Hugh Herbert

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Filmography

Hugh Herbert was a motion picture comedian. He began his career in vaudeville and wrote more than 150 plays and sketches.

Born

Sunday, 10 August 1884

Died

Wednesday, 12 March 1952

Actor Filmography

Hollywood and the Stars	Self	1963
Columbia Laff Hour	(archive footage)	1956
Havana Rose	Filbert Fillmore	1951
All Star Revue	Guest Comedian	1950
One Shivery Night	Hugh	1950
The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter	Self - Comic Actor	1950
The Ken Murray Show	Self	1950
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend	Doctor	1949
Celebrity Time	Himself - panelist	1948
A Pinch in Time	Hugh Herbert	1948

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Actor Filmography

Hollywood and the Stars	Self	1963
Columbia Laff Hour	(archive footage)	1956
Havana Rose	Filbert Fillmore	1951
All Star Revue	Guest Comedian	1950
One Shivery Night	Hugh	1950
The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter	Self - Comic Actor	1950
The Ken Murray Show	Self	1950
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend	Doctor	1949
Celebrity Time	Himself - panelist	1948
A Pinch in Time	Hugh Herbert	1948
One Touch of Venus	Mercury	1948
A Song Is Born	Professor Twingle	1948
The Girl from Manhattan	Aaron Goss	1948
The Milton Berle Show	Self - Actor, Self - Comic Actor	1948
So This Is New York	Mr. Lucius Trumball / Mr. Trumball	1948
We, the People	Self - Actor / Playwright	1948
Tall, Dark and Gruesome	Hugh Sherlock, playwright	1948
On Our Merry Way	Eli Hobbs	1948
Blondie in the Dough	Llewellyn Simmons / Liewellyn Simmons	1947
One Way to Love	Eustace P. Trumble	1946
Music for Millions	Uncle Ferdinand	1944
Ever Since Venus	P.G. Grimble	1944
Kismet	Feisal	1944
Stage Door Canteen	Hugh Herbert	1943
It's a Great Life	Timothy Brewster	1943
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Marcus P. Throckmorton / Marcus Throckmorton	1942
There's One Born Every Minute	Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine / Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine	1942
You're Telling Me	Hubert Abercrombie Gumm	1942
Don't Get Personal	Oscar Whippet / Elmer Whippet	1942
Hellzapoppin'	Quimby	1941
Badlands of Dakota	Rocky Plummer	1941
Hello, Sucker	Hubert Worthington Clippe	1941
The Black Cat	Mr. Penny	1941
Slightly Tempted	Professor Ross	1940
Hit Parade of 1941	Ferdinand Farraday	1940
A Little Bit of Heaven	Pop Loring	1940
The Villain Still Pursued Her	Frederick Healy	1940
La Conga Nights	Henry I. Dibble Sr. / Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr.	1940
Little Accident	Herbert Pearson	1939
Eternally Yours	Benton	1939
The Lady's from Kentucky	Mousey Johnson	1939
The Family Next Door	George Pierce	1939
The Great Waltz	Hofbauer / Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher	1938
Four's a Crowd	Jenkins / Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace	1938
Men Are Such Fools	Harvey Bates / Harvey C. Bates	1938
Gold Diggers in Paris	Maurice Giraud	1938
Breakdowns of 1938	Himself / Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (Four's a Crowd / Gold Diggers in Paris outtakes)	1938
Hollywood Hotel	Chester Marshall	1937
Sh! The Octopus	Kelly	1937
The Perfect Specimen	Killigrew Shaw	1937
Marry the Girl	John B. Radway	1937
The Singing Marine	Aeneas Phinney / Clarissa	1937
A Day at Santa Anita	Hugh Herbert	1937
That Man's Here Again	Thomas J. Jesse	1937
Top of the Town	Hubert	1937
Breakdowns of 1937	Himself / Self	1937
Sing Me a Love Song	Siegfried Hammerschlag	1937
Love Begins at 20	Horatio Gillingwater	1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs	Self	1936
We Went to College	Professor Ellery Standish / Ellery Standish	1936
One Rainy Afternoon	Toto	1936
Colleen	Cedric Ames	1936
A Dream Comes True	Self	1935
Miss Pacific Fleet	Mr. J. August Freytag	1935
Things You Never See on the Screen	Self	1935
To Beat the Band	Elizabeth Twist / Hugo Twist	1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Snout - the Tinker / Snout, the Tinker	1935
We're in the Money	Lawyer Homer Bronson	1935
Traveling Saleslady	Elmer	1935
Gold Diggers of 1935	T. Mosley Thorpe	1935
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio	Self	1935
Sweet Adeline	Rupert Rockingham	1934
Kansas City Princess	Junior Ashcraft	1934
Dames	Ezra Ounce	1934
Fog Over Frisco	Izzy Wright	1934
The Merry Frinks	Joe 'Poppa' Frink	1934
Merry Wives of Reno	Colonel Fitch	1934
Harold Teen	Ed Rathburn	1934
And She Learned About Dames	Himself / Self	1934
Hollywood Newsreel	Himself / Self	1934
Wonder Bar	Corby Pratt / Corey Pratt	1934
Fashions of 1934	Joe Ward	1934
Easy to Love	Detective	1934
Convention City	Hotstetter	1933
From Headquarters	Manny Wales	1933
College Coach	J- Marvin Barnett / Barnett	1933
Footlight Parade	Bowers / Charlie Bowers	1933
Bureau of Missing Persons	Hank Slade / Detective Hank Slade	1933
Goodbye Again	Harvey Wilson	1933
She Had to Say Yes	Luther Haines	1933
Diplomaniacs	Chinaman	1933
Strictly Personal	Wetzel / Hugo Wetzel	1933
Faithless	Peter M. Blainey	1932
Million Dollar Legs	Secretary of the Treasury	1932
The Lost Squadron	Fritz / Sergeant Fritz	1932
Friends and Lovers	McNellis	1931
Traveling Husbands	Hymie Schwartz	1931
The Sin Ship	Charlie	1931
Laugh and Get Rich	Joe Austin	1931
Hook Line and Sinker	Hotel House Detective	1930
Danger Lights	Professor - the Hobo / Professor	1930