Personal Info
Birth date
1895-06-03 (130 Years)
Day of death
1957-06-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Also known as
Edward Russell Hicks
R. E. Hicks
R.E. Hicks
Russell Hicks
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
Cheyenne
6.023
Overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.Sea Spoilers
4.5
Overview:
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.Happiness Ahead
6
Overview:
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.Stanley and Livingstone
6.3
Overview:
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.The Firebird
5.5
Overview:
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Till the Clouds Roll By
5.7
Overview:
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.All That I Have
5
Overview:
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
6.9
Overview:
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.You Can't Take It with You
7.5
Overview:
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.The Pittsburgh Kid
NYR
Overview:
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.Go Into Your Dance
6.8
Overview:
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.It Happened Out West
NYR
Overview:
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.The General Died at Dawn
6.3
Overview:
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.The Toast of New York
5.8
Overview:
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.Ticket to Paradise
6
Overview:
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.Web of Danger
4.8
Overview:
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.Springtime in the Rockies
6.7
Overview:
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.First Yank into Tokyo
5.4
Overview:
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.A Night at Earl Carroll's
3.4
Overview:
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.Flame of Barbary Coast
5.3
Overview:
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.Honolulu
6.1
Overview:
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.The Great Lie
6.9
Overview:
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.The Woman in Red
6
Overview:
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.The Valley of Decision
7.3
Overview:
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.The Woman of the Town
6.2
Overview:
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.Follow the Fleet
6.8
Overview:
When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.Fun on a Weekend
7
Overview:
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.Acting
2022The Big Breakfast (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Panic! (1 Episode) as Unknown
19567th Cavalry as Col. Kellogg
1956You Can't Run Away from It as Ship Captain (uncredited)
1956West Point (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Once Upon a Honeymoon as Angel Chief
1955Playwrights '56 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as Unknown
1955Cheyenne (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Navy Log (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954The Secret Storm (319 Episodes) as Unknown
1953Man of Conflict as Mr. Murdock
1953The Studebaker Story as Harold S. Vance
1952The Maverick as Col. Hook
1952Mr. Walkie Talkie as Col. Lockwood
1952Old Oklahoma Plains as Colonel Charles Bigelow
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Overland Telegraph as Col. Marvin
1951As You Were as Col. Lockwood
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as J. Winston Fletcher
1951All That I Have as Jess Northrup
1951Racket Squad (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Kentucky Jubilee as T.J. Hoarsely
1951Fourteen Hours as Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1951Bowery Battalion as Melvin Hatfield
1950Again Pioneers as Pete Galloway
1950The Cisco Kid (1 Episode) as Jasper King
1950The Big Hangover as Steve Hughes
1950Unmasked as George Richards
1950Blue Grass of Kentucky as James B. Armistead
1950The Flying Saucer as Hank Thorn
1949Samson and Delilah as Lord of Ashkelon
1949Barbary Pirate as Commodore Preble
1949The Fountainhead as Banner Board Member (uncredited)
1949Manhattan Angel as J.C. Rayland
1949South of St. Louis as Unknown
1949I Cheated the Law as District Attorney Randolph
1948One Sunday Afternoon as Tredway
1948Jiggs and Maggie in Court as Supreme Court Judge
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Hinton
1948My Dear Secretary as Dick Fulton - Publisher (uncredited)
1948The Plunderers as Cavalry Colonel
1948The Return of October as Taylor
1948Race Street as Easy Mason
1948The Velvet Touch as Actor 'Judge Brack'
1948The Shanghai Chest as Frank Bronson, district attorney
1948The Gallant Legion as Senator Beale
1948Silver River as Edwards (uncredited)
1948Assigned to Danger as Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited)
1948The Hunted as Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives
1948The Noose Hangs High as Johnny - Copper Club Manager (uncredited)
1948The Black Arrow as Sir Harry Shelton
1947The Judge Steps Out as Superior Court Judge (uncredited)
1947Louisiana as Fred Astor
1947Exposed as Col. Bentry
1947Smoky River Serenade as J. Bricket Armstrong
1947Dark Delusion as Mr. Logan (uncredited)
1947Web of Danger as Gallagher
1947Fun on a Weekend as John Biddle
1947The Sea of Grass as Maj. Dell Harney
1947Buck Privates Come Home as Mr. Appleby
1947The Pilgrim Lady as Thackery Gibbs
1946Till the Clouds Roll By as Producer (uncredited)
1946The Show-Off as Mr. Thorbison (uncredited)
1946The Plainsman and the Lady as Sen. Twin
1946G.I. War Brides as Insp. Ramsaye
1946Dark Alibi as Warden Cameron
1946The Hoodlum Saint as Marty Martindale (uncredited)
1946Swing Parade of 1946 as Daniel Warren Sr.
1946The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Robin Hood - Earl of Huntington
1946Gay Blades as Buxton
1946A Close Call for Boston Blackie as Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)
1945Scarlet Street as J.J. Hogarth
1945Getting Gertie's Garter as Board Member (uncredited)
1945A Game of Death as Mr. Whitney
1945Apology for Murder as Harvey Kirkland
1945First Yank into Tokyo as Gen. T.W. Stanton (uncredited)
1945Flame of Barbary Coast as Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star
1945The Valley of Decision as Mr. Laurence Gaylord
1945The Master Key as Police Chief Michael J. O'Brien
1945She Gets Her Man as Mayor
1944Janie as Col. Lucas - Commander Camp Wingate
1944The Port of 40 Thieves as Charles Farrington
1944Louisiana Hayride as H.C.Forbes
1944Bathing Beauty as Mr. Allenwood (uncredited)
1944The Case of the Tremendous Trifle as Colonel
1944Captain America as Mayor Randolph
1943The Woman of the Town as Publisher
1943His Butler's Sister as Sanderson
1943Northern Pursuit as Chief Inspector (uncredited)
1943Proceed and Report as Captain
1943Someone to Remember as Mr. Stanton
1943Three Hearts for Julia as Colonel (uncredited)
1943King of the Cowboys as Texas Governor
1943Air Raid Wardens as Major Scanlon
1943Follow the Band as Jeremiah K. Barton
1942Tennessee Johnson as Lincoln's Emissary
1942Strictly in the Groove as RC Saunders
1942Hitler- Dead or Alive as Samuel Thornton
1942To the Shores of Tripoli as Major Wilson
1942Springtime in the Rockies as Theatergoer in blackout (uncredited)
1942King of the Mounties as Marshal Carleton
1942Lady in a Jam as Carter
1942Pacific Rendezvous as John Carter
1942Tarzan's New York Adventure as Judge Abbotson
1942We Were Dancing as Mr. Bryce-Carew
1942Fingers at the Window as Dr. Chandley
1942Ship Ahoy as Capt. C.V. O'Brien
1942Butch Minds the Baby as J. Wadsworth Carrington
1942Joe Smith, American as Mr. Edgerton
1942Sealed Lips as Dr. Charles Evans
1941Pacific Blackout as Commanding Officer
1941They Died with Their Boots On as Colonel of 1st Michigan (uncredited)
1941Ride 'Em Cowboy as Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited)
1941Great Guns as Gen. Burns
1941Buy Me That Town as Malcolm
1941Sergeant York as General (uncredited)
1941Doctors Don't Tell as Supt. Duff
1941Dive Bomber as Awards Speaker (uncredited)
1941The Little Foxes as William Marshall
1941The Pittsburgh Kid as (uncredited)
1941Hold That Ghost as Bannister
1941The Parson of Panamint as Prosecuting Attorney
1941The Big Store as Arthur Hastings
1941Blood and Sand as Marquis
1941The Great Lie as Colonel Harriston
1941Man-Made Monster as Warden Harris (uncredited)
1941Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery as Harry Walsh
1941Here Comes Happiness as John Vance
1941A Man Betrayed as C.R. Pringle
1941Western Union as Provisional Governor
1941The Strawberry Blonde as Treadway - Hugo's Lawyer (uncredited)
1941Arkansas Judge as Hetty's Attorney
1940Love Thy Neighbor as Harrington
1940Santa Fe Trail as Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited)
1940No, No, Nanette as 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1940Nobody's Children as Sen. Lawrence Hargrave (uncredited)
1940A Night at Earl Carroll's as Mayor Jones of Hollywood
1940Lady with Red Hair as Wealthy London Host (uncredited)
1940The Bank Dick as J. Frothingham Waterbury
1940East of the River as Warden
1940Junior G-Men as Col. Barton
1940Seven Sinners as First Governor
1940Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. as Colonel Barton
1940The Return of Frank James as Prosecutor
1940Sporting Blood as 'Sneak' OBrien
1940The Mortal Storm as Rector
1940Earthbound as Prosecutor
1940Johnny Apollo as District Attorney
1940Enemy Agent as Lyman Scott
1940Virginia City as Armistead
1940Parole Fixer as U.S. District Court Judge
1940The Blue Bird as Daddy Tyl
1939Swanee River as Andrew McDowell
1939The Big Guy as Lawson
1939Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Mr. Graves
1939Rulers of the Sea as Mr. Cunard (Uncredited)
1939Bad Little Angel as Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited)
1939Hollywood Cavalcade as Russell Hicks
1939The Real Glory as Capt. Manning
1939America's Safest Tire as Fisk Tire Official
1939Our Leading Citizen as Chairman
1939Stanley and Livingstone as Commissioner
1939Hotel for Women as Van Ellis
1939Hotel Imperial as Austrian Officer (uncredited)
1939Union Pacific as Sergeant (uncredited)
1939East Side of Heaven as Hinkle (uncredited)
1939The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Mr. Barrows
1939The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Colonel (uncredited)
1939The Three Musketeers as Porthos
1939Honolulu as Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)
1939Boy Trouble as Magistrate
1939North of Shanghai as Rowley
1938Kentucky as Thad Goodwin Sr. - 1861
1938That Certain Age as Scout Leader (uncredited)
1938Fugitives for a Night as Maurice Tenwright
1938You Can't Take It with You as Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)
1938Gateway as Ernest Porter
1938Little Miss Broadway as Perry
1938Men with Wings as Gen. Marlin
1938Kidnapped as Bailiff
1938In Old Chicago as Politician in Jack's Office
1938The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Capt. Stafford
1937Clipped Wings as Capt. Morton
1937The Westland Case as Mr. Woodbury
1937Partners in Crime as Mayor Callahan
1937Fit for a King as Editor Hardwick
1937The Man Who Cried Wolf as Prosecuting Attorney
1937The Big Shot as Martin Drake
1937The Toast of New York as Lawyer
1937A Dangerous Adventure as Allen
1937On Again—Off Again as George Dilwig
1937The Wildcatter as Tom Frayne
1937Fifty Roads to Town as Police Official
1937Pick a Star as Mr. Stone
1937It Happened Out West as Cooley
1937Criminals of the Air as Kurt Feldon
1937Let Them Live as Newspaper Editor
1937Midnight Taxi as Barney Flagg
193723 1/2 Hours Leave as Capt. Barker
1937Espionage as Alfred Hartrix
1937Girl Overboard as Sam Le Maire
1937Secret Valley as Lawyer Austin Martin
1937We Who Are About to Die as District Attorney Knight (uncredited)
1936Dodge City Trail as Kenyon Phillips
1936Laughing at Trouble as Cyrus Hall
1936The Accusing Finger as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
1936The General Died at Dawn as No Matches Man (uncredited)
193615 Maiden Lane as Judge Graham
1936Sea Spoilers as Phil Morgan
1936Grand Jury as Jim Hanify
1936Spendthrift as Attorney
1936Bunker Bean as A. C. Jones
1936Ticket to Paradise as Colton
1936Fatal Lady as American Opera House Manager (uncredited)
1936Special Investigator as Inspector Perkett
1936Woman Trap as Dodd
1936Laughing Irish Eyes as Silk Taylor
1936The Music Goes 'Round as Mr. Cohn
1936Follow the Fleet as Jim Nolan
1936Two in the Dark as Police Officer McCord (uncredited)
1935If You Could Only Cook as Dillon (uncredited)
1935Millions in the Air as Davis
1935Charlie Chan in Shanghai as James Andrews
1935Thunder in the Night as Prefect of Police
1935Dante's Inferno as Prosecuting Attorney
1935Lady Tubbs as Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt
1935Honeymoon Limited as Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver)
1935Ladies Crave Excitement as Bert Taylor
1935Go Into Your Dance as Sam Rupert
1935While the Patient Slept as Dr. Jay
1935Living on Velvet as Major at Flying Field
1935Sweet Music as Mayor of New York City
1935The Woman in Red as Defense Attorney Clayton
1935Devil Dogs of the Air as Captain
1934The Secret Bride as John F. Holdstock
1934Murder in the Clouds as Taggert
1934Babbitt as Commissioner Lyle Gurnee
1934Gentlemen Are Born as Newspaper Editor
1934The Firebird as Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager
1934Happiness Ahead as Jim Meehan
1934The Case of the Howling Dog as Clinton Foley
1934Mushrooms as President of Pure Food Association (uncredited)
1933Before Morning as Jim Nichols
1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Extra (uncredited)