Chuck Hicks

Born on December 26, 1927, in Stockton, California, Chuck Hicks won a scholarship to Loyola University, where he was on the football and rubby teams. In his youth he also won a school boxing title in the heavyweight category. When he graduated, he tried his hand at professional wrestling, until he had to drop out with a hand injury, and then played for the LA Rams football team for one season.

He began his journey as a specialist with La sirena de Bagdad , from 1953, followed by numerous titles. “I was the bad guy, they always beat me up,” Chuck Hicks commented in an interview. He appeared as an extra in titles such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Rebel Without a Cause , and gave life to LaMarr Kane, one of the members of the lead team of The Untouchables , in the first season of the series that aired between 1959 and 1963. 

In the early 1950s,  Chuck Hicks met the specialist Kaye Wade Hicks, whom he married.

He served as Clint Eastwood’s stunt double for the first time in the Rawhide series , and later in the feature films Legend of the Nameless City , Dirty Harry , Strong Harry , Enforcer Harry , Hardcore , Bronco Billy , The great fight and very hot city . In Cool Cool , Chuck Hicks played the prisoner known as Boss and coordinated the brutal boxing scene in which George Kennedy beat up Paul Newman.. Under a thick layer of makeup she played the villain La Frente, in Dick Tracy .