Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - Hugh Herbert went in the early 30s to Hollywood as comedian. In the 30s he worked mostly for Warner, impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors, in a few movies he collaborated on the screenplays, e.g. on "Hit Parade of 1941".
Brother of actor Tom Herbert
Has a star for Motion Pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Blvd. It was awarded 8 years posthumously on February 8, 1960.
His hoo-hoo-hoo routine was the inspiration for Daffy Duck.
The character of the dolphin in the SpongeBob Squarepants episode "Sponge-cano" is based on him.
Shy, stammering and widely popular US screen comedian of the 30s and 40s whose trademark gesture could be seen in all his fingers fluttering together, usually accompanied by his other trademark - that "woo-woo!" exclamation.
