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Name
  
Claude Hulbert

Siblings
  
Jack Hulbert

Spouse
  
Enid Trevor (m. ?–1964)

Role
  
Actor


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Full Name
  
Claude Noel Hulbert

Born
  
25 December 1900 (
1900-12-25
)
Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom

Died
  
January 23, 1964, Sydney, Australia

Movies
  
My Learned Friend, The Ghost of St Michael's, Sailors Three, Bulldog Jack, Man of the Moment

Similar People
  
Jack Hulbert, Will Hay, Tom Walls, Cicely Courtneidge, Walter Forde

Education
  
University of Cambridge

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Claude Noel Hulbert (25 December 1900 – 23 January 1964) was an English stage, radio and cinema comic actor during the first half of the 20th century.

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Early life

Claude Hulbert was born in Fulham, West London, England, on Christmas Day 1900. He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. He received his formal education at Westminster School, and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights Comedy Club as an undergraduate.

Career

He began his professional career on the English stage. His first theatrical credit was in the revue His Little Trip in the Strand Theatre in 1920. The next year he appeared in the London revue Fantasia. In 1924, he was quite successful in the George Grossmith-Guy Bolton musical comedy Primrose, which led to a string of musical comedy roles for him from 1925 to the 1930s, including Sunny, Oh Kay, Song of the Sea and Follow a Star. Hulbert also was a hit on radio, thanks to his spontaneous manner of delivery, along with his nervous excitability and hilarious stuttering. In 1939, he returned to the London stage in the farce, Worth a Million. Subsequently, he was seen in Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (1943) and as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1946), In the 1950s, he appeared in numerous farces and in repertory theatre. In 1959, he made quite a splash as Lord Plynne in Frederick Lonsdale's Let Them Eat Cake

Although popular, his motion picture career was less successful than his brother's. He began by supporting the Aldwych farceurs before being handed his first lead in a weak B-film with Renee Houston and Binnie Barnes, Their Night Out (1933). His most successful solo film of the mid-1930s was Hello Sweetheart (1935); like most of Hulbert's starring comedies, however, its ambition was strictly small-scale; it seemed that British studios simply didn't see him as a major star. His flagging career was helped with Wolf's Clothing (1936), which starred him as a dithering diplomat, and Honeymoon-Merry-Go-Round (1940), where he played a bumbling bridegroom who unintentionally becomes an ice-hockey star.

He became a very capable partner for Will Hay after the comedian decided he wanted to do without his famous "stooges", Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. Hay's two films with Hulbert, The Ghost of St Michael's (1941) and My Learned Friend (1943), were the most successful of his later vehicles. Hulbert's film appearances, though, became scarcer as the 1940s wore on.

In 1951 Hulbert starred in audio recording of the play The Ghost Train, which was commercially released by Decca Records (Release Catalogue No.LK4040).

Personal life

Hulbert was married to the actress Enid Trevor.

Death

Hulbert died in a hospital in Sydney, Australia on 23 January 1964 aged 63 after having been taken ill whilst ashore during a round-the-world health cruise with his family.

Filmography

Actor
1963
Walter and Connie (TV Series)
- Walter and Connie as Guides to London (1963)
- Walter and Connie in a Garage (1963)
1960
Not a Hope in Hell as
Police Constable Salter
1959
Theatre Night (TV Series) as
Archie (Lord Plynne)
- Let Them Eat Cake (1959) - Archie (Lord Plynne)
1955
Fun at St Fanny's as
Mr. Winkle
1954
I'll Be Seeing You (TV Movie)
1950
Something in the City as
Drunk Art buyer (uncredited)
1949
Sauce Tartare (TV Movie)
1949
Alice in Wonderland as
Puppet Character (voice)
1949
Cardboard Cavalier as
Sylvester Clutterbuck
1948
Under the Frozen Falls as
Riley
1948
Paging You (TV Series)
- Episode dated 25 February 1948 (1948)
1947
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square as
Merryweather
1946
London Town as
Belgrave - Charlie's Dresser
1943
Did You Ever See a Dream Talking (Short) as
Claude Robinson / Good Angel / Bad Angel
1943
My Learned Friend as
Claude Babbington
1943
The Dummy Talks as
Victor Harbord
1941
The Ghost of St. Michael's as
Hilary Tisdaile
1940
Three Cockeyed Sailors as
Admiral
1940
Olympic Honeymoon as
Bob Bennett
1938
Many Tanks Mr. Atkins as
Pvt. Claude Fishlock
1938
His Lordship Regrets as
Lord Cavender
1938
Simply Terrific as
Rodney Cherridew
1938
It's in the Blood as
Edwin Povey
1938
The Viper as
Cedric Gull
1937
You Live and Learn as
Peter Millett
1937
Ship's Concert (Short) as
Claude Stork
1937
It's Not Cricket as
Willie
1937
The Vulture as
Cedric Gull
1937
Take a Chance as
Alastair Pallivant
1936
Hail and Farewell as
Bert
1936
The Interrupted Honeymoon as
Victor
1936
Where's Sally? as
Tony Chivers
1936
Wolf's Clothing as
Ambrose Girling
1935
Butter and Egg Man
1935
Man of the Moment as
Rufus
1935
Alias Bulldog Drummond as
Algy Longworth
1935
Hello, Sweetheart as
Henry Pennyfeather
1935
Lilies of the Field as
Bryan Rigby
1934
Big Business as
Reggie Pullett / Shayne Carter
1934
A Cup of Kindness as
Stanley Tutt
1934
The Girl Thief as
Allan
1934
The Girl in Possession as
Cedric
1934
The Song You Gave Me as
Tony Brandt
1933
Their Night Out as
Jimmy Oliphant
1933
The Charming Deceiver as
Reggie Fish Face Coke
1933
Let Me Explain, Dear as
Cyril Merryweather
1932
The Face at the Window as
Peter Pomeroy
1932
Thark as
Lionel Todd
1932
The Mayor's Nest as
Algernon Ashcroft
1932
A Night Like This as
Aubrey Slott
1930
Naughty Husbands as
Client
1928
Champagne as
Club Guest (uncredited)
Writer
1934
Big Business
1933
Radio Parade (writer)
1933
It's a King (story)
1933
Falling for You (additional dialogue)
Soundtrack
2016
Home Fires (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.6 (2016) - (writer: "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" - uncredited)
2008
The Edge of Love (writer: "My Hat's on the Side of My Head")
1971
Murphy's War (writer: "My Hat's on the Side of My Head" - uncredited)
1940
Under Your Hat (writer: "I Won't Do The Conga", "Keep It Under Your Hat" (uncredited))
1934
Jack Ahoy (writer: "My Hat's on the Side of My Head")
Self
1948
Hulbert Follies (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.6 (1948) - Self
- Episode #1.5 (1948) - Self
- Episode #1.4 (1948) - Self
- Episode #1.3 (1948) - Self
- Episode #1.2 (1948) - Self
- Episode #1.1 (1948) - Self
1948
Cambridge Footlights Revue 'La Vie Cambridgienne' (TV Movie) as
Self - Presenter
1948
Paging You (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 28 February 1948 (1948) - Self
1947
Funny Thing, This Wireless! (TV Movie) as
Self
1933
Radio Parade as
Self
Archive Footage
1977
To See Such Fun (Documentary) as
Self

References

Claude Hulbert Wikipedia


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