Hugh Herbert

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 08/09/1884

Date of death : 03/12/1952

City of birth : Binghamton, New York, USA

Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - Hugh Herbert went in the early 30s to Hollywood as comedian. In the 30s he worked mostly for Warner, impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors, in a few movies he collaborated on the screenplays, e.g. on "Hit Parade of 1941".