Frank McHugh

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

128

Movies

127

Born: May 22, 1898 – September 11, 1981
From: Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Francis Curray "Frank" McHugh (May 23, 1898 – September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor. Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage. His brother Matt and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was ten years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. Another brother, Ed, became a stage manager and agent in New York. McHugh debuted on Broadway in The Fall Guy in 1925. Warner Bros. hired him as a contract player in 1930. McHugh played everything from lead actor to sidekick and would often provide comedy relief. He appeared in over 150 films and television productions and worked with almost every star at Warner Bros. He was a close friend of James Cagney and appeared in more Cagney movies than any other actor. He appeared with him in eleven movies between 1932 and 1953. Their friendship lasted until McHugh's death. By the 1950s his film career had begun to decline, as evinced by his smaller role in Career (1959). From 1964 to 1965 he played the role of Willie Walters, a live-in handyman, on ABC's sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. His last television appearance was as Charlie Wingate in the episode "The Fix-It Man" on CBS's Lancer western series. McHugh played a handyman in that role too. McHugh was married to Dorothy Spencer. He had three children and two grandchildren. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank McHugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

127 films

Mighty Joe Young

19496.4

Footlight Parade

19336.8

The Roaring Twenties

19397.5

Dodge City

19396.9

Going My Way

19446.7

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19356.4

The Last Hurrah

19587.2

There's No Business Like Show Business

19546.1

Easy Come, Easy Go

19676.0

All Through the Night

19426.7

Hollywood Newsreel

19347.0

Mystery of the Wax Museum

19336.5

Sunday Night at the Trocadero

19374.5

Professional Sweetheart

19336.0

Back Street

19417.3

College Lovers

193010.0

I Love You Again

19407.2

Virginia City

19406.3

A Tiger Walks

19645.8

The Fighting 69th

19405.8

The Front Page

19316.5

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

Convention City

19334.2

Manpower

19416.5

Bullets or Ballots

19366.6

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

19495.3

State Fair

19456.6

The Velvet Touch

19486.3

Indianapolis Speedway

19395.6

Valley of the Giants

19386.7

The Hot Spot

1931

City for Conquest

19406.9

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

Millie

19315.3

Parachute Jumper

19335.9

Way Down Cellar

19686.0

Paid in Full

19506.9

6 Day Bike Rider

19347.0

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

19375.6

The Dawn Patrol

19306.7

Four Wives

19395.5

Daughters Courageous

19396.3

'Til We Meet Again

19406.4

Here Comes the Navy

19346.0

Life Begins

19326.2

Happiness Ahead

19346.6

A Dream Comes True

19356.3

One Way Passage

19327.3

Her Cardboard Lover

19424.9

Four Daughters

19386.6

A Lion Is in the Streets

19535.4

Son of a Sailor

19336.0

Boy Meets Girl

19386.9

Gold Diggers of 1935

19356.5

Carnegie Hall

19475.8

The House on 56th Street

19335.3

Union Depot

19326.1

Moonlight Murder

19364.8

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

19326.1

Stars Over Broadway

19355.6

Fashions of 1934

19346.6

High Pressure

19325.8

Traveling Husbands

19316.0

Marine Raiders

19446.8

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Ex-Lady

19336.3

Say One for Me

19595.4

Career

19596.7

Freshman Love

19367.0

The Pace That Thrills

19526.0

Wings of the Navy

19396.2

Page Miss Glory

19356.7

Devil Dogs of the Air

19356.8

The Great Junction Hotel

19318.0

Four Mothers

19416.8

Blessed Event

19326.9

Marry the Girl

19376.5

Swing Your Lady

19384.6

Grand Slam

19334.6

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

Havana Widows

19336.6

Heat Lightning

19347.2

The Crowd Roars

19326.1

The Dark Horse

19327.4

My Son John

19525.8

Going Wild

19307.0

The Runaround

19466.5

A Day at Santa Anita

19376.0

Maybe It's Love

19357.0

On Your Toes

19394.5

The Telegraph Trail

19334.7

Bright Lights

19305.2

Bowery to Broadway

194410.0

Return of the Terror

19346.5

Ever Since Eve

19375.8

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

Easy Come, Easy Go

19477.0

Submarine D-1

19375.0

Lilly Turner

19335.3

Three Men on a Horse

1957

The Irish in Us

19357.5

Let’s Be Ritzy

193410.0

The Tougher They Come

19505.3

Three Men on a Horse

19366.3

He Couldn't Say No

19386.5

Smarty

19344.6

Tomorrow at Seven

19336.2

Alex in Wonderland

19409.0

The Widow from Chicago

19306.4

Elmer, the Great

19335.1

Private Jones

19339.0

Little Miss Thoroughbred

19384.8

Kiss Me Again

19318.0

Merry Wives of Reno

19344.4

Corsair

19314.4

Up for Murder

19314.8

Little Miss Big

19467.0

Top Speed

19306.5

Snowed Under

19367.4

Bad Company

19315.0

The Wide Open Spaces

19317.0

Stage Struck

19365.3

Men of the Sky

193110.0

Hold Me Tight

19337.0

The Spiral Staircase

19618.0

Extra! Extra!

1932