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Seymour Hicks is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter British born on 30 january 1871 at Saint Helier
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Making his stage début at the age of nine and performing professionally by sixteen, Hicks joined a theatrical company and toured America before starring in Under the Clock in 1893, the first musical revue ever staged in London. Following this, he starred in a revival of Little Jack Sheppard at the Gaiety Theatre, London which brought him to the attention of impresario George Edwardes. Edwardes cast Hicks in his next show, The Shop Girl, in 1894. Its success led to his participation in two more of Edwardes's hit "girl" musicals, The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).
Hicks used his fortune from these shows to commission the building of the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre in 1906, opening the latter with a new hit show, The Beauty of Bath. His stage performances were less successful in later years, and he opted instead to star in music hall tours, including Pebbles on the Beach (1912). He continued to write light comedies, the most popular of which was The Happy Day (1916). On film, he first appeared in Scrooge and David Garrick both from 1913. Later notable films included The Lambeth Walk (1939) and Busman's Honeymoon (1940), and his last film was the year of his death, 1949.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 january 1871 at Saint Helier
Death 6 april 1949 (at 78 years) at Hampshire (United-kingdom)
Birth 30 january 1871 at Saint Helier
Death 6 april 1949 (at 78 years) at Hampshire (United-kingdom)
Making his stage début at the age of nine and performing professionally by sixteen, Hicks joined a theatrical company and toured America before starring in Under the Clock in 1893, the first musical revue ever staged in London. Following this, he starred in a revival of Little Jack Sheppard at the Gaiety Theatre, London which brought him to the attention of impresario George Edwardes. Edwardes cast Hicks in his next show, The Shop Girl, in 1894. Its success led to his participation in two more of Edwardes's hit "girl" musicals, The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).
Hicks used his fortune from these shows to commission the building of the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre in 1906, opening the latter with a new hit show, The Beauty of Bath. His stage performances were less successful in later years, and he opted instead to star in music hall tours, including Pebbles on the Beach (1912). He continued to write light comedies, the most popular of which was The Happy Day (1916). On film, he first appeared in Scrooge and David Garrick both from 1913. Later notable films included The Lambeth Walk (1939) and Busman's Honeymoon (1940), and his last film was the year of his death, 1949.
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Silent Dust (1949)
, 1h22Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Nigel Patrick, Sally Gray, Beatrice Campbell, Derek Farr, Seymour Hicks, Marie Lohr
Roles Lord Clandon
Rating67%
Simon Rawley is reported killed in the last days of World War II, and his blind father Robert (Murray) decides to build a sports pavilion in his memory in the local village. His neighbour Lord Clandon (Seymour Hicks) urges him to dedicate it to all the local men who gave their lives in the war, but Robert refuses. Planning and construction take some time and three years pass, during which Simon's widow Angela (Gray) falls in love with local doctor's son Maxwell Oliver (Derek Farr). Robert cannot help feeling that this is disloyal to his dead son, but his second wife Joan (Campbell) does her best to convince him that Angela is entitled to search for happiness again. The pavilion is finally completed and plans are in place for the grand dedication and opening. The local police are meanwhile looking for a villain who coshed a motorist and stole his car in London, and has dumped the car in the vicinity.
Fame Is the Spur (1947)
, 1h56Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden
Roles Old Buck
Rating66%
When a young man from a North country mill town (Michael Redgrave) commits to help the poverty stricken workers in his area, he takes as his Excalibur a sword passed down to him by his grandfather from the Battle of Peterloo, where it had been used against workers. As an idealistic champion of the oppressed, he rises to power as a Labour M.P., but is seduced by the trappings of power, and finds himself the type of politician he originally despised.
Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
, 1h39Directed by Richard Thorpe, Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers
Roles Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Rating61%
Lorsque Lord Peter Wimsey, un détective amateur, se marie avec Harriet Vane, une écrivain spécialisée dans les romans policiers, ils s'engagent à abandonner le crime pour de bon. Pour faire une surprise à Harriet, Peter achète un cottage dans le Devon, où ils prévoient de passer leur lune de miel, accompagnés de leur fidèle valet Mervyn Bunter. Toutefois, le lendemain de leur arrivée, le corps de Noakes, à qui Lord Peter avait acheté le cottage, est retrouvé. Bien que ce village soit généralement paisible, un certain nombre de suspects sont possibles, de la nièce de Noakes à Sellon, le policier du village. Ils ne veulent pas s'impliquer dans l'enquête, mais l'arrivée de leur ami vieil l'inspecteur de Scotland Yard Andrew Kirk change la donne. Peter finit par trouver le coupable et le couple décide de se rendre dans un lieu plus calme mais, quand ils entendent des coups de feu à l'intérieur de l'auberge où ils comptaient s'arrêter, ils s'en éloignent préciitamment.
Pastor Hall (1940)
Directed by Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring, Brian Worth, Eliot Makeham
Roles General von Grotjahn
Rating71%
The film was based on the true story of a pastor who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party. In the 1930s, a small German village is taken over by a platoon of stormtroopers loyal to Hitler. The SS go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but the pastor, a kind and gentle man, will not be intimidated. While some villagers join the Nazi Party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, the pastor takes his convictions to the pulpit. Because of his criticism of the Nazis, the pastor is sent to Dachau.
The Lambeth Walk (1939)
, 1h24Directed by Albert de Courville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Seymour Hicks, Enid Stamp Taylor, Wallace Lupino, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles Sir John Tremayne
Rating65%
Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
, 1h17Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romantic comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt, Edward Rigby, Francis L. Sullivan
Roles Duke of Beaumont
Rating59%
It's You I Want (1936)
, 1h13Directed by Ralph Ince
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Seymour Hicks, Marie Lohr, Jane Carr, Jane Carr, Lesley Wareing
Roles Victor Delaney
Eliza Comes to Stay (1936)
, 1h15Directed by Henry Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Betty Balfour, Seymour Hicks, Vera Bogetti, Ben Webster
Roles Sandy Verrall
Scrooge (1935)
, 1h18Directed by Henry Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Mary Glynne, Robert Cochran, Garry Marsh, C.V. France
Roles Ebenezer Scrooge
Rating63%
Vintage Wine (1935)
, 1h21Directed by Henry Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Seymour Hicks, Claire Luce, Judy Gunn, Eva Moore, Miles Malleson, Kynaston Reeves
Roles Charles Popinot
Rating60%
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
The Secret of the Loch (1934)
, 1h18Directed by Milton Rosmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Seymour Hicks, Nancy O'Neil, Gibson Gowland, Hubert Harben, Rosamund John, Robb Wilton
Roles Professor Heggie
Rating53%
Professor Heggie is determined to prove to a sceptical sciencific community the existence of a dinosaur in Loch Ness. Young London reporter Jimmy Anderson believes him and offers to help. He also falls in love with Maggie, the professor's daughter. Jimmy finally plucks up the courage to enter the Loch himself, and comes face to face with the monster.
Money for Nothing (1932)
Directed by Monty Banks
Genres Comedy
Actors Seymour Hicks, Betty Stockfeld, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Calthrop, Amy Veness, Charles Farrell
Roles Jeff Cheddar
Glamour (1931)
Directed by Seymour Hicks
Genres Drama
Actors Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss, Margot Grahame, Basil Gill, Clifford Heatherley, David Hawthorne
Roles Henry Garthome
The Love Habit (1931)
, 1h30Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Seymour Hicks, Margot Grahame, Edmund Breon, Ursula Jeans, Elsa Lanchester
Roles Justin Abelard
Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
, 20minutesDirected by Alfred Hitchcock, Seymour Hicks
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Gertrude McCoy, Seymour Hicks, Stanley Logan, Ellaline Terriss, Ian Wilson
Roles The Husband - Jim Chesson
Rating74%