Actor
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). ...

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