Charles “Chuck” Hicks
(December 26, 1927 – May 4, 2021)
Veteran stuntman and charactor actor Chuck Hicks has passed away at 93.
He was in the 50s Westerns Horizons West (1952) and River Of No Return (1954) and TV’s Cheyenne, but he did some pretty memorable, even iconic, stuff in the 60s and beyond. He was the robot boxer in the great 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, “Steel” (above). He was Chief in Cool Hand Luke (1967) and The Brow in Dick Tracy (1990).
He worked with Clint Eastwood a number of times, running from Rawhide to Dirty Harry (1971) to Bronco Billy (1980).
Remember him well ; especially the robotic man of steel , Twilight Zone.
CHUCK HICKS guest-starred on GUNSMOKE, THE BIG VALLEY, CANNON, ROCKFORD FILES and FAMILY AFFAIR. His widow KAYE WADE is a former stuntwoman.