Jack Hedley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 28, 1930
- Died
- Dec 11, 2021 (aged 91)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Credits
- 74
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.
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Known for
Lawrence of Arabia
1962Movie
Reporter (uncredited)
For Your Eyes Only
1981Movie
Sir Timothy Havelock
The Longest Day
1962Movie
RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
The New York Ripper
1982Movie
Lt. Fred Williams
A Night to Remember
1958Movie
Passenger on deck (uncredited)
'Allo 'Allo!
1984TV
General von Karzibrot
Filmography
Space Precinct: The Fire Within
2025Movie
The Icar Vedra
Saint Paul
2000Movie
Hoherpriester
Saint Paul
2000TV
Hoherpriester
Character
1997Movie
Mr. Forester
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996TV
Alessandro Pontelli
Space Precinct
1994TV
The Icar Vedra
The World of Hammer
1994TV
Self (archive footage)
Mr Don & Mr George
1993TV
Brigadier Baybeigh
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990Movie
General Adolf Heusinger
A Quiet Conspiracy
1989TV
Charles Latimer
Three Kinds of Heat
1987Movie
Kirkland
Wedden, dat..?
1986TV
Self
'Allo 'Allo!
1984TV
General von Karzibrot
Remington Steele
1982TV
G.W. Wainright / Benjamin Applegate
The New York Ripper
1982Movie
Lt. Fred Williams
For Your Eyes Only
1981Movie
Sir Timothy Havelock
Orient Express
1979TV
Robert Miles
Return of the Saint
1978TV
Colonel Dyson
Who Pays the Ferryman?
1977TV
The Devil's Advocate
1977Movie
Doctor
Hindle Wakes
1976Movie
Chris Hawthorn
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1976Movie
Gooper
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976TV
Chris Hawthorn
Brief Encounter
1976Movie
Graham Jesson
The Break
1974Movie
Gerald
Colditz
1972TV
Lt. Col. John Preston
The Frighteners
1972TV
Driver
Traitor
1971Movie
James
This Body Is Mine
1971Movie
Jack Gregory
UFO
1970TV
Webb
Confession
1970TV
Ernest Hammond
Paul Temple
1969TV
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969Movie
William Baxter
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Ralph Day, Mike
The Explorer
1968Movie
Robin Hamilton
Journey to the Unknown
1968TV
Adam Frost
The Anniversary
1968Movie
Terry Taggart
The Waiting Game
1967Movie
Percy Hemlow
City '68
1967TV
Percy Hemlow
How I Won the War
1967Movie
Melancholy Musketeer
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Sean Jameson, Robin Hamilton
Boy Meets Girl
1967TV
Robert Stevens
Trapped
1967TV
Laurence Carpenter
The Informer
1966TV
John Harlton
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Carrados
Out of the Unknown
1965TV
Jack Gregory
Gideon's Way
1965TV
Bruce Carroway
The Secret of Blood Island
1964Movie
Sgt. John Crewe
Of Human Bondage
1964Movie
Griffiths
Theatre 625
1964TV
Owen Davies
Witchcraft
1964Movie
Bill Lanier
In the French Style
1963Movie
Bill Norton
The Scarlet Blade
1963Movie
Edward Beverley
The Very Edge
1963Movie
Inspector McInnes
Lawrence of Arabia
1962Movie
Reporter (uncredited)
The Saint
1962TV
Duncan Rawl
The Longest Day
1962Movie
RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
Corrigan Blake
1962TV
Never Back Losers
1961Movie
Jim Mathews
The World of Tim Frazer
1960TV
Make Mine Mink
1960Movie
Jim Benham
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960TV
John Stratfold, Mike Dawson
Cone of Silence
1960Movie
First Officer
The Third Man
1959TV
No Hiding Place
1959TV
Left Right and Centre
1959Movie
Bill Hemmingway
Room at the Top
1958Movie
Architect (uncredited)
Behind the Mask
1958Movie
Dr. Galbraith
Fair Game
1958TV
Ian Arbuthnot
A Night to Remember
1958Movie
Passenger on deck (uncredited)
The Buccaneers
1956TV
Raikes
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Jerry Noble
ITV Play of the Week
1955TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Graham Jesson