Maxine Elliott Hicks, actress, 95

["Deathwatch Central" <cdw@slick.org>]

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - Maxine Elliott Hicks, who appeared in more than
200 silent films, then moved to movies and later appeared in television
sitcoms, including ``Frasier,'' died Jan 10. She was 95.

Hicks recently appeared in the movies ``Defending Your Life'' and
``Beethoven.''

During the age of the silent film, Hicks won such choice roles as the
daughter of Ethel Barrymore in ``The Eternal Mother'' and the bratty Susie
May Squoggs, nemesis of America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford, in ``Poor
Little Rich Girl.''

Although she moved successfully into talkies, she left acting in the 1930s
following a dispute between her mother and Jack Warner of Warner Bros.

She later returned to acting, and when she was in her 80s, she co-starred as
Sister Ethel on the ABC sitcom ``The Ten of Us,'' set at a Catholic all-boys
school.

The role led to parts in the movies ``Defending Your Life'' and
``Beethoven'' and the television show ``Frasier.''

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