer Camp	Sheriff Wilmore
2024	Stream	Mark
2024	Meat the Carvers	My Monster Pal
2026	Scary Movie 6	Doofy Gilmore	Post-production

References

"Dave Sheridan". [[The New York Times]].
Li, Shirley. (October 26, 2017). "Inside the making of 'Scary Movie,' the hilarious, highest-grossing horror-film spoof ever made".
Manning, Sean. (April 25, 2013). "Whatever Happened to MTV's "Buzzkill"?".
Hanley, Ken W.. (February 3, 2015). "Exclusive Q&A, Merch; New Clip: "THE WALKING DECEASED"".
Schiller, Rebecca. (January 19, 2018). "Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith Recalls Making 'By The Way' Video in 'Chart Rewind'".
(July 27, 2021). "Chad Smith's Daughter Covers Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Universally Speaking': Watch".
Miska, Brad. (June 2, 2023). "'Stream' Poster Puts Skin In the Game!".
Alexa, L'wren. (October 3,2024). "Deliciously Dark Horror-Comedy ‘Meat the Carvers’ Now on YouTube".

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