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Hugh O'Connell is a Actor born on 4 august 1898

Hugh O'Connell

Hugh O'Connell
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Birth 4 august 1898
Death 19 january 1943 (at 44 years)

Hugh O'Connell (1898–1943) was an American film actor.

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The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant
(1931)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(7 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(6 films)
Howard Shoup
Howard Shoup
(6 films)
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone
(2 films)
Carole Landis
Carole Landis
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Hugh O'Connell (29 films)

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Actor

Moonlight in Havana
Moonlight in Havana (1942)
, 1h3
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Jane Frazee, Allan Jones, Marjorie Lord, William Frawley, Wade Boteler, Hugh O'Connell
Roles Charlie
Rating50% 2.5464552.5464552.5464552.5464552.546455
Baseball star Johnny "Whizzer" Norton has been suspended by manager Eddie Daniels and the New York Blue Sox for his incorrigible behavior. When nightclub owner Barney Crane happens to hear Johnny singing, he offers him a job in the club where Gloria Jackson is currently the star performer.
My Life with Caroline
My Life with Caroline (1941)
, 1h21
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger, Reginald Gardiner, Gilbert Roland, Matt Moore
Roles Muirhead
Rating56% 2.806182.806182.806182.806182.80618
Wealthy publisher Anthony Mason (Ronald Colman) weds ditsy socialite Caroline (Anna Lee) who sees nothing wrong with chasing men even after her marriage. Caroline flirts with Paco Del Valle (Gilbert Roland) while at a charity ball in Alpine Lodge, Idaho, and Paco then asks Mr. Bliss (Charles Winninger), her father, for permission to marry his daughter. Bliss tells them they need to ask her husband, and Caroline and Paco telegraph Anthony in New York.
Three Girls About Town
Three Girls About Town (1941)
, 1h15
Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Joan Blondell, Robert Benchley, Binnie Barnes, Janet Blair, John Howard, Hugh O'Connell
Roles Chief of Police
Rating63% 3.193033.193033.193033.193033.19303
The Merchants Hotel is hosting a convention for morticians and a mediation meeting between aircraft manufacturers and their workers. This makes hotel manager Puddle worry about an article in the papers criticizing the hotel's policy on employing hostesses.
Lucky Partners
Lucky Partners (1940)
, 1h39
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Spring Byington, Harry Davenport, Cecilia Loftus
Roles Niagara Clerk
Rating64% 3.246093.246093.246093.246093.24609
Portrait painter and caricaturist David Grant (Ronald Colman), newly arrived in Greenwich Village, wishes Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers) good luck on a whim as they pass on the sidewalk. When Jean delivers books, a woman makes her the gift of an expensive dress. She is quarreling with her son-in-law, who had given the dress to his wife. Believing David to be lucky, Jean asks him to partner with her on a ticket for the Irish Sweepstakes. He agrees only on condition that, if their horse wins, she accompany him on a platonic trip to see the sights before she settles down to married life in Poughkeepsie, New York. She and her fiance, Frederick "Freddie" Harper (Jack Carson), are dubious about the proposition, but he talks them into it.
My Favorite Wife
My Favorite Wife (1940)
, 1h28
Directed by Garson Kanin, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett
Roles Johnson
Rating72% 3.646563.646563.646563.646563.64656
After seven years, lawyer Nick Arden (Cary Grant) has his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne), missing since her ship was lost, declared legally dead so he can marry Bianca (Gail Patrick). It turns out however that Ellen was merely shipwrecked on a deserted island, and has been rescued. When she returns home, she learns that Nick has just left on his honeymoon with his second wife.
Mystery House
Mystery House (1938)
, 56minutes
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime
Actors Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, William Hopper, Dennie Moore, Hugh O'Connell
Roles Newell Morse
Rating55% 2.7552752.7552752.7552752.7552752.755275
At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is over, Kingery is shot dead and the police officially rule it a suicide. Kingery's daughter Gwen (Anne Nagel) doesn't agree and asks for help from her aunt's nurse, Sarah Keate (Ann Sheridan), who suggests her detective boyfriend, Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell), for the case. O'Leary has all of the suspects return to the lodge and begins his investigation. Stuck in the snowbound shelter, the suspects and victims begin to pile up.
Accidents Will Happen
Accidents Will Happen (1938)
, 1h2
Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ronald Reagan, Sheila Bromley, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell, Addison Richards, Hugh O'Connell
Roles John J. Oldham
Rating60% 3.0012053.0012053.0012053.0012053.001205
Eric Gregg is an insurance investigator whose avaricious wife Nona wants him to make more money. After he solves a case and is promised a raise, Nona buys a fur coat on credit, misses a payment and perpetrates a fraud with the help of Thurston, the loan company's boss.
Fly Away Baby
Fly Away Baby (1937)
, 1h
Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver, Hugh O'Connell, Marcia Ralston, Tom Kennedy
Roles Hughie Sprague
Rating62% 3.1462853.1462853.1462853.1462853.146285
After a jeweler named Devereaux is murdered and his diamonds go missing, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), former showgirl, newspaper reporter on the police beat, and girlfriend of Homicide Detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane), helps to investigate.
The Perfect Specimen
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
, 1h37
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, Dennie Moore, Dick Foran
Roles Hotel Clerk
Rating64% 3.2422653.2422653.2422653.2422653.242265
Gerald Wicks, the heir to a large fortune, has never been outside the gates of his childhood estate. He goes on an adventure with newspaper reporter Mona Carter and they fall in love.
That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman (1937)
, 1h33
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Hugh O'Connell
Roles reporter Virgil Whitaker
Rating63% 3.197873.197873.197873.197873.19787
The soap opera-like plot of the Warner Bros. release focuses on Mary Donnell, a naive young woman married to a bootlegger who is killed during the St. Valentine's Day massacre. In order to support herself she takes a job as a secretary to married attorney Lloyd Rogers, who finds himself attracted to her but keeps his feelings secret out of respect for his wife. Jack Merrick, Jr., the playboy son of a wealthy client, elopes with Mary, but his disapproving father interferes and has the marriage annulled.