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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.011 |
| Birthday | 1910-09-14 |
| Place of Birth | Wood Green, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | John Edward Hawkins, John Edward "Jack" Hawkins, |
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
7.995/3087
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1959
Ben-Hur
7.9/2833
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of t...
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Ben-Hur
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.816/2149
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1965
Masquerade
5/12
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Masquerade
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.7/44
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1965
Lord Jim
6.8/74
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in pa...
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Lord Jim
1948
The Fallen Idol
7.2/169
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...
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The Fallen Idol
1971
Kidnapped
6.2/32
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he canno...
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Kidnapped
1970
Waterloo
7.14/203
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the...
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Waterloo
1973
Theatre of Blood
6.731/227
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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Theatre of Blood
1952
Angels One Five
6.1/33
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
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Angels One Five
1964
Zulu
7.4/525
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered...
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Zulu
1973
Tales That Witness Madness
5.6/49
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains...
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Tales That Witness Madness
1965
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
0/0
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1955
Land of the Pharaohs
6.3/91
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his...
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Land of the Pharaohs
1950
The Black Rose
6.5/21
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of...
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The Black Rose
1951
No Highway in the Sky
6.9/58
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies...
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No Highway in the Sky
1958
Gideon's Day
6.3/29
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
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Gideon's Day
1964
Guns at Batasi
7.1/26
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Guns at Batasi
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
6.9/71
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
When Eight Bells Toll
5.7/49
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coas...
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When Eight Bells Toll
1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
5.8/53
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farc...
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
1949
The Small Back Room
6.7/67
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal office...
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The Small Back Room
1953
The Cruel Sea
6.955/67
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea
1968
Shalako
5.7/83
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
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Shalako
1972
Young Winston
6.2/46
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
1960
The League of Gentlemen
7/93
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa...
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The League of Gentlemen
1953
Malta Story
5.9/18
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese gi...
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Malta Story
1957
The Man in the Sky
7.1/8
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. A...
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The Man in the Sky
1952
Mandy
6.9/30
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....
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Mandy
1962
Lafayette
5.2/5
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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Lafayette
1956
The Long Arm
7/18
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1955
The Prisoner
7.2/20
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his...
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The Prisoner
1964
The Third Secret
6.1/27
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter...
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The Third Secret
1963
Rampage
5.1/11
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals a...
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Rampage
1934
Death at Broadcasting House
5.7/12
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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Death at Broadcasting House
1971
Sin
6.2/3
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, wh...
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Sin
1954
The Seekers
5.7/5
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
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The Seekers
1968
Great Catherine
5.6/7
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly c...
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Great Catherine
1970
Jane Eyre
7.1/12
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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Jane Eyre
1958
The Two-Headed Spy
6/16
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exa...
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The Two-Headed Spy
1939
Murder Will Out
0/0
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...
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Murder Will Out
1957
Fortune Is a Woman
6.8/15
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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Fortune Is a Woman
1950
State Secret
6.5/16
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demon...
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State Secret
1966
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8/21
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1950
The Elusive Pimpernel
6/8
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
1966
Judith
4.3/9
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Judith
1933
I Lived with You
5.4/5
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in....
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I Lived with You
1932
The Lodger
5.2/12
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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The Lodger
1952
The Planter's Wife
6.2/4
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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The Planter's Wife
1953
Twice Upon a Time
6/1
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while...
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Twice Upon a Time
1970
The Adventures of Gerard
6.4/6
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...
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The Adventures of Gerard
1934
Autumn Crocus
7/2
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
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Autumn Crocus
1935
Peg of Old Drury
6.3/3
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Peg of Old Drury
1962
Five Finger Exercise
4.8/3
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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Five Finger Exercise
1958
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1961
Two Loves
4.9/9
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her th...
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Two Loves
1952
Home at Seven
6.1/15
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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Home at Seven
1948
Bonnie Prince Charlie
4.7/5
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
1953
The Intruder
7.2/6
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. W...
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The Intruder
1937
The Frog
0/0
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious n...
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The Frog
1955
Touch and Go
6.3/9
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to u...
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Touch and Go
1930
Birds of Prey
6/3
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was...
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Birds of Prey
1954
Front Page Story
0/0
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane cr...
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Front Page Story
1951
Fortune in Diamonds
7.5/2
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where hi...
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Fortune in Diamonds
1940
The Flying Squad
6/3
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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The Flying Squad
1933
The Good Companions
5.8/4
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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The Good Companions
1933
The Lost Chord
0/0
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Lost Chord
1933
A Shot in the Dark
6/1
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record....
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A Shot in the Dark
1933
The Jewel
0/0
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
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The Jewel
1966
The Open Door
0/0
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in...
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The Open Door
1942
The Next of Kin
5/6
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this...
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The Next of Kin
1934
Lorna Doone
5.8/2
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the...
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Lorna Doone
1968
Stalked
4/1
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home t...
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Stalked
1937
Beauty and the Barge
6.4/5
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty o...
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Beauty and the Barge
1938
Who Goes Next?
6.4/5
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Who Goes Next?
1970
Twinky
4.8/24
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the...
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Twinky
1972
Escape to the Sun
4/1
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of...
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Escape to the Sun
1969
The Father
0/0
Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.
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The Father
1938
A Royal Divorce
0/0
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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A Royal Divorce
1972
The Last Lion
0/0
Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.
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The Last Lion
1952
Pathway Into Light
6/1
A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named after him, and the legacy he has left behind.
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