25 Facts About Darryl Hickman

Darryl Gerard Hickman was an American actor, screenwriter, television executive, and acting coach.

Darryl Hickman started his career as a child actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood and appeared in numerous television serials as an adult, including several episodes of the CBS series The Nanny.

Darryl Hickman was the older brother of Dwayne Hickman, an actor, television executive, producer and director.

Darryl Hickman attended Paramount's school in California and his classmates included Gene Nelson and Jackie Cooper.

Darryl Hickman portrayed Winfield Joad, the youngest member of a family trying to cope with the hardships of the Great Depression.

In 1941, Darryl Hickman played a reform-school juvenile delinquent in Men of Boys Town, "almost running away [with the movie] right under [co-star] Mickey Rooney's nose", said one review.

Darryl Hickman made a featured appearance as Frank in the 1942 Our Gang comedy short Going to Press.

The year after the release of Leave Her to Heaven, Darryl Hickman was lauded by a newspaper as "one of Hollywood's top juveniles".

Darryl Hickman later became critical of child acting, lamenting how the profession for young actors deprives them of a real childhood.

Darryl Hickman opted to get therapy for several years to come to terms with his past.

Darryl Hickman graduated from Cathedral High School in Los Angeles in 1948.

Darryl Hickman continued acting, but with fewer roles than he had at the peak of his career.

Darryl Hickman began acting for the first time in the then-new entertainment medium of television.

In 1961, Darryl Hickman starred in a short-lived TV series The Americans.

In 1957, Darryl Hickman played murderer Steve Harris in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece".

Darryl Hickman appeared in two episodes of The Untouchables, "You Can't Pick the Number" and "Pressure".

In 1976, after a 17-year hiatus from movies, Darryl Hickman had a minor role as Bill Herron in Network.

Darryl Hickman became a television executive, producer, and occasional screenwriter, mainly working in New York City.

Darryl Hickman wrote the scripts for several 1961 episodes of The Loretta Young Show.

Darryl Hickman was one of the producers of A Year at the Top with Norman Lear in 1977.

Darryl Hickman praises the two men's patience in that biography, as well as their ability to give due attention to inexperienced actors such as himself.

Darryl Hickman was born in Hollywood, California, on July 28,1931, to Milton and Katherine Darryl Hickman.

Darryl Hickman's father sold insurance and his mother was a housewife.

Darryl Hickman's maternal grandfather, Louis Henry Ostertag, was a US Navy seaman on Commodore George Dewey's flagship, the cruiser USS Olympia, and present at the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1,1898, for which he was awarded the Dewey Medal by Act of Congress.

Darryl Hickman married actress Pamela Lincoln, with whom he had acted in the movie The Tingler, on November 28,1959.