Biography
A debonair, mustachioed leading man from England, Hugh Huntley co-starred as
Corinne Griffith's mountain-climbing husband in the second screen version of Clyde Fitch's
The Climbers (1919). It was an early highlight in a career that usually found Huntley playing the "other man" in such 1920s potboilers as
Backbone (1923),
Second Youth (1924) (with
Alfred Lunt and
Lynn Fontanne, and
A Social Celebrity (1926). In the sound era, Huntley is perhaps best remembered as the banker's son in
The Bat Whispers (1930), a role played by Arthur Housman in the original, silent version,
The Bat (1926). His roles got increasingly smaller thereafter and he seems to have left films in the very early '40s. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide