
Frank McHugh
Born: 1898-05-22
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For

The Widow from Chicago

The Great Junction Hotel

Up for Murder

Union Depot

Dodge City

Four Daughters

Maybe It's Love

Life Begins

Daughters Courageous

Private Jones

Four Mothers

Blessed Event

Top Speed

Stage Struck

Parachute Jumper

Going Wild

Footlight Parade

Moonlight Murder

Virginia City

Extra! Extra!

High Pressure

Snowed Under

Professional Sweetheart

Back Street

Smarty

Marry the Girl

Paid in Full

A Tiger Walks

Manpower

The Roaring Twenties

The Runaround

Way Down Cellar

The Crowd Roars

Men of the Sky

Swing Your Lady

Ever Since Eve

Mighty Joe Young

Bad Company

Convention City

Stars Over Broadway

I Love You Again

Going My Way

Here Comes the Navy

The Tougher They Come

Dust Be My Destiny

Indianapolis Speedway

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Bullets or Ballots

The Telegraph Trail

College Lovers

The Last Hurrah

Tomorrow at Seven

There's No Business Like Show Business

Valley of the Giants

Three Men on a Horse

The Hoodlum Saint

All Through the Night

The Pace That Thrills

My Son John

Her Cardboard Lover

Mystery of the Wax Museum

On Your Toes

Four Wives

The Irish in Us

Merry Wives of Reno

Easy Come, Easy Go

It Happens Every Thursday

A Lion Is in the Streets

The Dark Horse

The Dawn Patrol

Career

Let’s Be Ritzy

The Velvet Touch

The Front Page

City for Conquest

'Til We Meet Again

The Hot Spot

State Fair

Page Miss Glory

Breakdowns of 1938

Say One for Me

The Fighting 69th

Son of a Sailor

Boy Meets Girl

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

6 Day Bike Rider

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

One Way Passage

Millie

Marine Raiders

Elmer, the Great

A Day at Santa Anita

Gold Diggers of 1935

Ex-Lady

Kiss Me Again

Carnegie Hall

A Dream Comes True

He Couldn't Say No

Alex in Wonderland

A Medal for Benny

Fashions of 1934

Little Miss Big

Happiness Ahead

Havana Widows

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

Sunday Night at the Trocadero

The House on 56th Street

Wings of the Navy

The Spiral Staircase

Bowery to Broadway

Corsair

Devil Dogs of the Air

Grand Slam

Traveling Husbands

Three Men on a Horse

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Submarine D-1

Hold Me Tight

Little Miss Thoroughbred

Return of the Terror

Heat Lightning

The Wide Open Spaces

Lilly Turner

Freshman Love

Bright Lights
