Background
Hawkesworth was born in London in 1920.
screenwriter television producer
Hawkesworth was born in London in 1920.
He was educated at Rugby, the Sorbonne and Oxford University.
In the late 1940s, following active service in World World War II, Hawkesworth began his film career as an assistant to art director Vincent Korda. He worked on films such as The Third Manitoba, 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.
Foreign 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.
After Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins came up with an idea for a period comedy featuring two maids, Hawkesworth, along with John Whitney, turned the idea into the success that became Upstairs, Downstairs. He went on to produce 65 out of the 68 episodes from 1971 to 1975.
He also wrote 12 episodes and some of the novelisations.
Following this, he produced the British Broadcasting Corporation drama The Duchess of Duke Street, and created as well as produced the 1979 Euston Films series Danger UXB for Thames Television. During the 1980s, he produced many television programmes including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar. Hawkesworth"s final work was writing the screenplay for the 1992 comedy-drama Mistress
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In his biography of the television producer Verity Lambert, Richard Marson describes Hyacinthe as "fiercely snobbish", and as someone who "answered to the unlikely nickname "Pussy"". Pussy occasionally accompanied Hawkesworth to meetings
In his retirement, he spent much time painting. He died in Leicester in 2003 aged 82.