Jack Hulbert(1892-1978)
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Jack Hulbert--the brother of actor
Claude Hulbert--began his acting career
at Cambridge, where he worked in various plays and variety revues. He
later had a very successful career on the stage in comedies and
musicals. His film debut was in
Elstree Calling (1930), in which
he appeared with his wife,
Cicely Courtneidge. His success on
stage carried over into films, and one of his most fondly remembered
pictures is Alias Bulldog Drummond (1935), a
light-hearted tribute to the popular "Bulldog Drummond" detective
series of the era. However, his film career began to fade somewhat in
the late 1930s, and by the time World War II ended he and his wife had
pretty much left films and returned to the stage.
