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Rodney Hickok
actor, assistant_director, writer
- Birth name:
- Rodney Edward Hickok
- Born:
- 1891-07-01, Angels Camp, California, USA
- Died:
- 1942-03-09, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, assistant_director, writer
Biography
A Gold Country Fourth-of-July baby, Rodney Hickok arrived in Angels Camp, California, on 1 July 1891. Between silents and early talkies he slipped into greasepaint and ink, scripting and starring in three cornerstones of early cinema: the fog-choked thriller *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* (1914), the soulful melodrama *Father Tom* (1921), and the swashbuckling *The Bandolero* (1924). Forty-eight springs later, on 9 March 1942, the curtain rang down for the last time in Los Angeles, the city that had become his stage and his home.
