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Jack Hawkins
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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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The League of Gentlemen
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Bridge on the River Kwai
As Maj. Warden
Lawrence of Arabia
As General Edmund Allenby
Zulu
As Rev. Otto Witt
The Fallen Idol
As Detective Ames
The Small Back Room
As R.B. Waring
Theatre of Blood
As Solomon Psaltery
Guns at Batasi
As Colonel Deal
Chains
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
The Heist Film Slips Its Own Cuffs
Seven robberies that treat the job as a pretext: for politics, for grief, for a formal joke. The loot matters less than what the filmmakers smuggle out alongsid...
7 films
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Theatre of Blood
1973 · Solomon Psaltery
Guns at Batasi
1964 · Colonel Deal
Zulu
1964 · Rev. Otto Witt
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · General Edmund Allenby
The League of Gentlemen
1960 · Hyde
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Maj. Warden
Touch and Go
1955 · Jim Fletcher
The Small Back Room
1949 · R.B. Waring
The Fallen Idol
1948 · Detective Ames