Jack Hawkins
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).
Ben-Hur
as Quintus ArriusIn 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely...
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The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt...
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In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in...
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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of...
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Waterloo
as General Sir Thomas PictonAfter defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is...
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Lord Jim
as MarlowAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem...
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The League of Gentlemen
as HydeInvoluntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special...
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Shalako
as Sir Charles DaggettSean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British...
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The Small Back Room
as R.B. WaringAt the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on...
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Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is...
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Land of the Pharaohs
as Pharaoh KhufuA captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a...
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Theatre of Blood
as Solomon PsalteryA Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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The Cruel Sea
as EricsonAt the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
as Emperor Franz JosefThe working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...
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The Fallen Idol
as Detective AmesPhillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...
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Kidnapped
as Captain HoseasonScottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David...
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Twinky
as Judge Millington-DraperA middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old...
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Tales That Witness Madness
as Dr. NicholasDr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases....
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No Highway in the Sky
as Dennis ScottJames Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded...
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Young Winston
as Mr. WelldonThis historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill,...
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Gideon's Day
as Insp. George GideonScotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a...
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The Prisoner
as The InterrogatorA cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for...
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as General BaharA special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across...
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Count LevinovitchSequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally...
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The Two-Headed Spy
as Gen. Alex SchottlandWartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's...
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The Seekers
as Phillip WayneA western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a...
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When Eight Bells Toll
as Sir Anthony SkourasIn a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine...
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The Long Arm
as Supt Tom HallidayScotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning...
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State Secret
as Colonel GalconVisiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European...
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Fortune Is a Woman
as Oliver BranwellAn insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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Mandy
as Dick SearleLondon, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches...
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The Third Secret
as Sir Frederick BellineA prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief...
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Jane Eyre
as Mr. BrocklehurstJane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield...
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The Next of Kin
as Brigade Major HarcourtLots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the...
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The Black Rose
as Tristram GriffinIn the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England....
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Guns at Batasi
as Colonel DealAn anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat...
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Angels One Five
as Group Captain 'Tiger' SmallThe year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a...
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Malta Story
as Air CO FrankMalta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island,...
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The Elusive Pimpernel
as Prince of WalesA British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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The Adventures of Gerard
as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne...
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The Planter's Wife
as Jim FrazerThe wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is...
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Lafayette
as General CornwallisThe story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the...
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Masquerade
as Colonel DrexelThe British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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The Intruder
as Wolf MertonWhen Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that...
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The Man in the Sky
as John MitchellThe efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two...
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Great Catherine
as The British AmbassadorWhen British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St....
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Judith
as Major LawtonA Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Home at Seven
as Dr. SparlingUnable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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Rampage
as Otto AbbotIn colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton...
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Two Loves
as William W.J. AbercrombieAmerican-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New...
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Lorna Doone
as Member of the Court (uncredited)High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
as Lord George MurrayScotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the...
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The Frog
as Capt. GordonIn this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask...
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Touch and Go
as Jim FletcherWhen Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the...
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The Lodger
as Joe MartinAn elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series...
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Sin
as Father NicholasWhen Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his...
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Death at Broadcasting House
as Herbert EvansAn actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and...
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Twice Upon a Time
as Dr. MathewsA pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when...
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai...
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Autumn Crocus
as AlaricA teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during...
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Who Goes Next?
as BeckDuring the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a...
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Stalked
as The ManIn what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a...
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Peg of Old Drury
as Michael O'Taffea biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and...
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The Good Companions
as AlbertFilm musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a...
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Fortune in Diamonds
as Pieter BrandtAs the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He...
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The Flying Squad
as Mark McGillInspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling...
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
as Sir John RampayneAn elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his...
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A Royal Divorce
as Capitaine CharlesThe love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through...
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Birds of Prey
as AlfredAt a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject...
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A Shot in the Dark
as Norman PaullThe relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house...
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Beauty and the Barge
as Lt. Seton BoyneA young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee...
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Escape to the Sun
as BaburinTwo young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are...
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I Lived with You
as MortIn London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces...
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The Open Door
as Colonel MortimerColonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed...
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Five Finger Exercise
as Stanley HarringtonThe arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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Call the Midwife
as Christopher DockerillDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...
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Dr. Kildare
as Justin PostThe story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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Hancock's Half Hour
as uncreditedHancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and...
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Mystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
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The Four Just Men
as Ben ManfredThe Four Just Men was a 1959 Sapphire Films production for ITC Entertainment. It ran for one...
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QB VII
as Justice GilroyA physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
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