Matt McHugh
Biography
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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.
Acting (128 movies)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
Mannequin
1938
Home Town Story
1951
The Glass Key
1935
Cowboy in Manhattan
1943
Whispering Footsteps
1943
Dancing Lady
1933
The Rage of Paris
1938
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937
Shed No Tears
1948
Wings in the Dark
1935
Blues in the Night
1941
Phantom Lady
1944
From Headquarters
1933
Secret Command
1944
His Ex Marks the Spot
1940
So You Won't Squawk
1941
Arson, Inc.
1949
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935
Should Husbands Marry?
1947
Flight for Freedom
1943
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
If You Could Only Cook
1935
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
Deadline for Murder
1946
You, the People
1940
Pardon My Clutch
1948
Wham-Bam-Slam!
1955
Hard to Handle
1933
Night of Terror
1933
Duke of Chicago
1949
Anything Goes
1936
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
The Loud Mouth
1932
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
Lady on a Train
1945
Sing and Like It
1934
Tropic Holiday
1938
Exposed
1938
The Phantom Rider
1936
The Mad Game
1933
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
The Good Fairy
1935
And the Angels Sing
1944
While New York Sleeps
1938
A Man of Sentiment
1933
The Perfect Snob
1941
Too Many Women
1942
Street Scene
1931
The Grand Dame
1931
Barbary Coast
1935
The Country Beyond
1936
Party Wire
1935
Mister Dynamite
1935
The Escape
1939
The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933
So This Is Washington
1943
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
They Won't Believe Me
1947
She Loves Me Not
1934
Navy Blue and Gold
1937
At the Circus
1939
Miracles for Sale
1939
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
Professor Beware
1938
An Innocent Affair
1948
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
The Under-Pup
1939
Holiday
1938
Rangers of Fortune
1940
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945
The Man in the Trunk
1942
The Man Who Dared
1933
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
1948
I Take This Woman
1940
Primrose Path
1940
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
Sailor's Luck
1933
No Time to Marry
1938
The Mark of the Whistler
1944
My Buddy
1944
The West Side Kid
1943
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
Girl Trouble
1942
Thunder in the Night
1935
To Mary - with Love
1936
20,000 Men a Year
1939
They Drive by Night
1940
That Certain Age
1938
Mr. Skeffington
1944
The Boys from Syracuse
1940
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Afraid to Talk
1932
Diamond Jim
1935
La Conga Nights
1940
The Girl in 419
1933
Two Alone
1934
Tales of Robin Hood
1951
The Last Trail
1933
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