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Jun 04, 1895 Baltimore, Maryland, United States Died on 01 Jun 1957 (aged 61)
American actor
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About Russell Hicks
- Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film actor.
- Hicks was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland.
- During World War I, he served in the U.S.
- Army in France.
- He later became a lieutenant Colonel in the California State Guard.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, or swindler 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, crooked 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. On June 1, 1957, Hicks suffered a heart attack after an automobile accident and was dead on arrival at Santa Monica Receiving Hospital.
- He was 61.
