Jack Hedley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 28, 1930
- Died
- December 11, 2021 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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'. 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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Filmography
Space Precinct: The Fire Within
Movie · as The Icar Vedra
Saint Paul
Movie · as Hoherpriester
Saint Paul
TV · as Hoherpriester · 2 eps
Character
Movie · as Mr. Forester
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV · as Alessandro Pontelli · 1 ep
Space Precinct
TV · as The Icar Vedra · 2 eps
The World of Hammer
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
Mr Don & Mr George
TV · as Brigadier Baybeigh · 1 ep
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie · as General Adolf Heusinger
A Quiet Conspiracy
TV · as Charles Latimer · 4 eps
Three Kinds of Heat
Movie · as Kirkland
Wedden, dat..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
'Allo 'Allo!
TV · as General von Karzibrot · 2 eps
The New York Ripper
Movie · as Lt. Fred Williams
Remington Steele
TV · as G.W. Wainright / Benjamin Applegate · 1 ep
For Your Eyes Only
Movie · as Sir Timothy Havelock
Orient Express
TV · as Robert Miles · 1 ep
Return of the Saint
TV · as Colonel Dyson · 1 ep
The Devil's Advocate
Movie · as Doctor
Who Pays the Ferryman?
TV · 8 eps
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie · as Gooper
Brief Encounter
Movie · as Graham Jesson
Hindle Wakes
Movie · as Chris Hawthorn
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV · as Chris Hawthorn · 1 ep
The Break
Movie · as Gerald
Colditz
TV · as Lt. Col. John Preston · 28 eps
The Frighteners
TV · as Driver · 1 ep
This Body Is Mine
Movie · as Jack Gregory
Traitor
Movie · as James
UFO
TV · as Webb · 1 ep
Confession
TV · as Ernest Hammond · 1 ep
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movie · as William Baxter
Paul Temple
TV · 2 eps
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as Ralph Day, Mike · 1 ep
The Anniversary
Movie · as Terry Taggart
The Explorer
Movie · as Robin Hamilton
Journey to the Unknown
TV · as Adam Frost · 1 ep
The Waiting Game
Movie · as Percy Hemlow
How I Won the War
Movie · as Melancholy Musketeer
ITV Playhouse
TV · as Sean Jameson, Robin Hamilton · 1 ep
City '68
TV · as Percy Hemlow · 1 ep
Boy Meets Girl
TV · as Robert Stevens · 1 ep
Trapped
TV · as Laurence Carpenter · 1 ep
The Informer
TV · as John Harlton · 1 ep
Gideon's Way
TV · as Bruce Carroway · 1 ep
Out of the Unknown
TV · as Jack Gregory · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Carrados · 1 ep
The Secret of Blood Island
Movie · as Sgt. John Crewe
Witchcraft
Movie · as Bill Lanier
Of Human Bondage
Movie · as Griffiths
Theatre 625
TV · as Owen Davies · 1 ep
The Scarlet Blade
Movie · as Edward Beverley
The Very Edge
Movie · as Inspector McInnes
In the French Style
Movie · as Bill Norton
Lawrence of Arabia
Movie · as Reporter at Lawrence's Funeral (uncredited)
The Longest Day
Movie · as RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
The Saint
TV · as Duncan Rawl · 1 ep
Corrigan Blake
TV · 1 ep
Never Back Losers
Movie · as Jim Mathews
Make Mine Mink
Movie · as Jim Benham
Cone of Silence
Movie · as First Officer
The World of Tim Frazer
TV · 18 eps
Armchair Mystery Theatre
TV · as John Stratfold, Mike Dawson · 1 ep
Left Right and Centre
Movie · as Bill Hemmingway
No Hiding Place
TV · 2 eps
The Third Man
TV · 1 ep
A Night to Remember
Movie · as Passenger on deck (uncredited)
Room at the Top
Movie · as Architect (uncredited)
Behind the Mask
Movie · as Dr. Galbraith
Fair Game
TV · as Ian Arbuthnot · 1 ep
The Buccaneers
TV · as Raikes · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Jerry Noble · 1 ep
ITV Play of the Week
TV · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Graham Jesson · 1 ep