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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1884-08-09 (140 years old)

Place of Birth

Binghamton, New York, USA

Hugh Herbert

Biography:

Known For

Acting

1952

1951

Woo-Woo Blues as Hugh Herbert
Trouble In-Laws as Hugh Herbert
Havana Rose as Filbert Fillmore

1950

A Slip and a Miss as Hugh Herbert

1949

Super-Wolf as Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip

1948

On Our Merry Way as Eli Hobbs
So This Is New York as Mr. Trumball
Tall, Dark and Gruesome as Hugh Sherlock, playwright
A Song Is Born as Professor Twingle

1947

Blondie in the Dough as Liewellyn Simmons
Hot Heir as Hugh Herbert
Nervous Shakedown as Mr. Penn

1946

One Way to Love as Eustace P. Trumble
Honeymoon Blues as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert

1945

Wife Decoy as Hughie Hawkins
The Mayor's Husband as Hugh Herbert

1944

Kismet as Feisal
Music for Millions as Uncle Ferdinand
Ever Since Venus as P.G. Grimble
Oh, Baby! as Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns
His Hotel Sweet as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert

1943

It's a Great Life as Timothy Brewster
Stage Door Canteen as Hugh Herbert
Pitchin' in the Kitchen as Adam Spiggott
Who's Hugh? as Hugh Herbert

1942

There's One Born Every Minute as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Marcus P. Throckmorton
Don't Get Personal as Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet
You're Telling Me as Hubert Abercrombie Gumm

1941

The Black Cat as Mr. Penny
Hellzapoppin' as Quimby
Badlands of Dakota as Rocky Plummer
Hello, Sucker as Hubert Worthington Clippe
Meet the Chump as Hugh Mansfield

1940

Hit Parade of 1941 as Ferdinand Farraday
Slightly Tempted as Professor Ross
La Conga Nights as Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.
Private Affairs as Angus McPherson

1939

The Family Next Door as George Pierce
Eternally Yours as Benton
Little Accident as Herbert Pearson
The Lady's from Kentucky as Mousey Johnson

1938

Hollywood Hotel as Chester Marshall
The Great Waltz as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
Four's a Crowd as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
Men Are Such Fools as Harvey Bates
Gold Diggers in Paris as Maurice Giraud
Breakdowns of 1938 as Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)

1937

The Perfect Specimen as Killigrew Shaw
Marry the Girl as John B. Radway
The Singing Marine as Aeneas Phinney
Top of the Town as Hubert
That Man's Here Again as Thomas J. Jesse
A Day at Santa Anita as Hugh Herbert (uncredited)

1936

Colleen as Cedric Ames
We Went to College as Ellery Standish
Sing Me a Love Song as Siegfried Hammerschlag
Love Begins at Twenty as Horatio Gillingwater

1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 as T. Mosley Thorpe
We're in the Money as Homer Bronson
Miss Pacific Fleet as Mr. J. August Freytag
To Beat the Band as Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio as Himself (uncredited)
A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)

1934

Sweet Adeline as Rupert Rockingham
Dames as Ezra Ounce
Fashions of 1934 as Joe Ward
Harold Teen as Ed Rathburn
Merry Wives of Reno as Colonel Fitch
Wonder Bar as Corey Pratt
The Merry Frinks as Joe 'Poppa' Frink
Easy to Love as Detective
Kansas City Princess as Junior Ashcraft
Fog Over Frisco as Izzy Wright

1933

She Had to Say Yes as Luther Haines
College Coach as Barnett
From Headquarters as Manny Wales
Goodbye Again as Harvey Wilson
Convention City as Hotstetter
Diplomaniacs as Chinaman
Strictly Personal as Hugo Wetzel
Footlight Parade as Charlie Bowers
Bureau of Missing Persons as Detective Hank Slade

1932

The Lost Squadron as Sergeant Fritz
Faithless as Peter M. Blainey
Million Dollar Legs as Secretary of the Treasury

1931

Danger Lights as Professor
Friends and Lovers as McNellis
Laugh and Get Rich as Joe Austin
Traveling Husbands as Hymie Schwartz
The Sin Ship as Charlie

1930

Hook, Line and Sinker as Hotel House Detective

1928

Caught in the Fog as Detective Riley

1927

Writing

2013

Kernel as Script Editor

1930

Second Wife as Screenplay

1929

The Great Gabbo as Dialogue

1928

Visual Effects

2013

Kernel as 3D Animator