John Hawkesworth (writer)
| John Hawkesworth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 December 1920 London, England |
| Died | 30 September 2003 (aged 82) Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
| Occupation | Television producer, Screenwriter |
John Hawkesworth (7 December 1920 – 30 September 2003) was an English television and film producer and writer best known for his work on the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
Hawkesworth was born in London in December 1920, the son of the-then Captain John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, an officer in the British Army who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He was educated at Rugby, the Sorbonne and Oxford University. In the late 1940s, following active service with the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards in World War II, Hawkesworth began his film career as an assistant to art director Vincent Korda. He worked on films such as The Third Man, Outcast of the Islands and The Sound Barrier.
By the mid-1950s, Hawkesworth was an independent designer, and films he worked on included The Prisoner. He soon joined Rank as a trainee producer, and qualified as an associate producer while working on the 1957 film Windom's Way. For the 1959 film Tiger Bay, he was the producer and wrote the screenplay. In the mid-1960s, he began to work for television, and he wrote the scripts for programmes including The Hidden Truth, The Short Stories of Conan Doyle and The Gold Robbers.
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