Curiosidades

He had a daughter, Susan with Jessica Tandy and two sons, Nicholas & Andrew Hawkins, with Doreen Lawrence.

He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners: A Ponte do Rio Kwai (1957), Ben-Hur (1959) and Lawrence da Arábia (1962). Alec Guinness also appeared in both A Ponte do Rio Kwai (1957) and Lawrence da Arábia (1962). Jack Hawkins also appeared in one other Best Picture nominee: Nicholas e Alexandra (1971).

He was made a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to drama.

Made Os Rifles de Batasi (1964), Conflito Sangrento (1966), Oriente Contra Ocidente (1965) and O Ópio também é Uma Flor (1966) while suffering from cancer of the larynx. By the time he started filming The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965), Hawkins had begun to cough up blood. His final role using his own voice was in a few episodes of Dr. Kildare (1961), where he managed to give a very accurate performance as a man who had just suffered a heart attack.

In his will published on September 20 1973 he left just £13,019 gross but the net amount was shown as nil. This was a result of high UK taxes and a reduction in his income following the surgery in 1966 which resulted in the loss of his voice. The family home at 34 Ennismore Gardens, South Kensington was left to his wife and his three children were provided for through a trust fund.

In his 1973 autobiography Hawkins described how he had been a very heavy smoker. After undergoing cobalt treatment in 1959-60, he dropped from sixty to five cigarettes daily.

He was voted Number 1 star at the British Box Office in 1954.

Resented the idea that he was typecast in war movies, pointing out in his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life" that he had in fact played fewer military roles than John Mills, Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough.

His memorial service took place on what would have been his sixty-third birthday on 14 September 1973 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The address was read by Kenneth More and Richard Attenborough read the lesson.

He was a student at the Italia Conti Drama School in London, England.

Hawkins joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1940, was commissioned and served with the Second British Division in India. In 1944 he was seconded to GHQ India and soon afterwards succeeded to the command, as a colonel, of ENSA administration in India and South East Asia. He was demobilized in 1946.

He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: A Ponte do Rio Kwai (1957), Ben-Hur (1959) and Lawrence da Arábia (1962).

Initially sought for the role of Melville Farr in Meu Passado me Condena (1961), Hawkins turned the role down because he thought the part might compromise his masculine screen image. Dirk Bogarde, who eventually played Farr, opined that Hawkins feared the role of a gay barrister would "prejudice his chances of a knighthood.".

He died three months after an operation to insert an artificial voice box in April 1973.

Provided the official celebrity opening of the Aldersley Municipal Sports Stadium, Wolverhampton on 9 June 1956. The stadium now forms part of Aldersley Leisure Village.

He was the original lead in Simba (1955) but was replaced by Dirk Bogarde.

He was suffering from throat cancer in 1959 when he filmed "The League of Gentlemen", his final leading role.

A memorial service was held for him at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 14 September 1973.

He had an operation to restore his voice in 1968. It did not work; Hawkins could talk, but only in a croaking voice.

He never acted on stage after 1951.

He has a daughter Carolyn born 1955 and a son Andrew, an actor, born 1952.

He became an international star in middle age.