Acting
Hugh E. Wright
Born 1879-04-13 · Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Acting credits
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
Stranglehold
1931
4.9A 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 toolbox.
Cash
1933
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.
Nell Gwyn
1934
6.1Ebenezer 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.
Scrooge
1935
Musical featuring radio and variety stars on holiday, who help a village vicar stage a local concert.
On the Air
1934
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
A Sailor Tramp
1922
7.0Vaudevillian 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...
Brother Alfred
1932
9.0A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
Down River
1931
7.1A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
You Made Me Love You
1933
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.
Lord Camber's Ladies
1932
10.0'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)
The Great Gay Road
1931
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.
A Shot in the Dark
1933
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Widow's Might
1935
A British adventure film directed by George King
Adventure Ltd.
1935
8.0An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
My Old Duchess
1934
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
The Romany
1923
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
Royal Eagle
1936
9.0During 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.
East Lynne on the Western Front
1931
A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.
Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep
1922
No synopsis available yet.
The Silver King
1929
10.0A British musical film directed by George Pearson
Auld Lang Syne
1929
In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.
Pyjamas Preferred
1932
A star search competition.
Pathé's Screen-Beauty Competition
1920