Career
He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. Hulbert began his professional career on the English stage. His first theatrical cr was in the London revue Fantasia in 1921.
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"son
He began by supporting the Aldwych farceurs before being handed his first lead in a weak B-film with Renee Houston and Binnie Barnes.
His most successful solo film of the mid-1930s being, like most of Hulbert"s starring comedies, however, its ambition was strictly small-scale. lieutenant seemed that British studios simply didn"t see him as a major star. His flagging career was helped with, 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.
Hay"s two films with Hulbert, The Ghost of Street and, were the most successful of his later vehicles.
Hulbert"s film appearances, though, became scarcer as the 1940s wore on. Hulbert died in a hospital in Sydney, Australia, whilst ashore from a world cruise with his family.