British actor, playwright, and producer (1871–1949)
Sir
Seymour Hicks
Born
Edward Seymour Hicks
(1871-01-30)30 January 1871
St. Hélier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Died
6 April 1949(1949-04-06) (aged 78)
Hampshire, England
Occupations
Actor-manager
playwright
Spouse
Ellaline Terriss (1893–1949) (his death)
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, 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 in the year of his death, 1949.
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is a 1923 British short comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and SeymourHicks, after they took over from an ill Hugh Croise. Only one of the two reels...
Sir Edward SeymourHicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as SeymourHicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter...
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Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer SeymourHicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and...
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its virtual monopoly. He partnered with English producers, including SeymourHicks, with whom he produced a string of London hits prior to 1910, such as...
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dell'usuraio (1910), an Italian silent film. Scrooge (1913), starring SeymourHicks as Scrooge. Hicks also starred in the 1935 adaptation. Produced in Britain by...
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Tell Your Wife (1923), which he and SeymourHicks finished together when Hicks was about to give up on it. Hicks wrote later about being helped by "a...
ran for an extremely successful 546 performances. Its cast included SeymourHicks, George Grossmith Jr., Arthur Williams, Edmund Payne, and Ellaline Terriss...
entertainment described as "a musical dream play", in two acts, with a book by SeymourHicks, lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood and Charles H. Taylor, and music by Walter...
(1844) Tom Ricketts in A Christmas Carol, 1908 Marc McDermott in 1910 SeymourHicks in Scrooge 1913, and again in Scrooge, 1935 Rupert Julian in 1916 Russell...
result of a pregnancy and that Terriss's husband, SeymourHicks, was the hypothetical father; Hicks received written and verbal abuse for his alleged...
in London and 376 in New York. After the turn of the 20th century, SeymourHicks joined forces with Edwardes and American producer Charles Frohman to...
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