Russell Hicks
Biography
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Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film actor.
Born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, Hicks appeared in nearly 300 films between 1915 and 1956. His first appearance was an uncredited role in The Birth of a Nation (1915). He often appeared as a smooth-talking confidence man, as in the W.C. Fields film The Bank Dick (1940). Distinguished, suave and a consummate actor, Hicks played a variety of judges, corrupt officials, businessmen and attorneys, working in a variety of mediums almost until his death. Hicks appeared once in the syndicated western television series The Cisco Kid as an uncle of the Gail Davis character, whom he threatens to disinherit if she marries a known gangster.
He died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart attack.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
244
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-06-03 (130 years old)
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Acting
2022
The Big Breakfast as Not available1957
Panic! as Not available1956
Telephone Time as Not available1956
West Point as Not available1956
7th Cavalry as Col. Kellogg1956
You Can't Run Away from It as Ship Captain (uncredited)1956
Once Upon a Honeymoon as Angel Chief1955
Navy Log as Not available1955
Cheyenne as Not available1955
Playwrights '56 as Not available1955
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as Not available1954
The Secret Storm as Not available1953
Man of Conflict as Mr. Murdock1953
The Studebaker Story as Harold S. Vance1952
The Maverick as Col. Hook1952
Mr. Walkie Talkie as Col. Lockwood1952
Old Oklahoma Plains as Colonel Charles Bigelow1951
Racket Squad as Not available1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Not available1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as J. Winston Fletcher1951
As You Were as Col. Lockwood1951
All That I Have as Jess Northrup1951
Fourteen Hours as Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited)1951
Bowery Battalion as Melvin Hatfield1951
Overland Telegraph as Col. Marvin1951
Kentucky Jubilee as T.J. Hoarsely1950
The Cisco Kid as Jasper King1950
The Flying Saucer as Hank Thorn1950
The Big Hangover as Steve Hughes1950
Unmasked as George Richards1950
Again Pioneers as Pete Galloway1950
Blue Grass of Kentucky as James B. Armistead1949
Samson and Delilah as Lord of Ashkelon1949
The Fountainhead as Banner Board Member (uncredited)1949
South of St. Louis as Not available1949
I Cheated the Law as District Attorney Randolph1949
Barbary Pirate as Commodore Preble1949
Manhattan Angel as J.C. Rayland1948
Studio One as Hinton1948
My Dear Secretary as Dick Fulton - Publisher (uncredited)1948
The Black Arrow as Sir Harry Shelton1948
The Shanghai Chest as Frank Bronson, district attorney1948
The Hunted as Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives1948
The Return of October as Taylor1948
The Noose Hangs High as Johnny - Copper Club Manager (uncredited)1948
The Velvet Touch as Actor 'Judge Brack'1948
The Gallant Legion as Senator Beale1948
Race Street as Easy Mason1948
The Plunderers as Cavalry Colonel1948
Assigned to Danger as Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited)1948
One Sunday Afternoon as Tredway1948
Jiggs and Maggie in Court as Supreme Court Judge1947
Buck Privates Come Home as Mr. Appleby1947
The Sea of Grass as Maj. Dell Harney1947
Dark Delusion as Mr. Logan (uncredited)1947
Fun on a Weekend as John Biddle1947
The Judge Steps Out as Superior Court Judge (uncredited)1947
Exposed as Col. Bentry1947
The Pilgrim Lady as Thackery Gibbs1947
Web of Danger as Gallagher1947
Louisiana as Fred Astor1947
Smoky River Serenade as J. Bricket Armstrong1946
Till the Clouds Roll By as Producer (uncredited)1946
Dark Alibi as Warden Cameron1946
A Close Call for Boston Blackie as Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)1946
The Hoodlum Saint as Marty Martindale (uncredited)1946
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Robin Hood - Earl of Huntington1946
Swing Parade of 1946 as Daniel Warren Sr.1946
The Plainsman and the Lady as Sen. Twin1946
G.I. War Brides as Insp. Ramsaye1946
Gay Blades as Buxton1946
The Show-Off as Mr. Thorbison (uncredited)1945
Scarlet Street as J.J. Hogarth1945
The Valley of Decision as Mr. Laurence Gaylord1945
Flame of Barbary Coast as Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star1945
Apology for Murder as Harvey Kirkland1945
The Master Key as Police Chief Michael J. O'Brien1945
Getting Gertie's Garter as Board Member (uncredited)1945
First Yank into Tokyo as Gen. T.W. Stanton (uncredited)1945
She Gets Her Man as Mayor1945
A Game of Death as Mr. Whitney1944
Bathing Beauty as Mr. Allenwood (uncredited)1944
The Port of 40 Thieves as Charles Farrington1944
Captain America as Mayor Randolph1944
Janie as Col. Lucas - Commander Camp Wingate1944
The Case of the Tremendous Trifle as Colonel1944
Louisiana Hayride as H.C.Forbes1943
Northern Pursuit as Chief Inspector (uncredited)1943
Air Raid Wardens as Major Scanlon1943
The Woman of the Town as Publisher1943
Someone to Remember as Mr. Stanton1943
King of the Cowboys as Texas Governor1943
His Butler's Sister as Sanderson1943
Three Hearts for Julia as Colonel (uncredited)1943
Follow the Band as Jeremiah K. Barton1943
Proceed and Report as Captain1942
Tarzan's New York Adventure as Judge Abbotson1942
Ride 'Em Cowboy as Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited)1942
Springtime in the Rockies as Theatergoer in blackout (uncredited)1942
Strictly in the Groove as RC Saunders1942
We Were Dancing as Mr. Bryce-Carew1942
To the Shores of Tripoli as Major Wilson1942
Joe Smith, American as Mr. Edgerton1942
Ship Ahoy as Capt. C.V. O'Brien1942
Lady in a Jam as Carter1942
Fingers at the Window as Dr. Chandley1942
Tennessee Johnson as Lincoln's Emissary1942
Pacific Rendezvous as John Carter1942
Sealed Lips as Dr. Charles Evans1942
Hitler- Dead or Alive as Samuel Thornton1942
King of the Mounties as Marshal Carleton1942
Butch Minds the Baby as J. Wadsworth Carrington1941
Sergeant York as General (uncredited)1941
They Died with Their Boots On as Colonel of 1st Michigan (uncredited)1941
Western Union as Provisional Governor1941
The Little Foxes as William Marshall1941
The Great Lie as Colonel Harriston1941
Blood and Sand as Marquis1941
Hold That Ghost as Bannister1941
The Big Store as Arthur Hastings1941
Dive Bomber as Awards Speaker (uncredited)1941
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery as Harry Walsh1941
A Man Betrayed as C.R. Pringle1941
Great Guns as Gen. Burns1941
Man-Made Monster as Warden Harris (uncredited)1941
Here Comes Happiness as John Vance1941
Pacific Blackout as Commanding Officer1941
Doctors Don't Tell as Supt. Duff1941
The Pittsburgh Kid as (uncredited)1941
Buy Me That Town as Malcolm1941
The Parson of Panamint as Prosecuting Attorney1941
Arkansas Judge as Hetty's Attorney1940
The Return of Frank James as Prosecutor1940
Santa Fe Trail as Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)1940
No, No, Nanette as 'Hutch' Hutchinson1940
The Mortal Storm as Rector1940
Virginia City as Armistead1940
Seven Sinners as First Governor1940
The Bank Dick as J. Frothingham Waterbury1940
Earthbound as Prosecutor1940
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. as Colonel Barton1940
The Blue Bird as Daddy Tyl1940
Junior G-Men as Col. Barton1940
Love Thy Neighbor as Harrington1940
Lady with Red Hair as Wealthy London Host (uncredited)1940
Johnny Apollo as District Attorney1940
Enemy Agent as Lyman Scott1940
Parole Fixer as U.S. District Court Judge1940
Nobody's Children as Sen. Lawrence Hargrave (uncredited)1940
East of the River as Warden1940
Sporting Blood as 'Sneak' OBrien1940
A Night at Earl Carroll's as Mayor Jones of Hollywood1939
Union Pacific as Sergeant (uncredited)1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Mr. Barrows1939
The Real Glory as Capt. Manning1939
Honolulu as Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)1939
Stanley and Livingstone as Commissioner1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Colonel (uncredited)1939
Swanee River as Andrew McDowell1939
The Three Musketeers as Porthos1939
Hollywood Cavalcade as Russell Hicks1939
Bad Little Angel as Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited)1939
Hotel Imperial as Austrian Officer (uncredited)1939
Rulers of the Sea as Mr. Cunard (Uncredited)1939
Our Leading Citizen as Chairman1939
Boy Trouble as Magistrate1939
East Side of Heaven as Hinkle (uncredited)1939
Hotel for Women as Van Ellis1939
The Big Guy as Lawson1939
North of Shanghai as Rowley1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Mr. Graves1939
America's Safest Tire as Fisk Tire Official1938
You Can't Take It with You as Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)1938
In Old Chicago as Politician in Jack's Office1938
Gateway as Ernest Porter1938
Kentucky as Thad Goodwin Sr. - 18611938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Capt. Stafford1938
Kidnapped as Bailiff1938
That Certain Age as Scout Leader (uncredited)1938
Men with Wings as Gen. Marlin1938
Little Miss Broadway as Perry1938
Fugitives for a Night as Maurice Tenwright1937
Pick a Star as Mr. Stone1937
The Toast of New York as Lawyer1937
On Again—Off Again as George Dilwig1937
Let Them Live as Newspaper Editor1937
Midnight Taxi as Barney Flagg1937
Espionage as Alfred Hartrix1937
The Big Shot as Martin Drake1937
We Who Are About to Die as District Attorney Knight (uncredited)1937
The Man Who Cried Wolf as Prosecuting Attorney1937
Fifty Roads to Town as Police Official1937
Fit for a King as Editor Hardwick1937
A Dangerous Adventure as Allen1937
Criminals of the Air as Kurt Feldon1937
The Westland Case as Mr. Woodbury1937
It Happened Out West as Cooley1937
Clipped Wings as Capt. Morton1937
Secret Valley as Lawyer Austin Martin1937
23 1/2 Hours Leave as Capt. Barker1937
Girl Overboard as Sam Le Maire1937
Partners in Crime as Mayor Callahan1937
The Wildcatter as Tom Frayne1936
Follow the Fleet as Jim Nolan1936
The Accusing Finger as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator1936
Two in the Dark as Police Officer McCord (uncredited)1936
Sea Spoilers as Phil Morgan1936
The General Died at Dawn as No Matches Man (uncredited)1936
Fatal Lady as American Opera House Manager (uncredited)1936
Laughing Irish Eyes as Silk Taylor1936
Laughing at Trouble as Cyrus Hall1936
Bunker Bean as A. C. Jones1936
Ticket to Paradise as Colton1936
Woman Trap as Dodd1936
Spendthrift as Attorney1936
Dodge City Trail as Kenyon Phillips1936
The Music Goes 'Round as Mr. Cohn1936
Special Investigator as Inspector Perkett1936
15 Maiden Lane as Judge Graham1936
Grand Jury as Jim Hanify1935
If You Could Only Cook as Dillon (uncredited)1935
Devil Dogs of the Air as Captain1935
The Woman in Red as Defense Attorney Clayton1935
Go Into Your Dance as Sam Rupert1935
Millions in the Air as Davis1935
Charlie Chan in Shanghai as James Andrews1935
Dante's Inferno as Prosecuting Attorney1935
Sweet Music as Mayor of New York City1935
While the Patient Slept as Dr. Jay1935
Living on Velvet as Major at Flying Field1935
Thunder in the Night as Prefect of Police1935
Lady Tubbs as Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt1935
Ladies Crave Excitement as Bert Taylor1935
Honeymoon Limited as Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver)1934
The Case of the Howling Dog as Clinton Foley1934
The Secret Bride as John F. Holdstock1934
Happiness Ahead as Jim Meehan1934
The Firebird as Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager1934
Gentlemen Are Born as Newspaper Editor1934
Murder in the Clouds as Taggert1934
Babbitt as Commissioner Lyle Gurnee1934
Mushrooms as President of Pure Food Association (uncredited)1933
Before Morning as Jim Nichols1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Extra (uncredited)