Howard Hickman
Popularity:0.344
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1880-02-09
Place of Birth:Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Also Known As:Howard Charles Hickman, Howard Hickman, Howard C. Hickman, Howard Close Hickman

Gone with the Wind (1939)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

The Male Animal (1942)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

Tuxedo Junction (1941)
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.

Artists & Models (1937)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

The Return of Doctor X (1939)
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from...

The Secret Seven (1940)
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

Sakima and the Masked Marvel (1966)
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.

Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist...

Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against...

Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over...

Blue Blood (1918)
Although Spencer Wellington (Howard Hickman) comes from an old, aristocratic family, he carries a bad gene. His doctor, John Rand (George Fisher)...

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and...

Lady for a Night (1942)
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

Tish (1942)
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

Western Gold (1937)
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood...

Return of the Terror (1934)
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

The Roughneck (1915)
Avis and Franklin Hilliard are the spoiled, overbearing children of a wealthy father who has just died. Lord Cecil Oakleigh, a fortune hunter, is...

Washington Melodrama (1941)
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself...

Belle Starr (1941)
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

The Wolf Woman (1916)
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented...

The Cup of Life (1915)
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a...

Matrimony (1915)
It all begins when Mrs. Rossmore (Dean) discovers that her husband (Howard Hickman) has begun "playing the field" with other women. Too much the lady...

Mrs. Parkington (1944)
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by...

Thunder Afloat (1939)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

I Loved a Woman (1933)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

The Murder Man (1935)
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of...

Full Confession (1939)
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

Espionage Agent (1939)
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

Back Street (1941)
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...

Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)
A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.

Give Till It Hurts (1937)
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for...

The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

Wild Brian Kent (1936)
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is...

Too Many Parents (1936)
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart...

Bullet Code (1940)
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has...

August Week End (1936)
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and...

Join the Marines (1937)
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the...

Happy Go Lucky (1936)
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying....

Uncle Joe (1941)
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.

The Masked Marvel (1943)
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome...

A Lost Lady (1934)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they...

Dinky (1935)
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Career Woman (1936)
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend...

Spring Parade (1940)
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

Crack-Up (1936)
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

Numbered Woman (1938)
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.

Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

I Stand Accused (1938)
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally...

Here Comes the Navy (1934)
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

Convict's Code (1939)
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.

Girls of the Road (1940)
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they...

We Who Are About to Die (1937)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his...

Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....

Next Time I Marry (1938)
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

Love Is a Headache (1938)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her...

Woman Wanted (1935)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a...

The Personality Kid (1934)
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

The Defense Rests (1934)
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...

West Point of the Air (1935)
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

Start Cheering (1938)
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.

Wings of the Navy (1939)
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can...

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer...

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

The Lady Escapes (1937)
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

On Borrowed Time (1939)
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's...

Slightly Honorable (1939)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

The Under-Pup (1939)
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...

Kentucky (1938)
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

Holiday (1938)
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...

Robbers of the Range (1941)
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.

King of the Newsboys (1938)
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...

My Old Kentucky Home (1938)
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going...

Woman Against Woman (1938)
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

The Kid From Texas (1939)
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.

Gangs of Chicago (1940)
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

Libeled Lady (1936)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Too Tough to Kill (1935)
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often...

Civilization (1916)
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in...

Madam Who (1918)
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....

Rose o' Paradise (1918)
Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up...

Murder with Pictures (1936)
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...

One Mile from Heaven (1937)
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

The Jungle Child (1916)
After her family dies in the jungle, Ollante is raised by Brazilian Indians, and, from her rugged lifestyle, she grows into a woman of uncommon...

Everybody's Baby (1939)
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

The Kansas Terrors (1939)
In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribbean island. Here they join forces with Rico to...

Trouble in Sundown (1939)
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint...

Two Against the World (1936)
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting...

Boom Town (1940)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Dark Command (1940)
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...

Virginia City (1940)
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

I Was Framed (1942)
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

The Making of Bobby Burnit (1914)
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must...

To Mary - with Love (1936)
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

Strike Up the Band (1940)
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time...

It's in the Air (1935)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

Back in Circulation (1937)
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express...

Flight Into Nowhere (1938)
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

Castle on the Hudson (1940)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

It All Came True (1940)
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding...

They Drive by Night (1940)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Little Men (1940)
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

Island of Doomed Men (1940)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

Social Ambition (1918)
Directed by Wallace Worsley.

Swing Time (1936)
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner...

Gambling Lady (1934)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

I Live My Life (1935)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Ginger (1935)
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and...

One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few...

Mystery Liner (1934)
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.

Little Big Shot (1935)
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Captain Hurricane (1935)
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain...

Juvenile Court (1938)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...

Gypsy Sweetheart (1935)
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She...

Hurricane Smith (1941)
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to...

Four Mothers (1941)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

Carnival (1935)
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many...

Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...

The Hot Spot (1931)
In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.

Upperworld (1934)
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the...

Rascals (1938)
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune...

The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter...

Death on the Diamond (1934)
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the...

Golden Hoofs (1941)
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...

Off the Record (1939)
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Dive Bomber (1941)
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a...

Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Hello Sister (1930)
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.

What Do You Think? (Number Two) (1937)
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the living.

Twentieth Century (1934)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Borrowing Trouble (1937)
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Ice-Capades (1941)
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating...

The Rage of Paris (1938)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of...

Hell-Ship Morgan (1936)
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

Somewhere in France (1916)
Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some papers from him, which she gives to the Germans. Then...

3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

Baby Take a Bow (1934)
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his...

Hold That Ghost (1941)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...

Dangerous Waters (1936)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.

Red Hot Tires (1935)
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.

Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

Little Accident (1939)
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

His First Command (1929)
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.

The Great Barrier (1937)
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Captain America (1944)
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of...

Maisie Was a Lady (1941)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...

Chicken Casey (1917)
A young author, Everett Dryden Hale, has written a book of such strength and originality that it becomes one of the best sellers. The book is...

Brothers (1930)
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages,...

The Circus Man (1914)
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.

Criminals of the Air (1937)
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.

Radio Scout (1934)
A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.

The Law in Her Hands (1936)
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

Mills of the Gods (1934)
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean...