Chuck Hicks


Charles Dallas Hicks was an American actor and stuntman.
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Early life

Hicks attended Burbank High School, where he was senior class president in 1946 and played football.
During World War II, Hicks served in the U.S. Merchant Marine and later in the Navy. While in the Navy, he was the boxing champ of the United States Fifth Fleet. He also attended Loyola Marymount University, where he played football and boxed, and later inducted into the school's Athletes Hall of Fame. He also played semi-pro football for the Eagle Rock Athletic Club.
In addition to stuntwork, Hicks appeared in small roles in many films.
Among his television credits, he played Federal Agent LaMarr Kane in the first season of the ABC/Desilu television series The Untouchables starring Robert Stack. In 1970 he appeared on Hogan's Heroes as "Battling Bruno", a Luftwaffe soldier who is an amateur boxer. In the episode "The Softer They Fall", Bruno fights POW Sgt. Kinchloe to show that Nazis are superior to Americans, but is knocked out by Kinchloe.

Death

Hicks died in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 4, 2021, at the age of 93. His son said that his cause of death was complications from a stroke he had suffered at the end of 2020.

Selected filmography