Maxine Elliott Hicks

Maxine Elliott Hicks (October 5, 1904 – January 10, 2000) was an American actress.

Life and career Maxine Elliott Hicks was born on October 5, 1904, in Denver, Colorado to George W. and Margaret Hicks. She began acting on the stage from the age of 5. As Maxine Hicks, she was a starlet of the silent film era, with over 200 credited and uncredited roles between 1914 and 1937. Hicks's film debut was in The Crimson Dove (1917), although one source reported that she was an extra in a 1914 film. She appeared as Felice, the daughter of Ethel Barrymore's character in the 1917 version of The Eternal Mother, and the nemesis Susie May Squoggs in The Poor Little Rich Girl.

Hicks successfully made the transition from silents into talking pictures but left acting in 1937 when she and her mother got into a dispute with Jack Warner, the head of Warner Bros. studio.

After a decades-long hiatus, she returned to acting in 1976 as Maxine Elliott, playing character parts in television shows such as All in the Family and had a recurring role in Just the Ten of Us. She also appeared in commercials and movies, including Defending Your Life.

Hicks was married to Frank Dodge from 1938 to 1948.

Death Hicks died at the age of 95 on January 10, 2000, in San Clemente, California. She was survived by three sons, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Her ashes are at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California.

Filmography

Films

Television Year TV Series Role Note1994 Thunder Alley Older Woman Frasier Mrs. Grey 1991 Nurses Mrs. Heston Growing Pains Elderly Woman on Plane Quantum Leap Edwine 1989 Growing Pains Winnie 1988-1990 Just the Ten of Us Sister Ethel 14 episodes1987 Designing Women Customer 1985 Diff'rent Strokes Mrs. Gail 1983 Happy Mrs. Fisher TV movie1981 It's a Living Lady at Piano 1980 Hello, Larry Mrs. Simpson 1979 The Jeffersons Woman Picketer #1 1978 Rhoda Erma CHiPs Elderly Woman 1977 Phyllis Abigail 1976 All in the Family Mrs. Bradley

Short films Year Short Film Role1914 The Borrowed Finery Dolly