Hughie Mack
Also Known As: Hugh Richard McGowan
Biography: Hughie Mack was born on November 26, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Hugh Richard McGowan. He was an actor and writer, known for Bringing Up Father (1915), C.O.D. (1914) and As You Like It (1912). He was married to Mary Agnes McGowan. He died on October 13, 1927 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: November 26, 1884
Deathday: October 13, 1927
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Whirl o' the West
Overview: A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-23
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The Village Chestnut
Overview: Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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A Night Out
Overview: A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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Wild Beasts at Large
Overview: The train carrying all the cages filled with wild animals of the circus is wrecked, and bears, lions, leopards, elephants, kangaroos and monkeys escape down the track toward the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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The Wedding March
Overview: A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-06
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Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Overview: Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years ago, has died, leaving him a legacy in money and some property and jewels in South Africa. The will stipulates that he shall visit the property in person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-04
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The Man from Egypt
Overview: Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-14
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The Hero
Overview: Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maude is simply crazy about him. She will not consider the attentions of Syd, her brother Bert's pal. One day Maude sits dreaming in the parlor, a book of daring adventures lying open in her lap. Syd enters and tries to make love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-25
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The Godmother
Overview: Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day. At the eleventh hour the boys receive a telephone message from the girls informing them that their chaperone has disappointed them, and they will not be able to come. The boys are disconsolate. While they are deploring the matter, their tailor, the ninth part of a man, enters. Struck with a sudden idea, they seize him and compel him to impersonate Dick's godmother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-08
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A Lady and Her Maid
Overview: The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-21
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Getting Up a Practice
Overview: Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving, distinctly objects to Emily, his daughter, marrying Bob until he has a practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-27
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A London Bobby
Overview: Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle is snuffed out by a particularly belligerent chap who wades into the crowd and sends its members into the land of twittering birdies with an assortment of right and left-handed blows, Snub steps forth and accepts credit for the feat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-22
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Walls and Wallops
Overview: A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with Lawrence (also Larry) Semon directing this. It is about cops, capers, and a love interest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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Rips and Rushes
Overview: While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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Run 'Em Ragged
Overview: Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Overview: Comedy Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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Mare Nostrum
Overview: The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-15
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Reno
Overview: After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children, Emily marries Walter Heath, a former suitor, then discovers that she cannot live with her new husband because the divorce is not legal in her home state. Tappan and his new wife soon run out of money, each having thought the other was wealthy. His aunt promises to support him in exchange for his two children. He kidnaps the children and hides them from Emily in his aunt's home. After Emily and Walter find them, they go to Yellowstone Park, where they are considered legally married. Tappan follows and is killed after a fight with Walter when a boiling geyser throws him into the air and throws him onto the rocks below.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-09
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Bullies and Bullets
Overview: A slapstick comedy directed by Larry Semon and starring Hughie Mack & Patsy De Forest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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A Villainous Villain
Overview: The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-08
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There and Back
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-18
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Hash and Havoc
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-04
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How Fatty Made Good
Overview: Hughey Mack comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-31
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Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Overview: A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-25
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Jane Was Worth It
Overview: Initially, Hughie finds his new cook Jane unsatisfactory, until he tries several others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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The Silent Flyer
Overview: This movie was billed as a thriller with ice boats, dynamite, and a dog that saves the day. The original movie has been lost. It survives as a 90 second trailer. This trailer is also available on "More Treasures of the AFA" without the video game music.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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As You Like It
Overview: After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Overview: Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-09
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Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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The Honeymoon
Overview: The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves Nicki, and jealous Schani decides once again to kill the prince. Schani shoots at Nicki, but Cecilia throws herself in front of Nicki. Schani becomes a fugitive and goes into hiding. Nicki and Mitzi meet one last time, where Mitzi tells Nicki that she will go to a convent. Nicki goes off to war, where he is killed. Sequel to von Stroheim's The Wedding March released only in Europe. The only known copy was destroyed in a fire at the Cinémathèque Française in 1959.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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Rush Orders
Overview: A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotive muscle). When there it's all about the hustle for food with rivals and advertisement in the café business..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-07
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An Elephant on His Hands
Overview: In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, and it turns out to be two elephants.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-27
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Cherry
Overview: A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr. Gray, a wealthy resident of their town. He conspires with some of the bolder spirits of the company to hold up the stage in which Mr. Gray and his daughter are homeward bound to the King George Inn, he will then dash up, drive the "robbers" away single handed and claim the fair lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-05
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Losing Weight
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-30
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All Jazzed Up
Overview: Phil Dunham and Eva Novak must contend with Dan Russell and Hughie Mack in this early L-KO Kompany release.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-11
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Going Up
Overview: Going Up (1923)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Trifling Women
Overview: Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-06
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Any Old Port
Overview: Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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Cash Customers
Overview: Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs which are taken out of Snub's jacket pocket and put into a coffee perculator. The landlady (Vera White) storms up the stairs when she smells the coffee being made and demands that the janitor (Earl Mohan) break down the tenants' door with a pick-axe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-06
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Call a Taxi
Overview: After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-25
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In Dutch
Overview: Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-26
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The Arizona Whirlwind
Overview: Bill's father is murdered by Hawley, one of Dykeman's henchmen, who steals a map proving Farley's claim to rich gold claims. Bill, who is engaged to Helen, Dykeman's daughter, routs the gang when they try to dispossess settlers and subsequently eludes a large posse. Later, when Hawley steals a gold shipment, Bill captures him and returns the gold to the Blue Ridge settlers; he is then accused of the robbery, but again he escapes. Disguised as a Spaniard, Bill meets Hawley and discovers him to be his father's murderer; a fight ensues, and Hawley recovers the map and kidnaps Helen in a stagecoach. Bill gives chase, overpowers the villain, and rescues Helen from the burning stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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Our Fairy Play
Overview: The Payne family of Lonesomeville set up a Fairy Play, founded upon the story of "The Sleeping Beauty," and Helene Payne secures the wealthy Mrs. Wilson's financial support. She is a lady no longer young, but insists upon playing the ingenue lead. Miss Tibbitts. a mournful old maid, is secured for their "Danseuse." Willey Finley gives out the parts, while Doctor Heffernan is given the directorship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Seeing It Through
Overview: Swindled out of her small property by crooked money lender Bogrum, Betty Lawrence turns to large estate owner and old friend Jim Carrington. On a tip supplied by Bolter, Bogrum's secretary, Jim investigates and after Bogrum's crooked dealings are exposed, and he is imprisoned, Betty and Carrington join their property through matrimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Cupid's Day Off
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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Count 'Em
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-17
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Turks and Troubles
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-26
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Footlights and Fakers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-12
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He Never Touched Me
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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Somewhere in Any Place
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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Big Bluffs and Bowling Balls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-22
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Jolts and Jewelry
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
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A Price for Folly
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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The Dust of Egypt
Overview: Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years. Originally a six reel feature, only short fragments of The Dust of Egypt survive today.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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Heavy Villains
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-14
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War
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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C.O.D.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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