Jack Hawkins
Birthday: 1910-09-14
Place of Birth: Wood Green, London, England, UK
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).
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Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...
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Ben-Hur
In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
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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 J...
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Masquerade
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince....
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Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...
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Lord Jim
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...
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The Fallen Idol
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His percepti...
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Kidnapped
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to b...
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Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...
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Theatre of Blood
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition....
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Angels One Five
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front ...
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Zulu
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...
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Tales That Witness Madness
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Vis...
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors...
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Land of the Pharaohs
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-ab...
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The Black Rose
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With h...
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No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...
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Gideon's Day
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-vi...
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Guns at Batasi
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must u...
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...
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When Eight Bells Toll
Phillip Calvert is a British Treasury secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of...
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally fro...
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...
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Shalako
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting p...
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Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...
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The League of Gentlemen
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special pro...
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Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...
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The Man in the Sky
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two childr...
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Mandy
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school a...
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Lafayette
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the Amer...
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The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...
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The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his re...
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The Third Secret
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst ...
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Rampage
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash ov...
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Death at Broadcasting House
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadca...
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Sin
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late f...
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Great Catherine
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, ...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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The Two-Headed Spy
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobio...
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Murder Will Out
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for ...
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Fortune Is a Woman
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam....
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State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious Ea...
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to...
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The Elusive Pimpernel
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine....
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Judith
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband....
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I Lived with You
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him ...
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The Lodger
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of ki...
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The Planter's Wife
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forc...
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Twice Upon a Time
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they...
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The Adventures of Gerard
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard,...
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Autumn Crocus
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a h...
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Peg of Old Drury
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Face...
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Five Finger Exercise
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family....
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (195...
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Two Loves
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand....
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Home at Seven
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder....
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose...
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The Intruder
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the t...
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The Frog
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the F...
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Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir...
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Birds of Prey
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of da...
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Front Page Story
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some ...
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Fortune in Diamonds
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He return...
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The Flying Squad
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organi...
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The Good Companions
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failin...
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The Lost Chord
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalo...
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A Shot in the Dark
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to se...
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The Open Door
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill,...
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The Next of Kin
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the wal...
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Lorna Doone
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone ...
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Stalked
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled c...
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Beauty and the Barge
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the...
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Who Goes Next?
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-wa...
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Twinky
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school g...
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Escape to the Sun
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monito...
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The Father
Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story se...
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A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's ...
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Pathway Into Light
A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named...
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Dors: The Other Diana
Documentary about the life and career of actress Diana Dors, Britain's own "Blonde Bombshell"....
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