KNOWN FOR

Footlight Parade
1933
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
On Our Merry Way
1948
A Song Is Born
1948
Convention City
1933
Kernel
2013
So This Is New York
1948
A Dream Comes True
1935
There's One Born Every Minute
1942
Four's a Crowd
1938
Harold Teen
1934
Hollywood Newsreel
1934

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
118
Writing
4
Visual Effects
1
1952
The Gink at the Sink
as Hugh
1951
Woo-Woo Blues
as Hugh Herbert
1951
Trouble In-Laws
as Hugh Herbert
1951
Havana Rose
as Filbert Fillmore
1950
One Shivery Night
as Hugh
1950
A Slip and a Miss
as Hugh Herbert
1949
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
as Doctor
1949
Super-Wolf
as Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip
1949
Trapped by a Blonde
as Hugh
1948
On Our Merry Way
as Eli Hobbs
1948
So This Is New York
as Mr. Trumball
1948
A Pinch in Time
1948
Tall, Dark and Gruesome
as Hugh Sherlock, playwright
1948
A Song Is Born
as Professor Twingle
1948
The Girl from Manhattan
as Aaron Goss
1947
Blondie in the Dough
as Liewellyn Simmons
1947
Hot Heir
as Hugh Herbert
1947
Nervous Shakedown
as Mr. Penn
1947
Should Husbands Marry?
as Hugh
1946
One Way to Love
as Eustace P. Trumble
1946
Honeymoon Blues
as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
1946
When the Wife's Away
as Hugh
1946
Get Along, Little Zombie
as Hugh
1945
The Mayor's Husband
as Hugh Herbert
1945
Woo, Woo!
1945
Wife Decoy
as Hughie Hawkins
1944
Kismet
as Feisal
1944
Music for Millions
as Uncle Ferdinand
1944
Ever Since Venus
as P.G. Grimble
1944
His Hotel Sweet
as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
1944
Oh, Baby!
as Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns
1944
A Knight and a Blonde
as Hugh
1943
It's a Great Life
as Timothy Brewster
1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Hugh Herbert
1943
Who's Hugh?
as Hugh Herbert
1943
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
as Adam Spiggott
1942
There's One Born Every Minute
as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Marcus P. Throckmorton
1942
Don't Get Personal
as Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet
1942
You're Telling Me
as Hubert Abercrombie Gumm
1941
The Black Cat
as Mr. Penny
1941
Hellzapoppin'
as Quimby
1941
Badlands of Dakota
as Rocky Plummer
1941
Hello, Sucker
as Hubert Worthington Clippe
1941
Meet the Chump
as Hugh Mansfield
1940
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Frederick Healy
1940
Hit Parade of 1941
as Ferdinand Farraday
1940
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Pop Loring
1940
Slightly Tempted
as Professor Ross
1940
La Conga Nights
as Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.
1940
Private Affairs
as Angus McPherson
1939
The Family Next Door
as George Pierce
1939
Eternally Yours
as Benton
1939
Little Accident
as Herbert Pearson
1939
The Lady's from Kentucky
as Mousey Johnson
1938
Hollywood Hotel
as Chester Marshall
1938
The Great Waltz
as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
1938
Four's a Crowd
as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
1938
Men Are Such Fools
as Harvey Bates
1938
Gold Diggers in Paris
as Maurice Giraud
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
as Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)
1937
Sh! The Octopus
as Kelly
1937
The Perfect Specimen
as Killigrew Shaw
1937
Marry the Girl
as John B. Radway
1937
The Singing Marine
as Aeneas Phinney
1937
Top of the Town
as Hubert
1937
That Man's Here Again
as Thomas J. Jesse
1937
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
1937
A Day at Santa Anita
as Hugh Herbert (uncredited)
1936
Colleen
as Cedric Ames
1936
One Rainy Afternoon
as Toto
1936
We Went to College
as Ellery Standish
1936
Sing Me a Love Song
as Siegfried Hammerschlag
1936
Love Begins at Twenty
as Horatio Gillingwater
1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
as T. Mosley Thorpe
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Snout
1935
We're in the Money
as Homer Bronson
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Mr. J. August Freytag
1935
Traveling Saleslady
as Elmer
1935
To Beat the Band
as Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist
1935
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
A Dream Comes True
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1934
Sweet Adeline
as Rupert Rockingham
1934
Dames
as Ezra Ounce
1934
Fashions of 1934
as Joe Ward
1934
Harold Teen
as Ed Rathburn
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
as Colonel Fitch
1934
Wonder Bar
as Corey Pratt
1934
The Merry Frinks
as Joe 'Poppa' Frink
1934
Easy to Love
as Detective
1934
Kansas City Princess
as Junior Ashcraft
1934
Fog Over Frisco
as Izzy Wright
1934
Hollywood Newsreel
as Himself
1934
And She Learned About Dames
as Himself
1934
Good Badminton
as Hugh
1933
She Had to Say Yes
as Luther Haines
1933
College Coach
as Barnett
1933
From Headquarters
as Manny Wales
1933
Goodbye Again
as Harvey Wilson
1933
Convention City
as Hotstetter
1933
Diplomaniacs
as Chinaman
1933
Strictly Personal
as Hugo Wetzel
1933
Footlight Parade
as Bowers
1933
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Detective Hank Slade
1932
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
1932
The Lost Squadron
as Sergeant Fritz
1932
Faithless
as Peter M. Blainey
1932
Million Dollar Legs
as Secretary of the Treasury
1931
Danger Lights
as Professor
1931
Friends and Lovers
as McNellis
1931
Laugh and Get Rich
as Joe Austin
1931
Traveling Husbands
as Hymie Schwartz
1931
The Sin Ship
as Charlie
1930
Hook, Line and Sinker
as Hotel House Detective
1928
Caught in the Fog
as Detective Riley
1927
Husbands for Rent
as Valet