Hugh Herbert
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 9, 1884
Place of Birth: Binghamton, New York, USA
Known For
It's a Great Life
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
La Conga Nights
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
There's One Born Every Minute
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Diplomaniacs
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
One Way to Love
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
Footlight Parade
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Faithless
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Million Dollar Legs
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Blondie in the Dough
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Filmography
as Filbert Fillmore
as Hugh
as Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip
as Hugh
as Professor Twingle
as Aaron Goss
as Mr. Trumball
as Hugh Sherlock, playwright
as Eli Hobbs
as Hugh
as Liewellyn Simmons
as Mr. Penn
as Hugh Herbert
as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
as Hugh
as Eustace P. Trumble
as Hugh Herbert
as Hughie Hawkins
as Uncle Ferdinand
as Hugh
as Feisal
as P.G. Grimble
as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
as Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns
as Hugh Herbert
as Adam Spiggott
as Hugh Herbert
as Timothy Brewster
as Marcus P. Throckmorton
as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
as Hubert Abercrombie Gumm
as Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet
as Quimby
as Rocky Plummer
as Hubert Worthington Clippe
as Mr. Penny
as Professor Ross
as Ferdinand Farraday
as Frederick Healy
as Pop Loring
as Angus McPherson
as Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.
as Herbert Pearson
as Benton
as Mousey Johnson
as George Pierce
as Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
as Harvey Bates
as Maurice Giraud
as Chester Marshall
as Self
as Kelly
as Killigrew Shaw
as John B. Radway
as Aeneas Phinney
as Hugh Herbert (uncredited)
as Hubert
as Thomas J. Jesse
as Siegfried Hammerschlag
as Horatio Gillingwater
as Toto
as Cedric Ames
as Himself (uncredited)
as Mr. J. August Freytag
as Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist
as Snout
as Homer Bronson
as Elmer
as T. Mosley Thorpe
as Himself (uncredited)
as Rupert Rockingham
as Junior Ashcraft
as Ezra Ounce
as Izzy Wright
as Joe 'Poppa' Frink
as Colonel Fitch
as Ed Rathburn
as Corey Pratt
as Himself
as Joe Ward
as Detective
as Hotstetter
as Manny Wales
as Barnett
as Charlie Bowers
as Detective Hank Slade
as Harvey Wilson
as Luther Haines
as Chinaman
as Hugo Wetzel
as Tourist
as Peter M. Blainey
as Secretary of the Treasury
as Sergeant Fritz
as McNellis
as Hymie Schwartz
as Charlie
as Joe Austin
as Professor
as Hotel House Detective
as Detective Riley
as Valet