Howard Hickman

Howard Hickman
Howard Hickman in 1916
Born	Howard Charles Hickman (1880-02-09)February 9, 1880 Columbia, Missouri, USA
Died	December 31, 1949(1949-12-31) (aged 69) San Anselmo, California, USA
Occupation(s)	Actor, director, writer
Years active	1912–1944
Spouse	Bessie Barriscale

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.

Selected filmography

As actor

Howard Hickman in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

Original caption: "Howard Hickman, husband and director of Bessie Barriscale, shows leading man Jack Holt how to make love to Mrs. Hickman." This appears to be a production still from Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919). If so, the cameraman behind the Bell & Howell model 2709 is Eugene Gaudio.

• The Circus Man (1914) as Artful Dick Cronk
• The Cup of Life (1915) as Higsby
• The Man from Oregon (1915) as 'Honest' Jim Martin

• Civilization (1916) as Count Ferdinand
• Madam Who? (1918) as Henry Morgan
• Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928) as Mr. Lane
• Hello Sister (1930) as John Stanley
• Brothers (1930) as John Naughton
• Hello, Sister! (1933)
• Here Comes the Navy (1934) as Captain
• Death on the Diamond (1934) as Dr. Cushman (uncredited)
• Mystery Liner (1934) as Dr. Howard
• Rendezvous (1935) as G-Man
• Little Big Shot (1935) as The Judge (uncredited)
• Fighting Shadows (1935) as Inspector Rutledge (uncredited)
• Hell-Ship Morgan (1936) as Cabot
• Libeled Lady (1936) as Cable Editor (uncredited)
• Fury (1936) as Governor
• To Mary - with Love (1936)
• Swing Time (1936) as First Minister (uncredited)
• Crack-Up (1936) as Major White
• Venus Makes Trouble (1937) as Howard Clark
• Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) as Dr. Burton
• One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) as Johnson
• Tarzan's Revenge (1938) as Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
• Love Is a Headache (1938) as Editor Williams (uncredited)
• My Old Kentucky Home (1938) (uncredited)
• Start Cheering (1938) as Dr. Fosdick
• King of the Newsboys (1938) as Judge (uncredited)
• Flight into Nowhere (1938) as Howard Hammond
• Rascals (1938) as Judge
• Numbered Woman (1938)
• Holiday (1938) as Churchgoer (uncredited)
• The Rage of Paris (1938) as Man in Opera Box (uncredited)
• Woman Against Woman (1938) as Mr. Jamison (uncredited)
• Panamint's Bad Man (1938) as Marshal Winston (uncredited)
• Smashing the Rackets (1938) as James J. Carew (uncredited)
• Come On, Leathernecks! (1938) as Captain Felton
• Juvenile Court (1938) as Governor Stanley
• Young Dr. Kildare (1938) as Dr. Harris (uncredited)
• I Stand Accused (1938) as Gilbert
• Next Time I Marry (1938) as Judge Jonathan Travers (uncredited)
• Kentucky (1938) as Banker (uncredited)
• Convict's Code (1939) as Prison Warden
• Off the Record (1939) as Doctor (uncredited)
• Wings of the Navy (1939) as Capt. Dreen (uncredited)
• Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) as Concert Manager
• Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) as Conference Room Businessman (uncredited)
• Everybody's Baby (1939) as Dr. Jenkins
• Trouble in Sundown (1939) as John Cameron
• The Kid from Texas (1939) as Doctor at Polo Grounds (uncredited)
• Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) as Jeffers - Brand's Butler
• On Borrowed Time (1939) as Chief Surgeon (uncredited)
• When Tomorrow Comes (1939) as Wealthy Man (uncredited)
• The Under-Pup (1939) as Business Man (uncredited)
• The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) as Judge Wilson (uncredited)
• Full Confession (1939) as Third Doctor (uncredited)
• Thunder Afloat (1939) as Surgeon (uncredited)
• Espionage Agent (1939) as Walter Forbes
• The Kansas Terrors (1939) as Governor-General del Montez
• Beware Spooks! (1939) as Judge Roth (uncredited)
• Little Accident (1939) as Mr. Allerton
• The Return of Doctor X (1939) as Chairman (scenes deleted)
• Gone with the Wind (1939) as John Wilkes
• Slightly Honorable (1939) as Sen. Sam Scott
• My Son Is Guilty (1939) as Commissioner George Dodge (uncredited)
• The Man from Dakota (1940) as Confederate Colonel (uncredited)
• Castle on the Hudson (1940) as The Judge (uncredited)
• Virginia City (1940) as Confederate Gen. Page (uncredited)
• Dark Command (1940) as Southerner Orating for Votes (uncredited)
• It All Came True (1940) as Mr. Prendergast
• Bullet Code (1940) as John Mathews
• Gangs of Chicago (1940) as Judge Whitaker
• Island of Doomed Men (1940) as Judge (uncredited)
• Girls of the Road (1940) as Gov. Warren
• They Drive by Night (1940) as The Judge (uncredited)
• The Secret Seven (1940) as Dr. Talbot
• Boom Town (1940) as McCreery's Associate #1 (uncredited)
• Yesterday's Heroes (1940) as Trustee (uncredited)
• Spring Parade (1940) as Colonel (uncredited)
• Strike Up the Band (1940) as Doctor
• Little Men (1940) as Doctor (uncredited)
• Bowery Boy (1940) as Dr. Axel Winters
• Four Mothers (1941) as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
• Maisie Was a Lady (1941) as Dr. Stephen W. Fredericks (uncredited)
• Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) as Professor Lancaster
• Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941) as Colonel Davis (uncredited)
• Back Street (1941) as Mr. Williams (uncredited)
• Golden Hoofs (1941) as Calvin Harmon
• Robbers of the Range (1941) as Roy Tremaine
• Washington Melodrama (1941) as Bishop Chatterton
• Lady from Louisiana (1941) as Judge William Harding (uncredited)
• Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941) as Withers
• Angels with Broken Wings (1941) (uncredited)
• Blossoms in the Dust (1941) as Texas Senator (uncredited)
• Hurricane Smith (1941) as Sen. Bradley
• Hold That Ghost (1941) as Judge (uncredited)
• Dive Bomber (1941) as Admiral (uncredited)
• Ice-Capades (1941) as Lawyer (uncredited)
• Belle Starr (1941) as Colonel Thornton
• Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941) as Colonel Andrews
• Doctors Don't Tell (1941) as Dr. Watkins
• You Belong to Me (1941) as Mr. Deker (uncredited)
• Tuxedo Junction (1941) as Judge Leo Rivers
• Paris Calling (1941) as French General (uncredited)
• Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941) as Stephen Chandler
• Uncle Joe (1941) as Banker Jones
• Lady for a Night (1942) as Civil War General (uncredited)
• The Vanishing Virginian (1942) as Dr. Edwards (uncredited)
• Born to Sing (1942) as Critic (uncredited)
• The Male Animal (1942) as Faculty Member (uncredited)
• True to the Army (1942) as Brigadier General (uncredited)
• I Was Framed (1942) as Stuart Gaines
• Kid Glove Killer (1942) as Clemence - First Politician (uncredited)
• Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) as Blake Norton
• Bells of Capistrano (1942) as Doctor (uncredited)
• Tish (1942) as Mr. Fielding Kelbridge (uncredited)
• Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) as Lincoln Lumber's Attorney (uncredited)
• Three Hearts for Julia (1943) as Mr. Doran (uncredited)
• The Masked Marvel (1943) as Warren Hamilton
• Watch on the Rhine (1943) as Cyrus Penfield (uncredited)
• Captain America (1944, Serial) as Lyman's Attorney [Ch. 4] (uncredited)
• Casanova in Burlesque (1944) as Dean Wyatt (uncredited)
• The Heavenly Body (1944) as Scientist (uncredited)
• Her Primitive Man (1944) as Bilson (uncredited)
• Follow the Boys (1944) as Dr. Wood (uncredited)
• Gypsy Wildcat (1944) (uncredited)
• National Barn Dance (1944) as Mr. Hollander (uncredited)
• The Last Ride (1944) as Mr. Bronson (uncredited)
• Mrs. Parkington (1944) as Dr. Herrick (uncredited)
• Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Showman (uncredited)

As director

• His Mother's Portrait (1915)
• When Love Leads (1915)
• The White Lie (1918)
• The Heart of Rachael (1918)
• Two-Gun Betty (1918)
• All of a Sudden Norma (1919)
• A Trick of Fate (1919)
• Hearts Asleep (1919)
• Josselyn's Wife (1919)
• Tangled Threads (1919)
• Her Purchase Price (1919)
• Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919)
• Beckoning Roads (1919)
• Just a Wife (1920)
• The Killer (1921)
• Nobody's Kid (1921)
• The Lure of Egypt (1921)
• A Certain Rich Man (1921)
• Man of the Forest (1921)

As writer

• Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919)
• Nobody's Kid (1921)

Death

Hickman died of myocardial infarction in San Anselmo, California, and is buried at the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California

External links

• Howard Hickman at IMDb
• Howard Hickman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Howard Hickman at Find a Grave