Jack Hedley


Jack Hedley is an English actor, best known for his performances on television.

Early life

Hedley was born in London and educated at Emanuel School. His screen career began in 1950 with a 13-minute drama-documentary about polio called A Life to be Lived. In the 1950s he made a number of appearances in films and on television, such as Left Right and Centre, Fair Game and the Alun Owen-scripted No Trams to Lime Street with Billie Whitelaw.

Career

He became a TV star in the Francis Durbridge-scripted BBC series The World of Tim Frazer, the 18 instalments of which comprised three separate serials of six episodes each. He also played Corrigan Blake in Alun Owen's 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, part of the Theatre 625 series.
He appeared in a number of British films of the 1960s, including Lawrence of Arabia, The Scarlet Blade, Witchcraft, Of Human Bondage, The Secret of Blood Island and The Anniversary, as well as in the occasional Hollywood film, notably The Longest Day. He also had a lead role as Lt. Colonel Preston in Colditz.
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 in Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper, in which his voice was dubbed by American actor Edward Mannix. He also starred with Stanley Baker and Jean Seberg in the film of Irwin Shaw's In The French Style.
His other TV appearances include: The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre- Never Back Losers,The Saint, Gideon's Way, Softly, Softly, Dixon of Dock Green, The Buccaneers, the ex-serviceman Alan Haldane in Who Pays the Ferryman?, Return of the Saint, One by One, Remington Steele, Only Fools and Horses, 'Allo 'Allo, Dalziel and Pascoe and the TV film version of Brief Encounter.

Filmography