Silent Dust

Fame Is the Spur

Busman's Honeymoon

Pastor Hall

Young Man's Fancy

The Lambeth Walk

Change for a Sovereign

Eliza Comes to Stay

Scrooge

Mr. What's-His-Name?

Vintage Wine

The Secret of the Loch

Money for Nothing

Glamour

The Love Habit

Sleeping Partners

Tell Tales

Always Tell Your Wife

The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances

Kisses for Breakfast

The Matrimonial Bed

One of the Best

The Sporting Lover

Sporting Life

Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, 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 (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).
Hicks used his fortune from these shows to commission the building of the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre in 1906, opening the latter with a new hit show, The Beauty of Bath. His stage performances were less successful in later years, and he opted instead to star in music hall tours, including Pebbles on the Beach (1912). He continued to write light comedies, the most popular of which was The Happy Day (1916). On film, he first appeared in Scrooge and David Garrick both from 1913. Later notable films included The Lambeth Walk (1939) and Busman's Honeymoon (1940), and his last film was in the year of his death, 1949.



Seymour Hicks

Seymour Hicks

Acted in

Silent Dust

Fame Is the Spur

Busman's Honeymoon

Pastor Hall

Young Man's Fancy

The Lambeth Walk

Change for a Sovereign

Eliza Comes to Stay

Scrooge

Mr. What's-His-Name?

Vintage Wine

The Secret of the Loch

Money for Nothing

Glamour

The Love Habit

Sleeping Partners

Tell Tales

Always Tell Your Wife

Scrooge

The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances