Sep 14, 1910 - Wood Green, London, England, UK
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).
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| Movie | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | General Allenby | |
| Movie | 1959 | Ben-Hur | Quintus Arrius | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Maj. Warden | |
| Movie | 1965 | Masquerade | Colonel Drexel | |
| Movie | 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Emperor Franz Josef | |
| Movie | 1965 | Lord Jim | Marlow | |
| Movie | 1948 | The Fallen Idol | Detective Ames | |
| Movie | 1971 | Kidnapped | Captain Hoseason | |
| Movie | 1970 | Waterloo | General Sir Thomas Picton | |
| Movie | 1973 | Theatre of Blood | Solomon Psaltery | |
| Movie | 1952 | Angels One Five | Group Captain 'Tiger' Small | |
| Movie | 1964 | Zulu | Rev. Otto Witt | |
| Movie | 1973 | Tales That Witness Madness | Dr. Nicholas | |
| Movie | 1965 | The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne | Sir John Rampayne | |
| Movie | 1955 | Land of the Pharaohs | Pharaoh Khufu | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Black Rose | Tristram Griffin | |
| Movie | 1951 | No Highway in the Sky | Dennis Scott | |
| Movie | 1958 | Gideon's Day | Insp. George Gideon | |
| Movie | 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Count Fredericks | |
| Movie | 1964 | Guns at Batasi | Colonel Deal | |
| Movie | 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Sir Anthony Skouras | |
| Movie | 1969 | Monte Carlo or Bust! | Count Levinovitch | |
| Movie | 1949 | The Small Back Room | R.B. Waring | |
| Movie | 1953 | The Cruel Sea | Ericson | |
| Movie | 1968 | Shalako | Sir Charles Daggett | |
| Movie | 1972 | Young Winston | Mr. Welldon | |
| Movie | 1960 | The League of Gentlemen | Hyde | |
| Movie | 1953 | Malta Story | Air CO Frank | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Man in the Sky | John Mitchell | |
| Movie | 1952 | Mandy | Dick Searle | |
| Movie | 1962 | Lafayette | General Cornwallis | |
| Movie | 1956 | The Long Arm | Supt Tom Halliday | |
| Movie | 1955 | The Prisoner | The Interrogator | |
| Movie | 1964 | The Third Secret | Sir Frederick Belline | |
| Movie | 1963 | Rampage | Otto Abbot | |
| Movie | 1934 | Death at Broadcasting House | Herbert Evans | |
| Movie | 1971 | Sin | Father Nicholas | |
| Movie | 1954 | The Seekers | Phillip Wayne | |
| Movie | 1968 | Great Catherine | The British Ambassador | |
| Movie | 1970 | Jane Eyre | Mr. Brocklehurst | |
| Movie | 1958 | The Two-Headed Spy | Gen. Alex Schottland | |
| Movie | 1939 | Murder Will Out | Stamp | |
| Movie | 1957 | Fortune Is a Woman | Oliver Branwell | |
| Movie | 1950 | State Secret | Colonel Galcon | |
| Movie | 1966 | The Poppy Is Also a Flower | General Bahar | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Elusive Pimpernel | Prince of Wales | |
| Movie | 1966 | Judith | Major Lawton | |
| Movie | 1933 | I Lived with You | Mort | |
| Movie | 1932 | The Lodger | Joe Martin | |
| Movie | 1952 | The Planter's Wife | Jim Frazer | |
| Movie | 1953 | Twice Upon a Time | Dr. Mathews | |
| Movie | 1970 | The Adventures of Gerard | Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer) | |
| Movie | 1934 | Autumn Crocus | Alaric | |
| Movie | 1935 | Peg of Old Drury | Michael O'Taffe | |
| Movie | 1962 | Five Finger Exercise | Stanley Harrington | |
| Movie | 1958 | The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant | Self | |
| Movie | 1961 | Two Loves | William W.J. Abercrombie | |
| Movie | 1952 | Home at Seven | Dr. Sparling | |
| Movie | 1948 | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Lord George Murray | |
| Movie | 1953 | The Intruder | Wolf Merton | |
| Movie | 1937 | The Frog | Capt. Gordon | |
| Movie | 1955 | Touch and Go | Jim Fletcher | |
| Movie | 1930 | Birds of Prey | Alfred | |
| Movie | 1954 | Front Page Story | John Grant | |
| Movie | 1951 | Fortune in Diamonds | Pieter Brandt | |
| Movie | 1940 | The Flying Squad | Mark McGill | |
| Movie | 1933 | The Good Companions | Albert | |
| Movie | 1933 | The Lost Chord | Dr Jim Selby | |
| Movie | 1933 | A Shot in the Dark | Norman Paull | |
| Movie | 1933 | The Jewel | Peter Roberts | |
| Movie | 1966 | The Open Door | Colonel Mortimer | |
| Movie | 1942 | The Next of Kin | Brigade Major Harcourt | |
| Movie | 1934 | Lorna Doone | Member of the Court (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1968 | Stalked | The Man | |
| Movie | 1937 | Beauty and the Barge | Lt. Seton Boyne | |
| Movie | 1938 | Who Goes Next? | Beck | |
| Movie | 1970 | Twinky | Judge Millington-Draper | |
| Movie | 1972 | Escape to the Sun | Baburin | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Father | Captain Bill | |
| Movie | 1938 | A Royal Divorce | Capitaine Charles | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Last Lion | ||
| Movie | 1952 | Pathway Into Light | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1959 | Zwischen Glück und Krone | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1990 | Dors: The Other Diana | ||
| TV Show | 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Justin Post | 6 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Hancock's Half Hour | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1974 | QB VII | Justice Gilroy | 2 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Four Just Men | Ben Manfred | 39 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Silcox | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Four Just Men | Ben Manfred (uncredited) | 1 |
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| Movie | 1972 | The Ruling Class | Producer | Production |
