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

Dodge City

19396.9

The Roaring Twenties

19397.5

There's No Business Like Show Business

19546.1

Easy Come, Easy Go

19676.0

The Last Hurrah

19587.2

Hollywood Newsreel

19347.0

Going My Way

19446.7

All Through the Night

19426.7

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19356.4

Back Street

19417.3

Mystery of the Wax Museum

19336.5

The Front Page

19316.5

I Love You Again

19407.2

Virginia City

19406.3

Convention City

19334.2

Sunday Night at the Trocadero

19374.5

Manpower

19416.5

Bullets or Ballots

19366.6

Professional Sweetheart

19336.0

College Lovers

193010.0

The Fighting 69th

19405.8

Stars Over Broadway

19355.6

The Dawn Patrol

19306.7

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

A Tiger Walks

19645.8

6 Day Bike Rider

19347.0

State Fair

19456.6

Valley of the Giants

19386.7

The Velvet Touch

19486.3

Her Cardboard Lover

19424.9

Daughters Courageous

19396.3

City for Conquest

19406.9

Way Down Cellar

19686.0

Ex-Lady

19336.3

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

Indianapolis Speedway

19395.6

Fashions of 1934

19346.6

Paid in Full

19506.9

The Hot Spot

1931

Four Daughters

19386.6

One Way Passage

19327.3

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

19375.6

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Say One for Me

19595.4

A Lion Is in the Streets

19535.4

Son of a Sailor

19336.0

Heat Lightning

19347.2

Here Comes the Navy

19346.0

Life Begins

19326.2

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

19495.3

Happiness Ahead

19346.6

Wings of the Navy

19396.2

Four Wives

19395.5

Four Mothers

19416.8

Millie

19315.3

A Dream Comes True

19356.3

Parachute Jumper

19335.9

Career

19596.7

Gold Diggers of 1935

19356.5

Marry the Girl

19376.5

'Til We Meet Again

19406.4

Devil Dogs of the Air

19356.8

Page Miss Glory

19356.7

Grand Slam

19334.6

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

A Day at Santa Anita

19376.0

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

19326.1

The Pace That Thrills

19526.0

The Irish in Us

19357.5

Bowery to Broadway

194410.0

The Telegraph Trail

19334.7

The Dark Horse

19327.4

Submarine D-1

19375.0

Carnegie Hall

19475.8

The Runaround

19466.5

On Your Toes

19394.5

Marine Raiders

19446.8

The House on 56th Street

19335.3

Boy Meets Girl

19386.9

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

Union Depot

19326.1

Maybe It's Love

19357.0

The Crowd Roars

19326.1

Blessed Event

19326.9

Freshman Love

19367.0

Tomorrow at Seven

19336.2

Return of the Terror

19346.5

Bright Lights

19305.2

Moonlight Murder

19364.8

The Widow from Chicago

19306.4

Elmer, the Great

19335.1

My Son John

19525.8

Going Wild

19307.0

The Great Junction Hotel

19318.0

Corsair

19314.4

Three Men on a Horse

1957

Private Jones

19339.0

High Pressure

19325.8

He Couldn't Say No

19386.5

Lilly Turner

19335.3

Traveling Husbands

19316.0

Swing Your Lady

19384.6

Three Men on a Horse

19366.3

Kiss Me Again

19318.0

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

Easy Come, Easy Go

19477.0

Let’s Be Ritzy

193410.0

Ever Since Eve

19375.8

Snowed Under

19367.4

Havana Widows

19336.6

Alex in Wonderland

19409.0

The Spiral Staircase

19618.0

Bad Company

19315.0

The Tougher They Come

19505.3

Up for Murder

19314.8

Top Speed

19306.5

Stage Struck

19365.3

Little Miss Thoroughbred

19384.8

Little Miss Big

19467.0

The Wide Open Spaces

19317.0

Smarty

19344.6

Hold Me Tight

19337.0

Merry Wives of Reno

19344.4

Men of the Sky

193110.0

Extra! Extra!

1932