Born in England, Hugh attended the Hereford College of Art & Design majoring in television production and photography. While in Hereford, Hugh served in the 5th Battalion The Light Infantry, a reserve component of The British Army. Later, Hugh was one of a handful of actors to be accepted at The Rose Bruford College of speech and drama in London. In 2004 Hollywood called. Hugh segment coordinated "Mail Call D-Day" 60th anniversary special with R. Lee Ermey for The History Channel. Over the next two seasons, Hugh wrote and directed on-location segments ("Army ROTC", "Tiger Stripe"), for "Mail Call" and co- produced and appeared in "Storm on the Horizon" for The History Channel. In 2007, Hugh co-wrote and starred in "Brother's War" an independent feature film about deception in the final days of World War Two. Hugh worked in 2008 as Costume designer/Military technical advisor with The Hettema Group on "Beyond all Boundaries", a state of the art 4-D film executive produced by Tom Hanks for The National World War 2 Museum in New Orleans. Hugh has appeared in numerous television and feature films, including "Crossing Jordan", "Numb3rs", "CSI:NY", "Race to Witch Mountain", "Hancock" and "G.I. Joe", and was a stunt performer on "The Butcher" and "Green Street Hooligan's 2". Today Hugh is senior staff writer with Dagger Media Group scripting the award winning Army 360 series training films for the U.S. Army and Cross Cultural Competency for the U.S. Air Force. Hugh has appeared as a character in "Modern Warfare": Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 6 and worked on Call of Duty 7 "Black Ops" as a military technical advisor for Treyarch - Activision. In October 2010, Hugh plays "Wall Street" in the MJZ live action 'multiplyer' "Call Of Duty 7 Black Ops" commercial directed by Rupert Sanders. He blows up a Russian Army pick up truck with a tactical crossbow and high explosive tipped bolts.

His son was born in Manchester, England (1985), and is now a Paratroop Infantry Officer in The United States Army.Became a naturalized United States citizen in 1999.Hugh's real 'rampant lion' arm tattoo was incorporated into his character in the British prison film "Green Street Hooligans 2. Hugh played a Millwall football skinhead and did stunts.As a big fan of Activisions "Call of Duty" franchise, Hugh has been featured in "Modern Warfare 1" as an SAS soldier on "Soap McTavish's" team. His son in-law Henry York is the face of "Gaz". Hugh can also be seen/played(with additional full beard), as an SAS Special Operations soldier in the multi-player levels of "Modern Warfare 2". Hugh worked as a technical advisor to the character and weapons teams on "Call of Duty Black - Ops"...And is a rather nasty Spetsnaz interrogator in the payback level of "Black Ops". Hugh can also be seen as 'Wall Street'in the Black Ops live-action commercial and print campaign.