Henry Wilcoxon

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Henry Wilcoxon (or sometimes "Harry") (September 8, 1905 – March 6, 1984) was an actor born in Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films. He was christened Harry Frederick Wilcoxon, father Robert Stanley Wilcoxon, mother Lurleen Minuette Nunez. He first major film role was starring in Cecil B. de Mille's big-budget film The Crusades with Loretta Young; he played Richard the Lion-Hearted (Richard I of Britain) as a straight, rough warrior. The film, however, was a financial failure. Wilcoxon later acted in de Mille's remake of his own The Ten Commandments as the pharaoh's captain of the guards. In later life Wilcoxon was a film producer.

Hollywood rumour has it that Wilcoxon was a homosexual in his private life, supposedly picking up hitchhikers for sexual purposes.

[edit] Memoir

• Wilcoxon, Henry and Orrison, Katherine (1991). Lionheart in Hollywood. New York: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810824760.