Seymour Hicks
Actor, Film actor
1871 – 1949
Who was Seymour Hicks?
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks, 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 and A Runaway Girl, both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage.
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- Born
- Jan 30, 1871
Saint Helier - Also known as
- Sir Arthur Seymour Hicks
- Edward Seymour Hicks
- Sir Seymour Hicks
- Spouses
- Ellaline Terriss
(1893 - 1949/04/06)
- Ellaline Terriss
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 6, 1949
Hampshire
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on July 23, 2013
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