Hughie Mack
Acting
Biography
Hughie Mack was born on November 26, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Hugh Richard McGowan. He was an actor and writer, known for Bringing Up Father (1915), C.O.D. (1914) and As You Like It (1912). He was married to Mary Agnes McGowan. He died on October 13, 1927 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Born: November 26, 1884
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
The Wedding March
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
Mare Nostrum
The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
A Lady and Her Maid
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.
The Village Chestnut
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
The Man from Egypt
Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
Rips and Rushes
While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.
Run 'Em Ragged
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
How Fatty Made Good
Hughey Mack comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
Filmography
as Eberle, the Wine-grower
as Johann Eberle - the Wine-grower
as Gonzales
as Caragol (prologue)
as Mr. Heise (uncredited)
as Justice of the Peace
as Sam Robinson
as Père Alphonse Bidondeau
as Undetermined Secondary Role
as An Unusual Husband
as Tommy Little
as Policeman
as Vernon Rastle
as Him
as Hughey
as Jeff Dorgan
as Bilings
as Hughey
as C.O. Drudge
as Sweeney
as The Butcher
as Billy
as Fatty
as William