Russell Hicks is a working actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. Steady employment, rather than one breakout, gives the career its shape. The role of J.J. Hogarth in 'Scarlet Street' is the one that keeps being brought up. He appears in 'Samson and Delilah' too. He started at 21.
Russell Hicks
Actor · Since 1940
61 years (Jun 3, 1895 – Jun 1, 1957)Baltimore, USABaltimore, Maryland, USA
219 Movies · 4 Series
Russell Hicks is a working actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. Steady employment, rather than one breakout, gives the career its shape. The role of J.J. Hogarth in 'Scarlet Street' is the one that keeps being brought up. He appears in 'Samson and Delilah' too. He started at 21.
1895-06-03 · Baltimore, USABaltimore, Maryland, USA
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.