Edward Seymour Hicks Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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.
He shares with Alastair Sim the distinction of having appeared as Ebenezer Scrooge in more than one unrelated production.
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Hicks first performed the role of Ebenezer Scrooge on the London stage in 1901, at the age of thirty. He received very mixed reviews and was criticized for not being able to portray old age convincingly enough, something he eventually mastered. According to one source, he had played the role onstage more than 2,000 times by the time he first appeared as Scrooge on the screen (in 1913).
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He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1935 King's Birthday Honours and Silver Jubilee Honours List for his services to drama.
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The role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" was one of his specialties. He performed it many times onstage and twice on film.
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He was the first British actor to appear in France during both World War I and World War II, and he was twice awarded the French Croix de Guerre for these appearances.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Silent Dust
1949
Lord Clandon
Fame Is the Spur
1947
Lord Lostwithiel - Old Buck (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Haunted Honeymoon
1940
Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Pastor Hall
1940
General von Grotjahn
Young Man's Fancy
1939
Duke of Beaumont
Me and My Girl
1939
Sir John Tremayne
Change for a Sovereign
1937
King Hugo
It's You I Want
1936
Victor Delaney
Eliza Comes to Stay
1936
Sandy Verrall
Scrooge
1935
Ebenezer Scrooge (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Vintage Wine
1935
Charles Popinot
Regal Cavalcade
1935
Gentleman
Mr. What's-His-Name?
1935
Alfred Henfield
The Secret of the Loch
1934
Professor Heggie
Money for Nothing
1932
Jay Cheddar
Glamour
1931
Henry Garthome
The Love Habit
1931
Justin Abelard
Sleeping Partners
1930
He (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Blighty
1927
Armistice Day enthusiast in hospital
Always Tell Your Wife
1923
Short
James Chesson
A Prehistoric Love Story
1915
Short
The Man
Always Tell Your Wife
1914
Short
James Chesson
David Garrick
1913/I
Short
David Garrick
Old Scrooge
1913
Short
Ebenezer Scrooge
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kisses for Breakfast
1941
play "The Matrimonial Bed"
Vento di milioni
1940
play "Money for Nothing"
Change for a Sovereign
1937
Vintage Wine
1935
adaptation
Mr. What's-His-Name?
1935
play
L'amour et la veine
1932
Money for Nothing
1932
story
The Love Habit
1931
The Matrimonial Bed
1930
english adaptation: translated from the French - uncredited