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Jack Hedley

Jack Hedley

Actor · 1930 – 2021 · London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Hedley,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie8.0

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962 · 3.6K votes

  • Movie6.6

    For Your Eyes Only

    1981 · 2.2K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Longest Day

    1962 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.6

    A Night to Remember

    1958 · 302 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Room at the Top

    1958 · 147 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Saint Paul

    2000 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Lo squartatore di New York

    The New York Ripper

    1982 · 334 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Scarlet Blade

    1963 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    1969 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Plot to Kill Hitler

    1990 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.6

    How I Won the War

    1967 · 39 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Karakter

    Character

    1997 · 121 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Of Human Bondage

    1964 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Anniversary

    1968 · 44 votes

  • Movie8.5

    Hindle Wakes

    1976 · 2 votes

  • Movie8.3

    Traitor

    1971 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie5.0

    Brief Encounter

    1976 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Witchcraft

    1964 · 35 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    1976 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Left Right and Centre

    1959 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Very Edge

    1963 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.9

    In the French Style

    1963 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Make Mine Mink

    1960 · 17 votes

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  • TV7.4

    The Saint

    1962 · 136 votes

  • TV7.1

    Remington Steele

    1982 · 147 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    ITV Playhouse

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV6.4

    Dalziel and Pascoe

    1996 · 29 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV4.3

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.8

    'Allo 'Allo!

    1984 · 280 votes

  • TV7.7

    UFO

    1970 · 62 votes

  • TV4.0

    ITV Play of the Week

    1955 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Return of the Saint

    1978 · 10 votes

  • TV7.1

    Out of the Unknown

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Third Man

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0

    Gideon's Way

    1965 · 5 votes

  • TV6.2

    Space Precinct

    1994 · 23 votes

  • TV6.8

    The World of Hammer

    1994 · 4 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Buccaneers

    1956 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Journey to the Unknown

    1968 · 4 votes

  • TV7.3

    Paul Temple

    1969 · 4 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV9.0
  • TV7.7

    Colditz

    1972 · 14 votes