Hugh Herbert

Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - 'Hugh Herbert' (qv) went in the early 30s to Hollywood as comedian. In the 30s he worked mostly for Warner, impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors, in a few movies he collaborated on the screenplays, e.g. on "Hit Parade of 1941".::Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>