Seymour Hicks
Also Known As: Edward Seymour Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour Hicks, Sir Seymour Hicks
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Hélier, Isle of Jersey, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 30, 1871
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 06, 1949
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Scrooge
Overview: A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1913-09-01
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The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
Overview: The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”. “The ever popular ragtime ALEXANDER’S RAG TIME BAND by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss”.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1913-06-01
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Busman's Honeymoon
Overview: When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-22
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Silent Dust
Overview: A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Pastor Hall
Overview: The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-28
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The Secret of the Loch
Overview: A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-07
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Young Man's Fancy
Overview: An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-31
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Fame Is the Spur
Overview: A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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Vintage Wine
Overview: The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-19
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Tell Tales
Overview: The popular raconteur Seymour Hicks tells some of his stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-20
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The Love Habit
Overview: 'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-16
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Always Tell Your Wife
Overview: A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-10
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Mr. What's-His-Name?
Overview: A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Sleeping Partners
Overview: A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-18
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Glamour
Overview: A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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Money for Nothing
Overview: As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-20
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Eliza Comes to Stay
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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The Lambeth Walk
Overview: Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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Change for a Sovereign
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-08
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