---
name: "Jim Hawkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-hawkins"
fi1m_id: "jim-hawkins"
tmdb_id: 1795988
roles: ["Writer"]
died: "13 February 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:28:58.449423+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jim Hawkins

## Identity

Jim Hawkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-hawkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-hawkins
- **TMDB ID:** 1795988
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795988

Writer. Died 13 February 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Died:** 13 February 2024
- **Active:** 1970–1985
- **Frequently works with:** [Ben Bolt](https://film.one/person/ben-bolt.md), [Bill Craig](https://film.one/person/bill-craig.md), [Bill Hays](https://film.one/person/bill-hays.md), [David Hopkins](https://film.one/person/david-hopkins.md), [Douglas Camfield](https://film.one/person/douglas-camfield.md), [Frank Cox](https://film.one/person/frank-cox.md), [Gerald Blake](https://film.one/person/gerald-blake.md), [Gilly Fraser](https://film.one/person/gilly-fraser.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795988

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jim Hawkins was a British television writer. His credits include episodes of *Play for Today* (1979), *Shoestring* (1979) and *EastEnders* (1985, four episodes).

He created the series *On the Line* (1982) and *Maybury* (1981), for which he also wrote. Later work included *The Orchid House* (1991), which he created and scripted, and episodes of *The Bill* (1995).

Hawkins died on 13 February 2024 in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire.

*Sources: imdb.com, ee-walford.fandom.com, thetvdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Der Fall Lucona* (1993), Writer
- *Moon and Son* (1992), series, Writer
- *The Orchid House* (1991), series, Writer
- *Small Zones* (1990), Writer
- *Streets of Yesterday* (1989), Writer
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *On the Line* (1982), series, Writer
- *A Hole in Babylon* (1979), Writer
- *Shoestring* (1979), series, Writer
- *Thank You, Comrades* (1978), Writer
- *Hazell* (1978), series, Writer
- *Out of Bounds* (1977), series, Writer
- *Second City Firsts* (1973), series, Writer
- *Armchair 30* (1973), series, Writer
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Writer

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