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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.
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08 December 1934
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign.
27 September 1945
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
30 May 1941
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
21 July 1937
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man.
20 April 1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
15 May 1936
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance.
01 November 1940
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang".
27 December 1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
31 December 1943
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City.
01 July 1935
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
18 April 1940
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
03 November 1934
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.
03 February 1939
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.
12 January 1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
22 April 1942
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
11 October 1935
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
27 October 1934
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.
22 July 1936
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian).
26 October 1948
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
30 September 1936
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship.
01 November 1950
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
17 March 1949
Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan.
23 March 1940
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers.
19 April 1940
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release.
14 February 1934
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
07 August 1936
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
06 June 1937
Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing.
26 June 1936
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
13 October 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them.
25 May 1946
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged.
07 April 1948
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
05 September 1945
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
01 December 1939
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
08 January 1937
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed.
30 April 1942
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
24 January 1946
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger.
12 December 1948
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father.
21 June 1935
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
29 August 1937
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
24 June 1947
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay.
24 January 1951
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
06 December 1940
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club.
24 May 1948
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
18 May 1951
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
26 May 1950
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
08 September 1947
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
15 January 1937
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
04 March 1949
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
02 December 1937
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days.
12 November 1942
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
04 April 1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected.
13 August 1944
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
27 January 1939
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
01 October 1940
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men.
12 August 1946
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.
11 May 1939
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances.
11 November 1946
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
07 March 1941
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.
21 December 1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
29 December 1939
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
