Jack Hawkins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-09-14 (63 years old)

Deathday

1973-07-18

Place of Birth

Wood Green, London, England, UK

Jack Hawkins

Biography

John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) 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).

Acting

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

as General Allenby

1959

Ben-Hur

as Quintus Arrius

1965

Masquerade

as Colonel Drexel

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as Emperor Franz Josef

1965

Lord Jim

as Marlow

1948

The Fallen Idol

as Detective Ames

1971

Kidnapped

as Captain Hoseason

1970

Waterloo

as General Sir Thomas Picton

1973

Theatre of Blood

as Solomon Psaltery

1952

Angels One Five

as Group Captain 'Tiger' Small

1964

Zulu

as Rev. Otto Witt

1973

1955

Land of the Pharaohs

as Pharaoh Khufu

1950

The Black Rose

as Tristram Griffin

1951

No Highway in the Sky

as Dennis Scott

1958

Gideon's Day

as Insp. George Gideon

1964

Guns at Batasi

as Colonel Deal

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

as Count Fredericks

1971

When Eight Bells Toll

as Sir Anthony Skouras

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!

as Count Levinovitch

1949

The Small Back Room

as R.B. Waring

1953

The Cruel Sea

as Ericson

1968

Shalako

as Sir Charles Daggett

1972

Young Winston

as Mr. Welldon

1953

Malta Story

as Air CO Frank

1957

The Man in the Sky

as John Mitchell

1952

Mandy

as Dick Searle

1962

Lafayette

as General Cornwallis

1956

The Long Arm

as Supt Tom Halliday

1955

The Prisoner

as The Interrogator

1964

The Third Secret

as Sir Frederick Belline

1963

Rampage

as Otto Abbot

1934

1971

Sin

as Father Nicholas

1954

The Seekers

as Phillip Wayne

1968

Great Catherine

as The British Ambassador

1970

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Brocklehurst

1958

The Two-Headed Spy

as Gen. Alex Schottland

1939

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

as Oliver Branwell

1950

State Secret

as Colonel Galcon

1966

1950

The Elusive Pimpernel

as Prince of Wales

1966

Judith

as Major Lawton

1933

1932

The Lodger

as Joe Martin

1952

The Planter's Wife

as Jim Frazer

1953

Twice Upon a Time

as Dr. Mathews

1970

The Adventures of Gerard

as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)

1934

Autumn Crocus

as Alaric

1935

Peg of Old Drury

as Michael O'Taffe

1962

Five Finger Exercise

as Stanley Harrington

1961

Two Loves

as William W.J. Abercrombie

1952

Home at Seven

as Dr. Sparling

1948

Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Lord George Murray

1953

The Intruder

as Wolf Merton

1937

The Frog

as Capt. Gordon

1955

Touch and Go

as Jim Fletcher

1930

Birds of Prey

as Alfred

1954

Front Page Story

as John Grant

1951

Fortune in Diamonds

as Pieter Brandt

1940

The Flying Squad

as Mark McGill

1933

1933

The Lost Chord

as Dr Jim Selby

1933

A Shot in the Dark

as Norman Paull

1933

The Jewel

as Peter Roberts

1966

The Open Door

as Colonel Mortimer

1942

The Next of Kin

as Brigade Major Harcourt

1934

Lorna Doone

as Member of the Court (uncredited)

1968

Stalked

as The Man

1937

Beauty and the Barge

as Lt. Seton Boyne

1938

1970

Twinky

as Judge Millington-Draper

1972

1969

The Father

as Captain Bill

1938

A Royal Divorce

as Capitaine Charles

1952

1959

Zwischen Glück und Krone

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1972

The Ruling Class

as Producer

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