Jack Hedley

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 13minute dramadocumentary 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 Owenscripted No Trams to Lime Street with Billie Whitelaw He became a TV star in the Francis Durbridgescripted 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 Owens 1962 BBC play You Cant 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 Owens 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 19724 and exserviceman Alan Haldane in Who Pays the Ferryman 1977 Reportedly the series was marked offscreen by personality clashes between Hedley and his costars Betty Arvaniti and Maria Sokali Hedley later appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as Sir Timothy Havelock also voicing Havelocks parrot Soon after this in the autumn of 1981 he played the lead role cynical investigative cop Fred Williams in Lucio Fulcis 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 Shaws In The French Style Other TV appearances include The Saint Gideons 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 Hedleylicensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia