Born on this day – Jack Hawkins:

Jack Hawkins

Actor

September 14, 1910 – July 18, 1973

Credits:

A Royal Divorce (1938); Angels One Five (1952); Armchair Theatre (1965); Autumn Crocus (1934); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1957); Beauty and the Barge (1937); Ben-Hur (1959); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948); Crash of Silence (1952); Death at a Broadcast (1934); Decision Against Time (1957); Dr. Kildare (1966); Escape to the Sun (1972); Five Finger Exercise (1962); Fortune in Diamonds (1951); Front Page Story (1954); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); Great Catherine (1968); Guns at Batasi (1964); I Lived with You (1933); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Jane Eyre (1970); Judith (1966); Kidnapped (1971); Lafayette (1962); Land of Fury (1954); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); London Affair (1970); Lord Jim (1965); Lorna Doone (1934); Malta Story (1953); Masquerade (1965); Murder on Monday (1952); Murder Will Out (1939); Mystery and Imagination (1966); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Oh! What a Lovely War (1969); Outpost in Malaya (1952); Peg of Old Drury (1935); Producers' Showcase (1956); QB VII (1974); Rampage (1963); Shalako (1968); She Played with Fire (1957); Shot in the Dark (1933); Sin (1971); Stalked (1968); Tales That Witness Madness (1973); Terror! Theatre (1957); The Adventures of Gerard (1970); The Angel with the Trumpet (1950); The Black Rose (1950); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Cruel Sea (1953); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Father (1969); The Fighting Pimpernel (1949); The Flying Squad (1940); The Four Just Men (1959–1960); The Frog (1937); The Good Companions (1933); The Great Manhunt (1950); The Intruder (1953); The Jewel (1933); The Last Lion (1972); The League of Gentlemen (1960); The Lost Chord (1933); The Next of Kin (1942); The Perfect Alibi (1930); The Phantom Fiend (1932); The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966); The Prisoner (1955); The Small Back Room (1949); The Third Key (1956); The Third Secret (1964); The Two-Headed Spy (1958); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Will (1949); The World Our Stage (1958); Theater of Blood (1973); Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969); Touch and Go (1955); Twice Upon a Time (1953); Two Loves (1961); Waterloo (1970); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Who Goes Next? (1938); Young Winston (1972); Zulu (1964).

On this day in movie and book history - The League of Gentlemen (1960 and 1958)

The League of Gentlemen

directed by Basil Dearden,

written by Bryan Forbes,

based on the novel by John Boland,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 7, 1960.

Music by Philip Green.

Cast:

Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terence Alexander, Norman Bird, Robert Coote, Melissa Stribling, Nanette Newman, Lydia Sherwood, Doris Hare, David Lodge, Patrick Wymark, Gerald Harper, Brian Murray, Terence Edmond, Nigel Green, Patrick Jordan, Dinsdale Landen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Oliver Reed, Norman Rossington, Bruce Seton, Michael Corcoran.

Recommended reading:

The League of Gentlemen

by John Boland.

ASIN: B000WH36FM
Published by Beacon Envoy.
Published 1958.
Mass Market Paperback.

The basis of the movie The League of Gentlemen (1960), directed by Basil Dearden.