Date of birth: 1880-02-09
Place of birth: Columbia, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Howard Charles Hickman, Howard Hickman, Howard C. Hickman, Howard Close Hickman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 plantation owner John Wilkes, father of Ashley Wilkes, in Gone with the Wind (1939). He ended his film career in 1944, after more than 270 films. Hickman died of myocardial infarction in San Anselmo, California, and is buried at the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California.
1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof
1942-03-12
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspect
1941-11-25
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and h
1937-08-04
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
1939-11-23
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to c
1940-08-15
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a s
1966-01-01
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and
1941-05-23
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after
1937-05-21
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of
1941-09-22
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for night
1918-04-15
Although Spencer Wellington (Howard Hickman) comes from an old, aristocratic family, he carries a ba
1942-05-01
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his
1942-01-05
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into h
1942-09-17
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a
1937-08-27
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed
1934-07-07
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been co
1915-04-09
Avis and Franklin Hilliard are the spoiled, overbearing children of a wealthy father who has just di
1941-04-17
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while hi
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
1916-09-17
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak
1915-04-26
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Rut
1915-11-28
It all begins when Mrs. Rossmore (Dean) discovers that her husband (Howard Hickman) has begun "playi
1944-10-12
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in fr
1939-09-15
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
1933-09-23
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as
1935-07-12
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When
1939-09-08
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to th
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
1941-02-07
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe
1935-12-28
A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the i
1937-09-18
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselve
1937-03-12
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
1936-11-06
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ra
1936-03-19
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother par
1940-04-12
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the
1936-02-17
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful youn
1937-01-25
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Ma
1936-12-13
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold
1941-10-18
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried
1943-11-06
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) e
1934-09-29
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
1937-04-05
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance com
1935-05-11
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso
1942-01-01
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio
1936-12-18
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds he
1940-09-27
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card
1936-12-14
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
1938-05-22
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his
1941-09-20
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
1938-10-29
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland
1934-07-21
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
1939-01-18
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
1940-07-24
The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or
1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente
1938-10-14
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo
1938-08-08
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothin
1938-12-09
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H
1938-01-14
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici
1935-08-02
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth
1939-08-26
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending
1934-01-20
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield wit
1934-06-06
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
1934-07-15
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
1934-11-17
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the
1935-03-23
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
1938-03-03
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e
1928-11-15
An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until
1939-02-11
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on
1939-03-03
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husb
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
1939-06-20
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor
1937-07-22
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro
1939-07-07
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are
1939-12-22
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
1939-08-31
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy
1938-12-30
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
1938-05-26
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s
1941-04-17
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
1938-03-18
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and t
1938-02-09
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an a
1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence
1939-04-14
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and
1940-05-18
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th
1936-10-09
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f
1935-12-20
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has be
1916-06-02
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenge
1918-01-01
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
1918-05-13
Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recover
1936-09-24
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto
1937-08-18
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by w
1916-10-01
After her family dies in the jungle, Ollante is raised by Brazilian Indians, and, from her rugged li
1939-03-24
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o
1939-10-05
In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribb
1939-03-23
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John a
1936-07-11
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to
1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov
1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,
1940-03-23
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in
1942-04-04
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
1914-09-17
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Bec
1936-08-01
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success
1940-09-27
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between sc
1935-10-10
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants
1937-08-27
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival paper
1938-04-19
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing
1940-02-17
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
1940-04-06
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow hi
1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b
1940-11-29
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou
1940-05-20
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamon
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
1918-05-01
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
1936-08-28
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will
1934-03-08
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's
1935-10-04
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
1935-07-04
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian
1937-09-05
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends a
1934-03-15
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
1935-03-01
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brews
1938-09-10
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death
1935-03-30
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's
1941-07-20
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a ne
1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
1935-02-15
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves
1941-01-14
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Fol
1941-04-22
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate b
1941-08-15
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y
1931-09-14
In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
1938-05-20
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a soc
1929-12-15
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in
1934-09-14
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt
1941-02-14
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol
1937-11-03
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu
1939-01-21
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go
1941-08-30
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protec
1935-10-25
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
1930-02-07
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her g
1937-12-25
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the li
1934-05-11
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she prov
1937-12-10
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l
1941-08-19
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arr
1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try
1936-02-08
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
1916-10-29
Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some paper
1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq
1934-06-30
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves
1941-08-08
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The
1936-02-10
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a
1935-02-02
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
1942-04-17
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by
1939-10-26
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
1929-12-28
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
1937-01-02
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1944-02-05
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons
1941-01-10
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires h
1917-01-28
A young author, Everett Dryden Hale, has written a book of such strength and originality that it bec
1930-10-19
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is r
1914-11-19
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling
1937-04-30
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez i
1934-09-01
A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses
1938-08-08
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and joi
1936-05-16
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
1934-12-15
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir
1935-03-22
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help
1939-08-11
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i
1934-03-09
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te
1934-04-28
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un