Jack Hedley
34 movies · 38 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 28, 1930
- Died
- Dec 11, 2021 (age 91)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Джек Хедли
Biography
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'.
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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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Known for
Jack Hedley: movies and TV shows
Acting (72)
- 2025 Space Precinct: The Fire Within
as The Icar Vedra
- 2000 Saint Paul
as Hoherpriester
- 2000
- 1997 Character
as Mr. Forester
- 1996
- 1994
- 1993
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler
as General Adolf Heusinger
- 1989
- 1987 Three Kinds of Heat
as Kirkland
- 1984
- 1982
- 1982 The New York Ripper
as Lt. Fred Williams
- 1981 For Your Eyes Only
as Sir Timothy Havelock
- 1979
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977 The Devil's Advocate
as Doctor
- 1976 Hindle Wakes
as Chris Hawthorn
- 1976 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Gooper
- 1976
- 1976 Brief Encounter
as Graham Jesson
- 1974 The Break
as Gerald
- 1972
- 1972
- 1971 Traitor
as James
- 1971 This Body Is Mine
as Jack Gregory
- 1970
- 1970
- 1969
- 1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as William Baxter
- 1969
- 1968 The Explorer
as Robin Hamilton
- 1968
- 1968 The Anniversary
as Terry Taggart
- 1967 The Waiting Game
as Percy Hemlow
- 1967
- 1967 How I Won the War
as Melancholy Musketeer
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964 The Secret of Blood Island
as Sgt. John Crewe
- 1964 Of Human Bondage
as Griffiths
- 1964
- 1964 Witchcraft
as Bill Lanier
- 1963 In the French Style
as Bill Norton
- 1963 The Scarlet Blade
as Edward Beverley
- 1963 The Very Edge
as Inspector McInnes
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia
as Reporter at Lawrence's Funeral (uncredited)
- 1962
- 1962 The Longest Day
as RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
- 1962
- 1961 Never Back Losers
as Jim Mathews
- 1960
- 1960 Make Mine Mink
as Jim Benham
- 1960
- 1960 Cone of Silence
as First Officer
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Left Right and Centre
as Bill Hemmingway
- 1958 Room at the Top
as Architect (uncredited)
- 1958 Behind the Mask
as Dr. Galbraith
- 1958
- 1958 A Night to Remember
as Passenger on deck (uncredited)
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1994 The World of Hammer
3 episodes
- 1986 Wedden, dat..?
1 episode