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Howard C. Hickman is a Actor and Director American born on 9 february 1880
Howard Charles Hickman (February 9, 1880 – December 31, 1949) was an American actor, director and writer. He was an accomplished stage leading man, who entered films through the auspices of producer Thomas H. Ince. Hickman directed 19 films and co-starred with his wife, actress Bessie Barriscale, in several productions before returning to the theatre.
With the rise of the sound film, Hickman returned to the film business but received mostly small roles, often as an authoritarian figure. Hickman made a brief appearance as John Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He ended his film career in 1944, after more than 270 films.
Au cinéma, il débute comme acteur dans un court métrage muet sorti en 1912. Jusqu'en 1918, il contribue à quarante-neuf autres films muets américains (certains avec sa femme), produits entre autres par la Triangle Film Corporation. L'un d'eux est le film de guerre Civilisation de Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince et Raymond B. West (1916, avec Kate Bruce et Charles K. French), où il tient le premier rôle masculin du comte Ferdinand.
Toujours durant la période du muet, il est le réalisateur de dix-neuf films (et scénariste pour deux d'entre eux) sortis entre 1915 et 1921, dont onze en 1918-1919 avec son épouse en vedette (ex. : Her Purchase Price en 1919, avec Alan Roscoe). Sa dernière réalisation est le western Man of the Forest (1921), avec Claire Adams, adapté du roman éponyme de Zane Grey (un remake d'Henry Hathaway, sous le même titre original, avec Randolph Scott, sortira en 1933).
Howard C. Hickman revient au cinéma, désormais exclusivement comme acteur, à l'occasion de son premier film parlant, Alias Jimmy Valentine de Jack Conway, avec William Haines dans le rôle-titre et Lionel Barrymore, sorti en 1928. Par la suite, il apparaît comme second rôle de caractère (ou tient des petits rôles non crédités) dans deux-cent-dix-huit autres films, les derniers sortis en 1944 (dont Madame Parkington de Tay Garnett, avec Greer Garson et Walter Pidgeon).
Mentionnons également Furie de Fritz Lang (1936, avec Spencer Tracy et Sylvia Sidney), Autant en emporte le vent de Victor Fleming (1939, avec Vivien Leigh et Clark Gable, où il est John Wilkes, le père d’Ashley joué par Leslie Howard), ou encore Les Aventures de Tarzan à New York de Richard Thorpe (1942, dernier film du couple Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Howard C. Hickman
Birth name Howard Charles Hickman
Nationality USA
Birth 9 february 1880
Death 31 december 1949 (at 69 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 9 february 1880
Death 31 december 1949 (at 69 years)
Howard Charles Hickman (February 9, 1880 – December 31, 1949) was an American actor, director and writer. He was an accomplished stage leading man, who entered films through the auspices of producer Thomas H. Ince. Hickman directed 19 films and co-starred with his wife, actress Bessie Barriscale, in several productions before returning to the theatre.
With the rise of the sound film, Hickman returned to the film business but received mostly small roles, often as an authoritarian figure. Hickman made a brief appearance as John Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He ended his film career in 1944, after more than 270 films.
Biography
Howard C. Hickman entame sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway en 1921, dans la pièce The Skirt dont il est l'auteur, aux côtés de son épouse Bessie Barriscale (1884-1965).Au cinéma, il débute comme acteur dans un court métrage muet sorti en 1912. Jusqu'en 1918, il contribue à quarante-neuf autres films muets américains (certains avec sa femme), produits entre autres par la Triangle Film Corporation. L'un d'eux est le film de guerre Civilisation de Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince et Raymond B. West (1916, avec Kate Bruce et Charles K. French), où il tient le premier rôle masculin du comte Ferdinand.
Toujours durant la période du muet, il est le réalisateur de dix-neuf films (et scénariste pour deux d'entre eux) sortis entre 1915 et 1921, dont onze en 1918-1919 avec son épouse en vedette (ex. : Her Purchase Price en 1919, avec Alan Roscoe). Sa dernière réalisation est le western Man of the Forest (1921), avec Claire Adams, adapté du roman éponyme de Zane Grey (un remake d'Henry Hathaway, sous le même titre original, avec Randolph Scott, sortira en 1933).
Howard C. Hickman revient au cinéma, désormais exclusivement comme acteur, à l'occasion de son premier film parlant, Alias Jimmy Valentine de Jack Conway, avec William Haines dans le rôle-titre et Lionel Barrymore, sorti en 1928. Par la suite, il apparaît comme second rôle de caractère (ou tient des petits rôles non crédités) dans deux-cent-dix-huit autres films, les derniers sortis en 1944 (dont Madame Parkington de Tay Garnett, avec Greer Garson et Walter Pidgeon).
Mentionnons également Furie de Fritz Lang (1936, avec Spencer Tracy et Sylvia Sidney), Autant en emporte le vent de Victor Fleming (1939, avec Vivien Leigh et Clark Gable, où il est John Wilkes, le père d’Ashley joué par Leslie Howard), ou encore Les Aventures de Tarzan à New York de Richard Thorpe (1942, dernier film du couple Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Follow the Boys (1944)
, 2h2Directed by John Rawlins, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors George Raft, Vera Zorina, Jeanette MacDonald, Charley Grapewin, Charles Butterworth, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Dr Wood
Rating58%
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le studio Universal Pictures, comme les autres studios Hollywoodiens, a soutenu l'effort de guerre et le moral des troupes et des civils en réunissant toutes ses stars devant la caméra pour une comédie musicale.
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
, 2h4Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Dan Duryea, Tom Drake, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Dr. Herrick (uncredited)
Rating69%
Susie Parkington (Greer Garson), an elderly society matron, is surrounded by her many relatives at her stately home at Christmastime in 1938, with the exception of her beloved great-granddaughter Jane (Frances Rafferty). When Jane does appear she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to elope with Ned Talbot (Tom Drake), her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life. Susie arranges a meeting with Ned, where he reveals that Jane's father Amory (Edward Arnold) is being questioned for fraud and he planned to take Jane away in order to hide her from the truth. Susie sends Ned away, telling Jane to forget about him, and after hearing her grandson-in-law's side of the story makes the decision to ask her heirs to pay off Amory's debts with a loan ($31 million), much to her family's disgust, as it will mean that they may lose their inheritance.
Captain America (1944)
, 4h4Directed by Elmer Clifton, John English
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Dick Purcell, Lorna Gray, Lionel Atwill, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, George J. Lewis
Roles Lyman’s Attorney
Rating53%
A rash of suspicious suicides among scientists and businessmen, all found holding a small scarab, gets the attention of Mayor Randolph. He demands that Police Commissioner Dryden and District Attorney Grant Gardner get to the bottom of the case, while openly wishing that Captain America, a masked man who has helped defeat crime in the past, were around to solve the mystery. Gail Richards, Grant Gardner's secretary, investigates and realises someone knows of the "Purple Death", a hypnotic chemical responsible for the suicides. However he then pulls out a gun and takes her into another room. He then orders an associate to tie her up. The D.A. realises she is there and forces the man to take him to her. He finds her tied up and gagged. He frees her but it is threatened that the purple death will be dropped killing them all. But the D.A. shoots him then gets out of the room with Gail.
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
, 1h54Directed by Hal Mohr, Herman Shumlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi, George Coulouris
Roles Cyrus Penfield
Rating70%
In 1940, German-born engineer Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas), his American wife Sara (Bette Davis), and their children Joshua (Donald Buka), Babette (Janis Wilson), and Bodo (Eric Roberts) cross the Mexican border into the United States to visit Sara's brother David Farrelly (Donald Woods) and their mother Fanny (Lucile Watson) in Washington, D.C. For the past seventeen years, the Muller family has lived in Europe, where Kurt responded to the rise of Nazism by engaging in anti-Fascist activities. Sara tells her family they are seeking peaceful sanctuary on American soil, but their quest is threatened by the presence of houseguest Teck de Brancovis (George Coulouris), an opportunistic Romanian count who has been conspiring with the Germans in the nation's capital.
The Masked Marvel (1943)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Superhero films, Political films
Actors William Forrest, Louise Currie, Johnny Arthur, Anthony Warde, David Bacon, Tom Steele
Roles Warren Hamilton
Rating71%
In the The Masked Marvel, a hero dressed in a business suit and a face mask fights the Japanese saboteur Sakima and his espionage organization. The hook of the story is that, in a reversal of the common serial "Masked Mystery Villain" stock character, the audience doesn't know who the hero is until the final reel - all the audience is told is that The Masked Marvel is one of a group of special investigators (the same plotline is used in the Republic serial The Lone Ranger).
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey, Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly
Roles Tarzan's Lawyer Blake Norton
Rating64%
Circus workers land an aircraft in the jungles of Africa in search of lions for their show. While trapping lions, the three men meet up with Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and their adopted son Boy (Johnny Sheffield). Watching Boy's tricks with the elephants, the head of the circus, Buck Rand (Charles Bickford), realizes that Boy would be a great act for the circus. The group is attacked by natives, and it appears that Tarzan and Jane have perished in a jungle fire. The men take Boy on an aircraft back to the United States. Tarzan's loyal chimp Cheeta wakes Tarzan and Jane before they are burned by the fire. Then Cheeta tells Tarzan that Boy has left with the men on the plane.
The Male Animal (1942)
, 1h41Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Faculty Member (uncredited)
Rating65%
Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) is an English teacher at football-crazed Midwestern University. Although he is uninvolved with the politics of the day, Tommy suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. An editorial in a student magazine praises him for planning to read Bartolomeo Vanzetti's sentencing statement to his class as an example of eloquent composition, even in broken English composed by a non-professional.
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
, 1h14Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S. Hinds, Eddie Quillan, John Litel
Roles Clemence - First Politician (uncredited)
Rating67%
Ambitious young attorney Gerald I. Latimer helps mayoral candidate Daniels and district attorney candidate Turnely to be elected; the pair had vowed to rid the city of its pernicious criminal rackets.
Lady for a Night (1942)
, 1h27Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Wayne, Joan Blondell, Montagu Love, Ray Middleton, Philip Merivale, Carmel Myers
Roles Civil War General (uncredited)
Rating59%
Social climber Jenny Blake owns of the casino steam boat Memphis Belle, together with the influential Jack Morgan. Most of the customers are from the upper layers of the city's social life, but they have little respect for Jenny and her - in their opinion - vulgar occupation.
Tish (1942)
, 1h24Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marjorie Main, Aline MacMahon, Zasu Pitts, Susan Peters, Guy Kibbee, Virginia Grey
Roles Dr. Fielding Kelbridge
Rating60%
Letitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards also lives at the boarding house and is in love with Charlie, who, however, loves Katherine "Kit" Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser. Tish and her cronies promote a romance between Cora and Charlie, but Cora decides it is Theodore "Ted" Bowser she loves and they are secretly married before Ted leaves for a training school in Toronto, learning to ferry planes to England. Charlie and Katherine also elope secretly. Cora, anxious to join Ted, borrows money from the church organ fund and leaves, telling no one where she is going. Tish takes the blame for the shortage. Cora raises the money to repay Tish and goes to the post office, while Ted is on a flight. Before she mails it, she opens a letter she received from the Canadian government announcing Ted's loss at sea. She faints, is taken to the hospital and gives birth to a boy, and dies. The only clue to her identity is the letter addressed to Tish. She arrives, decides the baby is Charlie's son, declares herself the grandmother and takes it home. Once there, she and her cronies take care of it in a rented cottage and she now claims it is her own. As a result Charlie, not knowing why she makes such a claim, has her put into a sanitarium for mental cases, and he and Katherine take the baby and plan to send it to an orphanage as Katherine does not realize it is her own nephew. Tish's essentric friends come to Katherine and Charlie and tell Katherine, Charlie and Judge Bowser the truth as they know it according to Cora's letter. Kit is angry that Charlie "cheated" on her, but accepts the baby, and Charlie takes his aunt Tish out of the sanitarium and brings her home. When Charlie brings Tish home Ted, Katherine's brother, suddenly arrives home and claims the baby as his and Cora's. Ted then appoints Tish as the babies guardien, as she was willing to take care of the child originally with no regard for her own reputation. The movie ends with Ted announcing that he is joining the army, and Tish firing the bulter.
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
, 1h39Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marc Lawrence, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden
Roles Senator
Rating68%
Edna et Charlotte ont été élevées ensemble. Lorsque Charlotte voit ses fiançailles rompues, elle se suicide. Quant à Edna elle se marie avec Sam Gladney et tombe enceinte.
Lady from Louisiana (1941)
, 1h22Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors John Wayne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ona Munson, Henry Stephenson, Ray Middleton, Helen Westley
Roles Judge William Harding
Rating57%
Yankee lawyer John Reynolds (Wayne) and Southern Belle Julie Mirbeau (Ona Munson) meet and fall in love on a riverboat going to New Orleans in the Gay Nineties. Upon arrival they are met by Julie's father (Henry Stephenson) who runs the popular Louisiana State Lottery Company and Reynold's Aunt Blanche (Helen Westley) who is a key figure in the anti-Lottery forces hoping Wayne as State's Attorney will end the Lottery.
Belle Starr (1941)
, 1h27Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Tierney, Randolph Scott, Dana Andrews, Shepperd Strudwick, Elizabeth Patterson, Chill Wills
Roles Colonel Thornton
Rating57%
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Randolph Scott), Belle Shirley (Gene Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
You Belong to Me (1941)
, 1h34Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones, Edgar Buchanan, Melville Cooper
Roles M. Deker
Rating59%
Doctor Helen Hunt (Barbara Stanwyck) meets millionaire playboy Peter Kirk (Henry Fonda) in an unusual way—he crashes practically at her feet at a ski resort. He insists only she can treat his (minor) injuries and soon proposes marriage, which she accepts. On their wedding night, Helen is called away by a medical emergency. When she returns, Peter has fallen asleep. Peter becomes jealous and gets into confrontations with two of her patients, Robert Andrews (Gordon Jones) and Frederick Vandemer (Roger Clark). He is chagrined to learn that Vandemer had also staged a skiing accident to get to know Helen and Vandemer asked her to marry him.
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Marsha Hunt, Donald Douglas, Rosemary DeCamp
Roles Professeur Lancaster
Rating64%
Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) is a teacher at a small town Midwestern college. The story is told in flashback and takes place over many years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, showing her from her freshman year to her retirement as an old woman. At the beginning, she lives with her mother and her vixenish cousin Amy (Mary Anderson); she remembers when her father had a farm near the town. Ella is an inhibited girl whose frustration grows as she approaches womanhood. Her ambition to teach causes her to lose her only opportunity for true love, and her life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices.