Frank McHugh


Frank McHugh

Full name: Francis Curray McHugh
Born: May 23, 1898 in Homestead, PA
Died: Died: September 11, 1981 in Greenwich, CT
Wife: Dorothy Spencer
Nickname: Little Frank


Welcome to my Frank McHugh site! Frank McHugh was an excellent, yet too often overlooked, character and comic relief actor. He is best remembered for his part as Father Timmy O'Dowd in the Academy Award Winning Going My Way and for his early Warner Brothers' films, like Footlight Parade and The Front Page. I still have a lot to add to this site, and more things are being added all the time.


Biography

Filmography

  • The Dawn Patrol (1930) as Flaherty
  • Top Speed (1930) as Tad Jordan
  • Bright Lights (1930) as A. Hamilton Fisk
  • College Lovers (1930) as Speed Haskins
  • The Widow from Chicago (1930) as Slug O'Donnell
  • Going Wild (1930) as "Rickey" Freeman
  • Traveling Husbands (1931) as Pinkie
  • Millie (1931) as Holmes
  • Men of the Sky (1931)
  • Kiss Me Again (1931) as Francois
  • Corsair (1931) as "Club" Hopping
  • Bad Company (1931) as Dock
  • The Front Page (1931) as "Mac" McCue
  • Up for Murder (1931) as Collins
  • The Wide Open Spaces (1932)
  • Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) as Skeets
  • One Way Passage (1932) as Skippy
  • High Pressure (1932) as Mike Donoghey
  • Union Depot (1932) as the Drunk
  • The Crowd Roars (1932) as Spud Connors
  • The Dark Horse (1932) as Joe
  • Blessed Event (1932) as Reilly
  • Life Begins (1932) as Ringer Banks
  • Tomorrow at Seven (1933) as Clancy
  • Son of a Sailor (1933) as "Gaga"
  • Private Jones (1933) as Cook
  • Lily Turner (1933) as Dave Dixon
  • The House on 56th Street (1933) as Chester Hunt
  • Hold Me Tight (1933) as Billy
  • Elmer the Great (1933) as Healy High-Hips
  • Convention City (1933) as Will Goodwin
  • Parachute Jumper (1933) as Toodles
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) as Jim
  • The Telegraph Trail (1933) as Corporal Tippy
  • Grand Slam (1933) as Philip "Speed" McCann
  • Ex-Lady (1933) as Hugo
  • Professional Sweetheart (1933) as Speed Dennis
  • Footlight Parade (1933) as Francis
  • Havana Widows (1933) as Duffy
  • Smarty (1934) as George Lancaster
  • Return of the Terror (1934) as Joe, the Reporter
  • Merry Wives of Reno (1934) as Al
  • Hollywood Newsreel -uncredited- (1934) as Himself
  • Heat Lightning (1934) as Frank, the Chauffeur
  • 6 Day Bike Rider (1934) as Clinton
  • Fashions of 1934 (1934) as Snap
  • Let's Be Ritzy (1934) as Bill Damroy
  • Here Comes the Navy (1934) as Wilbur "Droopy" H. Mullins
  • Happiness Ahead (1934) as Tom Bradley
  • Stars Over Broadway (1935) as "Offkey" Cramer
  • Devil Dogs of the Air (1935) as Crash Kelly
  • Maybe It's Love (1935) as Willie Sands
  • The Irish in Us (1935) as Michael O'Hara
  • Page Miss Glory (1935) as Ed Olson
  • Three Kids and a Queen (1935)
  • A Dream Comes True -doc., uncredited- (1935) as Himself
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) as Quince
  • Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) as Humboldt Prentiss
  • Three Men on a Horse (1936) as Erwin Trowbridge
  • Stage Struck (1936) as Sid
  • Snowed Under (1936) as Orlando Rowe
  • Bullets or Ballots (1936) as Herman
  • Freshman Love (1936) as Thomas "Speed" Hammond
  • Moonlight Murder (1936) as William
  • Submarine D-1 (1937) as "Lucky"
  • Ever Since Eve (1937) as Mike "Mabel DeCraven" McGillicuddy
  • Marry the Girl (1937) as David "Party" Partridge
  • Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937) as "Sniffer" Sears
  • Valley of the Gaints (1938) as "Fingers" McCarthy
  • Swing Your Lady (1938) as Popeye
  • Sunday Night at the Trocadero -uncredited- (1938) as Himself
  • Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) as Todd Harrington
  • He Couldn't Say No (1938) as Lambert Hunkins
  • Four Daughters (1938) as Ben Crowley
  • Boy Meets Girl (1938) as Rossetti
  • The Roaring Twenties (1939) as Danny Green
  • Wings of the Navy (1939) as Scat Allen
  • Dodge City (1939) as Joe Clemens
  • Daughter Courageous (1939) as George
  • Indianapolis Speedway (1939) as "Spud" Connors
  • Dust Be My Destiny (1939) as Caruthers
  • On Your Toes (1939) as Paddy Reilly
  • Four Wives (1939) as Ben Crowley
  • The Fighting 69th (1940) as "Crepe-Hanger" Burke
  • Virginia City (1940) as Mr. Upjohn
  • 'Til We Meet Again (1940) as Rockingham T. Rockingham
  • I Love You Again (1940) as Doc Ryan
  • City for Conquest (1940) as Mutt
  • Four Mothers (1941) as Ben Crowley
  • Manpower (1941) as Omaha
  • Back Street (1941) as Ed Porter
  • Her Cardboard Lover (1942) as Chappie Champagne
  • All Through the Night (1942) as Barney
  • Marine Raiders (1944) as Sergeant Louis Leary
  • Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Joe Kirby
  • Going My Way (1944) as Father Timothy O'Dowd
  • A Medal for Benny (1945) as Edgar Lovekin
  • State Fair (1945) as McGee
  • Little Miss Big (1946) as Charlie Bryan
  • The Hoodlum Saint (1946) as Three Finger
  • The Runaround (1946) as Wally Quayle
  • Easy Come, Easy Go (1947) as Corey
  • Carnegie Hall (1947) as John Donovan
  • The Velvet Touch (1948) as Ernie Boyle
  • Mighty Joe Young (1949) as Windy
  • Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) as Mr. Kilcoyne
  • The Tougher They Come (1950) as Gig Rafferty
  • Paid in Full (1950) as Ben
  • My Son John (1952) as Father O'Dowd
  • A Lion is in the Streets (1953) as Rector
  • It Happens Every Thursday (1953) as Fred Hawley
  • There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) as Eddie Duggan
  • The Last Hurrah (1958) as Festus Garvey
  • Career (1959) as Charlie
  • Say One for Me (1959) as Jim Dugan
  • A Tiger Walks (1964) as Bill Watkins
  • Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) as Captain Jack

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