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Anthony Hickox was born on 30 January 1959 in Hampstead, London to a family of filmmakers. He is the eldest son of the director Douglas Hickox and Academy Award-winning editor Anne V. Coates and elder brother of editor Emma E. Hickox and James D.R. Hickox. He is also the great-nephew of Lord J. Arthur Rank who controlled the British film industry for many years.

Hickox was educated at Aiglon College in Switzerland. After starting as a club promoter in London, he went to LA in 1986 and became a writer and director during the late 1980s. He then started directing action movies after a list of 1990s horror films including the third entry in the Hellraiser series. This led to HBO hiring him to make its first action/horror, Full Eclipse, which spawned the Friday night action slot that lasted over 5 years and to which Hickox made several more contributions. At the same time, he continued his deal at Universal where he shot pilots for Extreme, Two, Martial Law and New York Undercover.

After working with Natascha McElhone and William Hurt on Contaminated Man, he went on to direct Katherine Heigl and Stephen Moyer in a feature-length adaptation of the Prince Valiant comic strip. The film was described by one of its actors, Warwick Davis, as "a disaster from start to finish" which was "premiered, panned and bombed". He blames this on Hickox, who he says "seemed intent on partying all night long and giving roles to his friends."

Hickox then directed Steven Seagal in Submerged and Eddie Griffin in Blast, which made over $15 million each via a direct-to-video release. In 2008, he completed the British horror movie Knife Edge. In 2019, he completed Underdogs Rising with Chris Pang and Infamous 6 which shot in Hong Kong, for PopLife Global owned by Ex Chatman of Disney China.

Hickox was on the board of directors of the now-dissolved film distribution company Seven Arts Pictures run by Peter Hoffman, the ex-chairman of Carolco and the production company Medient Studios run by Indian film producer Manu Kumaran.

Amongst one of his latter works was a Federico Fellini biopic, and Zombie Bride, shot in Spain.

Hickox married Romanian actress Madalina Anea

 

Filmography

 

Feature films

Waxwork (1988)

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)

Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

Full Eclipse (1993)

Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)

Payback (1995)

Invasion of Privacy (1996)

Prince Valiant (1997)

Storm Catcher (1999)

Jill Rips (2000)

Contaminated Man (2000)

Last Run (2001)

Federal Protection (2002)

Consequence (2003)

Blast (2004)

Submerged (2005)

Knife Edge (2008)

Exodus to Shanghai (2015)

Underdogs Rising (2017)

Infamous 6 (2019)

Television

New York Undercover episode 3: Missing (1994)

Extreme (1995) - pilot episode

Two (1995) — pilot episode

Pensacola: Wings of Gold episode: Broken Wings (1998)

Martial Law (1998) — pilot episode

Shoot Me! (2003) - pilot/series