
Birthday
1910/09/14
Day of death
1973/07/18 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wood Green, London, England, UK
Also know as
John Edward Hawkins, John Edward "Jack" Hawkins
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).

(1962) Lawrence of Arabia
as General Allenby

(1959) Ben-Hur
as Quintus Arrius

(1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Maj. Warden

(1965) Masquerade
as Colonel Drexel

(1969) Oh! What a Lovely War
as Emperor Franz Josef

(1965) Lord Jim
as Marlow

(1948) The Fallen Idol
as Detective Ames

(1971) Kidnapped
as Captain Hoseason

(1970) Waterloo
as General Sir Thomas Picton

(1973) Theatre of Blood
as Solomon Psaltery

(1952) Angels One Five
as Group Captain 'Tiger' Small

(1964) Zulu
as Rev. Otto Witt

(1973) Tales That Witness Madness
as Dr. Nicholas

(1965) The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
as Sir John Rampayne

(1955) Land of the Pharaohs
as Pharaoh Khufu

(1950) The Black Rose
as Tristram Griffin

(1951) No Highway in the Sky
as Dennis Scott

(1958) Gideon's Day
as Insp. George Gideon

(1971) Nicholas and Alexandra
as Count Fredericks

(1964) Guns at Batasi
as Colonel Deal

(1971) When Eight Bells Toll
as Sir Anthony Skouras

(1969) Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Count Levinovitch

(1949) The Small Back Room
as R.B. Waring

(1953) The Cruel Sea
as Ericson

(1968) Shalako
as Sir Charles Daggett

(1972) Young Winston
as Mr. Welldon

(1960) The League of Gentlemen
as Hyde

(1953) Malta Story
as Air CO Frank

(1957) The Man in the Sky
as John Mitchell

(1952) Mandy
as Dick Searle

(1962) Lafayette
as General Cornwallis

(1956) The Long Arm
as Supt Tom Halliday

(1955) The Prisoner
as The Interrogator

(1964) The Third Secret
as Sir Frederick Belline

(1963) Rampage
as Otto Abbot

(1934) Death at Broadcasting House
as Herbert Evans

(1971) Sin
as Father Nicholas

(1954) The Seekers
as Phillip Wayne

(1968) Great Catherine
as The British Ambassador

(1970) Jane Eyre
as Mr. Brocklehurst

(1958) The Two-Headed Spy
as Gen. Alex Schottland
(1939) Murder Will Out
as Stamp

(1957) Fortune Is a Woman
as Oliver Branwell

(1950) State Secret
as Colonel Galcon

(1966) The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as General Bahar

(1950) The Elusive Pimpernel
as Prince of Wales

(1966) Judith
as Major Lawton

(1933) I Lived with You
as Mort

(1932) The Lodger
as Joe Martin

(1952) The Planter's Wife
as Jim Frazer

(1953) Twice Upon a Time
as Dr. Mathews

(1970) The Adventures of Gerard
as Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)

(1934) Autumn Crocus
as Alaric

(1935) Peg of Old Drury
as Michael O'Taffe

(1962) Five Finger Exercise
as Stanley Harrington

(1958) The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self

(1961) Two Loves
as William W.J. Abercrombie

(1952) Home at Seven
as Dr. Sparling

(1948) Bonnie Prince Charlie
as Lord George Murray

(1953) The Intruder
as Wolf Merton

(1937) The Frog
as Capt. Gordon

(1955) Touch and Go
as Jim Fletcher

(1930) Birds of Prey
as Alfred
(1954) Front Page Story
as John Grant

(1951) Fortune in Diamonds
as Pieter Brandt

(1940) The Flying Squad
as Mark McGill

(1933) The Good Companions
as Albert
(1933) The Lost Chord
as Dr Jim Selby
(1933) A Shot in the Dark
as Norman Paull
(1933) The Jewel
as Peter Roberts

(1966) The Open Door
as Colonel Mortimer

(1942) The Next of Kin
as Brigade Major Harcourt

(1934) Lorna Doone
as Member of the Court (uncredited)

(1968) Stalked
as The Man

(1937) Beauty and the Barge
as Lt. Seton Boyne
(1938) Who Goes Next?
as Beck

(1970) Twinky
as Judge Millington-Draper

(1972) Escape to the Sun
as Baburin
(1969) The Father
as Captain Bill

(1938) A Royal Divorce
as Capitaine Charles
(1972) The Last Lion
as ---
(1952) Pathway Into Light
as Narrator

(1990) Dors: The Other Diana
as ---
(1953) This Little Ship
as Self - Commentator

(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self

(1966) Mystery and Imagination
as ---

(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Justin Post

(1956) Hancock's Half Hour
as ---

(1974) QB VII
as Justice Gilroy

(1959) The Four Just Men
as Ben Manfred

(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Silcox

(1959) The Four Just Men
as Ben Manfred (uncredited)