
September 14, 1910 · 115 years old
John Edward Hawkins, CBE was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like Angels One Five (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River K…

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.

In 1880 New Mexico, a group of European hunters runs afoul of the Apache but is aided by an ex-cavalryman turned guide.

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.

An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.

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

A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.