Jack Hawkins

Commander Ericson is made captain of the Corvette Compass Rose, a small escort vessel used to guide and protect convoys travelling through the Atlantic. Ericson must choose between destroying an enemy ship and sparing the lives of his own men.

In the summer of 1940, young volunteer reservist T.B. 'Septic' Baird (John Gregson - The Longest Day) is forced to crash his Hurricane on the RAF fighter station runway in order to avoid a collision with another plane. Injured in the accident, he incurs the wrath of Squadron leader 'Tiger' Small (Jack Hawkins - Zulu), who grounds Baird, transferring him to the operations centre until he recovers. Baird is desperate to get airborne, but 'Tiger' refuses his protests. However, when risk of a bombing attack threatens the airfield, Baird takes his chance to be reinstated and returns to the skies. Painstakingly restored to its former glory, Angels One Five is amongst the very best Battle of Britain war epics. Based on director George More O'Ferrall's own WWII experience at Fighter Command HQ, it offers a slice-of-life depiction of aerial combat.

A psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.

Counting only 100 among their ranks, outnumbered British soldiers do battle with 4,000 Zulu warriors at the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift.

Nominated for six BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis's novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (The Man in the White Suit, Whisky Galore!). Born deaf, Mandy (Mandy Miller) is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age, Mandy's mother, Christine (Phyllis Calvert, Mr. Denning Drives North), wants to enroll her in a special residential school for the deaf, run by dynamic and gifted teacher, Searle (Jack Hawkins, Angels One Five). But her husband, Harry (Terence Morgan), disagrees, wishing to have her home-schooled.

Alec Guinness stars as Peter Ross, a World War II pilot photographer, who is forced to land in Malta. There he finds himself attached to the local regiment and on studying aerial photographs he discovers that Italy is preparing to invade Malta. It is of vital importance that the island remains under the control of the Allies, and Peter is the man selected to trace and destroy the enemy convoy.

The Japanese force British prisoners to build a bridge.

"THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) directed by Powell and Pressburger, marked their return to Alexander Korda after a successful period at Rank. Critically acclaimed, the film was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Film. Starring David Farrar as British scientist Sammy Rice and Kathleen Byron as the dept secretary and Sammy's girlfriend.

The relatives of a millionaire, the victim of a mysterious murder, get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing or no one stand in the way of finding that record.

Santa Cruz, 1972, hitchhikers are disappearing and the city fears the worst. Two detectives must grow up fast and find clues to connect the victims.

A governess falls for the brooding master of the manor, but a dark secret may separate them forever in this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel.

Napoleon's abduction and his exile to Elba: his dramatic escape, his reunion with his devoted troops and their generals. His last, desperate bid for ultimate power and glory, so narrowly defeated on the bloody fields of Waterloo. Waterloo is a film on an epic scale with a cast to match. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles and Jack Hawkins all contribute fine portraits of great men...

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.

Sweeping epic about the real life adventures of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks in the 1920s.

A first officer who abandoned ship in a hurricane redeems himself by sailing into uncharted territory to deliver dynamite to a tribe of natives.

Chronicles the early life of Winston Churchill, from his school days to his time on the battlefield and his election to Parliament at age 26.

A classic suspense-filled thriller from some of British cinema’s greatest talents. The Fallen Idol tells the story of Phillipe (Bobby Henrey), the young son of a diplomat who, trying to understand the adult world as seen through the eyes of a child, lies to defend those closest to him. When his butler friend Baines (Ralph Richardson) is suspected of murdering his wife, the vital information that Phillipe holds falls on deaf ears...

1933. A young London woman meets an impoverished Russian prince. She brings him home to live with her middle-class family. The prince has diamonds from the last czar to sell. The money and his royal fame transform the family's lives. With Ivor Novello.

Como su actuación en obras de Shakespeare no convenció para nada al círculo de críticos, un actor tiene una trágica venganza contra cada uno de ellos.