Russell Hicks
Born: 1895-06-03 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: 1957-06-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2022
1957
1956
- West Point
- 7th Cavalry as Col. Kellogg
- Telephone Time
- Once Upon a Honeymoon as Angel Chief
- You Can't Run Away from It as Ship Captain (uncredited)
1954
1953
- Man of Conflict as Mr. Murdock
- The Studebaker Story as Harold S. Vance
1952
- The Maverick as Col. Hook
- Old Oklahoma Plains as Colonel Charles Bigelow
- Mr. Walkie Talkie as Col. Lockwood
1951
- Overland Telegraph as Col. Marvin
- Kentucky Jubilee as T.J. Hoarsely
- Bowery Battalion as Melvin Hatfield
- Racket Squad
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- As You Were as Col. Lockwood
- All That I Have as Jess Northrup
- Fourteen Hours as Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as J. Winston Fletcher
1950
- Again Pioneers as Pete Galloway
- The Cisco Kid as Jasper King
- Unmasked as George Richards
- The Big Hangover as Steve Hughes
- The Flying Saucer as Hank Thorn
- Blue Grass of Kentucky as James B. Armistead
1949
- Samson and Delilah as Lord of Ashkelon
- The Fountainhead as Banner Board Member (uncredited)
- Manhattan Angel as J.C. Rayland
- South of St. Louis
- I Cheated the Law as District Attorney Randolph
- Barbary Pirate as Commodore Preble
1948
- Studio One as Hinton
- Silver River as Edwards (uncredited)
- The Plunderers as Cavalry Colonel
- Race Street as Easy Mason
- The Hunted as Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives
- The Noose Hangs High as Johnny - Copper Club Manager (uncredited)
- My Dear Secretary as Dick Fulton - Publisher (uncredited)
- The Shanghai Chest as Frank Bronson, district attorney
- The Return of October as Taylor
- The Black Arrow as Sir Harry Shelton
- One Sunday Afternoon as Tredway
- The Gallant Legion as Senator Beale
- Jiggs and Maggie in Court as Supreme Court Judge
- Assigned to Danger as Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited)
- The Velvet Touch as Actor 'Judge Brack'
1947
- Dark Delusion as Mr. Logan (uncredited)
- Louisiana as Fred Astor
- Smoky River Serenade as J. Bricket Armstrong
- The Sea of Grass as Maj. Dell Harney
- Fun on a Weekend as John Biddle
- The Judge Steps Out as Superior Court Judge (uncredited)
- The Pilgrim Lady as Thackery Gibbs
- Web of Danger as Gallagher
- Buck Privates Come Home as Mr. Appleby
- Exposed as Col. Bentry
1946
- Dark Alibi as Warden Cameron
- Gay Blades as Buxton
- Swing Parade of 1946 as Daniel Warren Sr.
- The Hoodlum Saint as Marty Martindale (uncredited)
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Robin Hood - Earl of Huntington
- G.I. War Brides as Insp. Ramsaye
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Producer (uncredited)
- A Close Call for Boston Blackie as Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)
- The Plainsman and the Lady as Sen. Twin
- The Show-Off as Mr. Thorbison (uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as J.J. Hogarth
- The Valley of Decision as Mr. Laurence Gaylord
- First Yank into Tokyo as Gen. T.W. Stanton (uncredited)
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star
- A Game of Death as Mr. Whitney
- The Master Key as Police Chief Michael J. O'Brien
- Apology for Murder as Harvey Kirkland
- Getting Gertie's Garter as Board Member (uncredited)
- She Gets Her Man as Mayor
1944
- Captain America as Mayor Randolph
- Janie as Col. Lucas - Commander Camp Wingate
- Louisiana Hayride as H.C.Forbes
- Bathing Beauty as Mr. Allenwood (uncredited)
- The Port of 40 Thieves as Charles Farrington
- The Case of the Tremendous Trifle as Colonel
1943
- Northern Pursuit as Chief Inspector (uncredited)
- The Woman of the Town as Publisher
- Air Raid Wardens as Major Scanlon
- Someone to Remember as Mr. Stanton
- Follow the Band as Jeremiah K. Barton
- King of the Cowboys as Texas Governor
- His Butler's Sister as Sanderson
- Three Hearts for Julia as Colonel (uncredited)
- Proceed and Report as Captain
1942
- Ship Ahoy as Capt. C.V. O'Brien
- Tennessee Johnson as Lincoln's Emissary
- Tarzan's New York Adventure as Judge Abbotson
- Pacific Rendezvous as John Carter
- Lady in a Jam as Carter
- Hitler- Dead or Alive as Samuel Thornton
- Strictly in the Groove as RC Saunders
- King of the Mounties as Marshal Carleton
- We Were Dancing as Mr. Bryce-Carew
- Sealed Lips as Dr. Charles Evans
- Joe Smith, American as Mr. Edgerton
- To the Shores of Tripoli as Major Wilson
- Springtime in the Rockies as Theatergoer in blackout (uncredited)
- Butch Minds the Baby as J. Wadsworth Carrington
- Fingers at the Window as Dr. Chandley
1941
- Western Union as Provisional Governor
- Dive Bomber as Awards Speaker (uncredited)
- Sergeant York as General (uncredited)
- Arkansas Judge as Hetty's Attorney
- Great Guns as Gen. Burns
- Pacific Blackout as Commanding Officer
- The Big Store as Arthur Hastings
- The Great Lie as Colonel Harriston
- The Little Foxes as William Marshall
- Hold That Ghost as Bannister
- They Died with Their Boots On as Colonel of 1st Michigan (uncredited)
- Here Comes Happiness as John Vance
- A Man Betrayed as C.R. Pringle
- Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery as Harry Walsh
- The Strawberry Blonde as Treadway - Hugo's Lawyer (uncredited)
- The Parson of Panamint as Prosecuting Attorney
- Man-Made Monster as Warden Harris (uncredited)
- The Pittsburgh Kid as (uncredited)
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited)
- Doctors Don't Tell as Supt. Duff
- Blood and Sand as Marquis
- Buy Me That Town as Malcolm
1940
- Parole Fixer as U.S. District Court Judge
- Seven Sinners as First Governor
- Virginia City as Armistead
- Sporting Blood as 'Sneak' OBrien
- Earthbound as Prosecutor
- Johnny Apollo as District Attorney
- The Return of Frank James as Prosecutor
- The Mortal Storm as Rector
- East of the River as Warden
- The Blue Bird as Daddy Tyl
- A Night at Earl Carroll's as Mayor Jones of Hollywood
- The Bank Dick as J. Frothingham Waterbury
- Nobody's Children as Sen. Lawrence Hargrave (uncredited)
- No, No, Nanette as 'Hutch' Hutchinson
- Love Thy Neighbor as Harrington
- Santa Fe Trail as Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)
- Lady with Red Hair as Wealthy London Host (uncredited)
- Junior G-Men as Col. Barton
- Enemy Agent as Lyman Scott
- Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. as Colonel Barton
1939
- Honolulu as Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Russell Hicks
- Boy Trouble as Magistrate
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Mr. Barrows
- Hotel Imperial as Austrian Officer (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Hinkle (uncredited)
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- Rulers of the Sea as Mr. Cunard (Uncredited)
- Stanley and Livingstone as Commissioner
- North of Shanghai as Rowley
- Union Pacific as Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Real Glory as Capt. Manning
- Hotel for Women as Van Ellis
- The Big Guy as Lawson
- Our Leading Citizen as Chairman
- Bad Little Angel as Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited)
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Colonel (uncredited)
- Swanee River as Andrew McDowell
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Mr. Graves
- America's Safest Tire as Fisk Tire Official
1938
- Kidnapped as Bailiff
- Kentucky as Thad Goodwin Sr. - 1861
- You Can't Take It with You as Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)
- In Old Chicago as Politician in Jack's Office
- That Certain Age as Scout Leader (uncredited)
- Little Miss Broadway as Perry
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Capt. Stafford
- Men with Wings as Gen. Marlin
- Fugitives for a Night as Maurice Tenwright
- Gateway as Ernest Porter
1937
- Secret Valley as Lawyer Austin Martin
- On Again—Off Again as George Dilwig
- Girl Overboard as Sam Le Maire
- The Toast of New York as Lawyer
- A Dangerous Adventure as Allen
- Pick a Star as Mr. Stone
- The Westland Case as Mr. Woodbury
- The Big Shot as Martin Drake
- Criminals of the Air as Kurt Feldon
- Fifty Roads to Town as Police Official
- The Man Who Cried Wolf as Prosecuting Attorney
- 23 1/2 Hours Leave as Capt. Barker
- Fit for a King as Editor Hardwick
- Let Them Live as Newspaper Editor
- Midnight Taxi as Barney Flagg
- It Happened Out West as Cooley
- Espionage as Alfred Hartrix
- Partners in Crime as Mayor Callahan
- The Wildcatter as Tom Frayne
- We Who Are About to Die as District Attorney Knight (uncredited)
- Clipped Wings as Capt. Morton
1936
- Sea Spoilers as Phil Morgan
- Special Investigator as Inspector Perkett
- Grand Jury as Jim Hanify
- Spendthrift as Attorney
- Bunker Bean as A. C. Jones
- Woman Trap as Dodd
- Follow the Fleet as Jim Nolan
- Laughing at Trouble as Cyrus Hall
- Ticket to Paradise as Colton
- The Accusing Finger as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
- Two in the Dark as Police Officer McCord (uncredited)
- The General Died at Dawn as No Matches Man (uncredited)
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Silk Taylor
- 15 Maiden Lane as Judge Graham
- The Music Goes 'Round as Mr. Cohn
- Dodge City Trail as Kenyon Phillips
- Fatal Lady as American Opera House Manager (uncredited)
1935
- Honeymoon Limited as Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver)
- Lady Tubbs as Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt
- Sweet Music as Mayor of New York City
- Dante's Inferno as Prosecuting Attorney
- The Woman in Red as Defense Attorney Clayton
- Go Into Your Dance as Sam Rupert
- While the Patient Slept as Dr. Jay
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Bert Taylor
- Thunder in the Night as Prefect of Police
- Living on Velvet as Major at Flying Field
- Devil Dogs of the Air as Captain
- If You Could Only Cook as Dillon (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Shanghai as James Andrews
- Millions in the Air as Davis
1934
- Happiness Ahead as Jim Meehan
- The Firebird as Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager
- The Case of the Howling Dog as Clinton Foley
- Murder in the Clouds as Taggert
- Gentlemen Are Born as Newspaper Editor
- The Secret Bride as John F. Holdstock
- Babbitt as Commissioner Lyle Gurnee
- Mushrooms as President of Pure Food Association (uncredited)
1933
- Before Morning as Jim Nichols
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Extra (uncredited)