Jack Hawkins
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).
Born: September 14, 1910
Place of Birth: Wood Green, London, England, UK
Known For
Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Ben-Hur
In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
QB VII
A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
Fortune in Diamonds
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
The Man in the Sky
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Zulu
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
The Intruder
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Filmography
as Justice Gilroy
as Dr. Nicholas
as Solomon Psaltery
as Baburin
as Mr. Welldon
as Captain Hoseason
as Count Fredericks
as Sir Anthony Skouras
as Father Nicholas
as Mr. Brocklehurst
as General Sir Thomas Picton
as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)
as Judge Millington-Draper
as Count Levinovitch
as Emperor Franz Josef
as The British Ambassador
as Sir Charles Daggett
as Self - Guest
as The Man
as General Bahar
as Colonel Mortimer
as Colonel Mortimer
as Major Lawton
as Sir John Rampayne
as Colonel Drexel
as Marlow
as Colonel Deal
as Sir Frederick Belline
as Rev. Otto Witt
as Otto Abbot
as General Allenby
as Self
as Stanley Harrington
as General Cornwallis
as Justin Post
as William W.J. Abercrombie
as Hyde
as Quintus Arrius
as Ben Manfred
as Ben Manfred (uncredited)
as Gen. Alex Schottland
as Insp. George Gideon
as Maj. Warden
as Oliver Branwell
as John Mitchell
as Supt Tom Halliday
as Jim Fletcher
as Pharaoh Khufu
as The Interrogator
as Phillip Wayne
as John Grant
as Wolf Merton
as Dr. Mathews
as Air CO Frank
as Ericson
as Jim Frazer
as Dick Searle
as Group Captain 'Tiger' Small
as Dr. Sparling
as Dennis Scott
as Pieter Brandt
as Prince of Wales
as Colonel Galcon
as Tristram Griffin
as R.B. Waring
as Lord George Murray
as Detective Ames
as Brigade Major Harcourt
as Mark McGill
as Capitaine Charles
as Beck
as Capt. Gordon
as Lt. Seton Boyne
as Michael O'Taffe
as Member of the Court (uncredited)
as Herbert Evans
as Alaric
as Mort
as Dr Jim Selby
as Albert
as Joe Martin
as Alfred