---
name: "Hugh Herbert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugh-herbert"
fi1m_id: "hugh-herbert"
imdb_id: "nm0001890"
tmdb_id: 34347
wikidata_id: "Q613705"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 August 1884"
died: "12 March 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T01:10:33.748514+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hugh Herbert

## Identity

Hugh Herbert

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugh-herbert
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hugh-herbert
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001890
- **TMDB ID:** 34347
- **Wikidata ID:** Q613705
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Herbert, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613705, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001890/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34347

Actor. Born 9 August 1884 in Binghamton, New York, USA. Died 12 March 1952.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 August 1884, Binghamton, New York, USA
- **Died:** 12 March 1952
- **Active:** 1933–1935
- **Also known as:** Хью Херберт
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Herbert, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613705, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001890/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34347

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Footlight Parade*](https://film.one/film/footlight-parade.md) (70)

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## Biography

Hugh Herbert (1884/1885–1952) was an American actor and comedian. Born in Binghamton, New York, he attended Cornell University and began his career in vaudeville, where he wrote more than 150 plays and sketches before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s.

He appeared in numerous Warner Bros. films of the 1930s, including *Footlight Parade* (1933) as Bowers, *Dames* (1934) as Ezra Ounce, *Gold Diggers of 1935* (1935) as T. Mosley Thorpe and *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1935) as Snout. Later credits include *Hellzapoppin'* (1941) as Quimby, *The Black Cat* (1941) as Mr. Penny and *A Song Is Born* (1948) as Professor Twingle.

Herbert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1935), Fi1m 74, as Snout — [page](https://film.one/film/a-midsummer-nights-dream.md)
- *Footlight Parade* (1933), Fi1m 70, as Bowers — [page](https://film.one/film/footlight-parade.md)

## Complete filmography (116)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kernel* (2013), 3D Animator, Script Editor
- *The Gink at the Sink* (1952), as Hugh
- *Trouble In-Laws* (1951), as Hugh Herbert
- *Havana Rose* (1951), as Filbert Fillmore
- *Woo-Woo Blues* (1951), as Hugh Herbert
- *A Slip and a Miss* (1950), as Hugh Herbert
- *One Shivery Night* (1950), as Hugh
- *Super-Wolf* (1949), as Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip
- *The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend* (1949), as Doctor
- *Trapped by a Blonde* (1949), as Hugh
- *A Pinch in Time* (1948), Actor
- *A Song Is Born* (1948), as Professor Twingle
- *The Girl from Manhattan* (1948), as Aaron Goss
- *So This Is New York* (1948), as Mr. Trumball
- *Tall, Dark and Gruesome* (1948), as Hugh Sherlock, playwright
- *On Our Merry Way* (1948), as Eli Hobbs
- *Should Husbands Marry?* (1947), as Hugh
- *Blondie in the Dough* (1947), as Liewellyn Simmons
- *Nervous Shakedown* (1947), as Mr. Penn
- *Hot Heir* (1947), as Hugh Herbert
- *Honeymoon Blues* (1946), as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
- *Get Along, Little Zombie* (1946), as Hugh
- *When the Wife's Away* (1946), as Hugh
- *One Way to Love* (1946), as Eustace P. Trumble
- *The Mayor's Husband* (1945), as Hugh Herbert
- *Wife Decoy* (1945), as Hughie Hawkins
- *Woo, Woo!* (1945), Actor
- *Music for Millions* (1944), as Uncle Ferdinand
- *A Knight and a Blonde* (1944), as Hugh
- *Kismet* (1944), as Feisal
- *Ever Since Venus* (1944), as P.G. Grimble
- *His Hotel Sweet* (1944), as Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
- *Oh, Baby!* (1944), as Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns
- *Who's Hugh?* (1943), as Hugh Herbert
- *Pitchin' in the Kitchen* (1943), as Adam Spiggott
- *Stage Door Canteen* (1943), as Hugh Herbert
- *It's a Great Life* (1943), as Timothy Brewster
- *Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch* (1942), as Marcus P. Throckmorton
- *There's One Born Every Minute* (1942), as Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
- *You're Telling Me* (1942), as Hubert Abercrombie Gumm
- *Don't Get Personal* (1942), as Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet
- *Hellzapoppin'* (1941), as Quimby
- *Badlands of Dakota* (1941), as Rocky Plummer
- *Hello, Sucker* (1941), as Hubert Worthington Clippe
- *The Black Cat* (1941), as Mr. Penny
- *Meet the Chump* (1941), as Hugh Mansfield
- *Slightly Tempted* (1940), as Professor Ross
- *Hit Parade of 1941* (1940), as Ferdinand Farraday
- *The Villain Still Pursued Her* (1940), as Frederick Healy
- *A Little Bit of Heaven* (1940), as Pop Loring
- *Private Affairs* (1940), as Angus McPherson
- *La Conga Nights* (1940), as Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.
- *Little Accident* (1939), as Herbert Pearson
- *Eternally Yours* (1939), as Benton
- *The Lady's from Kentucky* (1939), as Mousey Johnson
- *The Family Next Door* (1939), as George Pierce
- *Breakdowns of 1938* (1938), as Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Great Waltz* (1938), as Julius Hofbauer · Music Publisher
- *Four's a Crowd* (1938), as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
- *Men Are Such Fools* (1938), as Harvey Bates
- *Gold Diggers in Paris* (1938), as Maurice Giraud
- *Hollywood Hotel* (1938), as Chester Marshall
- *Sh! The Octopus* (1937), as Kelly
- *The Perfect Specimen* (1937), as Killigrew Shaw
- *Marry the Girl* (1937), as John B. Radway
- *The Singing Marine* (1937), as Aeneas Phinney
- *A Day at Santa Anita* (1937), as Hugh Herbert (uncredited)
- *Top of the Town* (1937), as Hubert
- *That Man's Here Again* (1937), as Thomas J. Jesse
- *Sing Me a Love Song* (1936), as Siegfried Hammerschlag
- *Love Begins at Twenty* (1936), as Horatio Gillingwater
- *We Went to College* (1936), as Ellery Standish
- *One Rainy Afternoon* (1936), as Toto
- *Colleen* (1936), as Cedric Ames
- *Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs* (1936), Actor
- *Miss Pacific Fleet* (1935), as Mr. J. August Freytag
- *To Beat the Band* (1935), as Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1935), as Snout — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/a-midsummer-nights-dream.md)
- *We're in the Money* (1935), as Homer Bronson
- *Traveling Saleslady* (1935), as Elmer
- *Gold Diggers of 1935* (1935), as T. Mosley Thorpe
- *Sweet Adeline* (1934), as Rupert Rockingham
- *Good Badminton* (1934), as Hugh
- *Kansas City Princess* (1934), as Junior Ashcraft
- *Dames* (1934), as Ezra Ounce
- *Fog Over Frisco* (1934), as Izzy Wright
- *The Merry Frinks* (1934), as Joe 'Poppa' Frink
- *Merry Wives of Reno* (1934), as Colonel Fitch
- *Harold Teen* (1934), as Ed Rathburn
- *Wonder Bar* (1934), as Corey Pratt
- *Fashions of 1934* (1934), as Joe Ward
- *Easy to Love* (1934), as Detective
- *Convention City* (1933), as Hotstetter
- *From Headquarters* (1933), as Manny Wales
- *College Coach* (1933), as Barnett
- *Footlight Parade* (1933), as Bowers — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/footlight-parade.md)
- *Bureau of Missing Persons* (1933), as Detective Hank Slade
- *Goodbye Again* (1933), as Harvey Wilson
- *She Had to Say Yes* (1933), as Luther Haines
- *Diplomaniacs* (1933), as Chinaman
- *Strictly Personal* (1933), as Hugo Wetzel
- *Sham Poo, the Magician* (1932), as Tourist
- *Faithless* (1932), as Peter M. Blainey
- *Million Dollar Legs* (1932), as Secretary of the Treasury
- *The Lost Squadron* (1932), as Sergeant Fritz
- *Friends and Lovers* (1931), as McNellis
- *Traveling Husbands* (1931), as Hymie Schwartz
- *The Sin Ship* (1931), as Charlie
- *Laugh and Get Rich* (1931), as Joe Austin
- *Danger Lights* (1931), as Professor
- *Hook, Line and Sinker* (1930), as Hotel House Detective
- *Second Wife* (1930), Screenplay
- *The Great Gabbo* (1929), Dialogue
- *Caught in the Fog* (1928), as Detective Riley
- *Lights of New York* (1928), Writer
- *Husbands for Rent* (1927), as Valet

## Gallery

- ![Actor Hugh Herbert](https://film.one/media/person/1228576/gallery-3630aa9dd646.webp) Actor Hugh Herbert — Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/HughHerbert.webp?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hugh Herbert](https://film.one/media/person/1228576/gallery-7dfb7fb3dcf2.jpg) Hugh Herbert — my own screen capture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/CredHerbertFootlightParade33Trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![William Powell and Hugh Herbert in a scene from the American film Fashions of 1934.](https://film.one/media/person/1228576/gallery-c5a0cad16a25.jpg) William Powell and Hugh Herbert in a scene from the American film Fashions of 1934. — First National Pictures / Vitaphone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/William_Powell_Hugh_Herbert_Fashions_of_1934.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hugh Herbert (left) & Dudley Dickerson in Get Along, Little Zombie - cropped screenshot (1946)](https://film.one/media/person/1228576/gallery-a45c49a43686.jpg) Hugh Herbert (left) & Dudley Dickerson in Get Along, Little Zombie - cropped screenshot (1946) — Film screenshot (Columbia Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Hugh_Herbert-Dudley_Dickerson_in_Get_Along%2C_Little_Zombie.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hugh Herbert](https://film.one/media/person/1228576/gallery-0b3cfe2443aa.jpg) Hugh Herbert — Image via TMDB

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