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Jack Hedley, who appeared in films including “For Your Eyes Only” opposite Roger Moore, died on Dec. 11. He was 92.

His death was confirmed by a notice in The Times of London, which reads: “[Hedley] died on 11th December 2021, aged 92, after a short illness bravely borne. At his request there will be no funeral. He will be much missed by his family and friends.”

The actor racked up 99 credits in a career spanning five decades as well as numerous appearances in the theater.

Born in London as Jack Hawkins, he changed his last name at the outset of his career to avoid confusion with a prolific British actor of the same name.

Hedley appeared in numerous British productions including “Colditz,” in which he played Lt. Colonel Preston, and “The Scarlet Blade,” directed by John Gilling. He also had parts in American war epic “The Longest Day,” which starred John Wayne, Robert Ryan and Richard Burton,...

Jack Hedley, who featured in films including James Bond’s For Your Eyes Only and Lawrence of Arabia, along with a string of UK TV hits, has died aged 92.

A note in today’s Times said Hedley, who was born Jack Hawkins, had died on December 11 after a “short illness bravely borne.” At Hedley’s request, there will be no funeral.

Hedley was born in London in 1929 and started appearing in films in the 1950s. He starred in the BBC series The World of Tim Frazer in the early 1960s and went on to feature in a number of films that decade, including Lawrence of Arabia, The Scarlet Blade, Witchcraft and The Secret of Blood Island (pictured).

He was to further make a name for himself many years later when he was cast as Sir Timothy Havelock in James Bond’s For Your Eyes Only, for which he also voiced Havelock’s Parrot.

Blue Underground is bringing two cult classics from Lucio Fulci to 4K on August 25th! Here's a look at the bonus features and cover art for 4K restorations of The New York Ripper and The House by the Cemetery:

From the Press Release: "Blue Underground is proud to present critically acclaimed restorations of The New York Ripper and The House By The Cemetery in true 4K Ultra High Definition with Dolby Vision Hdr and a new Dolby Atmos audio mix, bursting at the seams with hours of new and archival extras.

"We put a lot of time and work into restoring these films," said William Lustig, President of Blue Underground. " We're thrilled that fans can now view them at home in true 4K Ultra HD, with Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range and new Dolby Atmos audio mixes."

The New York Ripper

Someone Is Taking A Big Bite Out Of The Big Apple.

Indicator delivers another in their long line of fan-friendly box sets with Hammer Volume Five – Death and Deceit (a subhead that could be applied to the majority of the studio’s output). This latest release would be for Hammer completists only were it not for the extras that shine a bright light on a few overlooked artists and their work.

Hammer Volume Five – Death and Deceit

Blu ray – Region B Only

Powerhouse Films/Indicator

1961, 1962, 1963, 1965 / 1.85:1, 2.35:1 / 75, 87, 83 and 81 min.

Starring Richard Basehart, Christopher Lee, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed

Cinematography by Arthur Grant, Jack Asher, Reg Wyer

Directed by Michael Carreras, John Gilling

Michael Carreras’s Visa to Canton was a Cold War thriller photographed in Technicolor but released to U.S. theaters in black and white. To add insult to injury it was given a new and even more prosaic title: Passport to China – a fate this unassuming little Cold War thriller didn’t deserve.

By Todd Garbarini

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Lieutenant Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) is easily the horror cinema’s most pedestrian, laid back, and disinterested police detective in recent memory. In Lucio Fulci’s infamous slasher outing The New York Ripper (1982), a spate of brutal crimes involving young women being sliced up by a knife-wielding maniac who quacks like a duck lands right smack into Williams’s lap and he couldn’t be more bored by it. Mr. Hedley’s characterization of this by-the-book investigator was no doubt in the script, but his character just meanders through his scenes with such an aloof attitude that it’s amazing no one calls him out on it. The few times Williams does appear to spring to life are when the sex lives of his victims are revealed, which he reacts to with a judgmental shrug and smirk when he’s...

Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper (1982) will be available on Blu-ray June 25th From Blue Underground

Someone Is Taking A Big Bite Out Of The Big Apple!

A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detective Fred Williams (Jack Hedley of For Your Eyes Only) follows the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, the hunt is on for the killer that can’t be stopped!

Co-written and directed by acclaimed horror maestro Lucio Fulci and filmed on location in the mean streets of New York City, this is one of Fulci’s most savage and controversial thrillers. Now Blue Underground is proud to present The New York Ripper in a...

After raising the dead in 1979's Zombie (aka Zombi 2), Lucio Fulci took a blood-spattered "bite out of the Big Apple" in the giallo The New York Ripper. Previously released on Blu-ray back in 2016, Blue Underground will unleash a new 4K restoration of the 1982 horror film in a 3-disc limited edition Blu-ray this summer, and we have a look at the full list of bonus features and a trailer for the new restoration from the original camera negative.

The New York Ripper 3-disc limited edition Blu-ray will be released on June 25th from Blue Underground, and you can check out the full release details, trailer, and cover art below:

"Synopsis: Someone Is Taking A Big Bite Out Of The Big Apple!

A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detective Fred Williams (Jack Hedley of For Your...

After his family’s coven was destroyed, Morgan Whitlock’s (Lon Chaney Jr.) ancestors will have their revenge. Kino Lorber will release Don Sharp’s Witchcraft (1964) on Blu-ray on October 11th.

From Kino Lorber: “Coming October 11th on Blu-ray!

Witchcraft (1964) Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats and Maria Ney – Directed by Don Sharp.”

Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): “Horror icon Lon Chaney, Jr. conjures up unspeakable evil as Morgan Whitlock, a modern-day warlock whose witchy ancestors were burned at the stake. But now, after three long centuries of waiting, Morgan’s family will finally have is revenge. The Whitlock’s 300-year-old matriarch has risen from the grave to wreak havoc upon the descendants of those who destroyed her coven, confiscated her estate and burned her alive!”

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It's a genuine forgotten gem: American student Jean Seberg's five-year adventure in Paris is mostly a period of romantic frustration. Irwin Shaw and Robert Parrish's look at the problems of an independent woman is remarkably insightful; the chronically miscast and underused Ms. Seberg is luminous. In the French Style Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1963 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 105 min. / Ship Date April 12, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Phillippe Forquet, Addison Powell, Jack Hedley, Maurice Teynac, Claudine Auger, James Leo Herlihy, Ann Lewis, Barbara Sommers. Cinematography Michel Kelber Original Music Joseph Kosma Written by Irwin Shaw from his short stories Produced by Irwin Shaw, Robert Parrish Directed by Robert Parrish

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Talk about elusive movies: on must keep an eye on the TCM logs to catch many of the films of director Robert Parrish. I had to wait for the advent of...

Feature Alex Westthorp 16 Apr 2014 - 07:00

Alex's trek through the film roles of actors who've played the Doctor reaches Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy...

Read the previous part in this series, Doctor Who: the film careers of Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, here.

In March 1981, as he made his Doctor Who debut, Peter Davison was already one the best known faces on British television. Not only was he the star of both a BBC and an ITV sitcom - Sink Or Swim and Holding The Fort - but as the young and slightly reckless Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small, about the often humorous cases of Yorkshire vet James Herriot and his colleagues, he had cemented his stardom. The part led, indirectly, to his casting as the venerable Time Lord.

The recently installed Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner, had been the Production Unit Manager on...

World DVD Premieres Written and Directed by John Gilling Out to own individually on DVD January 16th, 2012 "The Scarlet Blade" Starring Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed and Jack Hedley "The Scarlet Blade" is a historical adventure set during the English Civil War from the famous Hammer Film Productions. An unlikely romance blossoms between two people from opposing camps . one from the Roundheads, the other from the Cavaliers. Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), a villainous anti-royalist loyal to Cromwell, is bewildered by his daughter Clare's (June Thorburn: Tom Thumb) Royalist sympathies. Judd's right-hand man Captain Sylvester (Oliver Reed: The Three Musketeers) is an enforcer for Cromwell's parliamentarians and also June's boyfriend. Much to the...

The Scarlet Blade

Writer/Director: John Gilling

A zombie-like performance from Jack Hedley is the only hint that The Scarlet Blade originates from the legendary Hammer Film Productions. Released on DVD for the first time, this English Civil War adventure is notable mainly for the presence of Oliver Reed, who brings a much-needed air of menace to the proceedings.

We’re all familiar with the stirring adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel during the Reign of Terror. But the premise of The Scarlet Blade (originally released in the Us as The Crimson Blade) is that Edward Beverley (Hedley) was engaged in similar acts of derring-do more than 100 years earlier. He’s the son of a stalwart Royalist family that has been harbouring the fugitive King Charles I and guiding his followers to safety. When the story begins in 1648, Roundheads led by Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries) have just commandeered Beverly Manor. Edward...

To mark the release of The Scarlet Blade on DVD for the first time on 16th January, Studio Canal have given us three copies of this Hammer classic movie to give away on DVD. The film stars Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed and Jack Hedley and is directed by John Gilling.

The Scarlet Blade is a historical adventure set during the English Civil War from the famous Hammer Film Productions.

An unlikely romance blossoms between two people from opposing camps – one from the Roundheads, the other from the Cavaliers. Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), a villainous anti-royalist loyal to Cromwell, is bewildered by his daughter Clare’s (June Thorburn: Tom Thumb) Royalist sympathies. Judd’s right-hand man Captain Sylvester (Oliver Reed: The Three Musketeers) is an enforcer for Cromwell’s parliamentarians and also June’s boyfriend. Much to the consternation of Judd and Sylvester, Clare falls for Edward...

“My name is Bond - James Bond". That classic introduction to the cinema’s greatest secret agent is as famous as “I am Dracula, I bid you welcome.” When the box office success of Dr No (1962) turned the unknown Sean Connery into a movie legend, Hammer was never far away from the franchise. With their own films running parallel to the Bond series, Hammer and Eon Productions often made use of the same talent.

Dr No also marked the debuts of Bernard Lee (the first of 11 films as M) and Lois Maxwell (the first of 14 as Miss Moneypenny). Lee had a brief turn as Tarmut in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973) and despite never starring in a Hammer horror, Maxwell turned up in their early fifties thrillers Lady in the Fog (1953) and Mantrap (1954).

As doomed double-agent Professor Dent, Anthony Dawson is best known as the vile Marquis in Curse...

by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com

Written and directed by Lucio Fulci, The New York Ripper (1982) is an Italian giallo movie, known for graphic violence and sex. It’s also a great example of a grindhouse flick. Ripper follows police Lieutenant Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) and his search for a potential serial killer. While interviewing the nosy landlady of a victim whose hand was found by a dog, she tells Williams that the girl had arranged a meeting with a man who sounded like a duck. Meanwhile another girl is murdered on the Staten Island Ferry. The coroner tells Williams that the first girl and the one from the ferry match another murder….so Williams apparently does have a serial killer on his hands. Williams goes to Columbia University to meet with the brilliant psychotherapist Dr. Paul Davis (Paolo Malco) in an attempt to get a profile on the killer.

Meanwhile,...

Vacant is a short film production created by the Vancouver Film School students and in this ten minute short love, death, and infidelity all take place in a very short time span. Vacant is an example of what local westcoast talent can produce in the Vfs Film Production program and for your viewing pleasure the entire short is just below courtesy of Shoot for the Head.

Director/Writer: William McKnight.

Producer: Eliza Rogers.

Director of Photography: Amit Dey.

Other Production Staff: Geoff Webb, Aaron Hecker, Melissa Ward, Ryan Mitchell, Russell O'Neill, Ross Macdonald, Reilly Derkitt, Lawrence Kan, Ian Shirley, David Burnett, Chris Killoran, Tobias Silverstolpe, Chris Killoran, Cedric Malayi, Jennifer Li, and Forrest Wong.

Cast: Tom Stevens, Lisa Ovies, Dariya Parakhnevych, Alex Borrowman, Jack Hedley, and

Lee Page.

The ten minute short for Vacant here:

Sources:

Steffan at Gods of Advertising (First to View Vacant)

Vacant on Shoot for...