Russell Hicks

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1895-06-03

Died: 1957-06-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Extra (uncredited)	71
2	1933	Before Morning	Jim Nichols	38
3	1934	Mushrooms	President of Pure Food Association (uncredited)	0
4	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Clinton Foley	65
5	1934	Happiness Ahead	Jim Meehan	60
6	1934	The Firebird	Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager	55
7	1934	Gentlemen Are Born	Newspaper Editor	65
8	1934	Babbitt	Commissioner Lyle Gurnee	60
9	1934	Murder in the Clouds	Taggert	47
10	1934	The Secret Bride	John F. Holdstock	63
11	1935	Devil Dogs of the Air	Captain	64
12	1935	The Woman in Red	Defense Attorney Clayton	61
13	1935	Sweet Music	Mayor of New York City	57
14	1935	Living on Velvet	Major at Flying Field	55
15	1935	While the Patient Slept	Dr. Jay	64
16	1935	Go Into Your Dance	Sam Rupert	70
17	1935	Ladies Crave Excitement	Bert Taylor	45
18	1935	Honeymoon Limited	Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver)	60
19	1935	Lady Tubbs	Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt	0
20	1935	Dante's Inferno	Prosecuting Attorney	62
21	1935	Thunder in the Night	Prefect of Police	55
22	1935	Charlie Chan in Shanghai	James Andrews	66
23	1935	Millions in the Air	Davis	0
24	1935	If You Could Only Cook	Dillon (uncredited)	74
25	1936	Two in the Dark	Police Officer McCord (uncredited)	59
26	1936	Follow the Fleet	Jim Nolan	68
27	1936	The Music Goes 'Round	Mr. Cohn	0
28	1936	Laughing Irish Eyes	Silk Taylor	0
29	1936	Woman Trap	Dodd	0
30	1936	Special Investigator	Inspector Perkett	58
31	1936	Fatal Lady	American Opera House Manager (uncredited)	0
32	1936	Ticket to Paradise	Colton	60
33	1936	Bunker Bean	A. C. Jones	46
34	1936	Spendthrift	Attorney	50
35	1936	Grand Jury	Jim Hanify	70
36	1936	Sea Spoilers	Phil Morgan	47
37	1936	15 Maiden Lane	Judge Graham	60
38	1936	The Accusing Finger	Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator	47
39	1936	The General Died at Dawn	No Matches Man (uncredited)	62
40	1936	Laughing at Trouble	Cyrus Hall	60
41	1936	Dodge City Trail	Kenyon Phillips	30
42	1937	We Who Are About to Die	District Attorney Knight (uncredited)	68
43	1937	Secret Valley	Lawyer Austin Martin	40
44	1937	Girl Overboard	Sam Le Maire	0
45	1937	Espionage	Alfred Hartrix	65
46	1937	23 1/2 Hours Leave	Capt. Barker	0
47	1937	Midnight Taxi	Barney Flagg	50
48	1937	Let Them Live	Newspaper Editor	0
49	1937	Criminals of the Air	Kurt Feldon	55
50	1937	It Happened Out West	Cooley	0
51	1937	Pick a Star	Mr. Stone	48
52	1937	Fifty Roads to Town	Police Official	0
53	1937	The Wildcatter	Tom Frayne	0
54	1937	On Again—Off Again	George Dilwig	70
55	1937	A Dangerous Adventure	Allen	10
56	1937	The Toast of New York	Lawyer	58
57	1937	The Big Shot	Martin Drake	50
58	1937	The Man Who Cried Wolf	Prosecuting Attorney	55
59	1937	Fit for a King	Editor Hardwick	50
60	1937	Partners in Crime	Mayor Callahan	0
61	1937	The Westland Case	Mr. Woodbury	60
62	1937	Clipped Wings	Capt. Morton	35
63	1938	The Big Broadcast of 1938	Capt. Stafford	60
64	1938	In Old Chicago	Politician in Jack's Office	64
65	1938	Kidnapped	Bailiff	60
66	1938	Men with Wings	Gen. Marlin	60
67	1938	Little Miss Broadway	Perry	66
68	1938	Gateway	Ernest Porter	65
69	1938	You Can't Take It with You	Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)	75
70	1938	Fugitives for a Night	Maurice Tenwright	60
71	1938	That Certain Age	Scout Leader (uncredited)	50
72	1938	Kentucky	Thad Goodwin Sr. - 1861	57
73	1939	North of Shanghai	Rowley	0
74	1939	Boy Trouble	Magistrate	50
75	1939	Honolulu	Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)	61
76	1939	The Three Musketeers	Porthos	58
77	1939	The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	Colonel (uncredited)	70
78	1939	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Mr. Barrows	60
79	1939	East Side of Heaven	Hinkle (uncredited)	71
80	1939	Union Pacific	Sergeant (uncredited)	65
81	1939	Hotel Imperial	Austrian Officer (uncredited)	60
82	1939	Hotel for Women	Van Ellis	60
83	1939	Stanley and Livingstone	Commissioner	64
84	1939	Our Leading Citizen	Chairman	0
85	1939	America's Safest Tire	Fisk Tire Official	0
86	1939	The Real Glory	Capt. Manning	63
87	1939	Hollywood Cavalcade	Russell Hicks	51
88	1939	Bad Little Angel	Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited)	49
89	1939	Rulers of the Sea	Mr. Cunard (Uncredited)	65
90	1939	Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President	Mr. Graves	20
91	1939	The Big Guy	Lawson	0
92	1939	Swanee River	Andrew McDowell	65
93	1940	The Blue Bird	Daddy Tyl	57
94	1940	Parole Fixer	U.S. District Court Judge	0
95	1940	Virginia City	Armistead	61
96	1940	Enemy Agent	Lyman Scott	55
97	1940	Johnny Apollo	District Attorney	68
98	1940	Earthbound	Prosecutor	48
99	1940	The Mortal Storm	Rector	72
100	1940	Sporting Blood	'Sneak' OBrien	43
101	1940	The Return of Frank James	Prosecutor	62
102	1940	Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.	Colonel Barton	0
103	1940	Seven Sinners	First Governor	60
104	1940	Junior G-Men	Col. Barton	61
105	1940	East of the River	Warden	57
106	1940	The Bank Dick	J. Frothingham Waterbury	65
107	1940	Lady with Red Hair	Wealthy London Host (uncredited)	65
108	1940	Nobody's Children	Sen. Lawrence Hargrave (uncredited)	0
109	1940	No, No, Nanette	'Hutch' Hutchinson	60
110	1940	Santa Fe Trail	Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)	57
111	1940	Love Thy Neighbor	Harrington	65
112	1941	Dive Bomber	Awards Speaker (uncredited)	63
113	1941	Arkansas Judge	Hetty's Attorney	0
114	1941	Western Union	Provisional Governor	60
115	1941	A Man Betrayed	C.R. Pringle	55
116	1941	Here Comes Happiness	John Vance	50
117	1941	Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery	Harry Walsh	53
118	1941	Man-Made Monster	Warden Harris (uncredited)	61
119	1941	The Great Lie	Colonel Harriston	69
120	1941	Blood and Sand	Marquis	64
121	1941	The Big Store	Arthur Hastings	62
122	1941	The Parson of Panamint	Prosecuting Attorney	50
123	1941	Hold That Ghost	Bannister	67
124	1941	The Little Foxes	William Marshall	75
125	1941	Doctors Don't Tell	Supt. Duff	49
126	1941	Sergeant York	General (uncredited)	72
127	1941	Buy Me That Town	Malcolm	60
128	1941	Great Guns	Gen. Burns	58
129	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Colonel of 1st Michigan (uncredited)	66
130	1941	Pacific Blackout	Commanding Officer	63
131	1942	Sealed Lips	Dr. Charles Evans	58
132	1942	Joe Smith, American	Mr. Edgerton	57
133	1942	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited)	58
134	1942	Butch Minds the Baby	J. Wadsworth Carrington	0
135	1942	Ship Ahoy	Capt. C.V. O'Brien	59
136	1942	Fingers at the Window	Dr. Chandley	54
137	1942	We Were Dancing	Mr. Bryce-Carew	42
138	1942	Tarzan's New York Adventure	Judge Abbotson	64
139	1942	Pacific Rendezvous	John Carter	60
140	1942	Lady in a Jam	Carter	55
141	1942	King of the Mounties	Marshal Carleton	0
142	1942	Springtime in the Rockies	Theatergoer in blackout (uncredited)	67
143	1942	To the Shores of Tripoli	Major Wilson	51
144	1942	Hitler- Dead or Alive	Samuel Thornton	45
145	1942	Strictly in the Groove	RC Saunders	0
146	1942	Tennessee Johnson	Lincoln's Emissary	61
147	1943	Follow the Band	Jeremiah K. Barton	0
148	1943	Air Raid Wardens	Major Scanlon	71
149	1943	King of the Cowboys	Texas Governor	55
150	1943	Three Hearts for Julia	Colonel (uncredited)	60
151	1943	Someone to Remember	Mr. Stanton	70
152	1943	Proceed and Report	Captain	0
153	1943	Northern Pursuit	Chief Inspector (uncredited)	59
154	1943	His Butler's Sister	Sanderson	71
155	1943	The Woman of the Town	Publisher	60
156	1944	Captain America	Mayor Randolph	55
157	1944	The Case of the Tremendous Trifle	Colonel	0
158	1944	Bathing Beauty	Mr. Allenwood (uncredited)	58
159	1944	Louisiana Hayride	H.C.Forbes	60
160	1944	The Port of 40 Thieves	Charles Farrington	67
161	1944	Janie	Col. Lucas - Commander Camp Wingate	55
162	1945	She Gets Her Man	Mayor	37
163	1945	The Master Key	Police Chief Michael J. O'Brien	0
164	1945	The Valley of Decision	Mr. Laurence Gaylord	73
165	1945	Flame of Barbary Coast	Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star	56
166	1945	First Yank into Tokyo	Gen. T.W. Stanton (uncredited)	54
167	1945	Apology for Murder	Harvey Kirkland	48
168	1945	A Game of Death	Mr. Whitney	62
169	1945	Getting Gertie's Garter	Board Member (uncredited)	30
170	1945	Scarlet Street	J.J. Hogarth	76
171	1946	A Close Call for Boston Blackie	Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)	49
172	1946	Gay Blades	Buxton	0
173	1946	The Bandit of Sherwood Forest	Robin Hood - Earl of Huntington	49
174	1946	Swing Parade of 1946	Daniel Warren Sr.	42
175	1946	The Hoodlum Saint	Marty Martindale (uncredited)	52
176	1946	Dark Alibi	Warden Cameron	61
177	1946	G.I. War Brides	Insp. Ramsaye	0
178	1946	The Plainsman and the Lady	Sen. Twin	30
179	1946	The Show-Off	Mr. Thorbison (uncredited)	70
180	1946	Till the Clouds Roll By	Producer (uncredited)	57
181	1947	The Pilgrim Lady	Thackery Gibbs	50
182	1947	Buck Privates Come Home	Mr. Appleby	63
183	1947	The Sea of Grass	Maj. Dell Harney	63
184	1947	Fun on a Weekend	John Biddle	70
185	1947	Web of Danger	Gallagher	48
186	1947	Dark Delusion	Mr. Logan (uncredited)	60
187	1947	Smoky River Serenade	J. Bricket Armstrong	0
188	1947	Exposed	Col. Bentry	58
189	1947	Louisiana	Fred Astor	0
190	1947	The Judge Steps Out	Superior Court Judge (uncredited)	70
191	1948	The Black Arrow	Sir Harry Shelton	52
192	1948	The Noose Hangs High	Johnny - Copper Club Manager (uncredited)	68
193	1948	The Hunted	Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives	52
194	1948	Assigned to Danger	Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited)	50
195	1948	The Gallant Legion	Senator Beale	70
196	1948	The Shanghai Chest	Frank Bronson, district attorney	61
197	1948	The Velvet Touch	Actor 'Judge Brack'	61
198	1948	Race Street	Easy Mason	58
199	1948	The Return of October	Taylor	64
200	1948	The Plunderers	Cavalry Colonel	56
201	1948	My Dear Secretary	Dick Fulton - Publisher (uncredited)	59
202	1948	Jiggs and Maggie in Court	Supreme Court Judge	0
203	1948	One Sunday Afternoon	Tredway	60
204	1949	I Cheated the Law	District Attorney Randolph	0
205	1949	South of St. Louis		56
206	1949	Manhattan Angel	J.C. Rayland	0
207	1949	The Fountainhead	Banner Board Member (uncredited)	68
208	1949	Barbary Pirate	Commodore Preble	60
209	1949	Samson and Delilah	Lord of Ashkelon	65
210	1950	The Flying Saucer	Hank Thorn	36
211	1950	Blue Grass of Kentucky	James B. Armistead	0
212	1950	Unmasked	George Richards	52
213	1950	The Big Hangover	Steve Hughes	67
214	1950	Again Pioneers	Pete Galloway	35
215	1951	Bowery Battalion	Melvin Hatfield	80
216	1951	Fourteen Hours	Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited)	72
217	1951	Kentucky Jubilee	T.J. Hoarsely	55
218	1951	All That I Have	Jess Northrup	50
219	1951	As You Were	Col. Lockwood	50
220	1951	Overland Telegraph	Col. Marvin	67
221	1952	Old Oklahoma Plains	Colonel Charles Bigelow	50
222	1952	Mr. Walkie Talkie	Col. Lockwood	50
223	1952	The Maverick	Col. Hook	0
224	1953	The Studebaker Story	Harold S. Vance	0
225	1953	Man of Conflict	Mr. Murdock	50
226	1955	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial		0
227	1956	Once Upon a Honeymoon	Angel Chief	40
228	1956	You Can't Run Away from It	Ship Captain (uncredited)	43
229	1956	7th Cavalry	Col. Kellogg	58

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Hinton	47
2	1950	The Cisco Kid	Jasper King	64
3	1951	Racket Squad		60
4	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	J. Winston Fletcher	70
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		87
6	1954	The Secret Storm		37
7	1955	Cheyenne		58
8	1955	Navy Log		45
9	1955	Playwrights '56		60
10	1956	Telephone Time		63
11	1956	West Point		50
12	1957	Panic!		0
13	2022	The Big Breakfast		0