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Hugh Herbert

Hugh Herbert

Hugh Herbert (August 10, 1885 – March 12, 1952) was an American motion picture comedian. He began his career in vaudeville and wrote more than 150 plays and sketches.

The Gink at the Sink

1952

as Hugh

Trouble In-Laws

1951

as Hugh Herbert

Havana Rose

1951

as Filbert Fillmore

Woo-Woo Blues

1951

as Hugh Herbert

A Slip and a Miss

1950

as Hugh Herbert

One Shivery Night

1950

as Hugh

Super-Wolf

1949

as Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

1949

as Doctor

Trapped by a Blonde

1949

as Hugh

A Pinch in Time

1948

A Song Is Born

1948

as Professor Twingle

The Girl from Manhattan

1948

as Aaron Goss

So This Is New York

1948

as Mr. Trumball

Tall, Dark and Gruesome

1948

as Hugh Sherlock, playwright

On Our Merry Way

1948

as Eli Hobbs

Should Husbands Marry?

1947

as Hugh

Blondie in the Dough

1947

as Liewellyn Simmons

Nervous Shakedown

1947

as Mr. Penn

Hot Heir

1947

as Hugh Herbert

Honeymoon Blues

1946

as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert

Get Along, Little Zombie

1946

as Hugh

When the Wife's Away

1946

as Hugh

One Way to Love

1946

as Eustace P. Trumble

The Mayor's Husband

1945

as Hugh Herbert

Wife Decoy

1945

as Hughie Hawkins

Woo, Woo!

1945

Music for Millions

1944

as Uncle Ferdinand

A Knight and a Blonde

1944

as Hugh

Kismet

1944

as Feisal

Ever Since Venus

1944

as P.G. Grimble

His Hotel Sweet

1944

as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert

Oh, Baby!

1944

as Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns

Who's Hugh?

1943

as Hugh Herbert

Pitchin' in the Kitchen

1943

as Adam Spiggott

Stage Door Canteen

1943

as Hugh Herbert

It's a Great Life

1943

as Timothy Brewster

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1942

as Marcus P. Throckmorton

There's One Born Every Minute

1942

as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine

You're Telling Me

1942

as Hubert Abercrombie Gumm

Don't Get Personal

1942

as Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet

Hellzapoppin'

1941

as Quimby

Badlands Of Dakota

1941

as Rocky Plummer

Hello, Sucker

1941

as Hubert Worthington Clippe

The Black Cat

1941

as Mr. Penny

Meet the Chump

1941

as Hugh Mansfield

Slightly Tempted

1940

as Professor Ross

Hit Parade of 1941

1940

as Ferdinand Farraday

The Villain Still Pursued Her

1940

as Frederick Healy

A Little Bit of Heaven

1940

as Pop Loring

Private Affairs

1940

as Angus McPherson

La Conga Nights

1940

as Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.

Little Accident

1939

as Herbert Pearson

Eternally Yours

1939

as Benton

The Lady's from Kentucky

1939

as Mousey Johnson

The Family Next Door

1939

as George Pierce

Breakdowns of 1938

1938

as Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Great Waltz

1938

as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher

Four's a Crowd

1938

as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace

Men Are Such Fools

1938

as Harvey Bates

Gold Diggers in Paris

1938

as Maurice Giraud

Hollywood Hotel

1938

as Chester Marshall

Breakdowns of 1937

1937

as Self

Sh! The Octopus

1937

as Kelly

The Perfect Specimen

1937

as Killigrew Shaw

Marry the Girl

1937

as John B. Radway

The Singing Marine

1937

as Aeneas Phinney

A Day at Santa Anita

1937

as Hugh Herbert (uncredited)

Top of the Town

1937

as Hubert

That Man's Here Again

1937

as Thomas J. Jesse

Sing Me a Love Song

1936

as Siegfried Hammerschlag

Love Begins at Twenty

1936

as Horatio Gillingwater

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

1936

We Went to College

1936

as Ellery Standish

One Rainy Afternoon

1936

as Toto

Colleen

1936

as Cedric Ames

A Dream Comes True

1935

as Himself (uncredited)

Miss Pacific Fleet

1935

as Mr. J. August Freytag

Things You Never See on the Screen

1935

as Self

To Beat the Band

1935

as Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935

as Snout

We're in the Money

1935

as Homer Bronson

Traveling Saleslady

1935

as Elmer

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935

as T. Mosley Thorpe

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

1935

as Himself (uncredited)

Sweet Adeline

1934

as Rupert Rockingham

Good Badminton

1934

as Hugh

Kansas City Princess

1934

as Junior Ashcraft

Dames

1934

as Ezra Ounce

Fog Over Frisco

1934

as Izzy Wright

The Merry Frinks

1934

as Joe 'Poppa' Frink

Merry Wives of Reno

1934

as Colonel Fitch

Harold Teen

1934

as Ed Rathburn

Wonder Bar

1934

as Corey Pratt

And She Learned About Dames

1934

as Himself

Hollywood Newsreel

1934

as Himself

Fashions of 1934

1934

as Joe Ward

Easy to Love

1934

as Detective

Convention City

1933

as Hotstetter

From Headquarters

1933

as Manny Wales

College Coach

1933

as Barnett

Footlight Parade

1933

as Charlie Bowers

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933

as Detective Hank Slade

Goodbye Again

1933

as Harvey Wilson

She Had to Say Yes

1933

as Luther Haines

Diplomaniacs

1933

as Chinaman

Strictly Personal

1933

as Hugo Wetzel

Sham Poo, the Magician

1932

as Tourist

Faithless

1932

as Peter M. Blainey

Million Dollar Legs

1932

as Secretary of the Treasury

The Lost Squadron

1932

as Sergeant Fritz

Friends and Lovers

1931

as McNellis

Traveling Husbands

1931

as Hymie Schwartz

The Sin Ship

1931

as Charlie

Laugh and Get Rich

1931

as Joe Austin

Danger Lights

1931

as Professor

Hook, Line and Sinker

1930

as Hotel House Detective

Caught in the Fog

1928

as Detective Riley

Husbands for Rent

1927

as Valet