Biography

Producer, actor and writer. Both working on stage or behind the camera. He started his career as an actor, appearing in several small plays before landing a role in Greenwich Village Story (1963) - his only film role.

Beginning in 1964, he became a film producer with The Strangler (1964). Other credits includes The Boston Strangler (1968), the Oscar winning The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Travels with My Aunt (1972), Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973), Mame (1974) and The Abdication (1974). By 1975, he returned to the theatre and producer Ebb/Kander's mega-hit "Chicago", the spectacular musical directed by Bob Fosse later turned into the Oscar winning film of 2002.

In 1986, he changed his name to James Hicks and began his screenwriting career with films such as The Morning After (1986), directed by Sidney Lumet; the real-life drama Chattahoochee (1989) and the suspenseful Defenseless (1991).

From 1978 up until his death he was married to Michael Markgraf.

Cresson died on February, 2004.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rodrigo Amaro