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)
- Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! as Frank the Barber (uncredited)
- An Innocent Affair as Ted Burke
- 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)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
- Salome, Where She Danced as Lafe
- Lady on a Train
- 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
- My Buddy as Happy
- The Mark of the Whistler as Tom, Reporter (uncredited)
1943
- Flight for Freedom as Mac (uncredited)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Fireman in Humphrey Bogart Sequence (uncredited)
- True to Life as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- Hi Diddle Diddle as Reporter #2 (uncredited)
- So This Is Washington as Stranger in Park Renting 'Rooms'
- Quiet Please, Murder as Taxi Driver
- Whispering Footsteps as Cy Walsh, Boarder
- Cowboy in Manhattan as Cab Driver
- The West Side Kid as The Worrier
1942
- Girl Trouble as Driver
- The Pride of the Yankees as Strength Machine Operator (uncredited)
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Man from Brooklyn (uncredited)
- A Gentleman at Heart as Joe
- It Happened in Flatbush as O'Doul
- Too Many Women as Spike O'Reilly
- The Man in the Trunk as Detective Murtha
- Sappy Birthday
1941
- The Devil and Miss Jones as Sam
- Blues in the Night as St Louis Jail Drunk
- So You Won't Squawk as Louie the Wolf's Henchman
- The Perfect Snob as Baggage Man
- West Point Widow as Drunk at Football Game
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Reporter on Train
1940
- They Drive by Night as Repairman (uncredited)
- You, the People as Albert 'Bert' / 'Perky' Perkins
- Sailor's Lady as Cabby
- Primrose Path as Drunk Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
- The Boys from Syracuse as Bartender
- Rangers of Fortune as Horatio Wells
- I Take This Woman as Mike Fescue - Man in Clinic (uncredited)
- La Conga Nights as Headwaiter
- Yesterday's Heroes as Joe
- His Ex Marks the Spot as Radcliffe - the ex wife's boyfriend
- Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! as Charlie-the Cop
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Reporter (uncredited)
- At the Circus as Cabbie (uncredited)
- The Escape as Pete
- Miracles for Sale as 'All Over Town' Bus Driver
- The Secret of Dr. Kildare as Messenger's Chauffeur (uncredited)
- 20,000 Men a Year as Baseball Fan
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Charlie
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Brick Benson
- The Under-Pup as Soda Jerk
- Chicken Wagon Family as Joe
- The Greener Hills as Taxi Driver
1938
- You and Me as Newcomer (uncredited)
- Holiday as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- The Mad Miss Manton as Frisco - False Waiter (uncredited)
- Exposed as Johnson
- That Certain Age as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
- Mannequin as Mike (Uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy
- The Rage of Paris as Department Head (uncredited)
- While New York Sleeps as Cab Driver
- No Time to Marry as Abernathy
- Professor Beware as Divorced Man on Highway
- Tropic Holiday as Joe
1937
- Navy Blue and Gold as Heckler
- Broadway Melody of 1938 as Burt (uncredited)
1936
- To Mary - with Love as Taxi Driver
- Anything Goes as Detective #2
- The Phantom Rider as Agent Shorty
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Steve Brodie
- The Country Beyond as Const. Weller
1935
- Barbary Coast as Broncho
- If You Could Only Cook as Pete
- The Good Fairy as Moving Man (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim as Bartender
- Murder on a Honeymoon as Madden
- Party Wire as Bert West
- Wings in the Dark as 1st Mechanic
- The Glass Key as Puggy
- Thunder in the Night as Police Secretary
- Mister Dynamite as Sunshine
1934
- Sadie McKee as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Two Alone as Counter Man (uncredited)
- She Loves Me Not as Andy, the Photographer
- Sing and Like It as Junker - Hood
- Lost in the Stratosphere as Matthew O'Toole
- Bridal Bail as Patrolman Gus Brown
1933
- The Devil's Brother as The Prospective Groom
- Picture Snatcher as Sergeant Handing Out Guns (uncredited)
- Dancing Lady as Marcia's Agent (uncredited)
- Night of Terror as Detective Bailey
- The Mad Game as Butts McGhee
- Bed of Roses as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- Hard to Handle as Joe Goetz (uncredited)
- A Man of Sentiment as Alex (Willie) Moran - Orderly
- The Girl in 419 as Jim - a Prisoner
- The Prizefighter and the Lady as Professor's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
- From Headquarters as Man picked up by police wagon (uncredited)
- Sailor's Luck as Taxi Cab Driver
- The Man Who Dared as Karel
- The Last Trail as Looney McGann
- Sailor Beware! as Dan
- The Plumber and the Lady as Butch Mulinkovitch
1932
- Freaks as Rollo Brother
- The Wet Parade as Shorty the Bellboy (uncredited)
- Hypnotized as Drummer
- Taxi! as Joe Silva (uncredited)
- Afraid to Talk as Joe Skelli
- The Woman from Monte Carlo as Chief Petty Officer Vincent
- The Loud Mouth
- Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
1931
- Street Scene as Vincent Jones
- The Grand Dame as (uncredited)