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John Edward "Jack" 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.
He was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, now in Haringey, London, the son of a builder. He was educated at Wood Green’s Trinity County Grammar School, where, aged eight he joined the school choir,. By the age of ten Hawkins had joined the local operatic society, and made his stage debut in Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan. His parents enrolled him in the Italia Conti Academy and whilst he was studying there he made his London stage debut, when aged eleven, playing the Elf King in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire on Boxing Day, December 1923, a production that also included the young Noël Coward. He appeared on Broadway in Journey's End by the age of 18. Although he appeared in several films during the 1930s, it was only after service in World War II, during which he had become a colonel in ENSA for India and Southeast Asia, that he began to build a successful career in the cinema.
Actors: John Mitchum (actor), Andrew Prine (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Patrick Cranshaw (actor), Robert Adler (actor), Will Geer (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Harry Carey Jr. (actor), Tom Heaton (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Jock Mahoney (actor), Dean Martin (actor), Sean McClory (actor), Denver Pyle (actor),
Plot: Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Keywords: ambush, attempted-rape, bag-of-money, bandit, bank-robbery, battle, blood, blood-spatter, border-crossing, brawlActors: Paul Fix (actor), James Flavin (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Robert Allen (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Walter Connolly (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), William Arnold (actor), John Gallaudet (actor),
Genres: Drama,