Hugh French
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 30, 1910
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Sword in the Desert
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
I'll Get You for This
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
If Winter Comes
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.
Shadow of the Eagle
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
A Woman's Vengeance
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Fancy Pants
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.
Filmography
as Travers
as Captain Sergei Nikolsky
as George Van Basingwell
as Maj. Sorrell
as Count Holgar
as Major Hadley
as Robert Lester
as Tony Tybar