Matt McHugh
Born: 1894-01-22 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1971-02-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matthew O. McHugh (January 22, 1894 – February 22, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 200 films between 1931 and 1955, primarily in small cameo parts. McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and, as a young child, he performed on stage. His brother, Frank, who went on to become part of the Warner Bros. stock company in the 1930s and 1940s, and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was fourteen years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. His brother Ed became an agent in New York. Matt made his Broadway debut in Elmer Rice's Street Scene in 1929, along with his brother Ed, and also appeared in Swing Your Lady in 1936. Despite his actual origins, McHugh usually performed his roles with a Brooklyn accent, and was often cast as characters explicitly from Brooklyn. In Star Spangled Rhythm (1941), his one scene is a protracted monologue during the climactic "Old Glory" sequence, in which McHugh plays a character who literally embodies the spirit of Brooklyn.
Filmography
1955
- Wham-Bam-Slam! as Dr. Claude A. Quacker (archive footage)
1951
- Tales of Robin Hood as Tuck's Guard-Friend
- Home Town Story as Waiter (uncredited)
1949
- Duke of Chicago as Terry Shea
- Arson, Inc. as Hubbell
1948
- Shed No Tears as First Investigating Detective (Uncredited)
- An Innocent Affair as Ted Burke
- Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! as Frank the Barber (uncredited)
- Pardon My Clutch as Claude Finkle
1947
- My Favorite Brunette as Third Man on Death Row (uncredited)
- They Won't Believe Me as Tiny Old Man (uncredited)
- The Trouble with Women as Herman
- Should Husbands Marry? as Loud Friend
1946
- The Blue Dahlia as Bartender at Gus' (uncredited)
- The Dark Corner as Milkman (uncredited)
- Nocturne as Coffee Attendant (uncredited)
- Deadline for Murder as Johnny
- Vacation in Reno as Bill Dumont
1945
- The Bells of St. Mary's as Sporting Goods Salesman (uncredited)
- Lady on a Train
- Salome, Where She Danced as Lafe
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
- How DOooo You Do as Deputy McNiel
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as Drunk (uncredited)
- Phantom Lady as Al Alp - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Doorman - 33 Club (uncredited)
- Secret Command as Curly
- The Mark of the Whistler as Tom, Reporter (uncredited)
- My Buddy as Happy
1943
- True to Life as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Fireman in Humphrey Bogart Sequence (uncredited)
- Flight for Freedom as Mac (uncredited)
- Cowboy in Manhattan as Cab Driver
- Hi Diddle Diddle as Reporter #2 (uncredited)
- Quiet Please, Murder as Taxi Driver
- Whispering Footsteps as Cy Walsh, Boarder
- The West Side Kid as The Worrier
- So This Is Washington as Stranger in Park Renting 'Rooms'
1942
- Girl Trouble as Driver
- The Pride of the Yankees as Strength Machine Operator (uncredited)
- Too Many Women as Spike O'Reilly
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Man from Brooklyn (uncredited)
- Sappy Birthday
- It Happened in Flatbush as O'Doul
- A Gentleman at Heart as Joe
- The Man in the Trunk as Detective Murtha
1941
- Blues in the Night as St Louis Jail Drunk
- The Devil and Miss Jones as Sam
- The Perfect Snob as Baggage Man
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Reporter on Train
- So You Won't Squawk as Louie the Wolf's Henchman
- West Point Widow as Drunk at Football Game
1940
- They Drive by Night as Repairman (uncredited)
- You, the People as Albert 'Bert' / 'Perky' Perkins
- Sailor's Lady as Cabby
- The Boys from Syracuse as Bartender
- Primrose Path as Drunk Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
- La Conga Nights as Headwaiter
- I Take This Woman as Mike Fescue - Man in Clinic (uncredited)
- Yesterday's Heroes as Joe
- Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! as Charlie-the Cop
- Rangers of Fortune as Horatio Wells
- His Ex Marks the Spot as Radcliffe - the ex wife's boyfriend
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Reporter (uncredited)
- At the Circus as Cabbie (uncredited)
- The Secret of Dr. Kildare as Messenger's Chauffeur (uncredited)
- The Escape as Pete
- The Under-Pup as Soda Jerk
- Miracles for Sale as 'All Over Town' Bus Driver
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Charlie
- Chicken Wagon Family as Joe
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Brick Benson
- 20,000 Men a Year as Baseball Fan
- The Greener Hills as Taxi Driver
1938
- Holiday as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy
- Exposed as Johnson
- You and Me as Newcomer (uncredited)
- Tropic Holiday as Joe
- The Mad Miss Manton as Frisco - False Waiter (uncredited)
- Professor Beware as Divorced Man on Highway
- The Rage of Paris as Department Head (uncredited)
- Mannequin as Mike (Uncredited)
- That Certain Age as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
- While New York Sleeps as Cab Driver
- No Time to Marry as Abernathy
1937
- Broadway Melody of 1938 as Burt (uncredited)
- Navy Blue and Gold as Heckler
1936
- Anything Goes as Detective #2
- To Mary - with Love as Taxi Driver
- The Phantom Rider as Agent Shorty
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Steve Brodie
- The Country Beyond as Const. Weller
1935
- The Good Fairy as Moving Man (uncredited)
- If You Could Only Cook as Pete
- Barbary Coast as Broncho
- The Glass Key as Puggy
- Diamond Jim as Bartender
- Murder on a Honeymoon as Madden
- Mister Dynamite as Sunshine
- Party Wire as Bert West
- Wings in the Dark as 1st Mechanic
- Thunder in the Night as Police Secretary
1934
- She Loves Me Not as Andy, the Photographer
- Sadie McKee as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Two Alone as Counter Man (uncredited)
- Sing and Like It as Junker - Hood
- Bridal Bail as Patrolman Gus Brown
- Lost in the Stratosphere as Matthew O'Toole
1933
- Picture Snatcher as Sergeant Handing Out Guns (uncredited)
- The Devil's Brother as The Prospective Groom
- Bed of Roses as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- Dancing Lady as Marcia's Agent (uncredited)
- The Girl in 419 as Jim - a Prisoner
- Night of Terror as Detective Bailey
- From Headquarters as Man picked up by police wagon (uncredited)
- Hard to Handle as Joe Goetz (uncredited)
- The Mad Game as Butts McGhee
- Sailor's Luck as Taxi Cab Driver
- The Prizefighter and the Lady as Professor's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
- A Man of Sentiment as Alex (Willie) Moran - Orderly
- The Plumber and the Lady as Butch Mulinkovitch
- Sailor Beware! as Dan
- The Man Who Dared as Karel
- The Last Trail as Looney McGann
1932
- Freaks as Rollo Brother
- The Wet Parade as Shorty the Bellboy (uncredited)
- Hypnotized as Drummer
- Taxi! as Joe Silva (uncredited)
- The Woman from Monte Carlo as Chief Petty Officer Vincent
- Afraid to Talk as Joe Skelli
- The Loud Mouth
- Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
1931
- Street Scene as Vincent Jones
- The Grand Dame as (uncredited)