Russell Hicks

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Russell Hicks (1937), in Fit for a King

Russell Hicks (born June 4, 1895 in Baltimore , Maryland , † June 1, 1957 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Russell Hicks first trained as a businessman, but then decided to act. Ironically, however, he was primarily supposed to embody business people in his film career. As early as the 1910s, he had a few small film roles, including in the Griffith film epics The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance . Around 1920 he worked as a casting director at the film studio Famous Players. In the 1920s he played with various theater groups, in December 1925 he made his Broadway debut in the comedy The Wisecrackers . In the following ten years he could be seen there in other pieces such as Torch Song and Goin 'Home .

In the mid-1930s, the tall, distinguished-looking Hicks moved back to Hollywood. Above all, he played dignified characters such as military officers, lawyers, judges and merchants. In some films, however, his characters turned out to be untrustworthy, for example in the role of the oily, deceitful businessman J. Frothingham Waterbury in the W. C. Fields comedy The Bank Detective (1940). In The Bandit of Sherwood Forest , he played the aging Robin Hood . Until the 1950s, Hicks was involved as a supporting actor in more than 300 film and television productions. Most recently he starred in several television series such as West Point and Crossroads in the year he died .

Russell Hicks died of a heart attack in 1957 at the age of 61. He had five children with his wife, Virginia Baker.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Russell Hicks  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russell Hicks' biography at Allmovie
  2. ↑ Russell Hicks at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. ↑ Russell Hicks' Biography at the Internet Movie Database
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, Russell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1957
Place of death Los Angeles , California