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