Jack Hawkins
Born: 1910-09-14 in Wood Green, London, England, UK
Died: 1973-07-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Edward Hawkins, CBE was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like Angels One Five (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben Hur (1959) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
Filmography
1974
- QB VII as Justice Gilroy
1973
- Theatre of Blood as Solomon Psaltery
- Tales That Witness Madness as Dr. Nicholas
1972
- The Ruling Class ... (Producer)
- Young Winston as Mr. Welldon
- Escape to the Sun as Baburin
- The Last Lion
1971
- Nicholas and Alexandra as Count Fredericks
- When Eight Bells Toll as Sir Anthony Skouras
- Kidnapped as Captain Hoseason
- Sin as Father Nicholas
1970
- Waterloo as General Sir Thomas Picton
- Twinky as Judge Millington-Draper
- Jane Eyre as Mr. Brocklehurst
- The Adventures of Gerard as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)
1969
- Monte Carlo or Bust! as Count Levinovitch
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Emperor Franz Josef
- The Father as Captain Bill
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Shalako as Sir Charles Daggett
- Great Catherine as The British Ambassador
- Stalked as The Man
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Colonel Mortimer
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower as General Bahar
- Judith as Major Lawton
- The Open Door as Colonel Mortimer
1965
- Lord Jim as Marlow
- Masquerade as Colonel Drexel
- The Party's Over ... (Producer)
- The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne as Sir John Rampayne
1964
- Zulu as Rev. Otto Witt
- Guns at Batasi as Colonel Deal
- The Third Secret as Sir Frederick Belline
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Silcox
- Rampage as Otto Abbot
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Lawrence of Arabia as General Allenby
- Lafayette as General Cornwallis
- Five Finger Exercise as Stanley Harrington
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Justin Post
- Two Loves as William W.J. Abercrombie
1960
- The League of Gentlemen as Hyde
1959
- Ben-Hur as Quintus Arrius
- The Four Just Men as Ben Manfred
1958
- Gideon's Day as Insp. George Gideon
- The Two-Headed Spy as Gen. Alex Schottland
- The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self
- ...On Seeing Film as Self
1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai as Maj. Warden
- The Man in the Sky as John Mitchell
- Fortune Is a Woman as Oliver Branwell
1956
- Hancock's Half Hour
- Armchair Theatre as Len Driver
- The Long Arm as Supt Tom Halliday
1955
- Land of the Pharaohs as Pharaoh Khufu
- Touch and Go as Jim Fletcher
- The Prisoner as The Interrogator
1954
- The Seekers as Phillip Wayne
- Front Page Story as John Grant
1953
- The Cruel Sea as Ericson
- The Intruder as Wolf Merton
- Malta Story as Air CO Frank
- Twice Upon a Time as Dr. Mathews
- This Little Ship as Self - Commentator
1952
- Mandy as Dick Searle
- Angels One Five as Group Captain 'Tiger' Small
- The Planter's Wife as Jim Frazer
- Home at Seven as Dr. Sparling
- Pathway Into Light as Narrator
1951
- No Highway in the Sky as Dennis Scott
- Fortune in Diamonds as Pieter Brandt
1950
- State Secret as Colonel Galcon
- The Black Rose as Tristram Griffin
- The Elusive Pimpernel as Prince of Wales
1949
- The Small Back Room as R.B. Waring
1948
- The Fallen Idol as Detective Ames
- Bonnie Prince Charlie as Lord George Murray
1942
- The Next of Kin as Brigade Major Harcourt
1940
- The Flying Squad as Mark McGill
1939
- Murder Will Out as Stamp
1938
- Who Goes Next? as Beck
- A Royal Divorce as Capitaine Charles
1937
- Beauty and the Barge as Lt. Seton Boyne
- The Frog as Capt. Gordon
1935
- Peg of Old Drury as Michael O'Taffe
1934
- Death at Broadcasting House as Herbert Evans
- Lorna Doone as Member of the Court (uncredited)
- Autumn Crocus as Alaric
1933
- The Good Companions as Albert
- A Shot in the Dark as Norman Paull
- The Lost Chord as Dr Jim Selby
- The Jewel as Peter Roberts
- I Lived with You as Mort
1932
- The Lodger as Joe Martin
1930
- Birds of Prey as Alfred