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Darryl Hickman

Darryl Hickman on the cover of his forthcoming book, The Unconcious Actor (2007).
Birth name Darryl Gerard Hickman
Born July 28, 1931 (age 75)
United StatesHollywood, California
Official site DarrylHickman.net
Notable roles Danny Harland in
Leave Her to Heaven
Al in
Tea and Sympathy
Spouse(s) Pamela Lincoln

Darryl Gerard Hickman (born July 28, 1931) is an American film and TV actor, former television executive and child star of the 1930s and 1940s. Image File history File links DH1. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 film noir which tells the story of a man who gradually realizes that his wifes insane jealousy may be the cause of several tragedies in his life. ... Tea and Sympathy is a stage play by Robert Anderson that was adapted by Vincente Minnelli into a 1956 movie starring Deborah Kerr. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ...

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Biography

Early beginnings

Hickman first gained fame as a child actor during the late 1930s and 1940s, appearing in The Grapes of Wrath and The Human Comedy, among many others. He also made a featured appearance in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Going to Press. The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ... The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. ... The Human Comedy is a book by William Saroyan. ... A poster for the 1931 Our Gang comedy Love Business featuring depictions of (from left to right): Pete the Pup, Jackie Cooper, and Norman Chubby Chaney. ...


By the time he was 21, Hickman had appeared in over 100 motion pictures.


Career

After spending his entire childhood as an actor, Hickman retired from entertainment to enter a monastery in 1951, only to return to Hollywood just over a year later. He continued acting, but received fewer roles than he had in the peak of his career. During the Civil War Centennial, Hickman played a young Union soldier in the short-lived series, The Americans, (1961) and as an officer in Disney's Johnny Shiloh (1963). He became a television executive and an acting coach, and would eventually become a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions towards the end of his five-decade career in motion pictures. Monastery of St. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...


Personal life

Since 1960, Hickman has been wed to actress Pamela Lincoln. They had met on the set of the film The Tingler in which they both appear. The Tingler is a 1963 film by the American producer and director William Castle. ...


His younger brother Dwayne Hickman was also a notable actor, and is best known as the title character of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Cat Ballou. Dwayne Hickman (born May 18, 1934) is an American actor and television executive. ... The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was a situation comedy which ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963. ... Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to avenge her fathers murder, but finds that the man she hires isnt what she expected. ...


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Darryl Hickman - Overview - MSN Movies (189 words)
July 28, 1931 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Actor "Darryl Hickman" was discovered at age three by kiddie-troupe entrepreneur Ethel Meglin, to whom Hickman's insurance salesman father had sold a policy.
Whenever young Hickman would ask his ambitious mother exactly why he was trodding the boards with Meglin's Kiddies, she would reply, "But, dear, it's what you've always wanted." Hickman's first movie was a minor role in "If I Were King" (1938), followed by a better, critically lauded role in "Bing Crosby"'s "The Star Maker" (1939).
After free-lancing for several seasons, Hickman signed a five-year MGM contract, which he later considered a mixed blessing in that, while his roles were good ones, he grew up much too quickly for his tastes.
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