Jack Hawkins
John Edward Hawkins ( born 14 September 1910 in Wood Green, London, † 18 July 1973 in London ) was a British actor.
Life
At the age of 12 years, Hawkins made his acting debut in a Christmas play in London. At 18, he appeared in the play Journeys End Broadway. Although he had already been frequently seen in the 1930s in the film, his career took until after the end of World War II, in which he took part as a soldier in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, ride on. Subscribes to authoritarian character roles he played in 1955 on the side of Joan Collins in Howard Hawks ' epic film Land of the Pharaohs, 1957 in David Lean's oscarprämiertem masterpiece The Bridge on the River Kwai, and finally in 1959 as Quintus Arrius in William Wyler's biblical epic Ben Hur (1959). In the Federal Republic of Germany, he was the four righteous from the years 1959 to 1960, which was broadcast in 1964 by ZDF, very best known as Ben Manfred in the TV series. In 1966 he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, as a result, his larynx had to be removed. Hawkins was in spite of this serious disease acting up and was not with the voice of the actor Charles Gray ( Ernst Stavro Blofeld known as in Diamonds Are Forever ) underlaid.
Hawkins was married from 1932 to 1941 to actress Jessica Tandy, with whom he had a daughter. From the marriage with the actress Doreen Lawrence (1919-2013), whom he had married in 1947, originate another daughter and two sons. His second marriage lasted until his death. Hawkins died in 1973 after a further laryngeal surgery at the age of 62 years.