Seymour Hicks

Seymour Hicks

Born: January 30, 1871
Died: April 6, 1949
in St. Hélier, Isle of Jersey, England, UK

Movies for Seymour Hicks...

Silent Dust
Title: Silent Dust
Character: Lord Clandon
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Old Buck
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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Busman's Honeymoon
Title: Busman's Honeymoon
Character: Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Released: July 22, 1940
Type: Movie
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
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Pastor Hall
Title: Pastor Hall
Character: General von Grotjahn
Released: May 28, 1940
Type: Movie
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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Young Man's Fancy
Title: Young Man's Fancy
Character: Duke of Beaumont
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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The Lambeth Walk
Title: The Lambeth Walk
Character: Sir John Tremayne
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Eliza Comes to Stay
Title: Eliza Comes to Stay
Character: Sandy Verrall
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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Vintage Wine
Title: Vintage Wine
Character: Charles Popinot
Released: June 19, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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The Secret of the Loch
Title: The Secret of the Loch
Character: Professor Heggie
Released: May 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
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Money for Nothing
Title: Money for Nothing
Character: Jeff Cheddar
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Henry Garthome
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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The Love Habit
Title: The Love Habit
Character: Justin Abelard
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Sleeping Partners
Title: Sleeping Partners
Character: He
Released: March 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
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Tell Tales
Title: Tell Tales
Released: February 20, 1930
Type: Movie
The popular raconteur Seymour Hicks tells some of his stories.
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Always Tell Your Wife
Title: Always Tell Your Wife
Character: The Husband - Jim Chesson
Released: February 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.
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The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
Title: The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
Released: June 1, 1913
Type: Movie
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”. “The ever popular ragtime ALEXANDER’S RAG TIME BAND by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss”.