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Henry Wilcoxon(1905-1984)

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  • Producer
  • Writer
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Henry Wilcoxon, 1935.
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Henry Wilcoxon was given the lead role of Marc Antony in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934). It would prove to be the beginning of a long relationship with DeMille he would become a familiar DeMille character actor and DeMille's associate producer in the later years of DeMille's career. However, after DeMille died, he worked sporadically and accepted minor acting roles.
BornSeptember 8, 1905
DiedMarch 6, 1984(78)
BornSeptember 8, 1905
DiedMarch 6, 1984(78)
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Henry Wilcoxon and Loretta Young in The Crusades (1935)
Claudette Colbert and Henry Wilcoxon in Cleopatra (1934)
Henry Wilcoxon in The Crusades (1935)
Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Marc Singer, Lindsay Wagner, and Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Linda Gray and Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Linda Gray and Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Henry Wilcoxon in The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Henry Wilcoxon in Cleopatra (1934)
Joseph Schildkraut and Henry Wilcoxon in Cleopatra (1934)

Known for

Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, John Carradine, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, and Vincent Price in The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments
7.9
  • Pentaur
  • 1956
Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Ted Knight in Caddyshack (1980)
Caddyshack
7.2
  • The Bishop
  • 1980
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mrs. Miniver
7.6
  • Vicar
  • 1942
Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, and Eleanor Parker in Scaramouche (1952)
Scaramouche
7.5
  • Chevalier de Chabrillaine
  • 1952

Credits

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Actor

  • Sweet Sixteen (1983)
    Sweet Sixteen
  • Lorna Patterson in Private Benjamin (1981)
    Private Benjamin
  • Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in Cagney & Lacey (1981)
    Cagney & Lacey
  • Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980)
    Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
  • Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Ted Knight in Caddyshack (1980)
    Caddyshack
  • The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
    The Man with Bogart's Face
  • The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
    The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
  • Married: The First Year (1979)
    Married: The First Year
  • Sylvester Stallone and David Huffman in F.I.S.T. (1978)
    F.I.S.T.
  • When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978)
    When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
  • Jack Elam, Ken Curtis, Maureen McCormick, Stewart Petersen, Buck Taylor, Dub Taylor, and Henry Wilcoxon in Pony Express Rider (1976)
    Pony Express Rider
  • Doomsday Machine (1976)
    Doomsday Machine
  • Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, and Augustus von Schumacher in Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
  • Against a Crooked Sky (1975)
    Against a Crooked Sky
  • The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

Producer

  • The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend of Cecil B. DeMille
  • Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner in The Buccaneer (1958)
    The Buccaneer
  • Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, John Carradine, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, and Vincent Price in The Ten Commandments (1956)
    The Ten Commandments
  • Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Gloria Grahame, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, and Cornel Wilde in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
    The Greatest Show on Earth

Writer

  • Mrs. Miniver (1942)
    Mrs. Miniver
    • (uncredited)

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Scaramouche
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Scaramouche

Personal details

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    • September 8, 1905
    • Dominica, British West Indies
    • March 6, 1984
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(heart failure; cancer)
    • Joan WoodburyDecember 17, 1938 - August 1969 (divorced, 3 children)
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Article

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    A regular face in the films of director Cecil B. DeMille, Wilcoxon was good friends with DeMille in real life. The friendship between them was described as a surrogate father/son relationship in Scott Eyman's DeMille biography, Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (2010).
  • Quotes
    [on Claudette Colbert, his co-star in Cleopatra (1934)] Have I said before what an accomplished actress Claudette is? Well, she is. And, as a result, the hiccup scene really works well, and is my favorite scene with her.

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