George Hickman

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography29 Titles

#1Columbo

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Derelict (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

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#2Rawhide

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as The Professor

7.2 / 10
WesternDrama

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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#3Blazing Saddles

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
WesternComedy

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

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#4Around the World in 80 Days

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Extra (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
AdventureComedyFamily

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

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#5Westworld

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Guest (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
AdventureSci-FiWestern

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

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#6The Parallax View

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Committee Member (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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#7There Was a Crooked Man...

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Church Member

6.8 / 10
Western

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

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#8No Name on the Bullet

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Barfly (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ActionThrillerWestern

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

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#9Mame

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
Comedy

The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."

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#10Support Your Local Gunfighter

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ComedyWestern

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

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#11I Wake Up Screaming

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Newsboy (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
MysteryCrime

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

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#12Knock on Any Door

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Detective (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

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#13The Female Animal

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Observer at Lighting Accident (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

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#14The Unfaithful

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Newsboy in Montage

5.9 / 10
ThrillerDramaMystery

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

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#15Alias Boston Blackie

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Elevator Boy (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Mystery

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

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#16The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Elevator Boy #1

6.3 / 10
ComedyMystery

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

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#17Buck Benny Rides Again

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Page Boy

5.0 / 10
ComedyWestern

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

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#18Kilroy Was Here

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Jack - Cab Driver

5.7 / 10
Comedy

"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.

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#19The Singing Kid

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Newsboy (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaMusic

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

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#20Three Girls About Town

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Bellhop

6.5 / 10
AdventureComedyCrime

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

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#21I'll Take Romance

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Page Boy

6.3 / 10
MusicRomance

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.

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#22The Square Jungle

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Drama

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

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#23Cowboy from Brooklyn

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Newsboy

7.0 / 10
ComedyWestern

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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#24A Stranger in My Arms

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Man (uncredited)

4.2 / 10
DramaRomance

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

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#25Say It in French

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Messenger

7.5 / 10
Comedy

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....

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#26Boy Meets Girl

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Office Boy

6.9 / 10
Comedy

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

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#27Mission: Impossible - The Bunker

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Janitor (uncredited)

8.8 / 10
ActionCrimeThriller

Dr. Erich Rojak, a brilliant scientist, is being held in an underground bunker containing a laboratory where he is forced to work on a small but extremely powerful long-range missile. If he succeeds, the missile has the potential to change the balance of power between the East and the West. Rojak is cooperating only because his totalitarian government is holding his wife, Anna, and threatens to kill her unless he completes the missile. The IMF's assignment is to rescue Rojak and his wife and to destroy his missile research. But another unfriendly government has sent professional killer Alexander Ventlos to make certain Rojak never completes his work.

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#28The Patient in Room 18

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Newsboy #2 (uncredited)

5.1 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.

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#29The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Usher

6.1 / 10
Mystery

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

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