Biography
In 1871, the historic Hebrew phrase “Jubilee” was put on an African-American vocal ensemble by way of a music teacher at Fisk School in Nashville, TN. The term carried a mention of the freeing of slaves that reached back again a large number of years. Touring to improve money because of their university, the Fisk Jubilee Performers also set up a precedent for the enhanced, dignified display of art music and spirituals. With the 1920s, the example they established had inspired a large number of predominately spiritual ensembles, like the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet, the Dixie Jubilee Performers, the Elkins-Payne Jubilee Performers, and the Speed Jubilee Performers. This last group was called for their creator Charles Henry Speed (1886-1963), who with the middle-’20s was generally energetic as composer and publisher of spiritual music. An ex-student of W.E. Du Bois, Speed transferred to Memphis from Atlanta in 1905 to provide as editor of Du Bois’ short-lived periodical the Moon Illustrated Regular. In 1907, Speed was functioning as cashier on the Solvent Cost savings Bank or investment company on Beale Avenue when he fulfilled W.C. Helpful. For years, both males would collaborate as composers and music web publishers, and the Speed & Handy Music Organization was founded in 1913, even while Speed sought financial balance by relocating to Atlanta where, like composer Charles Ives, he worked well in the life span insurance business. In 1921, Speed & Handy dissolved their collaboration, and Speed established the Speed Phonograph Company, shortly to be referred to as Dark Swan Information. He also became adept being a publisher of Christian melodies, including his very own airs and agreements of traditional spirituals. With Speed as his publisher, hokum bluesman Georgia Tom broke along with his longtime collaborator Tampa Crimson and crossed to become an solely spiritual artist beneath the name of Thomas A. Dorsey. Based on Memphis musicologist David Evans, Dorsey and Charles Albert Tindley could actually become established within their very own careers thanks generally towards the groundwork laid by Charles Henry Speed. Many of Tindley’s music show up within the Speed Jubilee discography, including “Keep It There,” “The stand by position Me,” and “Nothing at all Between.” The Speed Jubilee Performers produced their recordings — a lot more than 40 edges — through the years 1926-1929. Many of these have already been reissued with the Record label. They’re most crucial for the tone of voice of highlighted soloist Hattie Parker, whose broadly imitated sonorities and delicate handling of religious lyrics would afterwards become express in the task of the fantastic Mahalia Jackson.
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1 | Ex-brother in law of Ned Glass. |
2 | Made 11 movies with his close friend James Cagney, more than any other actor. These were The Crowd Roars (1932), Footlight Parade (1933), Here Comes the Navy (1934), Devil Dogs of the Air (1935), The Irish in Us (1935), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Boy Meets Girl (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), City for Conquest (1940), A Lion Is in the Streets (1953). |
3 | Played the same character, Spud Connors, in The Crowd Roars (1932) and its remake, Indianapolis Speedway (1939). |
4 | Played the same character (the petty thief running away from Chinese authorities) both in One Way Passage (1932) and its remake, 'Til We Meet Again (1940). The character was called Skippy in the first film and Rockhingham T. Rockingham in the second. |
5 | Brother of Matt McHugh, Kitty McHugh, James McHugh, Nora McHugh, and Edward McHugh. |
Actor
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Convention City | 1933 | Will Goodwin | |
The House on 56th Street | 1933 | Chester Hunt | |
Son of a Sailor | 1933 | 'Gaga' | |
Havana Widows | 1933 | Mr. Duffy, the Lawyer | |
Footlight Parade | 1933 | Francis | |
Professional Sweetheart | 1933 | Speed Dennis | |
Tomorrow at Seven | 1933 | Clancy | |
Hold Me Tight | 1933 | Billy | |
Ex-Lady | 1933 | Hugo Van Hugh | |
Lilly Turner | 1933 | David 'Dave' Dixon | |
Elmer, the Great | 1933 | Healy High-Hips | |
Private Jones | 1933 | 'Greasy', the Cook | |
The Telegraph Trail | 1933 | Corporal Tippy | |
Grand Slam | 1933 | Philip 'Speed' McCann | |
Mystery of the Wax Museum | 1933 | Jim | |
Parachute Jumper | 1933 | Toodles Cooper | |
One Way Passage | 1932 | Skippy | |
Life Begins | 1932 | Ringer Banks | |
Blessed Event | 1932 | Reilly | |
The Dark Horse | 1932 | Joe | |
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain | 1932 | Skeets - a Reporter | |
The Crowd Roars | 1932 | Spud Connors | |
Extra! Extra! | 1932 | Short | |
High Pressure | 1932 | Mike Donahey | |
Union Depot | 1932 | The Drunk | |
The Wide Open Spaces | 1931 | Short | Matt - a Gambler |
Corsair | 1931 | 'Chub' Hopping | |
The Big Scoop | 1931 | Short | |
Bad Company | 1931 | Doc - Henchman | |
The Great Junction Hotel | 1931 | Short | Peeping Tom |
The Hot Spot | 1931 | Short | |
Traveling Husbands | 1931 | Pinkie | |
That's News to Me | 1931 | Short | |
Men of the Sky | 1931 | ||
Up for Murder | 1931 | Collins | |
The Front Page | 1931 | McCue | |
Millie | 1931 | John Holmes | |
Kiss Me Again | 1931 | Francois | |
Going Wild | 1930 | 'Ricky' Freeman | |
The Widow from Chicago | 1930 | Slug | |
College Lovers | 1930 | Speed Haskins | |
Bright Lights | 1930 | A. Hamilton Fish, a reporter | |
Top Speed | 1930 | Tad Jordan | |
The Dawn Patrol | 1930 | Flaherty | |
If Men Played Cards as Women Do | 1929 | Short | 3rd Card Player |
Lancer | 1969 | TV Series | Charlie Wingate |
NBC Experiment in Television | 1968 | TV Series | |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1968 | TV Series | Constable Seely |
The Lucy Show | 1967 | TV Series | Mr. snowden |
Easy Come, Easy Go | 1967 | Captain Jack | |
F Troop | 1966 | TV Series | Charlie |
The Bing Crosby Show | 1964-1965 | TV Series | Willie / Willie Walters |
A Tiger Walks | 1964 | Bill Watkins | |
The United States Steel Hour | 1957-1963 | TV Series | Dan O'Malley / George Rausch / Tude Bowers / ... |
The Doctors and the Nurses | 1963 | TV Series | Mr. Durkin |
Inside Danny Baker | 1963 | TV Movie | Mr. Johansen |
Going My Way | 1962 | TV Series | William Jennings Depew |
Route 66 | 1962 | TV Series | Sandy Leeds / Landers |
The DuPont Show of the Week | 1962 | TV Series | The Hub Tub Kid |
Cain's Hundred | 1962 | TV Series | Wilbur Morton |
Theatre '62 | 1961 | TV Series | |
The Spiral Staircase | 1961 | TV Movie | Constable Williams |
The Defenders | 1961 | TV Series | Henry Schell |
Wagon Train | 1961 | TV Series | Henry Shannon |
Outlaws | 1961 | TV Series | John Buttery |
Harrigan and Son | 1961 | TV Series | Patrick O'Toole |
The DuPont Show of the Month | 1960 | TV Series | |
Art Carney Special | 1960 | TV Series | |
Buick-Electra Playhouse | 1959 | TV Series | |
Career | 1959 | Charlie Gallagher | |
Say One for Me | 1959 | Jim Dugan | |
The Millionaire | 1959 | TV Series | Charles Bradwell |
The Red Skelton Hour | 1959 | TV Series | Muggsy |
The Last Hurrah | 1958 | Festus Garvey | |
Studio One in Hollywood | 1954-1958 | TV Series | Barney / Ben Ames / Horace Potter / ... |
Kraft Theatre | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Max |
Playhouse 90 | 1957 | TV Series | Charlie |
Matinee Theatre | 1957 | TV Series | |
Star Stage | 1956 | TV Series | |
The Alcoa Hour | 1956 | TV Series | George Schroeder |
Appointment with Adventure | 1955 | TV Series | Salesman |
Justice | 1954-1955 | TV Series | |
The Elgin Hour | 1954 | TV Series | Photographer |
There's No Business Like Show Business | 1954 | Eddie Dugan, Vicky's Agent | |
Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Willy Skokes |
Ponds Theater | 1953-1954 | TV Series | |
Center Stage | 1954 | TV Series | |
Love Story | 1954 | TV Series | |
The Motorola Television Hour | 1954 | TV Series | Mayor Pease |
Medallion Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | |
The Web | 1953 | TV Series | |
A Lion Is in the Streets | 1953 | Frank Rector | |
It Happens Every Thursday | 1953 | Fred Hawley | |
The Gulf Playhouse | 1952 | TV Series | |
Celanese Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Father McKee |
My Son John | 1952 | Father O'Dowd | |
Tales of Tomorrow | 1952 | TV Series | |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1952 | TV Series | |
The Pace That Thrills | 1952 | Rocket Anderson | |
Musical Comedy Time | 1951 | TV Series | Hiram Bent |
Starlight Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
The Tougher They Come | 1950 | Gig Rafferty | |
Paid in Full | 1950 | Ben, Bartender | |
Miss Grant Takes Richmond | 1949 | Mr. Kilcoyne | |
Mighty Joe Young | 1949 | Windy | |
The Velvet Touch | 1948 | Ernie Boyle | |
Carnegie Hall | 1947 | John Donovan | |
Easy Come, Easy Go | 1947 | Carey | |
Little Miss Big | 1946 | Charlie Bryan | |
The Runaround | 1946 | Wally Quayle | |
The Hoodlum Saint | 1946 | Three Finger | |
State Fair | 1945 | McGee | |
A Medal for Benny | 1945 | Edgar Lovekin | |
Bowery to Broadway | 1944 | Joe Kirby | |
Marine Raiders | 1944 | Sgt. Louis Leary | |
Going My Way | 1944 | Father Timothy O'Dowd | |
Her Cardboard Lover | 1942 | Chappie Champagne | |
All Through the Night | 1942 | Barney | |
Manpower | 1941 | Omaha | |
Back Street | 1941 | Ed Porter | |
Four Mothers | 1941 | Ben Crowley | |
City for Conquest | 1940 | 'Mutt' | |
I Love You Again | 1940 | 'Doc' Ryan | |
'Til We Meet Again | 1940 | Rockingham T. Rockingham | |
Virginia City | 1940 | Mr. Upjohn | |
Alex in Wonderland | 1940 | Short | Narrator (voice, uncredited) |
The Fighting 69th | 1940 | 'Crepe Hanger' Burke | |
Four Wives | 1939 | Ben Crowley | |
The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Danny Green | |
On Your Toes | 1939 | Paddy Reilly | |
Dust Be My Destiny | 1939 | Caruthers | |
Indianapolis Speedway | 1939 | 'Spud' Connors | |
Daughters Courageous | 1939 | George | |
Dodge City | 1939 | Joe Clemens | |
Wings of the Navy | 1939 | Scat Allen | |
Valley of the Giants | 1938 | 'Fingers' McCarthy | |
Boy Meets Girl | 1938 | Rossetti | |
Four Daughters | 1938 | Ben Crowley | |
Little Miss Thoroughbred | 1938 | Tod Harrington | |
He Couldn't Say No | 1938 | Lambert T. Hunkins | |
Swing Your Lady | 1938 | Popeye | |
Submarine D-1 | 1937 | 'Lucky' | |
Sunday Night at the Trocadero | 1937 | Short | Frank McHugh |
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | 1937 | 'Sniffer' Sears | |
Marry the Girl | 1937 | David 'Party' Partridge | |
Ever Since Eve | 1937 | 'Mabel' DeCraven | |
A Day at Santa Anita | 1937 | Short | Frank McHugh (uncredited) |
Three Men on a Horse | 1936 | Erwin Trowbridge | |
Stage Struck | 1936 | Sid | |
Bullets or Ballots | 1936 | Herman | |
Snowed Under | 1936 | Orlando Rowe | |
Moonlight Murder | 1936 | William | |
Freshman Love | 1936 | Coach Hammond | |
Stars Over Broadway | 1935 | Offkey Cramer | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1935 | Quince - the Carpenter | |
Page Miss Glory | 1935 | Ed Olson | |
The Irish in Us | 1935 | Mike O'Hara | |
Gold Diggers of 1935 | 1935 | Humbolt Prentiss | |
Devil Dogs of the Air | 1935 | Crash Kelly | |
Maybe It's Love | 1935 | Willie Sands | |
6 Day Bike Rider | 1934 | Clinton Hemmings | |
Happiness Ahead | 1934 | Tom | |
Here Comes the Navy | 1934 | Droopy | |
Return of the Terror | 1934 | Joe Hastings | |
Smarty | 1934 | George | |
Let's Be Ritzy | 1934 | Bill Damroy Robert | |
Merry Wives of Reno | 1934 | Al | |
Heat Lightning | 1934 | Frank | |
Fashions of 1934 | 1934 | Snap | |
Not Tonight, Josephine | 1934 | Short | Napoleon |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Going My Way | 1944 | performer: "Hail Alma Mater" 1944 - uncredited | |
Submarine D-1 | 1937 | performer: "Bringing in the Sheaves" 1880 - uncredited | |
Stage Struck | 1936 | performer: "She's in Love Lady of the Moon Number" - uncredited | |
Freshman Love | 1936 | performer: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" - uncredited | |
Stars Over Broadway | 1935 | performer: "Where the Sweet, Sweet Cactus Grows" 1935, "Brownstone Baby I've Got the Blues for You" 1935 - uncredited | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1935 | performer: "Scottish Symphony: Final Movement" 1842 - uncredited | |
Maybe It's Love | 1935 | performer: "By a Waterfall" 1933 - uncredited | |
Happiness Ahead | 1934 | performer: "Massaging Window Panes" 1934 - uncredited | |
Here Comes the Navy | 1934 | performer: "Oh, Promise Me" 1889 - uncredited | |
Footlight Parade | 1933 | performer: "Ah! The Moon Is Here" 1933 - uncredited | |
Lilly Turner | 1933 | performer: "My Wild Irish Rose" - uncredited | |
Millie | 1931 | performer: "It's Nice to Be a Geranium" - uncredited | |
Kiss Me Again | 1931 | performer: "A Make Believe Ladies Man" 1905 - uncredited | |
The Dawn Patrol | 1930 | performer: "Plum and Apple" - uncredited |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Cagney | 1974 | TV Special documentary | Himself (table boe) (uncredited) |
The Hollywood Palace | 1965 | TV Series | Himself - Singer |
The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
Breakdowns of 1938 | 1938 | Documentary short | Popeye Bronson (Swing Your Lady outtakes) (uncredited) |
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself |
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3 | 1935 | Documentary short | Himself |
A Dream Comes True | 1935 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
Hollywood Newsreel | 1934 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | 1930 | Short | Himself |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Francis, 'Footlight Parade' (uncredited) |
Red Skelton: Bloopers, Blunders and Ad-Libs | 1994 | Video | Muggsy |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1966 | TV Series | Bill Watkins |
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