- Jack Hedley
Jack Hedley (né Jack Hawkins, name changed to avoid confusion with his namesake) (born 1930 in
London ) is an English actor, best known for his performances ontelevision .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, 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 had a good run in British films of the 1960s, notably "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). Signed to Hammer Films he made, "
Witchcraft " (1964), "Of Human Bondage" (1964) "The Scarlet Blade " (1963), "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); the latter series instigated a vast increase in tourism to North East Crete, in which it was filmed. Reportedly, the series was marked off-screen by personality clashes between Hedley and his co-stars Betty Arvaniti and Maria Sokali.He 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 notorious "Lo squartatore di New York ", aka The New York Ripper.(unfortunately his performance was dubbed)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, "Kate ", and the TV movie version of "Brief Encounter ".External links
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For Jack Hedley the footballer see
Jack (John Robert) Hedley
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