Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - Hugh Herbert went, in the early 1930s to Hollywood, as a comedian. In the 1930s he worked mostly for Warner Bros., impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors. In a few movies he collaborated on the screenplays, e.g. on "Gold Diggers of 1935" and "Hit Parade of 1941".
Hugh is an English screen, stage, and voice actor from Bath in the UK. He was classically trained and began his career on stage, but has moved more towards film and television in recent years. He is also a published author. Hugh has a passion for natural history. In 2009, he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Zoology from Swansea University. More recently, he has carried out conservation work in Borneo, and in 2020 was invited to become a director of Orangutan Appeal UK. The youngest of three, Hugh's sister is also an actor, and his brother is a photographer.
Hugh Hooker was born on September 8, 1919 in Texas, USA as Hugh Milford Hooker. He is known for his work as a stuntman on Scarface (1983), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), and Mannequin (1987). He worked as a stuntman in many B-westerns throughout his forty plus years as a stuntman. Between 1944 and 1955 he had minor charter actor roles in twenty westerns. Hooker appeared in only one TV series with three small roles in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954) episodes. His two sons were also stuntmen from a young age. Buddy Joe Hooker began at the age of fourteen (Rin Tin Tin) and and Billy Hank Hooker began at the age of nine. As a theatrical agent Hooker made national news in 1956 when he filed a $750,000 suit against the Rin Tin Tin series producer, Herbert B. Leonard; Rin Tin Tin IV owner, Lee Duncan; Screen Gems; the American Broadcasting Company; and Rin Tin Tin sponsor, National Biscuit Company. Hooker alleged that Duncan told him they had abandoned the Rin Tin Tin project, freezing him out as a producer. The 164 Rin Tin Tin episodes produced profits of $1,500,000. As a movie producer, Hooker's film, The Littlest Hobo (1958), featured London, a German Shepherd, and Fleecie, a lamb. He died on September 11, 1987 in Westlake Village, California, USA.
Hugh Hudson was born on August 25, 1936 in London, England. He is a director and producer, known for Chariots of Fire (1981), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and The Tortoise and the Hare (1966). He has been married to Maryam d'Abo since November 2003. He was previously married to Susan Caroline Michie.
Hugh Iglarsh is a producer, known for Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby on American Academia (2013).
Hugh Irvine is known for Wreck (2022), Black Medicine (2021) and Death and Nightingales (2018).
Hugh Irvine is an actor, known for Wreck (2022), Black Medicine (2021) and Death and Nightingales (2018).
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige and The Fountain (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013. In Broadway theatre, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances. Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009. Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, an accountant. He is the youngest of five children. His parents, both English, moved to Australia shortly before his birth. He also has Greek (from a great-grandfather) and Scottish (from a grandmother) ancestry. Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama Correlli (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere. An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast." He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of "Sunset Boulevard." In 1998, he was cast as Curly in the Royal National Theatre's production of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma. Jackman has made two feature films, the second of which, Erskineville Kings (1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. Recently, he won the part of Logan/Wolverine in the Bryan Singer- directed comic-book movie X-Men (2000). In his spare time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.
Hugh Jarrett was born on October 11, 1929 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for The Annihilators (1985), What Comes Around (1985) and American Playhouse (1980). He died on May 31, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Hugh Jorgan is known for The Last Affair (1976) and A Labor of Love (1976).