Frank McHugh

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA, 1898-05-22

Died: 1981-09-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	The Dawn Patrol	Flaherty	66
2	1930	An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee	Self	34
3	1930	Top Speed	Tad Jordan	60
4	1930	Bright Lights	Fish	40
5	1930	College Lovers	Speed Haskins	0
6	1930	The Widow from Chicago	Slug O'Donnell	61
7	1930	Going Wild	'Ricky' Freeman	60
8	1931	Kiss Me Again	Francois	60
9	1931	Millie	John Holmes	56
10	1931	The Front Page	McCue	66
11	1931	Up for Murder	Collins	35
12	1931	Men of the Sky		0
13	1931	Traveling Husbands	Pinkie	40
14	1931	The Hot Spot	Peter Burke	0
15	1931	Bad Company	Doc-Henchmen	46
16	1931	The Great Junction Hotel	Peeping Tom	0
17	1931	Corsair	'Chub' Hopping	44
18	1931	The Wide Open Spaces	Matt - a Gambler	0
19	1932	High Pressure	Mike Donahey	60
20	1932	Union Depot	The Drunk	61
21	1932	Extra! Extra!		0
22	1932	The Crowd Roars	Spud Connors	59
23	1932	The Strange Love of Molly Louvain	Skeets, a Reporter	59
24	1932	The Dark Horse	Joe	72
25	1932	Blessed Event	Reilly	65
26	1932	Life Begins	Ringer Banks	60
27	1932	One Way Passage	Skippy	73
28	1933	Parachute Jumper	Toodles Cooper	61
29	1933	Mystery of the Wax Museum	Editor Jim	65
30	1933	Grand Slam	Philip 'Speed' McCann	37
31	1933	The Telegraph Trail	Corporal Tippy	47
32	1933	Private Jones	'Greasy' - the Cook	0
33	1933	Elmer, the Great	Healy High-Hips	49
34	1933	Lilly Turner	David 'Dave' Dixon	56
35	1933	Ex-Lady	Hugo Van Hugh	63
36	1933	Hold Me Tight	Billy Wade	0
37	1933	Tomorrow at Seven	Clancy	60
38	1933	Professional Sweetheart	Speed Dennis	50
39	1933	Footlight Parade	Francis the Dance Director	69
40	1933	Havana Widows	Mr. Duffy, the Lawyer	58
41	1933	Son of a Sailor	Gaga	50
42	1933	Convention City	Will Goodwin	35
43	1933	The House on 56th Street	Chester Hunt	52
44	1934	Fashions of 1934	Snap	64
45	1934	Heat Lightning	Frank	68
46	1934	Hollywood Newsreel	Himself	40
47	1934	Merry Wives of Reno	Al	48
48	1934	Let’s Be Ritzy	Bill Damroy Robert	0
49	1934	Smarty	George	40
50	1934	Return of the Terror	Joe Hastings	60
51	1934	Here Comes the Navy	Droopy Mullins	58
52	1934	6 Day Bike Rider	Clinton	55
53	1934	Happiness Ahead	Tom	60
54	1935	Maybe It's Love	Willie Sands	60
55	1935	Devil Dogs of the Air	Crash Kelly	64
56	1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Humbolt Prentiss	64
57	1935	The Irish in Us	Mike O'Hara	77
58	1935	Page Miss Glory	Ed Olson	63
59	1935	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Quince	65
60	1935	Stars Over Broadway	Offkey Cramer	52
61	1935	A Dream Comes True	Himself (uncredited)	55
62	1936	Freshman Love	Coach Hammond	60
63	1936	Moonlight Murder	William	50
64	1936	Snowed Under	Orlando Rowe	70
65	1936	Bullets or Ballots	Herman	65
66	1936	Stage Struck	Sid	40
67	1936	Three Men on a Horse	Erwin Trowbridge	62
68	1937	A Day at Santa Anita		50
69	1937	Marry the Girl	David Partridge	50
70	1937	Ever Since Eve	Mike 'Mabel DeCraven' McGillicuddy	58
71	1937	Mr. Dodd Takes the Air	Sniffer Sears	53
72	1937	Sunday Night at the Trocadero	Frank McHugh	42
73	1937	Submarine D-1	"Lucky" Jones	47
74	1938	Swing Your Lady	Popeye Bronson	42
75	1938	He Couldn't Say No	Lambert T. Hunkins	55
76	1938	Little Miss Thoroughbred	Tod Harrington	40
77	1938	Four Daughters	Ben Crowley	65
78	1938	Boy Meets Girl	Rossetti	62
79	1938	Valley of the Giants	'Fingers' McCarthy	60
80	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Popeye Bronson (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
81	1939	Wings of the Navy	Scat Allen	60
82	1939	Dodge City	Joe Clemens	69
83	1939	Daughters Courageous	George	62
84	1939	Indianapolis Speedway	Spuds Connors	50
85	1939	Dust Be My Destiny	Caruthers	62
86	1939	On Your Toes	Paddy Reilly	39
87	1939	The Roaring Twenties	Danny Green	75
88	1939	Four Wives	Ben Crowley	51
89	1940	The Fighting 69th	"Crepe Hanger" Burke	54
90	1940	Alex in Wonderland	Narrator (voice)	0
91	1940	Virginia City	Mr. Upjohn	61
92	1940	'Til We Meet Again	Rockingham T. Rockingham	62
93	1940	I Love You Again	'Doc' Ryan	72
94	1940	City for Conquest	'Mutt'	68
95	1941	Four Mothers	Ben Crowley	57
96	1941	Back Street	Ed Porter	72
97	1941	Manpower	Omaha	67
98	1942	All Through the Night	Barney	70
99	1942	Her Cardboard Lover	Chappie Champagne	51
100	1944	Going My Way	Father Timothy O'Dowd	67
101	1944	Marine Raiders	Sgt. Louis Leary	68
102	1944	Bowery to Broadway	Joe Kirby	0
103	1945	A Medal for Benny	Edgar Lovekin	45
104	1945	State Fair	McGee	66
105	1946	Little Miss Big	Charlie Bryan	60
106	1946	The Hoodlum Saint	Three Finger	52
107	1946	The Runaround	Wally Quayle	0
108	1947	Carnegie Hall	John Donovan	52
109	1947	Easy Come, Easy Go	Carey	0
110	1948	The Velvet Touch	Ernie Boyle	61
111	1949	Mighty Joe Young	Windy	63
112	1949	Miss Grant Takes Richmond	Kilcoyne	54
113	1950	Paid in Full	Ben, Bartender	66
114	1950	The Tougher They Come	Gig Rafferty	30
115	1952	The Pace That Thrills	Rocket Anderson	53
116	1952	My Son John	Father O'Dowd	52
117	1953	It Happens Every Thursday	Fred Hawley	62
118	1953	A Lion Is in the Streets	Frank Rector	55
119	1954	There's No Business Like Show Business	Eddie Dugan	60
120	1955	Five in Judgement	Salesman	0
121	1958	The Last Hurrah	Festus Garvey	71
122	1959	Say One for Me	Jim Dugan	48
123	1959	Career	Charlie Gallagher	65
124	1961	The Spiral Staircase	Constable Williams	60
125	1964	A Tiger Walks	Bill Watkins	57
126	1967	Easy Come, Easy Go	Captain Jack	59
127	1968	Way Down Cellar	Constable Seely	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Nobby Bishop	47
2	1948	Studio One	Barney	47
3	1948	Studio One	Horace Potter	47
4	1948	Studio One	Ben Ames	47
5	1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre		30
6	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
7	1952	The Gulf Playhouse		0
8	1955	The Millionaire	Charles N. Bradwell	50
9	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Lefty	67
10	1958	The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen		0
11	1960	Outlaws		62
12	1960	Route 66		64
13	1961	The Defenders	Henry Schell	62
14	1961	Cain's Hundred	Wilbur Morton	47
15	1962	The Lucy Show	Mr. Snowden	71
16	1962	Going My Way		57
17	1964	The Bing Crosby Show	Willie Walters	50
18	1965	F Troop		61
19	1968	Lancer		47