Anthony Hickox was an English film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter. Hickox was best known for his work in the horror genre, with films like Waxwork and its sequel, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, and Warlock: The Armageddon.
Anthony Hickox’s parents: Meet Douglas Hickox, Anne V. Coates
Douglas Hickox and Anne V. Coates are the parents of Anthony Hickox.
Douglas Arthur Hickox was an English film and television director. He is white and was born on January 10, 1929, in London, England, where he was educated at Emanuel School.
Douglas Hickox made his first major picture, Entertaining Mr Sloane, in 1970 at the age of 41. He joined forces with the producer who had the rights and raised the finance.
Douglas Hickox was married to Anne V. Coates, the Oscar-winning editor of Lawrence of Arabia 1n 1958. He had two sons, Anthony Hickox and James D. R. Hickox, and two daughters, one with Coates, and one with second wife Annabel.
Douglas Hickox died at the age of 59 on July 25, 1988, in London, England, and was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London.
Anne Voase Coates who was also a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career was best known as the editor of David Lean’s epic film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, for which she won an Oscar.
Anne Coates was born in Reigate, Surrey, England, on December 12, 1925. She is the daughter of Kathleen Voase Rank and Major Laurence Calvert Coates. She attended the Reigate village school called the Micklefield School. She then attended High Trees School in Horley (Surrey). She graduated from Bartrum Gables in Broadstairs (Kent).
Anne Coates worked as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe’s pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, England before she became a film editor.
Anne Coates was married to the director Douglas Hickox for many years from 1958 to 1988.
Anne Coates died on May 8, 2018, aged 92, at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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