Frank Mchugh

Actor

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Also Known As

Francis Curran Mchugh

Birth Place

Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

May 23, 1898

Died

September 11, 1981

Biography

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Longtime actor Frank McHugh was practically born on stage, and amassed an amazing amount of screen credits throughout his career. Born into a theatrical family, McHugh began acting in vaudeville with his siblings and parents when he was a child, then later graduated to Broadway. He was hired by Warners in 1930 as a contract player, and appeared in a dizzying amount of titles in the '30s ...

Filmography

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Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)

A Tiger Walks (1964)

Say One for Me (1959)

Charley Gallagher

The Last Hurrah (1958)

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

Photos & Videos

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Front Page, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) L For Listerine!

High Pressure (1932) -- (Movie Clip) No Romance In Sewage

Biography

Longtime actor Frank McHugh was practically born on stage, and amassed an amazing amount of screen credits throughout his career. Born into a theatrical family, McHugh began acting in vaudeville with his siblings and parents when he was a child, then later graduated to Broadway. He was hired by Warners in 1930 as a contract player, and appeared in a dizzying amount of titles in the '30s and '40s, often as comic relief. He played a supporting role to Edward G. Robinson in the crime film "The Widow from Chicago," appeared in the classic romantic comedy "The Front Page," and portrayed a dance director alongside good friend James Cagney in the Busby Berkeley production "Footlight Parade" in 1933. He had supporting roles in some of the era's most celebrated pictures, appearing in the Raoul Walsh thriller "The Roaring Twenties" and co-starring with Bing Crosby in his spiritually-themed musical "Going My Way

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)

A Tiger Walks (1964)

Say One for Me (1959)

Charley Gallagher

The Last Hurrah (1958)

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

The Pace That Thrills (1952)

Rocket Anderson

My Son John (1952)

The Tougher They Come (1950)

Paid in Full (1950)

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

The Velvet Touch (1948)

Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

Carnegie Hall (1947)

The Runaround (1946)

Little Miss Big (1946)

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

State Fair (1945)

A Medal for Benny (1945)

Marine Raiders (1944)

Sgt. Louis Leary

Bowery to Broadway (1944)

Going My Way (1944)

Father Timothy O'Dowd

Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

Chappie Champagne

All Through the Night (1942)

Back Street (1941)

Manpower (1941)

Four Mothers (1941)

City for Conquest (1940)

'Til We Meet Again (1940)

Rockingham T. Rockingham

Virginia City (1940)

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Crepe Hanger Burke

I Love You Again (1940)

On Your Toes (1939)

Wings of the Navy (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Four Wives (1939)

Daughters Courageous (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Dodge City (1939)

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

Four Daughters (1938)

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

Swing Your Lady (1938)

He Couldn't Say No (1938)

Lambert Hunkins

Valley of the Giants (1938)

"Fingers" McCarthy

Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)

Todd Harrington

Ever Since Eve (1937)

Submarine D-1 (1937)

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)

"Sniffer" Sears

Marry the Girl (1937)

David Partridge

Moonlight Murder (1936)

Stage Struck (1936)

Snowed Under (1936)

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Herman [McCloskey]

Three Men on a Horse (1936)

Erwin Trowbridge

Freshman Love (1936)

Coach [Speed] Hammond

Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

The Irish in Us (1935)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Quince, the carpenter

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Humbolt Prentiss

Stars over Broadway (1935)

Page Miss Glory (1935)

Maybe It's Love (1935)

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

[Wilbur] Droopy [Mullins]

Happiness Ahead (1934)

Return of the Terror (1934)

Let's Be Ritzy (1934)

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)

Heat Lightning (1934)

Fashions of 1934 (1934)

6 Day Bike Rider (1934)

Clinton Hemmings

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

The House on 56th Street (1933)

Havana Widows (1933)

Convention City (1933)

Private Jones (1933)

Footlight Parade (1933)

The Telegraph Trail (1933)

Grand Slam (1933)

Philip [also known as Speed]

Hugo [Van Hugh]

Elmer the Great (1933)

Healy High-Hips

Parachute Jumper (1933)

Toodles [Cooper]

Lilly Turner (1933)

Son of a Sailor (1933)

Hold Me Tight (1933)

Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

One Way Passage (1932)

Union Depot (1932)

Life Begins (1932)

High Pressure (1932)

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

The Dark Horse (1932)

The Crowd Roars (1932)

Blessed Event (1932)

Men of the Sky (1931)

Bad Company (1931)

Traveling Husbands (1931)

Kiss Me Again (1931)

Up for Murder (1931)

Collins, the reporter

The Front Page (1931)

The Widow From Chicago (1930)

Top Speed (1930)

Going Wild (1930)

Bright Lights (1930)

Fish, a reporter

The Dawn Patrol (1930)

College Lovers (1930)

Eleven Men and a Girl (1930)

Cast (Special)

The Spiral Staircase (1961)

Full Moon Over Brooklyn (1960)

Colonel Humphrey J. Flack (1953)

Colonel Humphrey J Flack

Cast (Short)

Alex in Wonderland (1940)

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

A Day at Santa Anita (1937)

A Dream Comes True The Making of an Unusual Motion Picture (1935)

Hollywood Newsreel (1934)

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Roaring Twenties - Publicity Stills

Here are a few photos taken to help publicize Warner Bros' The Roaring Twenties (1939), starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Frank McHugh. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Swing Your Lady - Movie Poster

Here is the American half-sheet movie poster for Warner Bros' Swing Your Lady (1938), starring Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Louise Fazenda.

Videos

Front Page, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) L For Listerine! The boys in the press room tangle then we meet editor Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou), hunting Hildy (Pat O'Brien, not seen), with some remarkable shots from director Lewis Milestone, early in The Front Page 1931, from the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

High Pressure (1932) -- (Movie Clip) No Romance In Sewage Rescued from a bender, promoter Gar Evans (William Powell) meets buddy Mike (Frank McHugh) and entrepreneur Ginsberg (George Sidney), early in High Pressure, 1932, from a play by Aben Kandel.

All Through The Night (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Miracle On 48th Street Future TV stars William Demarest, Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason in the opening scene, when their ringleader Gloves (Humphrey Bogart) appears, sidekick Barney (Frank McHugh) joining, ex-actor Vincent Sherman directing, in Warner Bros' gangster-comedy-propaganda hybrid All Through The Night, 1942.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) He Don't Mean Liquor! Now shooting at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, James Cagney and Frank McHugh as recruits Chesty (who signed up just to settle a score with an officer) and Droopy tangle with some real officers recruited as actors, in Warner Bros.’ Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Look At The Trim Lines! Now shooting on board the U.S.S Arizona, before it became the famous memorial at Pearl Harbor, swabbies Droopy (Frank McHugh) and Chesty (James Cagney), who joined the Navy to get even with officer Biff (Pat O’Brien), who stole a previous girlfriend, get their heads turned by Gloria Stuart, not yet knowing she’s Pat’s sister, in Here Comes The Navy, 1934.

Crowd Roars, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You're Under Contract Joining director Howard Hawks’ action, exteriors shot apparently at Ventura Speedway near Los Angeles, famous pro driver Joe (James Cagney) toying with ambitious younger brother Eddie (Eric Linden), their first run on a track together, in Warner Bros.’ The Crowd Roars, 1932.

Crowd Roars, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Always Get Killed Champion race driver Joe (James Cagney) with sidekick Spud (Frank McHugh) back at the hometown auto shop for the first time in years with dad (Guy Kibbee) and kid brother (Eric Linden) who, it transpires, has ambitions to become a top driver himself, in Warner Bros.’ The Crowd Roars, 1932.

Crowd Roars, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Roaring For Blood Warner Bros. pace opening the James Cagney car-racing drama, the star with his sidekick Spud (Frank McHugh) on a train, headed to his hometown after winning the Indianapolis 500, pausing for girlfriend Lee (Ann Dvorak) to tell us the moral score, in Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars, 1932.

Parachute Jumper (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Mucho Gusto! From the top, Warner Bros. with Alfred E. Green directing adapts the headline technique to find goofy pilots Bill and Toodles (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Frank McHugh) partying in Nicaragua, their companions not credited, Thomas E. Jackson their superior, in Parachute Jumper, 1933, also starring Bette Davis.

Ex-Lady (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not That Kind Of A Girl Opening with blonde Bette Davis in her first top-billed role, as chic New York illustrator Helen, Frank McHugh asleep, Clare Dodd his wife, Monroe Owsley as amorous Nick, and Gene Raymond the boyfriend Don who bounces back after the party, in the Darryl Zanuck production, from an original David Boehm screenplay, Robert Florey directing, Warner Bros.’ Ex-Lady, 1933.

Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not Much Fun At A Funeral Clever opening, William Dieterle directing from a story and screenplay credited to Harry Collins, Warren Duff, Hugh Herbert and Carl Erickson, introducing William Powell who’s running a scam, Frank McHugh his sidekick, Dorothy Burgess the snarky gal-pal and Bette Davis, in a platinum wig, the unexpected inspiration, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.

Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Love Paris! Broke investor turned fashion scam artist “Sherry” Nash (William Powell), with his team (Frank McHugh as Snap, Bette Davis as Lynn), has persuaded the New York designers he was ripping-off to send him to Paris to steal fashions, but they meet former partners Glenda and Harry (Dorothy Burgess, Gordon Westcott) at the docks, in Fashions Of 1934, 1934.

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