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Jack Hedley (born in London on 28 October 1930 as Jack Hawkins, name changed to avoid confusion with his namesake) was an English actor, best known for his performances on television.
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Jack Hedley (born in London on 28 October 1930 as Jack Hawkins, name changed to avoid confusion with his namesake) was an English actor, best known for his performances on television.
1984
Jack Hedley (born in London on 28 October 1930 as Jack Hawkins, name changed to avoid confusion with his namesake) was an English actor, best known for his performances on television.
His screen career began in 1950 with a 13-minute drama-documentary about polio called A Life to be Lived. In the 1950s he starred in a number of films and TV appearances, such as Left Right and Centre, Fair Game, and the Alun Owen-scripted No Trams to Lime Street with Billie Whitelaw. He became a TV star in the Francis Durbridge-scripted BBC series The World of Tim Frazer (transmitted from November 1960 to March 1961), the 18 instalments of which comprised three separate serials of six episodes each. He also played Corrigan Blake in Alun Owen's 1962 BBC play You Can't Win 'Em All, the role being taken over by John Turner in the series Corrigan Blake that resulted the following year. He was also in Alun Owen's 'A Little Winter Love'.
He appeared in a number of British films of the 1960s, notably Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Scarlet Blade (1963), Witchcraft (1964), Of Human Bondage (1964), The Secret of Blood Island (1964) and The Anniversary (1968). He also had roles in several 1970s BBC dramas, such as that of Lt Colonel Preston in Colditz (1972-4) and ex-serviceman Alan Haldane in Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977). Reportedly, the series was marked off-screen by personality clashes between Hedley and his co-stars Betty Arvaniti and Maria Sokali.
Hedley later appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as Sir Timothy Havelock, also voicing Havelock's parrot. Soon after this, in the autumn of 1981 he played the lead role (cynical investigative cop Fred Williams) in Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper (Lo squartatore di New York), in which his voice was dubbed. He also starred with Stanley Baker and Jean Seberg in the film of Irwin Shaw's 'In The French Style'.
Other TV appearances include: The Saint, Gideon's Way (The Alibi Man), Softly, Softly, Dixon of Dock Green, The Buccaneers, Return of the Saint, One by One, Remington Steele, Only Fools and Horses (A Royal Flush), 'Allo 'Allo, Dalziel and Pascoe, and the television film version of Brief Encounter.
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Gender
Male
Birthday
October 28, 1930
Died
December 11, 2021
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Also Known As
For Your Eyes Only
1981
The Longest Day
1962
Saint Paul
2000
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Of Human Bondage
1964
The Scarlet Blade
1963
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
In the French Style
1963
The Waiting Game
1967
Character
1997
Make Mine Mink
1960
Brief Encounter
1976
This Body Is Mine
1971
Room at the Top
1958
A Night to Remember
1958
Hindle Wakes
1976
Traitor
1971
The New York Ripper
1982
The Devil's Advocate
1977
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1976
+ 12 more movies
The Saint
1962
Remington Steele
1982
'Allo 'Allo!
1984
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Gideon's Way
1965
UFO
1970
No Hiding Place
1959
Theatre 625
1964
The Third Man
1959
Return of the Saint
1978
ITV Play of the Week
1955
The Buccaneers
1956
Space Precinct
1994
Journey to the Unknown
1968
Colditz
1972
Paul Temple
1969
Out of the Unknown
1965
Wedden, dat..?
1986
The Frighteners
1972
The World of Hammer
1994
+ 10 more TV shows