Hugh E. Wright

Hugh E. Wright

Born: April 13, 1879
Died: February 12, 1940
in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Movies for Hugh E. Wright...

Royal Eagle
Title: Royal Eagle
Character: Albert Marshall
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Old Joe
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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Adventure Ltd.
Title: Adventure Ltd.
Character: Don Lorenzo / Montagu Phelps
Released: March 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A British adventure film directed by George King
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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My Old Duchess
Title: My Old Duchess
Character: Higgins
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: George Yarrow
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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Cash
Title: Cash
Character: Jordan
Released: October 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
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You Made Me Love You
Title: You Made Me Love You
Character: Father
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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Pyjamas Preferred
Title: Pyjamas Preferred
Character: Grock
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Title: Lord Camber's Ladies
Character: Old Man
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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Brother Alfred
Title: Brother Alfred
Character: Sydney
Released: April 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
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The Great Gay Road
Title: The Great Gay Road
Character: Backus
Released: October 21, 1931
Type: Movie
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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Stranglehold
Title: Stranglehold
Character: Briggs
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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East Lynne on the Western Front
Title: East Lynne on the Western Front
Character: Fred
Released: July 13, 1931
Type: Movie
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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Down River
Title: Down River
Character: Charlie Wong
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
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Auld Lang Syne
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Character: Wullie McNab
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by George Pearson
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The Romany
Title: The Romany
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
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A Sailor Tramp
Title: A Sailor Tramp
Character: The Cockney
Released: July 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
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Pathé's Screen-Beauty Competition
Title: Pathé's Screen-Beauty Competition
Character: Himself
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A star search competition.