Jack Hawkins

Known for: Acting

Born: 1910-09-14 – 1973-07-18 (aged 62)

From: Wood Green, London, England, UK

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 (95)

MOVIE
Dors: The Other Diana
1990
TV★ 7.7
QB VII
1974
as Justice Gilroy
MOVIE★ 5.5
Tales That Witness Madness
1973
as Dr. Nicholas
MOVIE★ 6.7
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Solomon Psaltery
MOVIE★ 4.3
Escape to the Sun
1972
as Baburin
MOVIE★ 6.2
Young Winston
1972
as Mr. Welldon
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Last Lion
1972
MOVIE★ 6.3
Kidnapped
1971
as Captain Hoseason
MOVIE★ 7.0
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Count Fredericks
MOVIE★ 5.7
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Sir Anthony Skouras
MOVIE★ 5.5
Sin
1971
as Father Nicholas
MOVIE★ 7.0
Jane Eyre
1970
as Mr. Brocklehurst
MOVIE★ 7.1
Waterloo
1970
as General Sir Thomas Picton
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Adventures of Gerard
1970
as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)
MOVIE★ 4.8
Twinky
1970
as Judge Millington-Draper
MOVIE★ 5.9
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
as Count Levinovitch
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Father
1969
as Captain Bill
MOVIE★ 6.7
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as Emperor Franz Josef
MOVIE★ 5.9
Great Catherine
1968
as The British Ambassador
MOVIE★ 5.6
Shalako
1968
as Sir Charles Daggett
TV★ 6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MOVIE★ 6.5
Stalked
1968
as The Man
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as General Bahar
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Open Door
1966
as Colonel Mortimer
TV★ 5.8
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Colonel Mortimer
MOVIE★ 4.8
Judith
1966
as Major Lawton
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1965
as Sir John Rampayne
MOVIE★ 5.1
Masquerade
1965
as Colonel Drexel
MOVIE★ 6.8
Lord Jim
1965
as Marlow
MOVIE★ 7.1
Guns at Batasi
1964
as Colonel Deal
TV★ 5.2
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Sir John Rampayne
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Third Secret
1964
as Sir Frederick Belline
MOVIE★ 7.4
Zulu
1964
as Rev. Otto Witt
MOVIE★ 5.3
Rampage
1963
as Otto Abbot
TV★ 5.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Silcox
MOVIE★ 8.0
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
as General Allenby
TV★ 6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.6
Five Finger Exercise
1962
as Stanley Harrington
MOVIE★ 5.9
Lafayette
1962
as General Cornwallis
TV★ 5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Justin Post
MOVIE★ 5.4
Two Loves
1961
as William W.J. Abercrombie
MOVIE★ 7.0
The League of Gentlemen
1960
as Hyde
MOVIE★ 7.9
Ben-Hur
1959
as Quintus Arrius
TV★ 7.7
The Four Just Men
1959
as Ben Manfred
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Two-Headed Spy
1958
as Gen. Alex Schottland
MOVIE★ 6.4
Gideon's Day
1958
as Insp. George Gideon
MOVIE
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
as Self
MOVIE
...On Seeing Film
1958
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
as Maj. Warden
MOVIE★ 6.8
Fortune Is a Woman
1957
as Oliver Branwell
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Man in the Sky
1957
as John Mitchell
TV★ 6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Len Driver
TV★ 7.4
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Long Arm
1956
as Supt Tom Halliday
MOVIE★ 6.6
Touch and Go
1955
as Jim Fletcher
MOVIE★ 6.4
Land of the Pharaohs
1955
as Pharaoh Khufu
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Prisoner
1955
as The Interrogator
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Seekers
1954
as Phillip Wayne
MOVIE★ 8.0
Front Page Story
1954
as John Grant
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Intruder
1953
as Wolf Merton
MOVIE★ 7.0
Twice Upon a Time
1953
as Dr. Mathews
MOVIE★ 6.1
Malta Story
1953
as Air CO Frank
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Cruel Sea
1953
as Ericson
MOVIE★ 8.0
This Little Ship
1953
as Self - Commentator
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Planter's Wife
1952
as Jim Frazer
MOVIE★ 7.1
Mandy
1952
as Dick Searle
MOVIE★ 6.1
Angels One Five
1952
as Group Captain 'Tiger' Small
MOVIE★ 6.5
Home at Seven
1952
as Dr. Sparling
MOVIE★ 6.0
Pathway Into Light
1952
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.0
No Highway in the Sky
1951
as Dennis Scott
MOVIE★ 7.5
Fortune in Diamonds
1951
as Pieter Brandt
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Prince of Wales
MOVIE★ 6.9
State Secret
1950
as Colonel Galcon
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Black Rose
1950
as Tristram Griffin
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Small Back Room
1949
as R.B. Waring
MOVIE★ 5.5
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
as Lord George Murray
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Fallen Idol
1948
as Detective Ames
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Next of Kin
1942
as Brigade Major Harcourt
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Flying Squad
1940
as Mark McGill
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Murder Will Out
1939
as Stamp
MOVIE★ 9.0
A Royal Divorce
1938
as Capitaine Charles
MOVIE★ 7.0
Who Goes Next?
1938
as Beck
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Frog
1937
as Capt. Gordon
MOVIE★ 6.7
Beauty and the Barge
1937
as Lt. Seton Boyne
MOVIE★ 6.8
Peg of Old Drury
1935
as Michael O'Taffe
MOVIE★ 6.5
Lorna Doone
1934
as Member of the Court (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Death at Broadcasting House
1934
as Herbert Evans
MOVIE★ 7.7
Autumn Crocus
1934
as Alaric
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Shot in the Dark
1933
as Norman Paull
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Jewel
1933
as Peter Roberts
MOVIE★ 6.0
I Lived with You
1933
as Mort
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Lost Chord
1933
as Dr Jim Selby
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Good Companions
1933
as Albert
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Lodger
1932
as Joe Martin
MOVIE★ 6.4
Birds of Prey
1930
as Alfred